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The White House got a big boost on Friday from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which released moderately positive jobs data for November and revised its October and September numbers higher, pushing the official unemployment rate down to 8.6% from 9%, the lowest level in two years.
–Evangelical pastor Robert Jeffress explaining the choice facing the Christian Right in the Republican presidential primary.
Charts can make clear too often what words only obscure. Take this arresting graphic, contained in a new Congressional Research Service study made available by Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists (CRS reports are generated solely for congressional use, and aren’t released to the public; Aftergood gets a lot of them somehow and [...]
With each party’s payroll tax cut plan voted down in the Senate, real negotiation on extending that measure, unemployment benefits and the “doc fix” moves ahead. The Gingrich campaign plays catch-up. The case against taking his polls numbers seriously.
It’s been a while since the GOP presidential candidates have engaged in a good old-fashioned round of Who’s the Biggest Islamophobe. Those party-poopers Jon Huntsman and Mitt Romney usually sit out the game. But in the wake of the Muslim Brotherhood’s strong showing in early voting for Egyptian parliamentary elections, their opponents will be tempted [...]
If the race for the Republican nomination were a children’s story – and let’s face it, Little Miss Moffett, Jack Horner and Dumbo sometimes come to mind – then Ron Paul would surely be the tortoise. While the hares have taken turns racing ahead, Paul has gained slowly and steadily in the polls. The Texas congressman is now running third in New Hampshire and second in Iowa in polls.
It’s a mistake to put too much credence in national polls, outliers yada yada yada, but this is impossible to ignore: Newt Gingrich is absolutely crushing it in recent state surveys and a new national poll. He’s sporting the support of nearly half of all the Republican voters in Florida according to Public Policy Polling, [...]
When he’s having a tough time–as he is this week–Mitt Romney’s first instinct is to attack President Obama. This is not a bad political instinct, if deftly done. But Romney’s execution is usually clunky. Last week, we had the Romney ad that pretended Barack Obama was saying something that John McCain had actually said–McCain wanted [...]
The Jon Huntsman campaign limps along, despite the candidate’s unwavering sanity and his bold plan to address the core, long-term economic problems, which I wrote about last week…and also despite the hilarious antics of his three daughters, who are following in Meghan McCain’s footsteps, as the superstar outlaw family-members of choice in this campaign.
–Republican message guru Frank Luntz coaching politicians on the best way to talk about Occupy Wall Street.
