Virginia Kentucky Alabama vs. Hillary Undecided vs. Hillary Undecided vs. Hillary Undecided Giuliani -3 5% -5 7% +6 6% Thompson -9 7% -7 5% +2 4% Romney -14 8% -12 6% -2 6% Survey USA released a bunch more general election polling, commented on by the Hedgehog Report Read more
Survey of 800 Likely Voters August 6-7 and August 8-9, 2007 Candidate Def. FOR Def. AGAINST Net Obama 29% 35% -6 Clinton 33% 43% -10 Giuliani 26% 37% -11 Thompson 20% 33% -13 Edwards 20% 38% -18 McCain 16% 35% -19 Romney 16% 44% -28 The argument for Mitt Romney Read more
One implication of Mike Huckabee’s "win" at Ames is that he is getting media attention as a potential first-tier candidate. In Bloomberg this morning he went after Mitt Romney and the whole Wall Street phenomenon. First, Romney: In a veiled dig at Romney, 60, Huckabee said his record on social Read more
On Hannity last night, Mitt Romney was talking about his health care plan: So it’s one of the things I’m most proud of. And I hope I get a chance to debate Hillary Clinton on the very topic because when I’m asked what the biggest difference is between my plan Read more
I just don’t believe this. Here’s what Mitt Romney has to say about Rudy Giuliani on immigration: “Mayor Giuliani hopefully will explain why there’s such a dramatic departure from his position as mayor, where he said he welcomed illegal aliens to New York, and that they would be in a Read more
Mitt Romney released his financial records on Monday. These are neat. You don’t get too many opportunities to see where people with $250m put their money. (BTW, I think that he probably has more. How much is in his foundation?) I didn’t expect to write on this because I find Read more
This is how Bonnie Erbe hears Mitt Romney on abortion: "I was never really for it, but I pretended to be for it before I was against it" H/T: GMP1
One way of viewing the result of the straw polls is how it re-organizes the field. For a while, at least, Mike Huckabee can claim a pseudo first-tier status, compared in the same breath as the big-4. The Wall Street Journal presented this this way: Should Mr. Huckabee capitalize on Read more
Marc Ambinder has the results: Romney 31.5% Huckabee 18.1% Brownback 15% Tancredo in 13.7% Ron Paul with 9% The rest were single digits. My read is that social conservatives are split, and immigration is really important. The fact that Huckabee + Brownback is greater than Romney will be noticed. At Read more
For some good straw poll blogging, I recommend Marc Ambinder, The Fix, and Cyclone Conservative. Well, first Newt started by pandering to the anti-immigration forces. Wasn’t he an open borders guy back in the day? Wasn’t he a hero of guest worker programs? Mitt Romney started by confusing green beans Read more