National Journal and Chris Cilliza have come out with their rankings of Presidential candidates. Some interesting points. First the National Journal coverage: 73% of GOP insiders think that John McCain is going to win the nomination. Furthermore, 56% of GOPers Read more
Last night, I had a wonderful conversation with some friends about what happened in the last election. One person’s position was that the Dems found a new coalition with some new votes (more youth) and some GOP votes (more of Read more
National Journal did a CNN/Opinion Research Poll and asked this question: Who do you not want to run for President. The answers: Republican % Democrat % Bill Frist 51 John Kerry 51 Mitt Romney 50 Al Gore 43 Newt Gingrich Read more
New Jersey just moved up their primary to February 5th, according to the Philly Inquirer: So the Senate yesterday voted 33-5 to move the 2008 primary date up a few more weeks to Feb. 5, putting it after only the Read more
After winning the Virginia Conservative Convention Straw Poll, Newt Gingrich did a fundraiser for the organization. Robert Bluey of the Human Events reported the event. At the event, Newt went on the attack against Bush: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich Read more
While the main theater of the 2008 battle has been in Florida at the RGA meeting, someone pointed out this week that McCain might actually contest Iowa. This was not news to those paying much attention, but whatever. The Iowa Read more
Wow. This is not to be believed. I really should have better things to do than write about Mitt Romney so much, but such amusing stuff comes out of his mouth. At the RGA meeting, after Ken Mehlman gave a Read more
This morning Powerline, Captain’s Quarters, and Dick Morris chime in with basically the same opinion. It is appearing that Romney’s tack to the right is not succeeding. There are all sorts of interesting implications here. Informally, a bunch of conservative Read more
Political Insider has a little blurb about Newt being the real candidate of the right. I’ve mentioned this a couple of times before here and here. It is very interesting. At today’s American Democracy Conference, Rich Galen said: There is Read more
I spent part of my morning at the UVa/Hotline American Democracy Conference. Hotlineblog liveblogged the conference. One of the panels was on the 2008 GOP race. (Much of this was also reported by the St. Lake City Tribune) There were Read more