[ Posted Monday, February 6th, 2012 – 16:31 PST ]
Mitt Romney's gaffe last week (reproduced in full, above) is going to wind up the "gaffe that keeps on giving" for Barack Obama and the Democrats in this election cycle. Because the more Romney's comment is examined and dissected, the worse it looks for him. This could, in fact, be the defining moment for Mitt Romney as a national political presence. That phrase is often bandied about in politics, but I use it here in the full literal sense of "defining moment" -- a point in time which absolutely cements an image in the public mind of who you are and what you stand for as a politician. The image, quite obviously, is not a good one for Romney.
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[ Posted Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 – 15:34 PST ]
President Barack Obama continued a three-month upward swing in the polls in January, with his average job approval rating for the month ticking up 1.2 points, and his disapproval rate falling by exactly the same amount.
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[ Posted Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 – 19:57 PST ]
All in all, it's looking like whether Newt Gingrich wants to admit it yet or not, by Super Tuesday this race will likely be pretty much over. Of course, this year, predictions of such a nature have certainly had a way of turning out wrong, but it's safe to say that Mitt Romney is feeling pretty good about things right about now.
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[ Posted Monday, January 30th, 2012 – 18:03 PST ]
As we wend our way through the Republican primary season, at times predicting the outcome of a single state's race is very hard to do. At other times, it is actually pretty easy. Florida looks to be one of the latter.
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[ Posted Friday, January 27th, 2012 – 17:27 PST ]
Well, that was an eventful week in politics, wasn't it?
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[ Posted Monday, January 23rd, 2012 – 16:32 PST ]
What a difference a week makes, at least in the Republican primary contest.
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[ Posted Friday, January 20th, 2012 – 17:31 PST ]
OK, to be completely honest, we just felt like beating up on some Republicans today.
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[ Posted Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 – 17:42 PST ]
If either Gingrich or Santorum (or even Perry) had managed to cement their status as the alpha "not-Romney" in the race at this point, they might have had a chance in that fabled "two-man race" (or, more properly, "two-man-plus-Ron-Paul race"). Adding Gingrich and Santorum's support in South Carolina easily shows that Romney could have been defeated here, if the field had narrowed. Florida would even be in play, likely.
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[ Posted Friday, January 13th, 2012 – 16:50 PST ]
Not a whole lot has been happening in Washington, due to Congress being out on one of their countless month-long vacations. Not a whole lot of Democrats have been in the news, either, since the Republican primary season is sucking all the oxygen out of the political arena right now.
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[ Posted Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 – 18:55 PST ]
What struck me about New Hampshire's contest, being in the midst of historical research into such things, was the old-school nature of the Union Leader, a very conservative New Hampshire newspaper. It struck a lot of the media as interesting as well, but I didn't see anyone else commenting on such historical context.
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