Perhaps no pollster in the nation is more respected on her home turf than Ann Selzer, the Iowa pollster for the Des Moines Register … guy). … in the past (think Howard Dean and Dick Gephardt in 2004), a big fight can damage both sides (Cruz is also going very heavy against…
They deserve to see all the candidates on the stage so they can make a side by side comparison. … Big rallies are fine, but actually meeting people, getting a feel for the candidate, that’s what Ted Cruz has done for over a year … You can watch the Interview in the following video:…
agreed to initially and that he knew would scuttle the bill within the GOP. … He’s a guy that nobody likes and nobody trusts, and he is a nasty guy. He says things that are very nasty. … , and that’s without question the truth.…
ultimate, you know, as the ultimate of the billionaires in terms of, you know, people you don’t want. … The Democrats really don’t care about making deals unless the deals move their agenda forward. … big government bigger.…
That’s thebig question of this primary, and everyone seems to be dividing the voters into “the conservatives,” “the establishment, … guy is on our side and has the best chance of beating Hillary and doing the things people elect Republicans to do. … “We can’t have a guy who stands in the middle of the Senate floor and every other senator thinks he’s a whack job.…
the wreckage of the Carter era. … the battle for swing voters in the center of the election mostly academic. … Watch how Rubio manages to walk the line of treating this guy and his concerns with respect, while standing without apology for his…
the anonymous sources crawled out of the woodwork again:
The classified material included in the latest batch of Hillary Clinton … The officials say the emails included relatively “innocuous” conversations by State Department officials about the CIA drone program … The term “special access program” is commonly associated with the military, but the inspector general’s latest letter used it to refer…
He was very clearly a dog backed into a corner in the New Hampshire debate, and he attacked who he saw as the biggest threat on the … Out of spite for taking his opportunity to be the GOP big money’s favorite? … If the intent was to make the country better, then Donald Trump should be the clear guy to knock out of contention.…
do the talking here. … John Kasich is seen by folks like the New York Times as the most electable. … That’s what puts Trump at a very, very big first place and keeps Ted Cruz in the top three.…
of him— something that needs to happen, for the sake of the country, conservatism and the GOP, in roughly that order. … Data from that poll also suggests that attacking Trump for being “the Man” as opposed to theguy who will “stick it to the Man” is … I’m all for people going after Trump as a big government liberal, and goodness knows, that’s why I and the others at Make America Awesome…
Trump, on the other hand, loses big to any Democrat running. … I would gamble with the unqualified nice guy before I’d ever cast a vote for the unqualified, barely coherent, reality TV star, though … they’re not “our guy,” we run the risk of closing out all of our better choices and leaving Trump at the top.…
And a lot of thebig conservatives that tell me how conservative they are — I think I’m more than they are — they tell me, oh — well … You know who has the tickets for the — I’m talking about, to the television audience? … While Bush deserves credit for flogging Trump with this particular prevarication, let’s not lose sight of the fact that theguy who…
The governors on the stage, however, looked like actual grown-ups tonight. … John Kasich, though a sanctimonious ass, once again plays the friendly guy in the room, and doesn’t come off looking any worse for … late for the crowd on stage and perhaps for the primary.…
Neither was an excite-the-base guy, which is one reason the huge margin of Kasich’s 2014 win was mostly the product of depressed Democratic … Frankly thebig down-ballot wipeouts of 2008 were due in good part to supercharged turnout for Obama (especially black voters), as … into the “war on women” narrative, and suffered a big gender gap.…
If this message caused precinct captains in the precincts to say, well, your guy is getting out… if that cost Carson four votes per … assume it on the part of the Carson campaign? … Here, in fact, is the polling over the last two weeks of Iowa – Rubio is the pink line, Carson is the red:
As you can see, although…
He may see in Trump something of himself, a guy who blazed his own trail where one did not exist before (in the age of the Fairness … the McCains, and the Bob Doles, and the Romneys, and the others that have come along and been nominated by the establishment. … Rush has reminded his listeners that a race where Rubio is theguythe establishment has to settle for is a race conservatives have…
Conventional wisdom said that big turnout would be great news for Trump, and that the possible failure of Trump’s amateur turnout machine … I suspect he also needs to win South Carolina, at which point two big primary wins in the bag would make it possible for him to lose … Theguy who seems like he ought to re-evaluate before New Hampshire is Christie.…
So what kind of businessman looks at all the market research that shows he is winning in a big way and then cut his investment? … This is theguy who was leading in the RCP average:
Let’s review the bidding on spending:
Trump did spend a “fraction” of … The difference being that all the money Trump spent was his own. Not so with the other candidates.…
Is the RNC the biggest loser? … AdAge says $377 million is being spent by companies to get airtime in and around thebig game. … Theguy cannot stop messing it up.
Please help find this missing B-52 bomber.…
Lets go to the tape, as they say:
Male questioner: “Can I ask you a question? So, I’m a big supporter. … And I’m curious: Given all the problems that the country’s facing — like ISIS, the growth of government — how big a priority is fighting … As to the unnamed GOP consultant, this guy is so out of touch with the general mood of GOP voters that one wonders what he could possibly…
Second, and at the opposite pole, we have the anti-Establishment crowd, in the extreme case the “burn it all down” crowd. … November if that guy they dislike so much gets the nomination. … I’m sick of seeing most of the really big cases at the Supreme Court deliver victories for the Democratic voter base handed over and…
I did a post back in 2009 about the relationship between the late, unlamented super-lobbyist PMA Group and the particularly odious … Say what you like about the GOP, but push the base too hard and the fangs come out*. … *Just ask Eric Cantor, who went in a single night from being the next Speaker of the House to being some guy working a lobbying job…
Ted Cruz has maintained a low profile for the most part in the scrum. … Watch the whole interview or just skip to 3:00 for the lead in to the immigration comments. … So Rubio is theguy who is holding the piggy-bank of votes ready for the taking AND Christie has to believe that ultimately he, much…
South Carolina has been – besides Newt beating Romney in 2012 – the traditional “decider” state, and Jeb being nothing if not a guy … At the close of the day, the map looks like this, prompting Christie and Carson to exit the race (the shaded candidates are the ones … Cruz takes North Dakota on April 1, but Rubio again claims the larger share of a big Midwestern prize, Wisconsin.…
Ask yourself, who do you know under age 70 that actually depends on one of thebig three broadcast networks or CNN for news? … voting for the first black guy to run for president was cool and self-validating — and his sharply creased slacks was enough to tingle … The lies about the video to the families of the dead. Libya. Syria. The rise of ISIS. The list goes on and on.…
