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Talking Points Memo (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
| Election 2008
As David noted below, many commentators have taken little more than an hour to proceed from slack-jawed bewilderment to belief that Sarah Palin's unexplained resignation may be a political masterstroke. For the moment there's no clear evidence of or explanation...
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Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
| Election 2008
MICHAEL BARONE: The Republican Party is going to have a hard time coming up with a strong presidential nominee in 2012.
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Political Wire (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
| Election 2008
"Mitt Romney says publicly he's not considering another presidential campaign, most recently on Sunday during an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press . But many of his loyalists expect one and remain at the ready for 2012," Politico reports. "For the Romney team, it's not too much of a stretch to say that the campaign never really ended... The Washington-based alumni have a regular monthly luncheon,...
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Frontloading HQ (Free subscription) | 06/27/2009
| Election 2008
Virginia DNC member Frank Leone is liveblogging the action from the Democratic Change Commission meeting today in Washington. You can follow along at DemRulz and also have a look at the group's agenda (There are some nice graphs in there that I'll pull out and post in a little while.) there as well. Also, Dan Balz has a story up on Washington Post's page dealing with the 2012 nomination process tinkering...
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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
| Election 2008
Political smarty Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic presents the case for, and against, the national political significance of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's adultery scandal. I think "against" wins, but here are selections from both sides of the argument: It Will Matter: He's the latest in a line of potential GOP presidential candidates to fall victim to his personal appetites. This means that the...
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Kicking Ass (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
| Election 2008
The Democratic Change Commission will be having their first meeting, open to the public, on Saturday June 27th in Washington, DC. We will provide highlights of the meeting here on the blog. Following the Democratic Presidential primaries and caucuses of the 2008 presidential nominating campaign the Democratic National Convention Rules Committee, at the request of then Senator Obama, drafted a resolution...
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
| Election 2008
First Ensign, then the "Crying in Argentina" press conference. If Republicans want a presidential candidate who lives clean and whose family hasn't been involved in tabloid scandals, it might soon be Mitt Romney by process of elimination.
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Blue Mass. Group - Front Page (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
| Election 2008
Having just thrown the state's health care law under the bus , it's hard to imagine that Tim Cahill thinks he can win the Democratic nomination for Governor. After all, the concept of universal health coverage is pretty important to most Democrats, especially those who vote in primaries. State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill has come out strongly against the $1 billion in tax increases approved by the...
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Cato-at-liberty (Free subscription) | 06/23/2009
| Election 2008
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll again shows that voters prefer “smaller government with fewer services” to “larger government with more services”: Obama has used the power and financial resources of the federal government repeatedly as he has dealt with the country’s problems this year, to the consternation of his Republican critics. The poll found little [...]
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Brains and Eggs (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
| Election 2008
Great news; the Republicans are still not getting it : Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee warned Republicans Wednesday against moving to the "mushy middle," arguing that only clearly stated conservative policies can bring the party back to power. ... "I hear people who give advice that the Republicans need to moderate. They need to be a little more to the left," Huckabee said in an interview with The...
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Political Ticker (Free subscription) | 06/05/2009
| Election 2008
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Douglas Wilder, who became the country's first African-American governor when Virginians elected him in 1989, thinks that no matter who emerges victorious from the state's Democratic gubernatorial primary on Tuesday, the party will find it awfully tough to defeat Republican Bob McDonnell in November. Wilder said "there's something in the air" that makes [...]
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Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009
| Election 2008
Sweet Beat by digby This story about Richard Wolffe's coverage of the Obama campaign is more than a little bit snotty and frankly not surprising. I knew he was writing a campaign book about Obama and his coverage of the candidate reflected his need for access --- and his access. He was clearly not objective, but then neither was Fox News. It all came out fairnbalanced, village style. But this is just...
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Political Ticker (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
| Election 2008
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Mitt Romney, eyeing a run at the presidency in 2012, is taking another step in fleshing out his foreign policy portfolio with a Monday speech to the conservative Heritage Foundation on the topic of defense spending. According to excerpts of the speech provided to CNN, Romney will call the Obama administration's plan to [...]
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Power Line (Free subscription) | 05/31/2009
| Election 2008
One of the most striking features of the young Obama administration is that whatever personal popularity the President enjoys has not carried over to his policies. Obama is currently enjoying a bounce due to greater approval by Hispanics--the result of the Sotomayor nomination--but once again, that bounce fails to be reflected in the realm of policy. Rasmussen finds today that by a 67 percent to 21...
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Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 05/26/2009
| Election 2008
Okay, it's just one advocate for crushing the testicles of a child , but it's certainly a big name in the world of torture-enablers; former Justice Department official, John Yoo. Some deep thoughts from Yoo (via the official Republican talking points ): President Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor shows that empathy has won out over excellence in the White House. The White House chose a judge...
