links for 2008-01-06
Monitor post-Iowa poll: McCain +6, Obama +1 | Primary Monitor Blog (tags: 2008 nh polling)
When you know that they know
(crossposted from Redstate Redhot) Two facts captured for me how Mitt Romney’s campaign perceived his debate performance. First, only two surrogates were in the spin room: Tom Tancredo and Bay Buchanan. None of the national surrogates in town. No Senator Judd Gregg, Romney New Hampshire campaign chairman. Where was Judd? Read more…
McCain wins
The test of a debate is what is fixated in people’s heads. Those moments will be, almost certainly, the attacks on Mitt Romney. John McCain just needed to tread water. Not only did he do that, but he looked dignified except for, perhaps, going a little too far on poking Read more…
McCain’s Peterborogh Townhall: “The Mac is Back”
(Crossposted from Redstate) From 2008-01, NH I just got to a computer after John McCain’s most recent townhall in Peterborough in western New Hampshire. Peterborough was the location of McCain’s famous 2000 town hall meeting that become a cover-story in Time Magazine. This year, it was McCain’s 100th town hall Read more…
A Romney NH townhall
(Crossposted from Redstate) Last night I attended a Mitt Romney townhall in Manchester, New Hampshire. The Politico’s Jonathan Martin has a report from the event. Several things struck me getting to the event. First, it was packed. Probably 250 or so people. Given the time and place, downtown Manchester on Read more…
links for 2008-01-05
Fundraiser Hsu headed to prison – Politics- msnbc.com (tags: 2008 clinton corruption) Gardner predicts 500,000 will vote in primary | Primary Monitor Blog (tags: 2008 nh)
That’s an awful lot of money
(Crosspost from Redstate) Byron York learned today: I talked to a station official who told me that Mitt Romney was WHO’s second biggest advertiser in 2007. Second biggest – behind the number-one advertiser, Monsanto farm chemicals, and ahead of the number-three advertiser, Bayer farm chemicals. WHO is by far the Read more…
Brooks on the future of the GOP, Huckabee, and McCain
Yesterday, we saw Mitt Romney, the candidate of the establishment, the lobbyist class, the interest group class, etc., get rejected by the people of Iowa. David Brooks understands the broader implications, which I have also talked about: On the Republican side, my message is: Be not afraid. Some people are Read more…
Dems have a damaging, protracted fight on their hands
Cross-posted from Redstate. I have a couple of thoughts about the impact of yesterday’s blowout by Barack Obama over, primarily, Hillary Clinton. The Nutroots, who hate Clinton anyways, are already touting Obama’s win as a "new generation tak[ing] charge". And there’s some logic to that. As if to emphasize that Read more…
A view on Iowa from New Hampshire
Cross-post from Redstate. I am posting there primarily, but I will try to cross-post here more. Mike Huckabee’s stunning victory in Iowa will have a number of consequences in New Hampshire, where I am now. Last night John McCain flew from Iowa to New Hampshire for his caucus-watching party. At Read more…