Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Today is, in large part, the political wrap-up, since there is only one poll that makes our radar today. Let's get through this rather brief edition of the midweek Wrap-Up. MO-Sen: Dems With Solid Pickup Opportunity, According to PPP Despite what has been a tumultuous 2009 in the political arena, there has been remarkable stability in the polling that the team over at PPP has done in the Show Me State....
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Arising young governor from a state remote from America’s media is given a big national chance. The governor does not perform well, hideously badly in fact. But the governor learns from past mistakes, executing a shrewdly planned strategy to win a presidential nomination and then the Oval Office itself. That’s the story of Bill Clinton. As Sarah Palin planned her own comeback strategy,...
Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Would it be insane for the insane Lou Dobbs to run for president? I've written about this before. I don't share his immigration obsession or his anger, but he does fill a void in American politics, an ugly one. With a more or less free trade consensus between the parties--has Obama lifted a finger to renegotiate NAFTA--his protectionism would have an audience as much as his anti-immigration stand....
Blue Hampshire (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
So, unless Haley Barbour counts, we have our first guest in the New Hampshire Primary dance : Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty will keynote a Republican fund-raiser in Concord next month, NHPoliticalReport.com has confirmed. Pawlenty is the featured guest of the Republican Senate Majority Committee PAC on Wednesday, Dec. 16. There's an awful lot of bad associated with " T-Paw ," particularly the...
Political Inaction (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Watching the HBO documentary by Edward Norton(Tyler Durden) on the Barack Obama election. Pretty awesome to relive the election, and infuriating at the same time. It makes you really question how he can trust Hillary. If you have the ability, watch this documentary. What I have taken from it is that the Obama campaign always planned for what they called the doomsday scenario, or the primaries going...
National Review Online (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
L ast night, the upstate wind was cool, with just a hint of the winter chill to come -- the season when thoughts turn toward hockey. Doug Hoffman, the Conservative party candidate in New York’s 23rd congressional district, agreed. As the hour grew late and he made his final rounds of handshakes and hugs, something about the moment, and the cold air, stirred a memory. “I think back to early...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: IPCC Advocate in Chief Is it appropriate for the IPCC head to be engaged in overt political lobbying? If so, what policies should he be lobbying for, since the IPCC itself doesn't discuss specific policies? Is the IPCC an advisory body or an advocacy organization? Obama's Stealth Energy Policy In early 2008, a week after his defeat in the New Hampshire primary, Barack Obama...
Barn Yard Humor (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Joe Lieberman placed fifth in the New Hampshire primary, claimed it was a three-way tie for third. Lost by 30 points, but is staying in. I think he`s taking up history here. He wants a chance to prove that losing in 2000 was no fluke. —Bill Maher
The Corner (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
During the New Hampshire primary, Obama's campaign was the most hated by the press corps. There was virtually no access to the candidate save for the same access the public had during an event. But at those events, the staff often kept reporters focused on the message by segregating the press from the public. For example, at the now famous Unity, N.H., event with Hillary after Obama won the nomination,...
National Review Online (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
EDITOR’ S NOTE: In his new book , Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America (ISI Books), Craig Shirley provides the first inside look at the historic 1980 election, a race that even as late as election day was judged “too close to call.” In this excerpt, Shirley shows how close Reagan’s campaign came to collapsing in the Republican primaries...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
For my money, this was the most revealing bit in that NYT story: Still, several friends and aides to Mr. Obama said Friday’s outcome had a similar feeling to the campaign’s loss in the New Hampshire primary. That suggests that the White House seemed to think the Olympic bid mattered, and the loss isn't something that they were prepared to brush off.
Dan Wilson (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
There’s a great scene in season 6 of The West Wing when Josh Lyman introduces Matt Santos to the unglamorous reality of kicking off a presidential campaign from scratch with the New Hampshire primary. The candidate helps voters unload their trash at the town dump. The scene reinforces the importance of humility in politics. Personal connections [...]
Frontloading HQ (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
According to John DiStaso, writing for the New Hampshire Union-Leader, the Republican Party's Temporary Delegate Selection Committee is slated to meet on September 28 to continue discussing the order of 2012 presidential primaries and caucuses. Overall, the group is charged with setting the rules that will govern the entire delegate selection process for the next presidential election cycle. The committee...
ColoradoPols.com - Front Page (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
Yesterday afternoon, we discussed rumors that the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) was committing resources to still-undeclared Senate candidate Jane Norton , which would (if true) likely have the effect of clearing the GOP primary field on her behalf. Interestingly, the discussion about this was originating on conservative Colorado political blogs--we were first reminded of the faux...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
The first reaction to a story like this is get wrapped ’round the axle of HBO’s hypocrisy, so let’s get that out of the way: Of course no Republican who had behaved in the same manner as ”sex columnist” Dan Savage would get a shot at an HBO show . But there’s really no hypocrisy when you realize that Bill Maher’s network is waging ideological war. Through...
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