December 23, 2007 – 2:22 am
From the Boston Phoenix: (H/T The Page)
Two women contacted the Mitt Romney campaign this week, offering their memories of seeing Romney’s father march with Martin Luther King Jr., in Grosse Point Michigan in 1963. Campaign officials were well aware that the women were mistaken. Yet, they directed those women to tell their stories to a Politico […]
December 22, 2007 – 3:29 pm
Core Favorability/Opposition Among All Voters
Candidate
Def. FOR
Def. AGAINST
Net
Obama
29%
36%
-7
McCain
22%
33%
-11
Huckabee
21%
34%
-13
Thompson
21%
34%
-13
Edwards
[…]
December 21, 2007 – 2:54 pm
The day of the CNN/YouTube debate, Matt Drudge, handmaiden of Mitt Romney’s campaign, raised the issue that became known as "Shag Fund." The claim was that Rudy Giuliani had improperly hid expenses for visiting his then girlfriend. Well, it turns out that it just wasn’t true. Powerline and Captain’s Quarters have the details. Total exoneration […]
December 21, 2007 – 9:30 am
The whole Mitt Romney/Martin Luther King thing just gets weirder and weirder. He told the Detroit Free Press:
"You know, I’m an English literature major as well. When we say, ‘I saw the Patriots win the World Series, it doesn’t necessarily mean you were there — excuse me, the Super Bowl. I saw my dad […]
December 20, 2007 – 6:24 pm
As you probably know by now, Mitt Romney said "I saw my father march with Martin Luther King." It seems that what Romney means by that isn’t what you and I mean. Let’s break the sentence down and see how Mitt Romney parses it:
I saw …
Romney explains what he means by "I saw":
“If you look […]
December 20, 2007 – 9:27 am
Bob Novak, no friend of Mike Huckabee, wrote about Huckabee and the conservative movement (aka "conservative resurgence") in the Southern Baptist Convention. We focused on interviews with two of the leaders without that movement, Richard Land and Judge Paul Pressler:
The warmth in Texas and hostility in California reflects the dual personality of the pastor-politician who […]
December 20, 2007 – 1:54 am
UPDATE: Marc Ambinder hears interesting whispers on this endorsement:
Will he endorse? Unclear. If he does, the betting is on Thompson or Romney, although advisers to both men expect the other to get it, if it’s gettable. Note that Bay Buchanan is a member of the LDS church and is said to be pushing Tancredo to […]
December 20, 2007 – 1:34 am
When citing bad news for your opponents, don’t use junk polls.
Tags: Iowa, Polls
December 19, 2007 – 11:38 pm
UPDATE: My friend Erick at Redstate makes the same point.
Today, John McCain got some press for stating, as a number of people had already, that David Petraeus should be Time’s Man of the Year, not Vladimir Putin. He is transparently correct.
But there is a broader point that should be made in the context of the […]
December 19, 2007 – 3:10 pm
McCain starts talking about the recent successes.
Erick Erickson, a friend from Redstate, asks about expanding the campaign "in play in Iowa and probably going to win in New Hampshire":
More money is coming in. There has been an uptick in the polls. … We do need to spend money in South Carolina. … Not totally confident […]
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