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Romney’s flip-flops take a village

Mitt Romney opened his mouth and inserted his foot again. However, it turns out that he was replacing Hillary Clinton’s words with his foot, so it may well be a trade up. You see, back in 1998 he said that Read more

By Soren Dayton, 19 years ago
Strategy

Allard endorses Romney; Romney seals another caucus state

Mitt Romney just announced the endorsement of retiring Colorado Senator Wayne Allard. Romney has signed up huge amounts of the Colorado GOP establishment and Allard’s main issue is gay marriage, so this is no surprise. But the question is why Read more

By Soren Dayton, 19 years ago

Rudy: Our party has to get beyond issues like that

Regarding abortion, Rudy Giuliani said at a campaign stop in Iowa: "Our party has to get beyond issues like that." That reminds me of something else he said… Update: Looks like a reporter stripped some context out.

By Soren Dayton, 19 years ago
Environment

Edwards just lost coal states

John Edwards: He also said the United States should ban the construction of new coal-fired power plants. There are some good swing swing states on that list…

By Soren Dayton, 19 years ago

Iowa Lincoln Day Dinner: Is Jim Gilmore an idiot?

Krusty has a great write up of the Iowa Lincoln Day dinner. So does Kavon at Race42008.  I can’t add much to their reporting, so I will get it be. However, I will note that Jim Gilmore continued to look Read more

By Soren Dayton, 19 years ago
Strategy

Is Romney bracketing McCain?

Much earlier in the campaign, John McCain would spoil Mitt Romney’s events (here and here). Now, I wonder if Romney is doing it to McCain. Two weeks ago, McCain announced three policy speeches. Last week was Iraq. Today is the Read more

By Soren Dayton, 19 years ago

Another take on the right and the left online

Since I am relatively new to politics online, although neither politics nor technology, I followed the conversation last week between Patrick Ruffini, Rob Bluey, David All, Michael Turk (here and here), and Matt Stoller, with comments from Conn Carroll, with Read more

By Soren Dayton, 19 years ago

A brief thought on Rudy and federalism

Isn’t it ironic that Rudy Giuliani is using "states rights" language to sell "northeast liberalism" to the South? Forty years ago, of course, Republicans talked "states rights" in the South to communicate that they were not northeast liberals. In a Read more

By Soren Dayton, 19 years ago

CoH details for Rudy and Romney (update)

Jonathan Martin has the details for Rudy and Mitt. I would note that Romney raised $6m more online than Rudy. That’s remarkable. Update:  Hotline has more details and Jonathan has the DNC’s attack on Rudy’s fundraising. Several things are clear: Read more

By Soren Dayton, 19 years ago

Romney, like Giuliani, ducks on SC ultrasound bill

Last week, I said that Mitt Romney supported the South Carolina ultrasound-before-abortion bill. But I was wrong. He has said that it is a state issue and ducked, invoking the same federalism argument that Rudy Giuliani is using. From AP: Read more

By Soren Dayton, 19 years ago

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