December 26, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
Mike Huckabee
Mitt Romney
John McCain
Fred Thompson
General Race 4 2008 News
- Intrade Update – Republican Nomination
- Intrade Update – Republican Iowa Caucus
- Intrade Update – Republican New Hampshire Primary
- Ready, set, go: Events that will shape the race for president
by Susan Page
- Courting Students, And Hoping They’ll Actually Cast Votes
Iowa Often Sees High Fervor, Low Turnout
- Voter registration deadline fast approaching in Florida
- Rasmussen Reports: North Carolina 2008 Presidential Election
Clinton Competitive in North Carolina
- McCain and Huckabee form alliance against Romney
- One of These Guys Will Win: A Close Look at the GOP Candidates …
by Matt Lewis
- Sooner or Later, Candidates Will Surely Look Lost
- Poll: Obama, Huckabee slipping among Iowa men
- Primary Elections And Secondary Candidates
By Thomas Sowell
- Whither the Conservative Coalition?
By Tony Blankley
- Alaska Governor Shows Fearlessness
- US election contest enters main game
Serious challenges await the new US president
- Going In for the Close
- Field wide open for American presidency
- Same Party, Different Style
Romney, Huckabee Present a Stark Choice For Iowa Republicans
- Romney and Huckabee campaigns go head-to-head
- Iowa races entering the home stretch
With eight days to go, the candidates will be picking up the pace. For most, analysts say, it’ll be win, place or show — or it’s do or die in N.H.
- The New Hampshire Newspaper Wars
- Michigan’s Early Shot Backfires
- Poll: Gilchrest with 60 percent negative rating among GOPers
- N.H. Democrats, GOP sharply divided on healthcare
Differences stark on government’s role, poll finds
- Only Suckers Pay Bills
By Froma Harrop
- McCain favored in the fall
But Clinton and Huckabee are the first choices of Oklahoma voters in the party primaries.
- On attack: Campaigns turn harsh
- Gallup: Hillary Edges Out Oprah as Most Admired Woman in ‘07
George W. Bush most admired man
- Iowa Takes a Holiday From the Campaign
- Eight Days Left, and Iowaaay They Go!
- In New Hampshire, Oh, Those Empty Seats
- Caucus no predictor in primary to follow
- Clear Skies Likely on Caucus Night
- Republican moderates look to chart new course in Iowa
- Primary is sizing up to be big draw for Michiganders
57% of voters say they’ll cast ballots
- All Quiet on the Campaign Front
- House GOP to fight Democratic ‘war’ on jobs
- Ginsburg, Scalia strike a balance
- Candidate wanted, no experience needed
- Ron Paul’s followers aim to stun the pundits
- Clinton, Obama clashing on health
Democrats debate requiring people to buy coverage
- Dem voters no longer fight battle of Iraq
- As al-Qaeda’s grip eases, Christians flock home
- The Terrorists’ Tet
- What a Difference …
A year makes. A report from Fallujah, Iraq.
- Bolton: State Department Leftists Have Defeated Bush
- Edwards Goes Door-to-Door in N.H.
- For a day, Edwards focuses on New Hampshire
- John Edwards Looks Good, Strives to Get Past Appearances
- Pro-Edwards 527 Hits TV Airwaves in Iowa Today
Hillary Clinton
Barack Obama
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December 26th, 2007 at 8:31 am
Aron,
Are you a jew?
December 26th, 2007 at 9:22 am
On the Romney thing, I haven’t read the story, but the summary is complete crap. Firstly, Romney has not experienced any kind of significant drop. Secondly, McCain is deffinately not more Conservative than Romney. If the papers were looking to endorse a Conservative, they would pick Thompson. Instead, they want a moderate Republican, like McCain.
The idea that McCain is more Conservative than Romney is absurd.
December 26th, 2007 at 10:44 am
Interesting, from an anti-Rudy paper:
Despite polls, Rudy Giuliani’s not done
December 26th, 2007 at 10:48 am
Well act-blog, I for one think McCain is more conservative than Romney. But then I value things like consistency, principles, and honesty. Mitt now says a lot of things that sound conservative. (Except in 2002, he called himself a progressive, moderate Republican). Talk, though, is quite cheap. Especially when one needs to parse Mitt’s words to decide if he is just speaking “figuratively”…
BTW, Romney has fallen behind McCain on the NH InTrades! This is huge; I expect the polls to follow shortly. Discuss…
December 26th, 2007 at 11:03 am
You can’t argue that John McCain is more Conservative while saying that we should look at records more than rhetoric. Romney governed as a Conservative, even if he did say things to get liberals in MA to vote for him.
McCain, on the other hand, has a liberal record on several important issues. He supported Amnesty, he attacked free speech with his CfR bill, he opposed the Bush tax cuts, and used liberal talking points to justify his opposition, he wants to tie the hands of American interrogators, and he opposed the federal marraige amendment.
If John McCain wins the nomination, the GOP is in trouble.
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As for intrade, that is why it is so unreliable as an actual indicator of who is going to win. People see one poll, and they decide to cash out. Not becasue they think Romney will lose, but becasue they don’t want to risk their money. In reality, Romney still leads the GOP race in New Hampshire, and John McCain only went up in the polls after a string of endorsements. He lacks the money to capitalize on those endorsements, and, with his name out of the headlines, I think his support will start to drop again.
December 26th, 2007 at 11:05 am
There Mitt goes again! Losing the reddest of red states the country has to offer! What self-respecting Republican thinks he can enter the race and lose North Carolina? (certainly not one I care to support)
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/north_carolina/north_carolina_2008_presidential_election
December 26th, 2007 at 11:19 am
http://www.gallup.com/poll/103462/Hillary-Edges-Oprah-Most-Admired-Woman-07.aspx#2
December 26th, 2007 at 11:19 am
What you don’t mention Sampo is that Giuliani is only +1, and that Romney is wintin a margin of error. Considering the fact that Giuliani is well known, and that Romney is not, you basically have to flip a coin to find out who is in a better position.
December 26th, 2007 at 11:24 am
new arg poll out. confirms dead heat between huck and romney. huckabust is coming to quote abe.
December 26th, 2007 at 11:25 am
guiliani’s electability is poor too. But at least he’s competitive in other states. like NJ.
did anyone get a chance to read the Union Leader’s anti-Mitt endorsement? Brutal!
December 26th, 2007 at 11:27 am
Sampo the state polls have almost no use this early.
The main advantage Romney would have in the general is his ability to self-fund his campaign. What troubles me about Romney is that almost half the voters say they’ll never vote for him. That’s an awful high hill to climb even with all of his money. I assume he’d craft a message to woo independents but I wonder how far he could go with that given his shaky record.
December 26th, 2007 at 11:27 am
john gault,
where’s the new ARG poll?
December 26th, 2007 at 11:30 am
It’s not a new poll. I saw it several days ago.
December 26th, 2007 at 11:32 am
Anyway, If the GOP chooses McCain, it will be doing three things:
1) Choosing a man who’s record on most important issues is moderate at best and liberal at worst. GOP is the deffinition of a RINO.
2) Choosing a man who’s ability to serve as a long term leader of the GOP (and more importantly, the Conservative movement) is severely restricted.
3) Showing a willingness to retreat back to the one issue the GOP already has in the bag, rather than choosing a leader who can lead on Conservative positiosn on other major issues.
December 26th, 2007 at 11:33 am
“did anyone get a chance to read the Union Leader’s anti-Mitt endorsement? Brutal!”
I did, and if just shows the paper to be another pro-McCain hack.
December 26th, 2007 at 11:34 am
13, ya i thought so too. just goes to show some mitt bots have trouble paying attention.
December 26th, 2007 at 11:37 am
paper to be another pro-McCain hack.
Actually the Union Leader is the paper of record in the state. AND it is conservative.
Did you like the part where they said Mitt Romney doesn’t have the endorsement of a SINGLE paper in NH? A SINGLE one! How many NH papers have endorsed McCain by now? I’ve lost count. 4?
Let those sour grapes shine thru ACT Blog…
December 26th, 2007 at 11:41 am
Aron’s editorializing via selection bias in his article choices. 4 pro-Rudy articles when all the press on him has been that he’s slipping/failing?
Highlighting an anti-Mitt piece as if there has been no other news on him in the last 48 hours?
December 26th, 2007 at 11:49 am
Take a chill Jeff. How do you NOT link to the Union Leader’s anti Romney article? How is that NOT relevant? It has been posted ALL over the blogs this morning.
I guess if even the mittbots cannot spin something as “good news” they attack the integrity of who ever opposes Mitt Romney’s run.
December 26th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
OK . . . Aron’s added some more since my comment.
I didn’t have a problem with that story being listed . . . but being listed as the only Mitt story in 48 hours when Rudy got 4 positive pieces just seemed a bit over the top.