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Well folks, it is January 23rd. If the current schedule holds, the South Carolina primary (for Dems) is exactly 53 weeks from today. And we have the first allegation of illegal automated advocacy calls. South Carolina’s Faith In the Sound News has the story. The allegation is that a Mitt Romney authorized robocall of a [...]

A couple of days I wrote on the results of the Diageo/Hotline poll. Most people have focused on the Presidential results. BlogPI has written about McCain’s credibility on security with Republicans. I started looking at how GOPers prioritize issues, and thought it had some interesting presidential implications. So here’s the data: Issue % Issue % [...]

Mitt Romney’s announcement of former Speaker Denny Hastert’s support points out something that I’ve been thinking for a while. Mitt Romney is running an insider campaign in Washington, and this has a bunch of interesting implications. This is actually part of a series in which I’ll look at how the campaigns are playing out in [...]

It had been clear from the press releases that came out that Sam Brownback was trying to set himself up as the pro-life candidate with the events that his campaign planned for the March for Life. So I thought that would be interesting, and I was around the Hill around the March. So I have [...]

Between attending the RNC meeting, being sick, and busy, I hadn’t really had much time to pay attention to the recently released Hotline/Diaego poll. Blog PI brought it back to my attention with his great discussion of the war issue for McCain in it. I was struck by another set of numbers regarding the acceptance [...]

This is big and complicated. California is strongly considering moving up to February 5th. This will have an enormous impact on the race. First, the money barrier to entry just got a lot bigger. A lot. California is really really big. Second, the rules, on the Republican side, in California are quite strange and still [...]

Earlier, I commented on the spin surrounding Mike Huckabee’s $500k fundraiser. As always happens with fundraising claims, the truth does come out: About 27 people or entities accounted for roughly $450,000 of the total, At most 100 more people (and several couples were represented in that number) contributed the rest at $500 a head. This doesn’t strike [...]

Marc Ambinder at the Hotline spoke with the Giuliani campaign. It appears that they are already changing their strategy: Political aides to ex-NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) will reorganize his presidential exploratory efforts over the next two weeks, expanding his national finance team and adding staff in early primary states to try to transform the [...]

This is really quite interesting. Keating said: "First, the train is far down the track in terms of organization, and John McCain has done a brilliant job of doing that," Keating said Tuesday in a conference call with reporters. Keating added that Romney has the ability to "write an exceedingly large check to himself." "I [...]

I keep hearing that Rudy will have a good Iowa operation. Hiring Jim Nussle is a good start. I bet some people in Iowa have whiplash.