8:02 PM I suddenly understand Mark Foley. 8:02 PM Wait, I thought we were meeting “great” candidates. Oh, wait, here’s Ron Paul. 8:03 PM FRED THOMPSON LIVES! 8:04 PM And here’s Romney and his entourage of imaginary advisers. 8:04 PM Wait, I thought there was going to be a debate. They’re taking pictures and whatnot. [...]
Romney continues to make the weirdest gaffes. Today** Yesterday, he told the Tampa Tribune that he was of the “the more, the merrier” mind when it comes to Cuban immigration,* at least, and then went further: Romney said on matters dealing with Cuba, he depends on advice from prominent members of Florida’s Cuban American community, [...]
There’s a queer sort of dignity to Ashcroft volunteering to be waterboarded — that is, if he actually goes through with it. Ashcroft also responded to questions from the audience. The first question came from a woman who asked if Ashcroft would be willing to be subjected to waterboarding. “The things that I can survive, [...]
Uhm, wow: As New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani billed obscure city agencies for tens of thousands of dollars in security expenses amassed during the time when he was beginning an extramarital relationship with future wife Judith Nathan in the Hamptons, according to previously undisclosed government records. Maybe this scandal will stick. (Seriously, how weird is [...]
Mark Blumenthal of Pollster.com joins me again for a discussion of the latest in polling news, including the “odd” Zogby Interactive poll, the problems of polling over the holidays, and the “insta-poll” that will follow the YouTube debate tonight.
TechPresident has a good run down of pre-game coverage of the YouTube Debate tonight. I was especially interested in this tidbit: Meanwhile, Wired’s Sarah Lai Stirland notes David Borhman’s well-documented skepticism about letting the public select the questions. “If you would have taken the most-viewed questions last time, the top question would have been whether [...]
Throughout the campaign, Chris Dodd has consistently shown the best sense of humor of any of the candidates. Except maybe Biden. Or maybe it’s the other way around… Anyway, from his communications director: Hi, Saw your post on “the few not so proud.” Not sure what Biden’s said on the topic, but like the snl [...]
John Edwards’ strategists just held a conference call to debut their “America Belongs to Us” project. It’s an expansion of Edwards’ argument against politicians who take money from lobbyists or special interest PACs; this time, he’s not asking candidates to pledge not to take the money, he’s asking voters to pledge not to work for [...]
After the Washington Post’s John Solomon made some news yesterday about Senator Obama’s leadership PAC, and how it has been spreading money around to Democrats in key early primary states, the Clinton campaign suggested Obama has been violating campaign finance laws. This morning, the Los Angeles Times’ Andrew Malcolm suggests there is a touch of [...]
Democrats, especially Joe Biden, like to point out the enormous missed opportunity our country had, post-9/11, to instill a service ethic among Americans. We could have created a stronger AmeriCorps, instead we were told to go shopping. Then we started a unpopular, poorly planned war. John McCain argues that Abu Ghraib and the use of [...]
