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Yesterday Salon reported about a meeting that occurred concurrently with the quarterly meeting of the Council on National Policy, a conservative organization that tries to coordinate the actions of various components of the conservative movement. The top-level story that people are taking from this is that the conservative movement organizations will walk away and try [...]

UPDATE: The results have been updated. This weekend, the convention of the National Federation of Republican Women was held in California. They held a straw poll. I don’t have complete results yet, but the top-line result is pretty solid. Rudy Giuliani won an outright majority. Giuliani did speak to the convention. Rudy Giuliani: 50% Fred [...]

In what can only be described as a hit-job, the NYT ran a story about Rudy Giuliani in the presidential race… on 9-11? Part of the story was a poll. This poll puts Rudy at 27% with Fred Thompson at 22%, John "Not Dead Yet" McCain at 18%, and Mitt Romney at 14%. So a [...]

There are two places that conservatives dislike more than New York City, at least prior to 9-11. One is San Francisco, which is one of the punch lines of Mitt Romney’s immigration Drudge ad from yesterday. The other is, of course, Hollywood. And that’s why you have to wonder why Rudy Giuliani is dropping endorsements [...]

I would be much more comfortable if Rudy had not used the word "Islamic"

Ross Douthat ends a discussion of Mike Huckabee with: The most important thing, to my mind, is that a Huckabee-Giuliani-Romney race would be a lot healthier for the GOP than a Thompson-Giuliani-Romney race, which is reason enough to wish the Huckster well. Now, assuming that these aren’t battles over personality, what are these candidates running [...]

  Virginia Kentucky Alabama   vs. Hillary Undecided vs. Hillary Undecided vs. Hillary Undecided Giuliani  -3  5%  -5 7%  +6 6% Thompson  -9 7%  -7  5%  +2  4% Romney  -14 8%  -12  6%  -2  6% Survey USA released a bunch more general election polling, commented on by the Hedgehog Report and DaveG at Race42008.  Rudy [...]

I just don’t believe this. Here’s what Mitt Romney has to say about Rudy Giuliani on immigration: “Mayor Giuliani hopefully will explain why there’s such a dramatic departure from his position as mayor, where he said he welcomed illegal aliens to New York, and that they would be in a zone of protection in New [...]

Granite Grok has an important corrective to the discussion about Ames: I recognize that Mitt Romney gobbled up a lot of the hardcore GOP stalwarts early in the game. I have seen this for myself here in the Granite State. In an independently-orientating state like ours where more and more people are less willing to get all that [...]

I have been meaning to write about this for a while, but I hadn’t gotten my act together. Here’s my thesis: Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson represent two different models (perhaps even polarities) for where the party goes from here. Rudy Giuliani appeals to certain kinds of swing voters, for example many kinds of Reagan [...]