February, 2007 Archive

February 22nd, 2007

Italian government collapses.

A freakish Facebook assault on a Virginia CR, as told to Michelle Malkin.

Umm… that’s not the photo I would have chosen if I were them. #

February 16th, 2007

Erick’s no longer SMitten…

I wasn’t for the Pledge, but the Victory Caucus is an essential effort to organize pro-victory voters that you should check out.

“Support Our Troops. Let them Win.” #

Giuliani jumps to 56 - 31 lead in a head-to-head GOP primary matchup with McCain. And by a 2-to-1 margin, GOP primary voters have an accurate view of the Mayor’s positions on social issues.

This has got to be the strangest fundraising appeal ever.

Is the surge working? We’ve been hearing a lot less news out of Iraq lately, so it must be. #

February 14th, 2007

Chuck Todd moves to NBC News as its new political director.

Is this mega Iowa poll legit? If so, very interesting. #

February 13th, 2007

Barack Obama makes his first gaffe. This probably hits very close to home about how many on the Left think about the sacrifice made by our troops…

The Mayor on Mitt Romney, who announces today: “Governor Romney is a good friend, he was somebody I campaigned for very, very hard when he ran for governor of Massachusetts, helped him get elected. I don’t think I’ll be campaigning for him for the Republican nomination this time. I have another candidate that I think is probably going to be better…” #

February 11th, 2007

Noemie Emery on the Metro Republicans.

Rudy scores in California’s invisible primary. #

February 10th, 2007

Rudy, federalism, and freedom.

How Mitch McConnell is running rings around Harry Reid. Senate leaders are always more popular in the minority than the majority. #

February 3rd, 2007

The new mother ship puts out its first polling memo of the cycle.

Did John Edwards deliver this year’s version of Hatred Powered Howard’s “What I want to know speech” from DNC’03? Possibly, but it was a solid double rather than a home run, and Hillary did have more signs. #

February 1st, 2007

Eight years ago I lived, slept, and breathed Philadelphia politics. This year, there’s another open Mayoral race of which the Democratic primary will decide the outcome. It’s polling eerily similar to the ‘99 Dem primary — same types of candidates, same power rankings, different names. And Philly Dem boss Bob Brady is polling dead last despite having the support of the majority of the Ward Leaders.

Marty Meehan may retire. Why is this interesting? Remember the “Use it or lose it” campaign. Nowhere did it hit harder than the frozen-in-1984 MA Congressional delegation, half of whom have been sitting on huge warchests waiting a decade or more for John Kerry to retire. Now that it looks like that isn’t going to happen, the ball rolls down the hill and Sisyphus starts pushing again. Who wins out? Ed Markey? Barney Frank?

It looks like Clark is running. #