Today, the Supreme Court overruled a district and appellate court and allowed issue ads within the "window". Stated intelligibly, issue ads will not be regulated. However, it looks like a fairly narrow ruling: The Court issued its fifth ruling of Read more
I’ve been at a family reunion, so I missed this Washington Times article, but I think it is very important. The basic problem is that yesterday’s conservative movement is having trouble revitalizing itself with new leaders: "Younger across-the-board conservatives are Read more
Marc Ambinder is right about this: Andrew Sullivan is in one sense correct: traditionally, the youngest cohort of voters dont’ show up at the polls. But the past two election cycles seem to be the start of a new trend: Read more
So it appears that the whole faux-renta-cop story has legs. Apparently, Mitt Romney’s "Director of Operations" is independently under investigation for threatening a Massachusetts business while impersonating a cop. This reminded me of another story about Romney from The Atlantic: Read more
Lots of ink has been spilled over how hard the 2008 environment is going to be for Republicans. This mostly focuses on Bush and Iraq. While most of this is correct, I wonder how overwhelming this will be. Gallup underscores Read more
Pop quiz for all you wannabe political strategists. If you had a campaign leader who, according to today’s Salt Lake Trib, was named as a defendant in a suit alleging that at a school he ran: [S]tudents were forced to Read more
This story really seems to have legs. Even makes CNN: In case you missed, the Romney campaign is denying that this ever happened. John Roberts says that it is the Romney’s campaign’s policy.
Last week, after the seeming pause in the fight over the immigration bill, a number of people wrote that the delay in the immigration bill was either good or bad for John McCain. Now it seems likely that the immigration Read more
So this weekend, I was reading the newspaper. I stumbled across this NYT article about Mitt Romney which gave me the giggles. Until I came to this weird paragraph: He travels with an entourage that includes two or three “operations” Read more
Pollster.com has the results of a 16-state survey of 2-way and 3-way matchups between Giulaini, Clinton, and Bloomberg. First, the data: 3-way 2-way Bloomberg Effect State Giuliani Clinton Bloomberg Giuliani Clinton From G From H Alabama 46 39 11 53 Read more