Run away, run away
Mitt Romney runs away from his health care plan… Reminds me of a Monty Python varmint scene.
GOP Candidates and Federalism
Yesterday and today (in response to Andrew Sullivan), Hotline’s Marc Ambinder pointed out that Rudy Giuliani is, perhaps, making a dodge on a variety of issues by invoking federalism. In essence, Marc’s position is: By not saying something like I Read more
GOP Winning in 2008
Kavon over at Race 4 2008 got me back to this little project I have of comparing general election matchups for various GOP candidates.
Rasmussen has started to collect general election matchups. I have collected them and presented them in, what I think, is the clearest and most useful format (note that these are not all from the same poll, so methodologically, there is something deeply unsound about this. RCP averages would be great):
| Clinton | Obama | Edwards | Fav – UnFav | % unknown | |
| Giuliani | +8 | +1 | +7 | +33 | 3% |
| McCain | +7 | 0 | -9 | +17 | 3% |
| Thompson | +1 | -12 | -14 | +13 | 41% |
| Gingrich | -7 | -10 | -5 | 9% | |
| Romney | -9 | -15 | -26 | -5 | 31% |
| Brownback | -5 | -15 | -19 | 43% |
Analysis of the digits after the jump.
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Funny. That’s not what Obama used to say…
Barack Obama, my former state senator, has been running to the left as the anti-war candidate in the Democratic primary. Since he wasn’t in the Senate in 2002, he can say that is the only major Democratic candidate to not Read more
Romney still struggling with abortion
Mitt Romney has struggled with his position on abortion. He has been accused of being a flip-flopper, and Romney has shifted his stance from being pro-choice, to saying that he was always pro-life, to now admitting that he used to Read more
Romney loses another to Thompson
There goes the Missouri Lt. Governor….
Iraq and 2008: A ballot issue and two visions
There was an interesting exchange yesterday at the Politico. Tom DeLay and Martin Frost agreed that Iraq is likely to be the dominant issue of the 2008 Presidential election. DeLay stated it as a certainty, but Frost allowed for the Read more
24% of Iowa Caucus-goers …
According to The Fix, that’s the number that self-identify as the religious right. That’s interesting in its own right.
Guy in NRA hat speaks: Romney another Kerry
Last week, Mitt Romney shot himself in the foot by answering a question about hunting. The guy who asked the question was tracked down by a Boston TV station. Here’s what he had to say, and it is brutal: Some Read more
Interesting new Gallup poll
Gallup just released their new April poll. There are some interesting things going on inside. First, an omnibus table with all the numbers, margin of error is 5%: Candidate GOP % Without Newt GOP Fav GOP UnFav Overall Fav Overall Read more