This morning, Dave Weigel tweeted “Unpopular/overreaching GOP governors in OH, WI, FL — good or bad for GOP’s prez ticket?”. That really got me thinking about the upcoming general elections. The first actual poll of Ohio Governor John Kasich was released this morning. In it they find his approval rating at a dismal 40%, with […]
The list of names keeps growing: Add former Sen. Rick Santorum to the list of potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates. POLITICO has learned Santorum will visit first-in-the-nation Iowa this fall for a series of appearances before the sort of conservative activists who dominate the state GOP’s key presidential caucuses. The GOP has no one new […]
This has to be a warning sign to Republicans: Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama out-raised the four Republican presidential candidates – John McCain, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul – $49.6 million to $42.2 million in the last three months of 2007, according to finance reports made public Thursday night. So two […]
I guess not: cloture vote in the Senate just moments ago on whether or not D.C. residents will get congressional representation ended up with 57 Ayes and 42 Nos, meaning Democrats and moderate Republicans weren’t able to find the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster organized by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. The citizens […]
That is the tone being set by Republican presidential candidates: Four days after the Democrat’s ‘landmark’ YouTube debate in South Carolina, only Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) have agreed to participate in CNN’s next web-oriented debate. “Aside from those two candidates, we haven’t heard from anyone else,” Sam Feist of CNN […]