Ethics
Rick Renzi out in AZ-1
This really isn’t a surprise, but Roll Call has the news. Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ) will not run for re-election. The FBI raid was making this swing seat even harder to keep, and there was a lot of pressure from Read more
What does state general election polling tell us?
Virginia Kentucky Alabama vs. Hillary Undecided vs. Hillary Undecided vs. Hillary Undecided Giuliani -3 5% -5 7% +6 6% Thompson -9 7% -7 5% +2 4% Romney -14 8% -12 6% -2 6% Survey USA released a bunch Read more
Dems building national precinct organization?
This is the first thing that the Dems are talking about in 2008 that actually scares me. Mike Dukakis is talking about building a real national precinct organization: "We have to organize every damn precinct in the United States of Read more
Romney’s electability problem
Survey of 800 Likely Voters August 6-7 and August 8-9, 2007 Candidate Def. FOR Def. AGAINST Net Obama 29% 35% -6 Clinton 33% 43% -10 Giuliani 26% 37% -11 Thompson 20% 33% -13 Edwards 20% 38% -18 McCain 16% 35% Read more
economy
More housing mess
This week the stock market seems a little more stable, and the fed has injected more liquidity in the markets. But don’t be confused. Things are bad and could get much, much worse. The top-line story is that July foreclosures Read more
Ethics
Barnes on GOP: Importance of earmarks and ethics
Fred Barnes has another great piece, this time in the Journal: The recipe for Republicans is to stop acting like, well, Republicans–that is, Republicans of recent vintage. In Congress, they’ve been soft on earmarks, the source of so much corruption. Read more
Huckabee to end birthright citizenship
Last week, I said that Mike Huckabee is in a position to run an isolationist, nativist, populist race for President. I pointed out that, at least on the issue of immigration, one of the things that could get in the Read more
Michigan
Implications of Michigan’s calendar actions
Chuck Todd has the main story: According to sources inside both parties, the two state parties in Michigan have agreed to move the state’s primary — legislatively — to Jan. 15. This is a compromise date out of respect for Read more
Barnes: GOP immigration rhetoric is a mistake
The Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes compares the Democrat’s losing (the war and the voters) position to Iraq to immigration: Yet Republicans are doing the same thing on another issue, trading away long-term gain for the immediate joy of pleasing voters Read more
trade
More of my thoughts on Huckabee (long)
Reihan Salam responds to one of my recent posts about Mike Huckabee. I had said: On a deeper level, I hear in Huckabee an instinct towards the isolationism that Eisenhower fought against. … Reihan responds: I say "somewhat strangely" because Read more