John Boehner’s press secretary is going over, according to Roll Call. Two economists, both previous Chairmen of the Council of Economic Advisors, will also be joining the Romney campaign. Greg Mankiw, whose blog I love, and Glenn Hubbard. This feels like Andy Card working hard…
The Hill has an article about operatives being unhappy with the RGA, which Mitt Romney was chairman of this cycle. Apparently, some GOP operatives think that the RGA could have done more or differently: “If there was a message sent to the national party, (it was that) for a few Read more…
Massachussets! From the NCSL blog: The Massachusetts Legislature, with 88% of its members coming from the Democratic party, jumped ahead of Hawaii (83%) and Rhode Island (82%) as the most Democratic legislature in the country as a result of the 2006 election. Rounding out the top five Democratic legislatures are Read more…
Today may be the day that the national media will be seen to turn their attention to Mitt Romney. David Broder wrote a WaPo article about Romney’s “mixed record”. And the Boston Globe, no friend of Romney, started to document what they call his “dance to the right”. Let’s start Read more…
A couple of weeks ago, the Virginia Conservative Convention was supposed to pick George Allen as the conservative front-runner in their straw poll. Obviously, that didn’t happen. But something quite interesting did happen. They picked Newt Gingrich instead (results below), and Newt even doubled Mitt Romney, who, somewhat implausibly, has Read more…
Another question about the 2006 election results is: Who survived and lost and what effect does it have on 2008? Note that The Fix is back up with Presidential rankings… We think that he is too high on Huckabee. A big one that people have talked about a lot is Read more…
Now that I’ve spent a day recovering, I want to write a little bit about the 2008 consequences of the 2006 elections. I will cover issues, candidates, and other things. But, I’m starting with issues. The Washington Times(!) clearly argues that the winner is McCain, and while I agree overall Read more…
The Boston Globe has been on the rampage against Mitt Romney. Recently they have attacked him (somewhat unfairly) over his closeness with the Mormon church. Today they attack his record on the Big Dig and his management skills in general: It’s amazing. Romney is running for president, using his response Read more…
This is quite amusing: A recent television ad from Mr. Patrick’s campaign featured big pictures of Mr. Romney and Ms. Healey while an announcer reeled off complaints about their administration: increased property taxes; police layoffs; job losses and the tunnel collapse in the Big Dig, a massive highway project that 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…