So I saw this new Franklin Pierce poll that Hugh Hewitt is touting. Now something seems fishy about this. Romney’s ads haven’t been moving people in any state, but, apparently, New Hampshire. And while Mitt Romney is well known, he doesn’t have a home field advantage, as his consultant Rich Read more
I have argued for a long time that New Hampshire may move its primary up a lot. Seems that I may have been right: In 2008, he is widely expected to leapfrog six days ahead of Iowa, which would be Jan. 8, but no one knows for sure. The Iowa 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
Earlier I reported a rumor that Rudy Giuliani had hired Jeff Semprini, the son of Wayne Semprini, the former NH GOP chair. It turns out that Rudy hired the dad. Semprini did not seek re-election for health reasons and was considered a bit of a care-taker GOP chair. I was 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
Word on the street is that Rudy Giuliani has hired Jeff Semprini to run New Hampshire. Jeff’s dad is the outgoing state party chair, Wayne Semprini.
It appears that the meme "Romney Flip-Flops" may be setting in. It made several appearances today. On Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace asked Sam Brownback: It turns out that one of your potential rivals for that mantle up there on the screen right now, Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, has Read more
I recently wrote about the changes that big states changing their primary date will have in terms of increasing the amount of money required and thereby creating a higher barrier to entry. But there’s are several strategy points here. First, the schedule for all practices purposes would be IA followed Read more
I haven’t posted much. I’m traveling the country, helping out various candidates. Right now, it is fair to say that the Democrats are expanding the field almost everywhere, and resources — money, volunteers, etc — are getting scarce on the GOP. So I was not pleased to see this from 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