The Republicans just love government telling people what they can and can’t do: Republican presidential candidates Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, and Newt Gingrich have all told the group Morality in Media that they would enforce federal obscenity laws that prohibit the distribution of pornography. Those laws, the anti-pornography group said, are being ignored by the […]
With 64 seconds to go and the NY Giants 5 yards from scoring and only down by two, Patriots coach Bill Belichick made a rare and very strategic decision – he let the Giants score. That gave him the time he needed to hopefully come back and win the game, instead of the Giants being […]
Here in Ohio, one of the key battleground states, Obama is looking pretty good right now: President Obama leads all 4 remaining Republican challengers in Ohio among general election voters. He leads Mitt Romney by 7 points (49-42), Newt Gingrich by 12 (51-39), Ron Paul by 10 (48-38), and Rick Santorum performs best, trailing Obama […]
With Mitt Romney enjoying a huge win in Florida last night it’s time to look at the exit polls. The very first question is the one that pops out to me: Mitt Romney has almost double the support from women as does Newt Gingrich. That’s a rather large split and one that really spells problems […]
Since Newt’s win in South Carolina this weekend and Florida only a week away the civil war in the GOP is really heating up. The battle is establishment verses base and it’s really becoming fun to watch. First off we have this from CNN: Veteran Republican leadership aide Ron Bonjean said on the record what […]
Iowa is now the Florida of primaries: In a stunning turn of events, Rick Santorum now appears to have won the Iowa caucuses, though the state’s Republican Party says there are too many holes in the results for them to ever be able to say for certain. The party, which runs the caucuses, has done […]
This election cycle has really exposed a problem the GOP has with dealing with the media. We started seeing it with Herman Cain, who is the only one to blame for his own campaign’s demise with his handling of the questions of inappropriate conduce while head of the National Restaurant Association. Instead of coming clean, […]
There has been a lot of questions about Mitt Romney’s income taxes and we finally got one answer: Q: What’s the effective rate you’ve been paying? ROMNEY: What’s the effective rate I’ve been paying? It’s probably closer to the 15 percent rate than anything, because my last ten years, I’ve, my income comes overwhelmingly from […]
As I have been saying for months now, the GOP’s biggest problem this year is going to be energizing the base. It seems like that problem is now starting to show: A new national poll from CNN shows two conflicting points of data. First, President Barack Obama remains vulnerable in a match-up with former Massachusetts […]
Blogging over at the Plumline, Jonathan Bernstein brings up a very interesting question: As Pema Levy reports in a nice item, the message among neutral Republicans over the weekend was simple: It’s time to shut down GOP WH 2012 before somebody gets hurt – in particular, the “somebody” being the very likely but ever-vulnerable Republican […]