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Jen Rubin captures the most important dynamic leading into South Carolina: Thompson gave himself an opening in South Carolina and gave conservatives a place to jump from the Romney leaking ship. He may have scuffed up Huckabee sufficiently to allow either himself or McCain to win SC. If the latter he ironically would have done [...]
I normally don’t write about polls, especially ARG polls. But I was struck by two things in the most recent batch. The first one, which lots of people have talked about is Mitt Romney’s rise in South Carolina. That’s new. Is it real? Is it TV moving numbers? But the second thing is Fred Thompson. [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday, we learned that an anonymous attack website was linked to Mitt Romney’s South Carolina’s consultants. The Romney campaign has thrown one of their consultants under the bus for it: Sources are telling FITSNews that Mitt Romney’s South Carolina campaign organization has fired consultant Wesley Donehue in an effort to make him the scapegoat for [...]
Earlier today, Jonathan Martin pointed out the new www.phoneyFred.org website: Clearly, though, this is no amateur effort. The volume of information and the way that it’s sourced reeks of a grasstops hit-job. Repeatingly calling Thompson "Phoney Fred" in the on-message style of political operatives, the site offers up unflattering quotes with the standard attribution style [...]
The South Carolina Citizens for Tax Reform sent out the following email to approximately 10,000 activists: From: Jason Swanson [mailto:sctaxpayers@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 4:02 PM To: Subject: Petition for Romney to Return Tax Dollars South Carolina Taxpayer: Today former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney used taxpayer funded police escorts to speed him to various [...]
Mitt Romney has gotten in some hot water because his "Director of Operations" seemed to be role-playing a secret service. Mitt Romney also said that "the presidency ought to be held at a higher level than having to answer questions from a snowman," and so he ducked out of the YouTube debate. You see, Mitt [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
When the good news is that you lose your Iowa campaign chair to the OMB, you know you had a bad day. But how bad? So bad that your South Carolina campaign chair is indicted for conspiring to peddle crack cocaine? (Another reason I’m happy I made phone calls in 2004 for DeMint. Imagine if [...]
