February 5, 2012 – 8:09 am
Not quite as big as some thought, as some were predicting a 50%+ win, but, very close. With 71% reporting as of 7am, we’re looking at Romney – 47.6% Gingrich – 22.7% Santorum – 11.1% Paul – 18.6% And (Politico) Network entrance polling showed Romney accomplished a powerful near sweep of most voter groups, winning […]
February 4, 2012 – 12:08 pm
This should make R.S. McCain pretty happy (via Hot Air) (Rasmussen) The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 26% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14 […]
February 2, 2012 – 11:37 am
In other words, he is calling conservatives Nazis (The Politico) Ron Paul dropped his standard stump speech on Wednesday and aggressively courted Latino voters. At a senior center in East Las Vegas, the Texas congressman told about 100 Hispanics that they have been unfairly made “scapegoats†for the country’s economic troubles. He said it’s “part […]
February 1, 2012 – 8:31 am
And the results from Florida are (Fox News) Romney received 46 percent of the Florida vote. Gingrich had 32 percent, followed by Rick Santorum with 13 percent and Ron Paul with 7 percent. Romney won all 50 of Florida’s convention delegates. The Politico’s Maggie Haberman, who has done a pretty good job in covering the […]
January 31, 2012 – 8:13 am
I’ll give Harry Reid some credit for bringing the legislation to the Senate floor and getting it passed, at least till we get an in-depth look at the legislation and see if it actually does what it says, but (The Hill) The White House and Democrats have seized on legislation barring lawmakers from making insider […]
January 31, 2012 – 7:34 am
What’s it looking like? (PPP) PPP’s tracking of the Florida Republican primary wraps up with Mitt Romney at 39%, Newt Gingrich at 31%, Rick Santorum at 15%, and Ron Paul at 11%. Our three days of tracking found very little movement in the race: Romney was at 39-40% every day, Gingrich was at 31-32% every […]
January 26, 2012 – 8:33 am
This apparently caused a bit of a kerfuffle (Washington Times) Fighting to curry favor with Florida’s large pool of Hispanic voters, Newt Gingrich on Wednesday called for a guest-worker program for most illegal immigrants, but his campaign could not say whether those people would be on a path to citizenship – the key question in […]
January 23, 2012 – 8:27 am
So says The Politico The surging Newt Gingrich has mastered debates — and disguise. The debate part is clear: The former Speaker of the House comes to play and owns the stage with an uncanny capacity to connect with the grievances of conservative voters. The disguise part is clear, too. Gingrich has used his debate […]
January 22, 2012 – 8:58 am
He not only pulled it out, he did so in spectacular fashion (MSNBC) Newt Gingrich has won the South Carolina Republican primary, capping off a remarkable comeback for his presidential bid that reshapes the trajectory of the battle for the GOP nomination as the race now heads to Florida and beyond. The results mark the […]
January 20, 2012 – 12:28 pm
Another steller idea from the Party that refuses to give up their own fossil fueled transportation (The Hill, via Jazz Shaw at Hot Air) Six House Democrats, led by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), want to set up a “Reasonable Profits Board†to control gas profits. The Democrats, worried about higher gas prices, want to set […]