Now that Mike Huckabee is in the first-tier, he is going to need a foreign policy, which he hasn’t articulated much of, as of yet. My friend David Adesnik dug up some on Huckabee’s foreign policy, as articulated in the Read more
Matt Stoller is laying the groundwork to attack Democrats over FISA: I’ve been kicking around the idea with Chris that we should raise the costs of bad decision-making on things like FISA, or when they fold to Republicans on the Read more
This is how Bonnie Erbe hears Mitt Romney on abortion: "I was never really for it, but I pretended to be for it before I was against it" H/T: GMP1
Granite Grok has an important corrective to the discussion about Ames: I recognize that Mitt Romney gobbled up a lot of the hardcore GOP stalwarts early in the game. I have seen this for myself here in the Granite State. Read more
The member of the North Carolina House who was manager for the bill has a different story [emphasis in the original]: As the House member handling Senate Bill 353, which purported to allocate North Carolina’s electoral votes by Congressional district, Read more
One way of viewing the result of the straw polls is how it re-organizes the field. For a while, at least, Mike Huckabee can claim a pseudo first-tier status, compared in the same breath as the big-4. The Wall Street Read more
Here’s a piece of clarity for the morning. The guys at Granite Grok caught up with Senator John McCain in New Hampshire. They asked him a question about earmarks, and they recorded the answer. Transcribed: Transparency and knowledge are the Read more
Here are some facts and a hypothesis: FairTax had 20-30 buses. (how can a 501(c)(4) give to a state party??) Mike Huckabee had no buses. The FairTax had enormous presence and good location. Mike Huckabee had a bad location and Read more
Some time, some pushback, some reading, and some conversaton has filled out my thinking on Ames. Mike Huckabee is clearly the story coming out of Ames for a couple of reasons. The first reason is that he got a bump. Read more
Marc Ambinder has the results: Romney 31.5% Huckabee 18.1% Brownback 15% Tancredo in 13.7% Ron Paul with 9% The rest were single digits. My read is that social conservatives are split, and immigration is really important. The fact that Huckabee Read more