Elections Blog

Jeralyn Merritt’s went on TV to talk on who should run in 2008: “We also talked about Hillary and Obama. Both La Shawn and I thought Obama needs more experience and didn’t know if Hillary would run. I said I’d like to see a woman in the White House, La Shawn thought she’s too polarizing [...]

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Can you imagine if this was something the RNC planned to do? Cries of “Rovianesque” would be sure to follow …
Update I: The caption in this picture explains exactly why the Dems are changing course on how they address presidential primaries, which also explains why the ‘penalties’ noted in the NYT piece are [...]

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If Lieberman wins as an independent, the Democrats have lost one seat in their efforts to become a majority in the Senate.

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If ads like this one are going to be the Democrats’ strategy, then the election is ours

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About the same time we moved out here, the state legislature voted themselves a pay raise, and contrary to the state constitution, voted to take it the same year. Voters were already furious because Fast Eddie Rendell had diverted 90% of the gasoline tax away from road construction throughout the state to prop up the failing Philly public transportation system. The pay raise pushed them over the edge

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A low, slow, grateful tip of the hat to Bullwinkle Blog for this gem

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And he makes the statement while at UN. Heh. Via Reuters:
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said on Thursday he was seriously thinking about another White House bid in 2008 and will decide before the year is out.
“I will make that decision toward the end of the year, but [...]

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I looked at religious groups here, and demographic groups here. As it turns out, some of the most interesting results show when we look at issue groups.

Let’s begin with the umbrella issue groups, then move to the more specific, starting with the most general:

Among self-identified conservatives, George has leads by 15 points, at 39%, over [...]

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I already did the religious groups. Here are the demographic groups — remember that these are self-labeled (though here, I didn’t have to collapse any groups).

George leads with 32%, followed by Rudy (31%) and Romney (20%). This isn’t too surprising.

Also not surprising. Rudy leads with 36%, followed by George at 32% and Mitt at 22%.

Note here [...]

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Welcome, Hugh Hewitt readers! There will be more analysis of the data; check back. And feel free to look around (you might want to check out the articles in the education category, if you want to know what it’s like to be a conservative on campus).

Demographic groups are here; issues groups are here.

This time from [...]

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Another online cooperative community to see what kind of potential it might have for enhancing the presence of progressive political causes online is Squidoo, a name that evokes tentacles stretching and exploring dark corners and crevices - something that the Internet is quite useful for

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Alpha Patriot is blogging the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, and he reports that Frist won the straw poll. Wait, not so fast:

Update: The Hotline has released some interesting statistics. Among them, 82% of Frist’s votes came from Tennessee delegates with only 97 votes of his 526 votes coming from other states. And while he [...]

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Polls and surveys are pop statistics for a variety of reasons, all of which have to do with the trustworthiness of the poll or survey, and the results.

Polls are likely to reflect skewed samples. A poll conducted, say, by the New York Times usually polls local residents — which skews the poll significantly toward the left. I [...]

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Yup, it’s a repost, just because I think we need to hear it again.

One game liberals play is to move the goalposts by changing what words mean. They do this all the time, but those I’m concerned with here are terms that identify where you fall on the political spectrum. With the Democrats shifting further [...]

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Idiots like this are the reason we’ll keep winning elections.

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Since I’ve already done the-glass-is-half-empty, I thought I’d balance it with something a bit more cheerful.

The leftists are in major melt-down — leftists being the Daily Kos, Democratic Underground, MoveOn and Atrios loons who have been driving the Democratic agenda since before the 2004 elections. From the howling they’re doing now, it looks like one of two [...]

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This morning’s new blog find is Delmarva Dealings

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John Hawkins took a survey of select bloggers (including yours truly) to find out their top three choices of least desired and most desired potential Republican nominees for president. He’s got the list posted here.
Sec. of State Condi Rice ranked as most desired candidate in ‘08 while Sen. John McCain ranked [...]

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I see some bloggers are drinking the McCain kool-aid again, so let’s cover this one more time.

McCain isn’t just a RINO. McCain is one of the biggest supporters of great big all-powerful Federal government in the Senate. No matter what issue comes up, McCain is right there, demanding that we have another law.

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Mitt Romney is on Neil Cavuto right now, and I must say he is fielding the questions well  —  very well. He’s a good speaker, though not overly charismatic (though I think charisma is overrated when it comes to candidates).

Of course, he got the “Mormon question,” which surprised me a little (I didn’t expect that from Neil). [...]

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