davidl on January 27th, 2008

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The fact is that Bill Clinton is not and never has been a great vote-getter, certainly not for other candidates.

Mark R. Levin, National Review.

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Eric Florack on January 26th, 2008

COLUMBIA, S.C. – AP- Barack Obama routed Hillary Rodham Clinton in the racially charged South Carolina primary Saturday night, regaining campaign momentum in the prelude to a Feb. 5 coast-to-coast competition for more than 1,600 Democratic National Convention delegates.Former Sen.

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Eric Florack on January 25th, 2008

Anyone remember John Edwards?

I know… not lately.

He’s not going to the White House, unless they need an elevator operator.  By my read, he’s playing for some sort of appointment to a post in a Democrat White House. Notice…

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Eric Florack on January 25th, 2008

I note with interest that Jonathan Martin has put up a post at Politico making note of the fact that the global warming business has all but disappeared from John McCain’s speechmaking. Apparently McCain has finally figured out it’s not

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Eric Florack on January 22nd, 2008

Fred Barnes:

John McCain has a problem. After winning South Carolina’s primary last Saturday, he should be the overwhelming favorite to capture the Republican presidential nomination. He’s not, at least not yet, and the reason is that he’s alienated so

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davidl on January 21st, 2008

The early returns from the Martin Luther King Day debate in South Carolina are in.   Mrs. Clinton and Barack Obama attack each other with dead fish.    Wolf  Blitzer and John Edwards are also present, somewhere.

Partial transcript, via Ben Smith,

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Eric Florack on January 21st, 2008

I mean, not like this stuff wasn’t expected. I’ve been talking about this kind of thing for years. But it does give us an idea of the kind of nonsense we’re in for: From the London Times:

AMERICA’S favourite television

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Eric Florack on January 20th, 2008

Jon Adler at The Corner, earlier today:

Last week Michael Gerson wrote a remarkably unserious column in which he suggested Fred Thompson lacked “moral seriousness” because he failed to embrace President Bush’s global AIDS initiative with sufficient vigor.  Looking

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davidl on January 20th, 2008

Michael Graham, National Review:

McCain is a weak candidate by any measure. Only once in his two presidential races has John McCain ever won a majority of the vote, and that was Michigan in 2000. He has yet to

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  • Mickey Kaus notes an article in the Tucson Citizen talking about a country which is having problems handling the demand for housing, jobs and schools it will face from Mexican illegals… The country having these issues? Mexico. Amazing how that

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Eric Florack on January 19th, 2008

I know by our counters we have readers in South Carolina.
I know today is your primary day, South Carolina Republicans.
I have two words for you: Fred Thompson

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davidl on January 16th, 2008

Mitt RomneyByran, Hot Air, states the obvious:

Two primary wins, two seconds. No one else has been as broadly competitive so far. He has the most delegates and the most money in the bank, and he’s back to campaigning in

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davidl on January 13th, 2008

Scott Johnson, Powerline, has “The case against John McCain.” I’ll go beyond Rick Santorum, and I don’t trust McCain on foreign or defense policy either. McCain has the problem of letting extraordinary temper get the better of

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Ben Smith over at the Politico notes that there’s been a lot the last 48 or so over charges of racism:

A series of comments from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, her husband and her supporters are spurring a racial

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Eric Florack on January 7th, 2008

I asked earlier this morning, when we might see some of the expectation lowering dance being done by Hillary Clinton. The answer to that question came somewhat faster than I expected, if the rumor mill is any guide… and

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