I meant to write about this but got distracted. Dan Gerstein has, I think, the proper rebuttal to the guys at the Politico. Perhaps the GOP bad poll numbers are just about Bush? And the correction to Bush lies with a Rudy Giuliani or John McCain, wo fairly different approaches.
John McCain has harsh words for the House Democratic Leadership on the Iraq Supplemental Appropriations Bill that they just passed. This is what he said at a town hall meeting in Plymouth, NH: McCain has been taking some heat for skipping some votes recently. But he is canceling some fundraisers Read more…
That’s what this MyDD post suggests. This is bad, bad news for Hillary Clinton.
In recent weeks, there has been interminable talk about how John McCain’s Presidential hopes could be over because of his position on Iraq. While I see that McCain’s position on Iraq could be a threat to his candidacy, I think that the Democrats are between a rock and a hard 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 48 Barack Obama 38 This is interesting. As many people Read more…
Favorite Sons and Daughters, 2008 from the most recent AEI Political Corner. Q: Would make a good president . . . ? Yes No Arizona voters John McCain 48% 42% Georgia voters Newt Gingrich 30 63 Illinois voters Barack Obama 64 29 Massachusetts voters Mitt Romney 31 65 Massachusetts Read more…
David Broder — a fellow University of Chicago alum — wrote a great article on the Dem calendar shuffle which I have written on here and here. First he points out the history of Dem calender rule-changes: This way lies madness, and madness is what the Democrats have wrought. When Read more…
Sebastian Mallaby has a great article about Dems and Walmart in today’s WaPo. A killer quote: The truth is that none of these Democrats can resist dumb economic populism. Even though we are not in a recession, and even though the presidential primaries are more than a year away, the Read more…
A professor at the University of New Hampshire has an interesting op-ed in today’s WaPo about the New Hampshire Primary and the recent shift of the primary schedule by the Democrats. A lot of attention has been focused on the racial/diversity issue, which was the argument that the DNC used Read more…
What is this about? Ezra Klein writes about this in the LATimes. The answer is simple. It is about turning her into the national boss of the Democratic Party. She would use her fundraising network to raise money for candidates and pick candidates in primaries. She would use her power Read more…