**************************************** “If you’ve got a business—you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” [image of Obama freezes] Female voice: Whoa, let’s stop right there. He goes on to use that as an excuse to raise taxes. He believes that people who have been successful have done so because they’ve been taking, and so government should tax more of that away. [Cue a few images | Read More »
Knocking off Mitt Romney will be tough, no doubt about it. We’ve seen Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry take big shots at his Bain record in the last week or so, and the response in defense of Romney, and against Gingrich and Perry, has been fairly wide-spread. There are many forces in the Republican party beside the activist base, and they have a lot of | Read More »
So I’ve heard some rumors that a lot of you REALLY don’t want Mitt Romney as the nominee. If that’s the goal, what’s the best way of moving voters who are leaning towards Romney away from him? Well, PPP has done us a service in providing a ton of cross-tabs in their last NH poll. They asked the question, “What is more important to you | Read More »
In part 1 (please read it first!) I made some general remarks about electability, and laid out several factors that go into it. In this entry, I’ll turn to the individual candidates and try to rate them on each component. I’ll do my darnedest to be objective, but undoubtedly there will be disagreements here. Remember, in this diary, I am concentrating solely on electability concerns; | Read More »
Electability. It’s a word that gets bandied about a lot these days. But what is it, really? How much does it matter? And can anyone be said to truly have it? In this diary, I will describe what I see as the different aspects of this nebulous “electability” quality. In a subsequent diary, I will try to objectively assess how the various candidates stack up | Read More »
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