January 2, 2008 – 8:21 am
I am in New Hampshire. (Iowa would have been nice, but I am self-funded, and the logistics of Iowa are cost-prohibitive)
I will be in the pool today with John McCain. This weekend, I hope to be with all the candidates.
Last night I got in late, and decided to catch the end of John McCain’s townhall […]
January 1, 2008 – 3:27 pm
Mitt Romney made what may prove to be a major league gaffe today. In response to a reporter’s question, perhaps triggered by an aggressive web ad, Romney said:
Mr. Romney: I don’t recall all the things that I said at that time, so I’d just have to go back and look at my notes at that […]
December 30, 2007 – 10:02 pm
Fred Thompson seems to be throwing himself under the bus. From ABC in Iowa:
By declaring that he needs to do better than he’s polled for months, Thompson risks setting a bar so high for himself that a third-place victory — which would be something of an achievement for his struggling campaign — is a self-imposed […]
December 30, 2007 – 1:49 am
But it sure is interesting:
OTTUMWA, Iowa–Last night, I attended a Mike Hucabee event at the Bridge View Center here and made the conservative estimate that he drew a crowd of 400 to 500 inside an auditorium that held 650. When I noticed that Mitt Romney had an event at the same place this […]
December 29, 2007 – 1:34 pm
Trust Huckabee, the somewhat controversial pro-Huckabee 501(c)(4), has gone up on the air with a pro-Huckabee ad and launched an anti-Romney site.
No news yet about the size of the buy. It does strike me that, at this point, Mike Huckabee is more likely to lose votes to someone else than to Romney. Romney’s ads probably […]
December 29, 2007 – 9:41 am
I highly recommend the book How Congress Evolves by the late Nelson Polsby to any student or practitioner of politics. Polsby documents the interplay between Congressional rules, demographic shift, and partisan realignment. The essential fact was that Southern congressional districts fell to the Republicans as a result of southern migration from the traditionally Republican Northeast […]
December 29, 2007 – 1:18 am
Mitt Romney dropped a negative ad in New Hampshire attacking John McCain. However, it seems that Romney, again, has some truthiness problems. Given the factual errors below, it is clear why McCain goes straight to Romney’s credibility problem.
Factcheck.org, "More Mitt Malarky":
Romney’s latest ad attacks McCain in New Hampshire with false and misleading claims
WaPo’s Howie Kurtz:
Mitt […]
December 28, 2007 – 9:31 am
UPDATE: NYT fact-checks the ad. Some misleadin’ and some makin’ up.
This is pretty funny. Mitt Romney told Jill Zuckerman of the Chicago Tribune reporters should stop looking at his "old quotes":
"I know that there are some—particularly in opposing campaigns—who will try to look at old quotes, and perhaps take them out of context and perhaps […]
December 28, 2007 – 1:18 am
It is clear that in Iowa, the debate is not about experience. It will be a fight between Mitt Romney’s money and Mike Huckabee’s churches. There are real doubts that Huckabee can sustain a challenge to any mainstream GOP candidate. Ultimately, his foreign policy and other flubs might create real problems. One imagines the pressure […]
December 27, 2007 – 10:35 am
Imagine what would happen if this happened on the first day of a Barack Obama or a Mitt Romney presidency, from the New York Times:
An attack on a political rally killed the Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto near the capital, Islamabad, Thursday. Witnesses said Ms. Bhutto was fired upon at close range before the blast, […]
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