From WESH Orlando: Flagler County is the fastest-growing county in the United States. One of every five homes in Flagler County is for sale. Celebration is feeling the same pain because 50 percent of the homes there are for sale. Moss Park, east of Orlando International, where nearly 9 percent Read more…
Yesterday, I wrote about Mitt Romney’s Ames effect wearing off in Iowa. I am pretty sure that I missed the story. Gallup Poll’s Frank Newport had the first hint: I disagreed. In fact, one thing the national polls have shown us is that Mitt Romney was unable to translate his Read more…
Richard Nadler wrote an important piece in the Journal a couple of days ago. First, Nadler’s conclusion is simple: Immigration policies that induce mass fear among illegal residents will induce mass anger among the legal residents who share their heritage. In other words, we are alienating Hispanics who are voters. Read more…
Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM) is announcing his retirement. That’s lousy news. The question is whether Rep. Heather Wilson runs for the seat. She’s probably our best chance, unless Darren White, the Bernallilo County sheriff runs. The conventional wisdom is that Rep. Steven Pearce has some nasty negative on Wilson just Read more…
After Ames, Mike Huckabee was a rockstar. His campaign manager said that the fundraising calls were coming fast and furious. And now he has only raised $1m? Only $200k more than the previous quarter? Surely Ames and all that free media was worth more than that, no? And, as Marc Read more…
Reps. Jeb Hensarling and Marsha Blackburn had a very brief conference call with bloggers. They noted that S-CHIP was vetoed by the President. They pointed out all the details about this being more than a children’s healthcare program. 17 states are adding adults with this. Dropping the citizenship requirement. Clearly Read more…
I harp on the need to build a network of blogs in the states. One just popped up in Maine. Allen vs. Collins. Hopefully they will also cover state legislative races and the open-seat that Tom Allen left. Susan Collins should be able to put this state away. Her opponent, Read more…
Real Clear Politics polling suggests that Mitt Romney has not been able to maintain his bump from the Ames Straw Poll. Is Romney peaking? Did people take a second look at him after Ames and …. pass? Romney is the yellow line in the RCP averages. It appears that Romney’s 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…
Forbes has rated the GOP candidates in order of conservativeness: Fred Thompson, 40.6/50 John McCain, 40.5/50 Sam Brownback, 37.9/50 Mitt Romney, 36.7/50 Rudy Giuliani, 36.2/50 Duncan Hunter, 34.3/50 Ron Paul, 31.2/50 Tom Tancredo, 31.1/50 Mike Huckabee, 26/50 No idea what their methodology was. But some people are going to be Read more…