Bob Novak has a discussion of the "where is the conservative" theme of this election. He discusses Keiran Mahoney’s survey of Iowa caucusgoers. First he asks where they are. Then he "pushes" them with information. Are these the numbers you thought he would get? Before After Change McCain 33 Read more…
Is there any other way to describe this piece on Romney? The last sentence is a killer: The more voters learn about him, the less they seem to like him.
I don’t watch TV much, so I miss a lot of stuff. But Kavon Nikrad at Race4 2008 notices that Rudy Giuliani’s campaign thinks that Mitt Romney is preparing to whack them. To do so would be a big, big mistake. Rudy is a hero. It will slime Rudy, but Read more…
A longer version of a previous argument on the crisis of Mitt Romney’s poll numbers.
Last week, Mitt Romney released ads in a bunch of early states. I argued that Romney was going on the air because he was getting defined in the media. Now HotlineTV weighs in, arguing that Romney made a fundamental mistake with these ads because now, if Romney’s numbers don’t move, Read more…
Last week, Mitt Romney was in trouble because he lied about George Bush’s record on abortion. Then this week, the Boston Globe points out that Romney’s campaign lost control of a planning presentation. I think that Matt Lewis’s write up on this will be the definitive one. The closing sentence Read more…
That would be unfortunately politics for , but it is what this article suggests.
Aren’t these guys supposed to be professionals? Does Mitt Romney’s campaign really need to cut up footage to mislead people? John McCain has had his fair share of foot-in-mouth moments. Find them, don’t manufacture them.
Update: A reader points out the date of this: Feb. 28, 2005. This is after Romney’s supposed conversion. Romney now says that he was pro-life when he gave this interview. Does this sound pro-life: I’m personally pro-life but I won’t change the laws, you could describe that as – well Read more…
As everyone knows by now, Mitt Romney has gone on the air in a bunch of states. Here is the ad. Mitt is doing this because he has a problem. A recent post on the Gallup poll blog gets it right: At the other end of the spectrum is Mitt Read more…