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They open with a question about Fred Thompson. Mike Huckabee makes a reference to "no show George". John McCain mentions that the debate might be up past Thompson’s bed time. He also also says that people in New Hampshire want face time. Rudy Giuliani: "He’s done a pretty good a job playing my part on [...]
Somehow, I am not all that impressed by the fight over the national parties stripping delegates from state parties who will have primaries prior to Feb. 5th. Last week, the story was Florida and the Democrats. This week, it appears to be the Republicans and Florida, South Carolina, and New Hampshire. How long will it [...]
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 [...]
Here’s a piece of clarity for the morning. The guys at Granite Grok caught up with Senator John McCain in New Hampshire. They asked him a question about earmarks, and they recorded the answer. Transcribed: Transparency and knowledge are the only antidote to the corruption that is bred by earmarks, the gateway to corruption. I [...]
At least the weather will be better. But that’s what the WSJ is telling us: South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Katon Dawson will join with New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner tomorrow morning to announce that both states are moving up their presidential primary dates earlier into January, according to a prominent South Carolina [...]
Patrick Hynes makes a great point this morning with some videos of Jeanne Shaheen from her 2002 debate against now-Senator John Sununu: I think Shaheen will win the Democrat primary if she decides to run. Easily. But I see her numbers coming down quite a bit when the public is made aware of her past [...]
You have to love this headline from the Concord Monitor: Frontloaded primary takes stuffing out of Iowa’s straw poll And the lede: So far, the New Hampshire primary doesn’t seem to be suffering from the front-loading of the presidential nominating calendar. For some candidates, the New Hampshire events may be bigger than normal. But they’re [...]
Introductions Tancredo: MoC for 10 years Tommy Thompson: Candidate not the actor. Governor for 14 and Secretary of HHS Sam Brownback. Raised on farm in Kansas, have 5 kids, Senator Mitt Romney: Family, neighbor and MA. Giuliani: Likes the motto McCain: Served coountry all his life. Huckabee: Give people from Hope another chance Hunter: I [...]
Last week in Laconia, NH, Mitt Romney was asked a question about abortion. Doug Lambert of GranitGrok, was there to videotape the answer. It turns out that the person who asked the question is a Democratic operative, so I discounted this. But then Green Mountain Politics highlighted the quote (which he got wrong, sorry Chris…). [...]
I thought this was interesting. It appears that two different healthcare lobby groups are using a strategy of grassroots and media campaigns in early primary states. I have copied the ad for the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease. The Hill runs a story about AARP and a bunch of patients groups running media and grassroots [...]
