Environment
Edwards just lost coal states
John Edwards: He also said the United States should ban the construction of new coal-fired power plants. There are some good swing swing states on that list…
Iowa Lincoln Day Dinner: Is Jim Gilmore an idiot?
Krusty has a great write up of the Iowa Lincoln Day dinner. So does Kavon at Race42008. I can’t add much to their reporting, so I will get it be. However, I will note that Jim Gilmore continued to look like an idiot. And I’m not referring to his flop Read more…
Strategy
Is Romney bracketing McCain?
Much earlier in the campaign, John McCain would spoil Mitt Romney’s events (here and here). Now, I wonder if Romney is doing it to McCain. Two weeks ago, McCain announced three policy speeches. Last week was Iraq. Today is the economic. Later on, there will be domestic policy. So, last Read more…
Another take on the right and the left online
Since I am relatively new to politics online, although neither politics nor technology, I followed the conversation last week between Patrick Ruffini, Rob Bluey, David All, Michael Turk (here and here), and Matt Stoller, with comments from Conn Carroll, with interest but I did not jump in. But between that Read more…
A brief thought on Rudy and federalism
Isn’t it ironic that Rudy Giuliani is using "states rights" language to sell "northeast liberalism" to the South? Forty years ago, of course, Republicans talked "states rights" in the South to communicate that they were not northeast liberals. In a sense, he is recapitulating in reverse how Republicans won the Read more…
CoH details for Rudy and Romney (update)
Jonathan Martin has the details for Rudy and Mitt. I would note that Romney raised $6m more online than Rudy. That’s remarkable. Update: Hotline has more details and Jonathan has the DNC’s attack on Rudy’s fundraising. Several things are clear: Romney only raised $2m more online than Rudy, not 6. Read more…
Romney, like Giuliani, ducks on SC ultrasound bill
Last week, I said that Mitt Romney supported the South Carolina ultrasound-before-abortion bill. But I was wrong. He has said that it is a state issue and ducked, invoking the same federalism argument that Rudy Giuliani is using. From AP: "I would like to see each state be able to Read more…
Run away, run away
Mitt Romney runs away from his health care plan… Reminds me of a Monty Python varmint scene.
GOP Candidates and Federalism
Yesterday and today (in response to Andrew Sullivan), Hotline’s Marc Ambinder pointed out that Rudy Giuliani is, perhaps, making a dodge on a variety of issues by invoking federalism. In essence, Marc’s position is: By not saying something like I think the flag is divisive, and I don’t like it. Read more…
GOP Winning in 2008
Kavon over at Race 4 2008 got me back to this little project I have of comparing general election matchups for various GOP candidates.
Rasmussen has started to collect general election matchups. I have collected them and presented them in, what I think, is the clearest and most useful format (note that these are not all from the same poll, so methodologically, there is something deeply unsound about this. RCP averages would be great):
| Clinton | Obama | Edwards | Fav – UnFav | % unknown | |
| Giuliani | +8 | +1 | +7 | +33 | 3% |
| McCain | +7 | 0 | -9 | +17 | 3% |
| Thompson | +1 | -12 | -14 | +13 | 41% |
| Gingrich | -7 | -10 | -5 | 9% | |
| Romney | -9 | -15 | -26 | -5 | 31% |
| Brownback | -5 | -15 | -19 | 43% |
Analysis of the digits after the jump.
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