Sen. John McCain has released his own Christmas ad, and it’s an incredibly powerful one: Like many conservatives, I don’t always agree with John McCain on every issue. However, there is no doubt that Sen. McCain is one of the most patriotic Americans in government service today, a man who has made incredible sacrifices for [...]
Reason finds a wonderful Christmas tale of how a 7-year-old girl got the best of Mike Huckabee: “Who is your favorite author?” Aleya Deatsch, 7, of West Des Moines asked Mr. Huckabee in one of those posing-like-a-shopping-mall-Santa moments. Mr. Huckabee paused, then said his favorite author was Dr. Seuss. In an interview afterward with the [...]
That’s what the latest ARG poll of Iowa shows. McCain is ahead of Romney in that poll. In NH, ARG shows McCain tied for first place. What this goes to show is how volatile polling in Iowa really is. The dynamics of the race are constantly shifting, and a long-shot contender like McCain has just [...]
Wading through the fever swamp of The Daily Kos provides yet another reminder of the general intellectual vacancy of the left these days: On this day in 1998, in a sickening display of partisanship, the House of Representatives approved two articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton for consensual sex obstruction of justice and perjury. [...]
Dan Riehl catches The Politico‘s Roger Simon (not to be confused with the blogger of the same name) in some biased reporting on a recent Fred Thompson campaign stop in Iowa. Here’s how The Politico put it: Inside, Thompson shook a few hands — there were only about 15 people there — and then Chief [...]
Time‘s Man of the Year for 2007 is Russian President Vladimir Putin. It isn’t a bad pick (although I would have picked Gen. David Petraeus)—Vladimir Putin’s actions are most certainly of great import in shaping our world. The problem is that they’re not shaping our world for the better. Putin has been slowly but surely [...]
Pollster Mark Blumenthal has an interesting bit on how selection bias may be skewing the polls in Iowa: The point here, in case it is not obvious: Non-response bias may have exaggerated the percentages of younger (under 45) caucus goers the 2004 Iowa entrance poll (something I wondered about a month or so ago). And [...]