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There’s a great argument going on at Ankle Biting Pundits about John McCain. Bull Dog Pundit has argued that conservatives will never trust McCain because of campaign finance and a set of other issues. But like many activists, his real bile is about BCRA. (it really does make my life harder)
Patrick Hynes, who does work [...]
The Family Research Council is holding a Value Voters conference in September.
A number of Presidential candidates are confirmed as speakers, including George Allen, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Sam Brownback, and Mike Huckabee. President Bush and John McCain have been invited but not yet confirmed.
Interestingly, Rudy Giuliani has not been invited. This sort of thing will [...]
RightwingNews has (yet) another summary of the case againset Giuliani for the conservative GOP primary electorate.
While we agree that there are many things that are damning in the eyes of the electorate, we think that, to some extent, people are asking the wrong questions. I think that Chuck Larson gets it right in his discussion [...]
Do Democrats think that if you repeat something enough times, it will become true? They do it on the economy every day… What today?
The DSCC is attacking McCain again for violating campaign finance laws. This is funny. Last time they got it wrong.
In fact, their press release makes 3 accusations:
Some Club for Growth complaint that [...]
There has been much discussion today of McCain’s frontrunner status. Today’s granddaddy article on McCain has to be the NYT’s piece on all the people that he has recruited. It was mostly a list of Washington Insiders. Other stories have pointed out that he has been lining up people in early states also.
RCP also had [...]
The Washington Times has a glowing article about Mitt Romney’s trip to the California GOP meeting. Truth Caucus has a source on the ground with great stories of Romney’s time there.
The Miami Herald has an article on John McCain’s campaigning with Charlie Crist in Florida. Note that this is several weeks after McCain signed up [...]
H/T The Plank:
In the end, I think the party needing to go in a different direction from a conventional conservative approach was the primary reason for his diminished position in the race for the 2008 nomination. This just puts an exclamation point on the view that Allen is no longer a real contender for the [...]
H/T to Greg Mankiw for the analysis.
The GOP markets at Tradesport only have McCain and Giuiliani, so I don’t think that they are very meaningful. But Mankiw points out what is interesting about the Democrat ones:
[W]e can obtain for each candidate the conditional probability–the probability that the person will win the general election if nominated. [...]
H/T Granite Grok.
The Bow Picnic and Straw Poll in NH took place on the 19th. The results:
US Senator John McCain (R-Arizona)26%
US Secretary of State Condoleezza “Condi” Rice (R-Cal.) 26%
Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (R-NY) 14%
Governor George Pataki (R-New York) 12%
US Senator George Allen (R-Virginia) 10%
Governor Mitt Romney (R-Massachusetts) 10%
Former US House Speaker [...]
So much has been written about this that I can’t tolerate it. I am beginning to agree that this is near fatal to Allen’s Presidential hopes. The reason is not that he’s a racist. It is that it continues to highlight questions about him:
Is Allen smart enough to be President? One of the standard [...]
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