Once you take John McCain off the table, as many do, the top-tier of the GOP is left with three candidates. Two of them gave money to Planned Parenthood and one lobbied for an abortion group. And none of them support the Human Life Amendment, which, in many states, is Read more…
I missed these because I was in Florida at the Young Republican convention. Two stories about the GOP in light red states. First, Marc Ambinder references an old poll that has Hillary up substantially in West Virginia: A survey of 400 likely voters completed in May by the political consulting Read more…
First, I should say that there have been two major blog posts written about the problems with this. They allege that Mitt Romney bought another straw poll. With details. That said: Romney 163 Thompson 103 Giuliani 37 Huckabee 14 Hunter 14 Paul 11 McCain 5
I am off to the Young Republican National Convention in Miami. I will be blogging some of it on-site. Mitt Romney will be speaking, as will Duncan Hunter. There will be a bunch of other exciting events, including a straw poll. The last big Young Republican straw poll last year Read more…
So, Pollster.com , from Survey USA, has some interesting data about the Libby Sentence Commutation. I am not actually interested at all in writing about the results of the poll regarding Libby. (although it was fascinating how disconnected conservative voters are from the conservative chattering classes) I’ve presented the partisan Read more…
Now that John McCain’s disappointing numbers are out, there are still a couple more interesting questions remaining: Mitt Romney versus Rudy Giuliani: What does it mean if Rudy raises more money than he did in Q1, but Romney raises less? That seems to be the conventional wisdom. If Romney has Read more…
This morning, Novak said: It is difficult to exaggerate the pessimism about the immediate political future voiced by Republicans in Congress when not on the record. With an unpopular president waging an unpopular war, they foresee electoral catastrophe in 2008, with Democratic gains in both the House and Senate and Read more…
Yesterday, Marc Ambinder reported about a poll taken by Fabrizio McLaughlin. Liz Mair had some of the top-line numbers. The Hill and the Boston Globe wrote a little about it, but frankly, I think that they missed the real stories in here. I got my hands on the presentation, and Read more…
Patrick Ruffini makes an articulate defense of flip-flopping: It’s easy to turn a blind eye if someone’s flip-flopping in my direction, but that’s not it. Rather, it’s that at some point, you’ve gotta dance with the ones that brung ya. Said another way, the positions Romney et al. are taking Read more…
Get an honest answer: "When we walked through the series of measures that are being proposed, we got 77 percent of Republicans, 72 percent of Democrats, and 70 percent of independents supporting it," says Goeas (pronounced GO-as). "There’s not a piece of research I’ve seen that, if you explain each Read more…