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Reporter Nicholas Confessore of the New York Times provides coverage of the first public remarks from Mayor Rudy Giuliani about the November 7, 2006 elections.
The Mayor emphasizes reform as the key to a Republican resurgence, arguing that spending restraint, tax reform, and immigration reform should be the immediate focus of the GOP in Washington, D.C. and […]
Newsweek recently released a poll asking people about what Party they want their next President to be from, and then about whether or not they would vote for several individual candidates. The results are interesting, if not ironically humorous. Keep reading…
“Now thinking ahead to the next presidential election in November 2008 — In general, would […]
You knew I just had to pen one of these, didn’t you?
Up: Conservative Democrats. Nancy Pelosi wouldn’t be Speaker without them, and they can exit the Democratic tent just as quickly as they came in. The conservative Democrat is possibly the most powerful voter in the country right now, epitomized by the Democratic majority in […]
According to a new McLaughlin & Associates 2008 presidential poll, John McCain and Rudy Giuliani appear to be the frontrunners on the Republican side, while Hillary Clinton is running head and shoulders above everyone else on the Democratic side.
This is also the first survey I’ve seen that includes newcomer Duncan Hunter in the rankings. Unfortunately […]
It now looks reasonable to declare that the GOP has lost both the House of Representatives and the Senate, something that very few (if any) serious pundits predicted. It’s a shocker, but it is part of life and it’s something that Republicans must take in stride and run with. The GOP is a superior party […]
Stuff like this is why I predict McCain and Romney cancel each other out.
Days before the ‘06 election, McCain supporters in Michigan are already devising a Machiavellian plot to oust to Michigan GOP Chairman Saul Anuzis, whom, it is alleged, is getting too cozy with the Romney folks. The move is led by RNC committeeman […]
According to the latest CNN Poll, Rudy Giuliani is the top choice for Republican presidential nominee, clocking in at 29% of the vote, while John McCain comes in at a close 27%. While Newt Gingrich has remained static since the last CNN Poll taken in August, every other candidate has made significant gains, whilst George […]
I find his conclusion very improbable, but he does make an interesting case:
[Sen. George] Allen’s radically reduced prospects will make it less likely that McCain can duplicate his 2000 triumph in New Hampshire’s primary. As one seasoned New Hampshire Republican says, “It is difficult to capture lightning in a bottle twice.” It will be particularly […]
We have heard the rumors this past week that Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Ken Mehlman is likely to leave his current position, will probably open up his own political consulting firm, and could end up on the 2008 presidential campaign staff of Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
And Mehlman may be just the start of some real sparks that […]
Below are remarks by Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney yesterday in which he declares his unequivocal support for a Federal Constitutional Amendment defining marriage as exclusively restricted to the union of one man and one woman as the only way to effectively protect the institution of marriage.
While some conservatives favor a state’s rights approach to the […]
As noted by Kavon, we’ve gotten a trickle of New Hampshire polling after a recent dearth of it. McCain leads the field based on residual goodwill from 2000, with 32 percent of the vote. Rudy is at 19 percent and Mitt Romney is at 15 percent. What’s my perspective on this poll as a Giuliani […]
Lee Bandy is a veteran and widely respected chronicler of southern politics and reports in today’s The State on the 2008 GOP presidential race in the early and crucial primary state of South Carolina, which he claims is shaping up as a contest between Senator McCain and Governor Romney.
Bandy addresses and dismisses the potential 2008 […]
News has just recently been released that North Korea has indeed followed through on its plans to test a nuke–plans announced just a few days ago. Anyone who has been watching the news in the hours since this occurred has surely noticed the same thing: the world is now in a very different situation.
While some […]
The online version of The American Spectator is running a Monday article from its ace investigative reporter and columnist, The Prowler, questioning why pro-life Catholics would line up behind the 2008 presidential candidacy of Governor Mitt Romney now that he has appointed New Hampshire Republican insider Tom Rath as a senior adviser for the Commonwealth PAC. The article contends that […]
At the rate Senator McCain and Governor Romney are picking up alliances with key Republican insiders in early caucus and primary states such as Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Michigan, isn’t it becoming increasingly clear that Mayor Giuliani and Speaker Gingrich are likely to be running populist, outsider candidacies in 2008 that eschew the […]
A new Iowa poll buried in the catacombs of the Des Moines Register presents Republicans with both news good and bad as we head into 2008, with electoral success dependent on — get this — which candidate each party nominates.Â
The poll tests general election matchups between four Republicans (Rudy, McCain, Romney, Frist) and four Democrats […]
Hillary’s presidential campaign seems to be in real danger of running out of steam, and that’s bad news for Democrats, as, if the primaries were held today, the number one candidate would appear to be the not-ready-for-prime-time (and horrible campaigner) John Edwards:
Today’s Iowa Poll of the 2008 race for president in the Hawkeye state ought […]
R4′08er Republius, as well as reader/R4′08 commenter LJ and Eye on ‘08 blogger Soren Dayton, two of McCain’s biggest boosters in the blogosphere, reply to my organization argument. Dayton writes:
Now, GiulianiBlog has responded quite strongly to this whole line of argumentation. He argues, in essence, that all you need is issues, bio, and personality and organization doesn’t […]
For all the arguments made at Giuliani Blog and Race42008 for why Rudy is the frontrunner, the one our critics keep coming back to is organization. My macro argument has been that the fundamentals –bio, attributes, likeability — matter far more than organization. Good organization provides that critical 2-3 points in a close race. The […]
I was thinking something the other day. When Rudy announces, it’s going to shock the pundits and turn the political world upside down. Why? Because reading several pieces over the last few days, it’s clear that the political establishment doesn’t quite know what to make of Rudy’s overwhelming support and what it might do to […]
“Murder/Suicide” is a term that entered the political lexicon in 2004’s Iowa Caucuses, when Dick Gephardt gratitously attacked Howard Dean and Dean responded in kind, commiting the cardinal sin of singling out one opponent for attack in a multicandidate field and leaving voters to flock to the sunny, optimistic Kerry and Edwards Iowa campaigns.
Is the […]
So I sat down this evening and did a little research. Strategic Vision is a polling business that conducts state-wide surveys on political topics. Most notably, they ask Republicans and Democrats who they want their respective presidential nominee to be in 2008. Up through August, their polls usually included a Republican primary election poll excluding […]
David Frum pens a piece on the propensity of Americans to elect candidates with executive experience to the presidency, and how that propensity has prevented a candidate from going directly from a legislative office to the White House in every election since 1900 except for two — Harding in 1920 and JFK in 1960. Frum sees […]
What good is a group blog without the occasional disagreement between the group every now and then? That’s what I always say. And what better way to get a vibrant discussion going in the comments section on this lazy Saturday afternoon than with a friendly intra-R408 debate!
My first point of disagreement is with one of Kavon’s comments about Romney […]
Scenario: A term-limited GOP executive named Bush is leaving office. The race to replace him narrows down to two men, neither of whom satisfies conservatives to the extent that their predecessor was able to and both of whom have major base problems. The front-runner has a socially liberal past that he’s unable to hide, and […]