In Q1, Mike Huckabee’s fundraising team disappointed. Looks like he did it in Q2 also: Republican Mike Huckabee raised $764,000 for his presidential campaign from April through June and had $437,000 cash on hand at the end of last month, Read more
Just when you thought that the calendar was going to be stable, Ohio and Michigan start to screw it up. In Ohio, legislation has been introduced by a Democratic State Senator to move the date to Jan. 29th, the same Read more
Fred Thompson popped into the College Republican National Convention for a surprise visit, again appealing to elements of the base with a sort of folksy, grassroots style. Here’s what he said: Sam Brownback also spoke. Trent Lott was a surrogate Read more
Jim Gilmore got out today. From his release. I am today withdrawing my candidacy for the Republican nomination for President. It has been a positive and rewarding experience for me, for my family, and for my supporters. It has become Read more
Getting in at the tail end of McCain’s opening. He sounds very, very tired. Jennifer Rubin asks about Sens. Lugar and Warner re-authorizing the war under different conditions. McCain says that once you authorize a war, you either win the Read more
After writing about Virginia and West Virginia polling yesterday, I got thinking about one of the discussions that is not taking place on the internet right now. The question is pretty simple: who will be the swing voters of 2008? Read more
John McCain’s campaign sure lost a lot of staff.
The Prowler has text of an email pushing negative info. How many times is it going to happen to this guy?
I missed these because I was in Florida at the Young Republican convention. Two stories about the GOP in light red states. First, Marc Ambinder references an old poll that has Hillary up substantially in West Virginia: A survey of Read more
All the enthusiasm was for Fred Thompson. Probably a quarter of the delegates were walking around with Thompson stickers. The news stories and the videos only partly capture the energy in the room for him. While his speech was a Read more