Thoughts on New Hampshire
12 January 2008After the New Hampshire primary I got to thinking. Everyone has their theories about what happened. McCain much bigger than expected and Hillary won when Obama was supposed to win big. What happened? I think it was a combination of two things. Remember in 2000, many Democrats crossed over to Republican primaries to vote for [...]
Republican Presidential Forum
6 January 2008I vastly prefer the format of the Republican Presidential Forum tonight vs. the standard debates. Issues are dealt with on a much deeper basis and the candidates have the opportunity to actually answer question in depth. Tonight was outstanding. Chris Wallace was relentless in seeking answers to the questions he asked and he was equally [...]
Talking Points on the Right
5 January 2008For years now I’ve noticed how the left works off talking points. One day you hear some theme and suddenly it’s everywhere, virtually word for word. Whether it was “the politics of personal destruction” or “Republican corruption” it was clear that every Democrat talking head was working from the same play book, using virtually identical [...]
The Pundits are Wrong
5 January 2008Watching the caucus returns Thursday night one thing stood out. Virtually all the pundits credited Huckabee’s commanding victory to evangelicals. It was often noted that Huckabee didn’t have his own ground team in Iowa. Rather, he had the natural ground team of local churches. This, they said, made the difference in Iowa but they speculated [...]
Early Iowa Observations
3 January 2008It’s late on caucus night and I’m about to go to bed. I’ll have more to say tomorrow but I didn’t want to close the evening without a few comments about the Iowa caucus and my predictions. I nailed Huckabee. He won with a significant margin. I was off on Romney and McCain. McCain didn’t [...]
Iowa Caucus Predictions
2 January 2008To voters in primary states the Iowa Caucus is not well understood. That’s because a caucus doesn’t work the way a primary works. In a primary everyone comes out and votes for their candidate and the one with the most votes wins. In some states if no one gets a majority of votes there may [...]
A Stroke of Genius
1 January 2008Amidst all the attacks against Mike Huckabee coming from the right has been the accusation that Huckabee just isn’t up to the job of being President. But he pulled off a stroke of genius in the last few days. I’m referring to Huckabee’s negative ad that isn’t. In an email to supporters Huckabee told about [...]
Happy New Year!
1 January 2008Happy New Year to you all. It’s 2008, election year. Last year saw this blog really slow down in terms of posts. I hope to change that this year with the primaries looming and the elections in November. I even got a little flack from my dad today for my lack of posting. So I’m [...]
Attacks on Huckabee Continue
26 December 2007For months Mike Huckabee was ignored by the pundits. Then suddenly, Huckabee began to look like a viable candidate and the long knives came out. There has been much speculation about why this might be. Huckabee’s camp speculates that many had already picked their candidate and when Huckabee began to surge he was perceived as [...]
Potential Media Backfire
3 December 2007On the Radio Factor today Bill O’Reilly floated an interesting theory. He believes that the liberal media want Hillary Clinton to face the weakest possible opponent. According to O’Reilly’s theory, Mike Huckabee is the candidate to fill that need so the media is subtly helping Huckabee in hopes that he will win the Republican nomination, [...]
