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For months and months and months, there has been speculation that Mitt Romney would give a "Mormon Speech." There have been several reports that this has been an issue inside the usually disciplined Romney campaign. Well. He’s giving it on Thursday. Earlier Romney told the AP:
"I have some folks who think I should do it [...]

This is a shocker to me. Apparently tomorrow the National Right to Life Committee will endorse Fred Thompson. I have confirmation from a member of the committee. And, apparently, they are moving quickly to try to stop Rudy Giuliani.
There are several frames to look at this through:

What this means for the pro-life movement in the [...]

This morning on Tucker, Charmaine Yoest said, approximately:
People are talking about endorsements from the Christian movement. and if they are not reporting at all that Don Wildeman, the founder of the American Family Association, a heavyweight on the Christian right that he came out this week for Huckabee. and people are not talking about that.

Well. [...]

It has been a pretty remarkable two days in terms of endorsements:

Yesterday, Mitt Romney got Paul Weyrich. Weyrich had been rumored to be going with Fred Thompson, but not so much… And he said Mike Huckabee couldn’t win. This is certainly a DC-insider endorsement.

Today, Rudy Giuliani got Pat Robertson. The [...]

John McCain’s new ad that is running in New Hampshire is getting lots of praise. My friends over at Granite Grok said:
Using a clip from Sunday’s Fox News Channel Republican debate, the Arizona Senator makes the case against Hillary Clinton bigtime. This thirty second clip sums up her big-spending habits in a fashion that anybody [...]

Justin Hart of Race42008 wrote a post that is 95% correct. He said:

You don’t try to win straw polls as proof of your national success among a group of voters. You don’t try to win straw polls as proof of momentum. You don’t try to win straw polls as solid proof of your [...]

After everything is done, here are my thoughts:

Fred Thompson did not have a good weekend. His speech was ok, but in contrast to Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, it wasn’t so impressive. Lots of people were disappointed in hindsight.
Mike Huckabee was a success in the room. He clearly won the straw poll, etc. He clearly [...]

Total (fundraising)

Offline (real)

Candidate

Votes

Candidate
Votes

 Romney
 1595
 Huckabee
488
[...]

Mike Huckabee has a great crowd here. Certainly a much stronger reception at the beginning than either Romney or Giuliani. Way bigger.
Starts with jokes about the baby boomers collecting social security. "If you that’s bad economic news, just wait until you hear about all the old graying hippies getting free drugs."
The meat of this is [...]

The entrance had more standing, but less cheers than Mitt Romney. But Romney had a lot of astroturf, as Phil Klein pointed out, so it is hard to tell.
Rudy starts with an attack on Washington.
Unlike Romney’s speech, there was more of a narrative structure. He wanted the people in the room to know [...]