It took me a lot of time to process Mitt Romney’s speech tonight. I had seen John McCain’s and Sam Brownback’s on TV. Romney’s was in sharp contrast to the others. He offered lots of details and great quotes like: "Time to make out of wedlock births out of fashion." Read more…
Today, Governor Mitt Romney called for the US to pull out of the UN Human Rights Council. According to the AP: "The United Nations has been an extraordinary failure of late," Romney said in response to a question at a pancake house along the coast of early voting South Carolina. Read more…
I have two questions about the possibility of a December NH primary: Can candidates collect matching funds for that? What are the mechanics of that? When do they actually get the money? It is clear that John McCain has more than enough money to compete if he takes matching funds. Read more…
I saw this press release from Mitt Romney’s campaign. I asked Patrick Hynes, who is the blog-outreach guy for John McCain, what he thought of it. His first response was to tell a joke: First, I think that John Lynch has higher favorability among New Hampshire Republicans than Mitt Romney. Read more…
A number of people have asked me why I think that the religious right hasn’t found a candidate. The supposition is that if the religious right came around and supported someone like Mike Huckabee or Sam Brownback, they could be the nominee. Here is my attempt to answer that question. Read more…
This morning, I got an email from a family group leader. He was incredulous. He said: Our "leaders" testify to the sincere conversion of a guy who today believes the Boy Scouts are wrong to prohibit homosexual Scoutmasters… That was in response to Ralph Z Hallow’s article about Romney in today’s Washington Read more…
There’s a fight over taxes between Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani. Yesterday, Romney accused Rudy of supporting a commuter tax. But, as always seems to be the case for Romney, whose operating principle seems to be "what is good for me is not good for thee," Romney raised the commuter Read more…
Yesterday, I wrote about Mitt Romney’s Ames effect wearing off in Iowa. I am pretty sure that I missed the story. Gallup Poll’s Frank Newport had the first hint: I disagreed. In fact, one thing the national polls have shown us is that Mitt Romney was unable to translate his Read more…
Real Clear Politics polling suggests that Mitt Romney has not been able to maintain his bump from the Ames Straw Poll. Is Romney peaking? Did people take a second look at him after Ames and …. pass? Romney is the yellow line in the RCP averages. It appears that Romney’s Read more…
Reading the morning news, this little vignette about Fred Thompson at the Iowa Christian Alliance meeting struck me: At one point in the receiving line, a man’s Huckabee sticker fell off while he was shaking Thompson’s hand, so the former Senator picked it up and playfully slapped it back onto Read more…