I have worried about the strange sense that I get that Mitt Romney is out of touch. He seems like a rich guy who doesn’t understand what normal people go through. The question is whether this impression gets down into the voters. MSNBC’s exit polls found that in New Hampshire Read more
Mitt Romney dropped a negative ad in New Hampshire attacking John McCain. However, it seems that Romney, again, has some truthiness problems. Given the factual errors below, it is clear why McCain goes straight to Romney’s credibility problem. Factcheck.org, "More Mitt Malarky": Romney’s latest ad attacks McCain in New Hampshire Read more
It has turned out that Mitt Romney’s Meet the Press appearance appeared decent at the time, but mistakes seem to be coming out of the woodwork. Race 4 2008 has one write-up. First, there was Romney’s lie about the NRA endorsement. He claimed that he had received it in 2002. Read more
So much happened yesterday, and I was away from a computer for most of the day, that I was left nearly speechless. Perhaps the most interesting was Grover Norquist’s comments on Rudy Giuliani and Mike Huckabee. Grover’s whole schtick for over a decade has been his tax pledge. You sign Read more
I am curious. If, as David Yepsen notes, Mike Huckabee is doing well in Iowa, it might be because Iowa caucus-goers are relatively strange. We already know that Iowa GOP caucus-goers are much more anti-war than the national party. We also know that Iowa caucus-goers are more religious than the Read more
Fred Thompson’s campaign’s motto is "Prosperity, Security, Unity". He addressed the first of these during his main speech to the Americans for Prosperity. He addressed the other parts during a speech to the Virginia delegation. Nothing special, but interesting to see the rest of his message. I was struck, again, 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
The first thing I notice. He is the first candidate to come up with his wife. She walks away. And AFP messes up the music. But the crowd is attentive. I think that the people here want to believe in him and support him. He just mislead the audience. He Read more
Mike Huckabee speaks at AFP. He starts with populism. "Getting the economy moving for everyone." But then he switches to talking about the defects with the tax code. He is so interesting. This is anti-government populism. "The average American is more afraid of an audit by the IRS than getting Read more
The whole framing of this is interesting. Rudy is speaking in the middle of a nasty fight with Mitt Romney over their economic records. Rudy starts by saying that he is a supply-sider and that he had made supply-side policies work That’s his theme of 23 tax cuts. He also Read more