The new Zogby poll has Bush’s approval at 30%, with only 60% of GOPers liking him. Is attacking Bush going to become a viable strategy in this primary? Clearly, people are already making points on spending, immigration, and other issues with which the base is unsatisfied with Bush. Where else Read more…
Hotline’s John Mercurio wrote an excellent article on the impact of Sam Brownback’s entrance into the Presidential race. The argument comes down to two points. First: If he can prove he’s viable, Brownback could force both Romney and Giuliani to recalibrate White House strategies that rely heavily on courting conservative Read more…
National Journal and Chris Cilliza have come out with their rankings of Presidential candidates. Some interesting points. First the National Journal coverage: 73% of GOP insiders think that John McCain is going to win the nomination. Furthermore, 56% of GOPers think that he’s our strongest general election candidate and 71% Read more…
Last night, I had a wonderful conversation with some friends about what happened in the last election. One person’s position was that the Dems found a new coalition with some new votes (more youth) and some GOP votes (more of the suburbs). And the question that we were left with Read more…
National Journal did a CNN/Opinion Research Poll and asked this question: Who do you not want to run for President. The answers: Republican % Democrat % Bill Frist 51 John Kerry 51 Mitt Romney 50 Al Gore 43 Newt Gingrich 48 Barack Obama 38 This is interesting. As many people Read more…
New Jersey just moved up their primary to February 5th, according to the Philly Inquirer: So the Senate yesterday voted 33-5 to move the 2008 primary date up a few more weeks to Feb. 5, putting it after only the Iowa and Nevada caucuses and the New Hampshire and South Read more…
After winning the Virginia Conservative Convention Straw Poll, Newt Gingrich did a fundraiser for the organization. Robert Bluey of the Human Events reported the event. At the event, Newt went on the attack against Bush: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich last night offered a grim outlook for the final two Read more…
While the main theater of the 2008 battle has been in Florida at the RGA meeting, someone pointed out this week that McCain might actually contest Iowa. This was not news to those paying much attention, but whatever. The Iowa section of the blogosphere got excited about a bunch of Read more…
Wow. This is not to be believed. I really should have better things to do than write about Mitt Romney so much, but such amusing stuff comes out of his mouth. At the RGA meeting, after Ken Mehlman gave a great little speech that included things like: Mehlman acknowledged voter Read more…
This morning Powerline, Captain’s Quarters, and Dick Morris chime in with basically the same opinion. It is appearing that Romney’s tack to the right is not succeeding. There are all sorts of interesting implications here. Informally, a bunch of conservative groups and individuals like the Concerned Women and Grover Norquist Read more…