Do Democrats think that if you repeat something enough times, it will become true? They do it on the economy every day… What today? The DSCC is attacking McCain again for violating campaign finance laws. This is funny. Last time they got it wrong. In fact, their press release makes 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 for each candidate the conditional probability–the probability that the person 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 of the 2008 Dem primary and caucus schedule. Today it Read more…
Hillary just put out her first ad. Hotline has it. So I pose a question: Does she have to run for President in 2008? Not necessarily. Let’s go back to the basics and think about her position: First of all, to quote a friend of mine from IA Democratic politics, Read more…
The “insurgents” ran very good campaigns. But we learn very different things from them. First, CT Senate. Ned Lamont, the darling of the lefty blogosphere, had a lot of good campaign ideas. People have talked about all the blog stuff and YouTube stuff (NPR/Slate on this). But, perhaps more to the Read more…