Prez Politics ’12

CPAC Straw Poll: We Want Mittens with Principles!!

February 13, 2012

Yeah, that makes no sense, but that’s the conundrum posed by the CPAC Straw Poll results this weekend. The poll was conducted in two parts, CPAC attendees and National. A unique ID was provided to each registrant, and 3408 of the approximately 10,000 attendees voted. Link to the charts is below, but here is the [ Read more ]

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Mr Clean Makes a Sweep, Thankyou BarryO

February 8, 2012

As the final caucus results roll in on this first Tuesday night in February, it is looking more and more like  Rick Santorum will sweep Missouri, Minnesota, and come close, if not first in Colorado. Santorum trounced poor Mittens by 30% in MO, 18% in MN, and was running neck and neck in CO, with [ Read more ]

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Herman Cain Endorses Newt Gingrich

January 29, 2012

Newt Gingrich spoke at the Lincoln Day Dinner at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, West Palm Beach, Florida, where he was endorsed by former candidate Herman Cain. Other speakers included Rep. Allen West (R-FL), & Sid Dinerstein, Palm Beach County Republican Party Chairman. Click here for just the Cain segment (Video Courtesy C-SPAN)

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What Happened at the Reagan Revolution?

January 27, 2012

Mitt Romney has gone to great lengths to belittle Gingrich’s role in the Reagan revolution, even having an aide check the index of Reagan’s diary to find “just one reference” to Newt. Problem is, that speed reading to find what you want to believe, leads you to overlook everything else. In fact, the people who [ Read more ]

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Not So Lucky Talisman – Wipeout in SC

January 22, 2012

The best laid plans of gnomes and men were not enough to save Mittens from a hubristic wipeout in South Carolina Saturday evening. First he claimed the momentum and inevitability after NH, then, as he saw Newt’s numbers rebounding, Romney called in the surrogate attackers, and finally he tried to backpedal expectations – all to no avail. Newt’s margin of victory was [ Read more ]

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Reporting from SC: Can Mittens be Stopped? Is This Newt’s Night? Can Santorum Surge? (again)

January 21, 2012

Update 9pm: Mittens was stopped It IS Newt’s night! Santorum surged past Ron Paul, but no further. Live coverage from Stacy all evening Time for another plug for our other roving friend, real shoe-leather reporter, and first class writer, Robert Stacy McCain, AKA TheOtherMcCain. Refreshed by a luxurious two day break at home in Maryland, [ Read more ]

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You’ll Never Roam Alone: Mittens Gets Help in SC

January 21, 2012

Our very own traveling gnome has been spotted on location this week, wintering in southern climes, where he *may*  have been overheard saying: “READ MY LIPS, NO NEWT SUCCESS!” In fact, in a moment of rich irony, the man who would rule over our choices of candidates and party chairs, said of Gingrich “Look, this [ Read more ]

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Running Out of Asterisks – Huntsman Quits

January 16, 2012

It’s not often you’ll find a story on these hallowed pages which references the NY Times, but thanks to a hat-tip from Stacy, The Other McCain, we have confirmation that Gov Jon Huntsman has bowed to reality and will quit the GOP Presidential race, and will be making an endorsement tomorrow,  Monday,  of fellow moderate, Mitt [ Read more ]

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To Boldy Go Where No Candidate Has Gone Before: Captain of the Starship Moral Enterprise

January 15, 2012

At the Huckabee Republican Presidential Candidate forum held on December 3, 2011, Rick Santorum was the last to give a concluding comment. He refuses to separate the moral issues from all of the other issues. He knows they are foundational to America, which he calls a moral enterprise: “Everyone says we need a truce on social issues [ Read more ]

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Dissent in the Ranks – Dem Primary Results

January 11, 2012

Ahoy Maties!! There be rats on that thar sinking ship, and they are voting against “The One”! Just for fun, I checked the Democrat primary results over at WMUR.COM, and found that, yes Virginia, there was dissent, there were pleanty of write-ins (10%), and no, The Red Queen<tm> was not amongst them, but I was highly amused [ Read more ]

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Charlie Bass Says Mitt Does Not Like To Fire People

January 10, 2012

“Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one’s own despised and unwanted feelings.” —Alice Duer Miller New Hampshire’s own RINO Charlie Bass was on Fox this morning defending Mittens’ comments about firing people. Charlie Bass was right. Here is what Mittens said: “I want individuals to have their own insurance,” he said. [ Read more ]

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Have You Seen This Man? Coming Soon to an Event Near You…

January 5, 2012

Journalist Robert Stacy McCain with his rented MidWestern steed that he used in hot pursuit of news and politicians around Iowa for the past eight days. As you read this, “Stacy” is in flight to Boston, where his old friend, and Fedora afficionado, Pete “DaTechGuy” will whisk him into NH to cover our primary. We [ Read more ]

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Romney beats Santorum by 0.006%

January 4, 2012

At last, all the stories are confirmed, and Romney squeaks out a final lead of just EIGHT votes out of 122,255: 30015 to 30007. (Announcement by IAGOP’s Matt Strawn at 01:35 CST) Yup, the guy who has been running for president for at least five years was barely able to beat the guy who was [ Read more ]

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Missing Ballots and Strange Stories in Hawkeye Land

January 4, 2012

All evening, and into the wee hours, it was neck and neck in the Hawkeye Caucii. First it was a three-way tie with Paul, Romney, and Santorum. Then it was a horse race between Santorum and Romney, swapping places every few minutes as the precincts reported in, with often less than 100 out of 120,000 [ Read more ]

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Why is This Man Smiling?

January 3, 2012

NH’s own Michael Biundo pictured here at an impromptu press conference at the Loose Moose Saloon in DesMoines, where the press filing center is located. He’s smiling because his man, Santorum, is neck and neck in the front three as early caucus results start coming in Update 01:15 Wednesday. “Santorum has bragging rights; Romney does [ Read more ]

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The Other McCain: Desperate Hours in the Hawkeye State

January 3, 2012

One more cross post from our friend Robert Stacy ‘TheOther’ McCain, as the clock ticks down to the caucuses (caucii?) themselves: JOHNSTON, Iowa Republican voters are getting bombarded with robocalls all over Iowa. Last night, I talked to the night clerk at my hotel here. She’s a mother of three and a Republican, an undecided [ Read more ]

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DesMoines Register Caucus Results

January 3, 2012

Click the logo above for the direct link to the FoxNews caucus results page, complete with county map. (More up to date than the DesMoines Register link.) We’ll post the final results here when the dust settles

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A Presidential Primary tool from the Southern NH 912 Project

January 2, 2012

Bumped and updated – an alert from the Southern NH 9.12 team:  Skip, we’ve got a brand new, updated and cleansed version of the matrix online.  We also have a condensed version, that focuses on just 19 issues, to make it easier for people to work with the document. The last update was 01/01/12 at [ Read more ]

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Grok Friend Robert Stacy McCain Reporting from the Hawkeye Trail

December 31, 2011

Biundo said  ‘Quite a Difference!’ That would be NH political operative and Santorum campaign manager, Michael Biundo, the man who got Frank Guinta into Congress. He was remarking on the huge difference in press following for Santorum between the Ames debate and straw poll, when Iowans may have been following Santorum, but the press couldn’t [ Read more ]

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Club for Growth Presidential Whitepapers; a Roundup

December 30, 2011

Over the past few months, we’ve presented the CFG Presidential Whitepapers as they became available, and it seems timely to repost the links and update the comments as we go into the final stretch for the primary. These exceprts and comments are meant to give a flavor of each candidate’s report – Click on any [ Read more ]

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