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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 [...]

Well, McCain’s lines dominated the debate: Putin Tied up To Romney about "fooling people about your record." "Lead" I posted my notes, and I am having trouble finding other things that struck me deeply. Giuliani did well on Hillary’s spending and teachers. Thompson was certainly more lively, and he had a nice closing. My hunch [...]

It seems that John McCain and Rudy Giuliani are on. MItt Romney is struggling (although Hugh Hewitt has probably already writing his post for Romney’s victory) and I am not inspired by Fred Thompson. Mike Huckabee’s new Buchananite turn, which I predicted, is alarming me a lot. It seems quite likely that the quotes of [...]

Today, Governor Mitt Romney called for the US to pull out of the UN Human Rights Council. According to the AP: "The United Nations has been an extraordinary failure of late," Romney said in response to a question at a pancake house along the coast of early voting South Carolina. "We should withdraw from the [...]

I have two questions about the possibility of a December NH primary: Can candidates collect matching funds for that? What are the mechanics of that? When do they actually get the money? It is clear that John McCain has more than enough money to compete if he takes matching funds. But when would they actually [...]

I saw this press release from Mitt Romney’s campaign. I asked Patrick Hynes, who is the blog-outreach guy for John McCain, what he thought of it. His first response was to tell a joke: First, I think that John Lynch has higher favorability among New Hampshire Republicans than Mitt Romney. But then, more seriously: Second, [...]

Candidate % Romney 29 Thompson 18 Huckabee 12 Giuliani 11 McCain 7 I normally don’t like to write on polls, but I think that this one tells us a lot about the future of the GOP race in Iowa. David Yepsen comments here. I am going to write this as a two-parter. The first part [...]

Senator Thune introduced John McCain at the Americans for Prosperity reception last night. I thought it was a very good introduction. It highlighted McCain’s record as a anti-spending guy. Thune calls him the "lobbyist for the taxpayer" in contrast to the "lobbyist for the spending groups." He also makes the point that McCain is taken [...]

John McCain gave a conference call from Michigan where he had spoken to a Hispanic business group. He says that the campaign is moving along well. "We have a long, hard slog." He talked about Iraq, and described Petraeus as "convincing enough to give our troops more time." McCain calls on ASEAN to kick Burma [...]

I got into the call a minute or so late. Several things occurred to me. First, John McCain is not as tired as he used to be. He is clearly energized by this fight. He talked about being on the bus with his POW buddies. That seems important for him psychologically. Second, that image strikes [...]