Not really. Or, even less than it usually means to win an unscientific poll of an incredibly small and relatively unrepresentative group of people. Yes, Mike Huckabee won the Values Voters Summit straw poll this weekend with 28% of the vote. But then again, he’s been the frontrunner for Preferred Candidate of Religious Conservatives in [...]
New York Governor David Paterson insists he’s staying in the race. Meanwhile, Obama travels to an event in upstate New York tomorrow where both Paterson and Andrew Cuomo are also scheduled to appear. That’s the political equivalent of Jennifer Aniston running into Brad and Angelina right after the break-up. Something tells me Paterson shouldn’t expect [...]
From TIME’s Sophia Yan, on-site at the Values Voters Summit: FOX News’ Bill O’Reilly spoke here on Friday evening, but at the last minute he barred press from the ballroom where he delivered his remarks. Family Research Council media relations staff were left to apologize to the media, including the FOX crew covering the Summit–they [...]
Has Obama asked beleaguered and unpopular NY Governor David Paterson to drop out of the race to keep his seat? That’s what the New York Times is reporting. If true, this is fairly extraordinary. It’s highly unusual for a president to step in and tell a governor who is not facing something like a crippling [...]
I noted yesterday that Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has signaled he is open to making adjustments to his bill, even before it gets to its first formal drafting session on Tuesday. (Stay tuned to Swampland, by the way, to follow the progress of the markup. We have some special plans for coverage in [...]
Bunions, too. As David Hilzenrath explains in today’s Washington Post:
Paul Slansky again offers us his weekly summary of what grabbed his attention: Newt Gingrich’s PAC chose a pornographer as its Enterpreneur of the Year, Rush Limbaugh is trying to incite a race war, and, five-and-a-half years later, the FCC has nothing better to do than to keep obsessing about America’s brief glimpse of Janet [...]
A smaller, more subdued crowd than usual showed up to the first day of the Values Voters Summit here in Washington (maybe the regulars are busy getting ready for Rosh Hashanah services?) And the roster of GOP politicians showing up to court religious conservatives seemed smaller than usual as well. Sarah Palin cancelled, surprising no [...]
