I missed the opening comments. Rob Bluey asks about last night’s Democratic debate. Barack Obama said he would meet with leaders of bad countries. McCain called that perspective "naive". When we sit down with the Iranians, what’s the first topic? Read more
Sam Brownback’s campaign has been making phone calls in Iowa with solid facts. He has been attacking Tom Tancredo: Brownback’s campaign has been making phone calls in Iowa that criticize Tancredo for taking campaign money from a Planned Parenthood backer. Read more
More bad news on the housing front. Here are some maps and charts. Note Florida and Nevada. Not that Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, or New Mexico are doing well. These charts are from the WSJ, via The Big Picture. These might Read more
Hillary Zogby Fox Giuliani Hillary +5 Hillary +5 McCain Hillary +3 Hillary +2 Now, normally, I don’t blog about day to do day polls. But … Is John McCain going up in general election polls against Hillary, compared Read more
The other day, I mentioned that Fred Thompson’s name ID was lower than Mitt Romney’s. I got some push back. Rasmussen has some numbers that confirm my assertion. This has been the case for a long, long time. GOP Read more
Once you take John McCain off the table, as many do, the top-tier of the GOP is left with three candidates. Two of them gave money to Planned Parenthood and one lobbied for an abortion group. And none of them Read more
Why is John Edwards running such a lame ad? Is a message too expensive?
Earlier in the week, Mitt Romney released his "Ocean" ad. Jonathan Martin, typically exuberant in his praise of Romney, had this to say: Second, it seems as though this ad is yet more evidence of Romney trying to "close the Read more
So today, I had lunch with a bunch of bloggers (Patrick Ruffini and Joe Carter were the conservatives. I didn’t know any of the liberals) and staff from the ONE campaign, a bipartisan effort to raise awareness of international poverty Read more
In Q1, the refrain from the 2nd tier was that the only fundraising number that really matters is Q2 Cash on Hand. The reasoning for that was Ames. The amount of money that a campaign has right now limits the Read more