Nov 1, 2012 – ground view of the race for the White House, why both campaigns think Iowa is winnable, and how the different approaches to get out … the vote efforts may make a key difference in these closing days of the campaign. … We hope you enjoy the show.…

Nov 1, 2012 – It’s their toy, and the burden is on them to be correct or not. And they choose a non-neutral point of view. … The European Union continues to come after Google. I think the EU wants to stifle the Internet on the grounds of privacy. … Funny how the precautionary principle the left claims to love in “climate science” gets thrown out the rest of the time.…

Oct 31, 2012 – future is projected from the raw data, on the assumption that the future will behave like the past. … The pro-Romney view, by contrast, simply assumes that things have gone wrong in a number of the polls’ samples that have gone wrong … individual polls we have seen so far have been largely or wholly irreconcilable, especially in terms of their view of the partisan…

Oct 29, 2012 – Contrary to what you may believe, the picture is not the cast of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, it is the leadership of a vicious … The initiative led to at least two US-Iran meetings, the report said. Israel was made aware of the contacts, and opposed them. … According to more recent reports the Obama regime seems to have been trying this again probably with the view of using it as something…

Oct 29, 2012 – Last week I wrote about the need to look beyond the headlines in order to have a more informed view on what is or is not going on … First off, the GDP headline of up 2% for the September quarter compares to 1.3% in the second quarter and 1.65% for the first half … Again, the headline was the drop in the unemployment rate.…

Nov 15, 2012 – Now is the time to study the lessons of this election and to chart a course for conservatives to win in the future.  … by the left, people who share our American view of individual rights rather than group rights.  … The winner in a political contest over time is determined by the number and the effectiveness of the activists and leaders on the respective…

Nov 14, 2012 – While a lot of Romney’s problems were baked-in by mid-summer, I don’t think that was an unreasonable view to take at the time; as it … Indeed, listen to Jim Messina, the nuts-and-bolts guru of the Obama campaign, on his view of public polling: Every night, Obama’s … The scouts can’t tell you a guy with a terrible stat line is actually a major star – but in a close case, their view can make the difference…

Nov 14, 2012 – The most important vote that will happen very soon is the vote for Chairman of the Republican Study Committee, the conservative group … The bulk of the RSC members stood with House Leaders and the RSC leadership held the line for conservatives. … Steve Scalise is a good man, but his view on the role of the RSC would splinter the group and fracture the authentic conservative voices…

Nov 13, 2012 – Two years later, the liberal wing of the Democratic Party took over Congress and two years later, the liberal wing of the Democratic … from two groups of people: (1) those whose world view in politics began with the election of 2000 and who lack any sense of history … There is a lot of ill will toward the Reagan Revolution within the GOP. It is exacerbated by the ill will outside the GOP.…

Nov 11, 2012 – the tough questions as the other candidates have done. … the Republican Party is on the verge of nominating a multi-millionaire scion of the Rockefeller Wing of the Republican Party whose … Considering this, you might want to view it more as an expression of just how frustrated I have become with the field that I’m starting…

Nov 9, 2012 – Well according to sources who worked closely with the program, the blame is at the feet of consultants. … “This didn’t materially change the course of the election.” People close to the campaign responded. … According to all the sources I spoke to, the breakdown of the campaign can be traced to the primaries.…

Nov 9, 2012 – , like the War on Women, but the fact remains that if you can name something you go a long way towards determining how people view … the subject. … in the media as the “Fiscal Cliff.”…

Nov 8, 2012 – He lets the last Hungarian go, waits until his wife and kids are in the ground and then he goes after the rest of the mob. … If you haven’t seen the movie Usual Suspects take some time to view this video beginning at 2:10 to get the mood for what follows … Removing people from the tax rolls has had the effect of reducing the number of people who pay taxes with deleterious impact on the…

Nov 7, 2012 – voices within the GOP for talking down the nominee. … In the past few months there has been little gained, with so much at stake, pointing out the failures of the Romney campaign. … As Ben Domenech noted that morning in The Transon, “That… that’s the plan?” It was the plan.…

Nov 7, 2012 – I was wrong about the polls the past three weeks. … But I was right about Romney the past six years, and as it turned out, vindicated my original view in the primaries that – while Romney … The foreign policy crisis of the fall in North Africa didn’t end up really affecting the race much, and it’s hard to say whether the…

Nov 24, 2012 – For years the Democrat party has derided the GOP’s view of economics. … Our view, essentially, is that your money is yours, not the government’s, and the decisions you make on how to spend it will inevitably … This isn’t necessarily bad, in my view one of the major shortfalls of our current system is that the policy is owned by the employer…

Nov 22, 2012 – It’s time for my annual tradition of posting the WKRP “Turkey Drop” video.   … [youtube]http://youtu.be/PeCGURWzjwE [/youtube] You can also view the entire episode on Hulu! … I hope you all have a great day and safe travels today and the rest of this holiday weekend.  …

Nov 20, 2012 – Included in the Buzzfeed article is this: John Podhoretz, the editor of Commentary and a prolific tweeter, rejected the notion that … But he said that as the GOP tries to widen its tent in the coming months and years, conservative sites will need to stay out of the … I’m quite happy with our track record of moving the GOP to the right and I do not view it as “self-defeating”.…

Nov 20, 2012 – telling the tale of the 47% who won’t vote for him for any reason. … There really was no theme of elevating the poor from poverty or the middle class to the rich. … Fortunately for the GOP, in all this talk about the end of the GOP, people overlook that from here on out for the next decade or two…

Nov 18, 2012 – The current fight to hike tax rates flies in the face of logic and in the interests of keeping the argument simple I want to address … that the people avoiding paying rates, which they view as detrimental to them, don’t care. … You can spend your money on yourself, and when you do both the cost of the product and the quality matters.…

Nov 16, 2012 – If you view the 538 model as a way of aggregating imperfect inputs – like the RCP average, but with some additional bells and whistles … As to the parts of the 538 model that go beyond just plugging in the state poll averages, I continue to take Bill James’ view of expert … The polling controversies of this election cycle have, in my view, done the same.…

Dec 3, 2012 – The $1.4 trillion in savings from the spending side is the real problem.  … Once again, they fail to offer a bold contrast concerning their view of the role of government. … Instead, the GOP proposal would delay the growth of the federal budget to $4 trillion over the next few years by a year or two.…

Dec 3, 2012 – Both of these conjectures see only the tip of the iceberg. … He’s driving the bus from the movie “Speed.” … The ruling came after the city of Memphis and the Shelby County Commission challenged the law.…

Nov 30, 2012 – The first was to know when you were in the minority, even when you thought you were right. … all the support. … My role is that of the catapult still. I’ve been in the arena. I’m meant to be on the outside helping.…

Nov 29, 2012 – This is nonsense and just as silly when people on our side make the claim as when the left howled about Diebold machines giving the … the polling place the same way we treat troofers and birfers. … If life was fair we’d be anticipating the inauguration of President Mitt Romney Rick Perry and watching the Obama’s pack the U-Haul…