Month: November 2007
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The relative cost of presidential phone time
Over at TNR’s The Plank, Josh Patashnik notes that Mitt Romney is offering a “holiday package” for a $250 contribution that includes a “downloadable phone message of Mitt answering your voicemail using your name.” Patashnik then asks “Can you imagine what kind of great holiday gift package Dennis Kucinich or Fred Thompson could put together??”
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Splitting the difference on Clinton/Obama
Bumper sticker sighted in western North Carolina: “Clinton 2008 Obama 2016”
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Strange bedfellows: Rudy and Obama
While I was out of town for Thanksgiving, I was amused to see Rudy Giuliani trying to form a coalition of convenience with Barack Obama: Presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Tuesday told high school students that when he was their age he was hardly a model student, experimenting with illegal drugs and drinking alcohol. …During
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The fine print on new Zogby poll
Drudge is touting a new Zogby poll showing Hillary trailing top Republicans, but the Reuters article admits in the last paragraph that it’s based on an unusual sample: The poll of 9,355 people had a margin of error of plus or minus one percentage point. The interactive poll surveys individuals who have registered to take
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Santa’s got a taser
For those of you who thought tacky Christmas marketing had hit rock bottom, think again (via Drudge/Wired): With the TASER® C2, you can have police proven, effective protection that is convenient to carry and easy to use. Over 270,000 law enforcement professionals have come to rely on TASER devices to protect life. Discover the new
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Thompson’s latest supply-side claim
According to the New York Times, Fred Thompson has repeated the false claim that tax cuts increase revenue: An analysis by the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, which looked into the kind of plan Mr. Thompson proposed, found that the federal government would stand to lose at least $2.5 trillion in revenue over 10 years.
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The overvote footnote on Bush v. Gore
The Wall Street Journal’s John Fund makes a claim about the 2000 election that is only partially true: Democratic partisans still argue that the 2000 presidential contest was decided by a single vote in the U.S. Supreme Court, even though media recounts of Florida ballots showed that the outcome would not have been changed if
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Clinton touts her electability?
Hillary Clinton, who has apparently unprecedented negative ratings for a first time presidential candidate, is now claiming that only she can win in November: Central to the new Clinton push will be the argument that only she can beat the eventual Republican nominee, a claim Obama is also seeking to make to voters here. Advisers
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Thanksgiving break
The family and I are headed to the mountains of western North Carolina for Thanksgiving so blogging will probably be nonexistent until next week…
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Obama needs issues
Writing on TPM, Reed Hundt notes how Barack Obama’s campaign lacks actual issues: Obama’s campaign has a good offensive position on the all-important “change” issue. But the campaign has apparently been reluctant to articulate in detail how Clinton does not stand for “change” in policy terms… Obama’s campaign this fall has plainly been willing to