State 1/x Households in Foreclosure # of Households foreclosing Bush 04 margin EVs Primary Date Nevada 40 25,208 21k 5 1/19 Colorado 60 34,287 100k 9 2/5 California 69 189,560 -1.2m 55 2/5 Michigan 80 55,896 -160k 17 1/26?? Florida 81 102,213 380k 27 1/29 Ohio 82 60,728 120k 20 Read more…
More bad news on the housing front. Here are some maps and charts. Note Florida and Nevada. Not that Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, or New Mexico are doing well. These charts are from the WSJ, via The Big Picture. These might also make taking back a couple of House seats tough. Read more…
Rules fights are fun, obscure, and usually well behind the scenes. Not the fight over whether independents (normal speak for California’s "Decline to State" or DTS) can vote in the GOP primary. They can in the Democrat’s primary. For the most part, this fight is breaking down along ideological lines. Read more…
This is quite interesting… Apparently, the Florida state legislature is moving up the primary, again, to January 29th. This would be the same day as South Carolina, I believe. I see several implications: I believe that the Democrats will penalize Florida for this by either stripping their delegates or stripping Read more…
Update: I have two additions, both from Jon Fleischman. First, Duf Sundheim denies in writing that he supports John McCain. Usually conservatives have trouble that anyone supports McCain. It is amusing that they insist on it here. Second, Fleischman, in his second post, gets a firm denial from the McCain Read more…
First, Bill Gardner, the NH’s Secretary of State is set to move up the New Hampshire primary to January 14th, 2008. Iowa would then have to move up too, as David Yepsen notes. There’s an important undercurrent here. Both of these are swing states, and the DNC rules would strip Read more…
This is big and complicated. California is strongly considering moving up to February 5th. This will have an enormous impact on the race. First, the money barrier to entry just got a lot bigger. A lot. California is really really big. Second, the rules, on the Republican side, in California Read more…
The FlashReport has a mumble of trouble with Mitt Romney’s California fundraising operation: There are some changes taking place in the California operations of Mitt Romney’s fledgling campaign for President. FR is still tracking down the details, but we’ve heard from very reliable sources that California uber-fundraising Anne Dunsmore and Read more…