There has been much discussion today of McCain’s frontrunner status. Today’s granddaddy article on McCain has to be the NYT’s piece on all the people that he has recruited. It was mostly a list of Washington Insiders. Other stories have Read more…
The Washington Times has a glowing article about Mitt Romney’s trip to the California GOP meeting. Truth Caucus has a source on the ground with great stories of Romney’s time there. The Miami Herald has an article on John McCain’s Read more…
H/T The Plank: In the end, I think the party needing to go in a different direction from a conventional conservative approach was the primary reason for his diminished position in the race for the 2008 nomination. This just puts Read more…
H/T to Greg Mankiw for the analysis. The GOP markets at Tradesport only have McCain and Giuiliani, so I don’t think that they are very meaningful. But Mankiw points out what is interesting about the Democrat ones: [W]e can obtain Read more…
H/T Granite Grok. The Bow Picnic and Straw Poll in NH took place on the 19th. The results: US Senator John McCain (R-Arizona)26% US Secretary of State Condoleezza “Condi” Rice (R-Cal.) 26% Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (R-NY) Read more…
Hotlineblog has some of the details (unfortunately, something is screwed up with their link). The Chicago Tribune and Manchester Union Leader have the best coverage. First, the procedure. The DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee passed a resolution fixing the beginning Read more…
So much has been written about this that I can’t tolerate it. I am beginning to agree that this is near fatal to Allen’s Presidential hopes. The reason is not that he’s a racist. It is that it continues to Read more…
The Boston Globe ran a story about Massachussets Governor Mitt Romney campaigning in the South. It included a picture with Mississippi Senator Trent Lott. The funny thing is that Lott has already signed up with Straight Talk America, John McCain’s Read more…
GOP side: John McCain: 24% Rudy Giuiliani and Condi Rice: 20% Newt Gingrich: 10% Dem side: Hillary Clinton and John Edwards tied at 34% Vilsack third. Upshot: McCain is still the front runner. And Hillary just can’t go that high, Read more…
Update: Byron York has a great discussion of Giuliani in the newest NR. Basicly the same story. Ankle Biting Pundits recently posted the results of a Frank Luntz focus group on possible 2008 GOP candidates. The finding on Giuliani was Read more…