GOP Faces Historic Losses If They Keep “Boehnering” Things Up

By: Michael Hammond (Diary)  |  February 23rd at 10:10 AM  | 

From the diaries by Erick. Remember the arguments that Obama couldn’t conceivably win reelection if unemployment was over 7.2%? Or that the GOP had a lock on the Senate because they just had to defend 10 seats? Or that Democrats could never pick up the 25 House seats necessary to gain control? And, by implication, that all of these good things would happen while Republicans | Read More »

Five Things You Need To Know About New Hampshire

By: Michael Hammond (Diary)  |  November 29th at 05:11 PM  | 

I was the sole general chairman of the New Hampshire campaign of Pat Buchanan in the winter of 1995-6. I was alone because my co-chairman, faced with unmoving single-digit poll numbers, had fled for the Dole campaign. I remember Pat’s consternation about our seemingly stagnant poll numbers.  And yet, when New Hampshire voters began focusing on the election, those polls became meaningless.  Just a few | Read More »