Last night the Virginia GOP passed a resolution: The Republican Party of Virginia State Central Committee yesterday evening passed a motion requesting the Virginia State Board of Elections withdraw the “statement of intent” requirement before participating in the 2008 Republican presidential primary contest. While the committee did request the Virginia Read more…
Let me start with a story. Several years ago, in a swing House seat, volunteers for the Democratic candidate, started calling the finance committee of the Republican candidate, three days out. The message? That the Democratic candidate was a Jew and "we can’t let another Jew get in office." The Read more…
Ummm. Not so much. Why? Well, first, listen to Mike Duncan’s lukewarm statement, as reported by Jonathan Martin: Letters went out this morning warning New Hampshire, Florida, South Carolina, Michigan and Wyoming that they were "on notice," Duncan said in a conference call with reporters. Duncan did, though, emphasize that the Read more…
John Fund wrote about the future of 20% of the US Economy and over 10% of the population: Tony Quinn, co-editor of the California Target Book, a nonpartisan analysis of state politics, says that if Democrats retake the governorship after Mr. Schwarzenegger’s departure in 2010, it’s "pretty clear" that they Read more…
District Winner Total Votes California 34 (Los Angeles) D+53.6 74,818 California 31 (Los Angeles) D+100 64,952 Neil Stevens has an interesting post at Redstate about "Rotten boroughs" in California, among other states. He points to some interesting issues. He points to illegal immigration more than I would and less to Read more…
This is sort of interesting. In Virginia, incumbents are allowed to pick the process by which nominations for their seat are made. A part of that law was struck down. There is also no party registration. The 4th Circuit said that the law is unconstitutional, as applied, when the incumbent Read more…
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 Read more…
The member of the North Carolina House who was manager for the bill has a different story [emphasis in the original]: As the House member handling Senate Bill 353, which purported to allocate North Carolina’s electoral votes by Congressional district, with two votes reflecting the North Carolina’s popular vote, I Read more…
Redstate’s Erick Erickson noted yesterday that the electoral college reform in North Carolina stopped because because Howard Dean realized it would give them no feet to stand on in California: The measure raced through the North Carolina State Senate, the State House was preparing to pass it and the Governor Read more…
For the critical week of recruiting before the Ames straw poll, The Club for Growth is attacking Mike Huckabee. They have details here. I think that this is going to hurt a lot. People who are still undecided and just show up are going to see this. And, like all Read more…