Today, The Fix said this about John McCain: These numbers suggest that McCain’s best route to winning the GOP nomination is to focus heavily on his years of on-the-job training to be president — from his military service to his years in Congress to his run for president in 2000. Read more
This is a big deal, and Ryan Sager has it.. Rudy Giuliani was endrosed by Steve Forbes today. Forbes ran in 2000 and performed well, 30%, in Iowa, and so-so in New Hampshire. But what Forbes has is a network and lists. One of my persistent criticisms of the Giuliani Read more
Regular readers will know that one of my favorite topics is the primary calendar. Fascinating things are afoot. First, on Straight Talk Express, an experienced party hack told me that smart New Hampshire money is now on a December primary. As I have discussed before, New Hampshire and Bill Gardner Read more
My girlfriend. She was very impressed. And she’s not even a Republican.
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
John McCain’s campaign invited two bloggers, me and Townhall’s Matt Lewis, to join his campaign this weekend in New Hampshire. We attended two town hall meetings, in Plymouth and Littleton. On the bus, John McCain sat between the two of us for two hours, with 5 or 6 "old media" Read more
Well, we have our first set of polls with Fred Thompson in the race. What happens? First, Rudy Giuliani loses a lot of support to Thompson. That is a surprise, but not entirely. I suspect that these are the people who like Rudy, don’t like McCain so much and want Read more
In some ways, each state in the early process of the Presidential nominations captures something about the GOP electorate. I have noted that Iowa tends to emphasize religious conservatives. In New Hampshire, the "Live Free or Die" state, it is much more libertarian focusing on issues like guns and, to Read more
Patrick Hynes, who works for John McCain, accompanied the Senator yesterday in New Hampshire. He’s got some great video. I can’t help but think that McCain really helped himself this weekend in New Hampshire.
Mike Huckabee is having some successes in New Hampshire.