Romney’s Young Republicans speech
I was at the back of the room, so I had to zoom. That made this more jittery. And the tele-prompters (for a YR speech??) were inconveniently placed. I had to cut it up into multiple bits for YouTube. Here Read more
Mitt’s 70 years Young Republicans
Update: Virginians for Fred Thompson has some pictures of geriatric Young Republicans, including a nice explanation of what actually happened at the straw poll. The Mitt Romney campaign has usually been quick to announce straw poll results. I haven’t seen Read more
Young Republican straw poll
First, I should say that there have been two major blog posts written about the problems with this. They allege that Mitt Romney bought another straw poll. With details. That said: Romney 163 Thompson 103 Giuliani 37 Huckabee 14 Hunter Read more
Fred’s speech to Young Republicans
Title says it all:
Fred Thompson interview from Young Republican Convention
Update: My deepest apologies. I have had sporadic internet access and convention responsibilities. Here is the interview. Liz Mair and I interviewed Fred Thompson after his speech. The speech is coming up.
Off to Young Republican National Convention
I am off to the Young Republican National Convention in Miami. I will be blogging some of it on-site. Mitt Romney will be speaking, as will Duncan Hunter. There will be a bunch of other exciting events, including a straw Read more
Christian right dated Mitt, married Fred?
Update: Since writing this, Glen Johnson at the AP has written on the whole Romney/porn story. He quoted Tony Perkins, the head of the Family Research Council. At the very least, this puts an exclamation point on my second point Read more
Giuliani fundraising blogger conference call
Details from Mike DuHaime on Rudy Giuliani: 60k donors. Thinks that this can grow. Lower than McCain’s and Romney’s. $33m raised for this cycle $11m spent in Q2 $18m CoH and $0 debt "Finance numbers catching up polling numbers" Campaign Read more
Dems laying groundwork against Thompson?
That’s certainly what this looks like. Attacking a guy on his strength is usually a good strategy.
The GOP and ideology: Can’t win elections without moderates
So, Pollster.com , from Survey USA, has some interesting data about the Libby Sentence Commutation. I am not actually interested at all in writing about the results of the poll regarding Libby. (although it was fascinating how disconnected conservative voters Read more