Rudy’s Confident…
…Or at least, so he claims. But he’s not paying his senior staff, though, which is not a good sign at all. Where did all that money go? He’s been buying air time in Florida like a fiend, but now… Continue Reading
John McCain
I Don’t Know What They’re Talking About, Or, This Sort Of Thing Didn’t Win The Fights In The Matrix Either
Hillary Clinton “won” in New Hampshire. By what looks like about 7,700 votes, or 2% of the Democrats and independents voting in the Democratic primary. Beginning almost immediately thereafter, the media began spinning the results like it was some kind… Continue Reading
New Feature and Iowa Results
I’m going to keep track of the estimated delegates gathered by each candidate. It will appear in the right-hand sidebar. Looking at the delegate count, Obama’s victory does not seem as decisive as press reports would have you believe. And… Continue Reading
And They’re Off!
The Iowa Caucuses are today. Hizzonner is currently polling in fifth place in Iowa despite still being the national leader; Huckabee and Romney are in a dead heat for first place. After Friday, though, no one will care at all… Continue Reading
Summary of Candidates
I’ve looked in depth at four Republican and two Democratic candidates for President, all of whom are polling higher than 10% in national polls and any of whom is poised to potentially take the White House. Here is a short… Continue Reading
Candidate Analysis of John McCain
Biography John Sidney McCain III will be 72 years old on the next Inauguration Day. McCain was born in 1936 in the Panama Canal Zone, which at the time was a United States possession. Both his father and grandfather were… Continue Reading
Not Likely To Help Much
John McCain and Rudy Giuliani are pretty much tied for second place in the Republican primary for New Hampshire. Which is about the only place in the country that I see McCain’s newest endorsement possibly being a “plus” for him… Continue Reading
Push Polling Begins
Apparently, someone has commissioned a push poll for Iowa and New Hampshire, attacking Mitt Romney for his Mormon faith. Camps Giuliani and McCain have both denied involvement in no uncertain ways. No one apparently has thought to ask the Thompson… Continue Reading
John McCain Sucks Up To Special Interest Groups With A Pleasing Inaccuracy
John McCain blatantly sucked up to the Religious Right yesterday, telling a group called Beliefnet that ”the Constitution established the United States of America as a Christian nation". I wonder, Senator, if you could point me to the section of… Continue Reading
Not Different So Much As Better
The idea that the Republican party needs to find a new directions seems to have a counterpart — it simply needs to find a competent leader. The neo-con ideas of the Bush Presidency, in other words, are perfectly fine ways… Continue Reading