A Newsweek poll out Friday afternoon had the GOP race among likely Iowa caucus goers:

Mike Huckabee: 39 percent
Mitt Romney: 17
Fred Thompson: 10
Rudy Giuliani: 9
Ron Paul: 8
John McCain: 6

If this is right, it’s mighty impressive. This poll had a large sample, was taken Wednesday and Thursday by the most tried and trusted methodology (human telephone interviews) […]

Good Monday morning Fellow Seekers of Wisdom and Truth,
Friday morning at the Humphrey Institute, former congressman, now lobbyist and big-time Republican insider Vin Weber gave an outstanding overview of the state of conservatism, focusing largely on the race for the Repub nomination for president.
Weber is the best I know at promoting his (Republican) side and […]

Good Saturday morning,
I linked Thursday to John Edwards first TV commercial, a sentimental piece making the non-controversial case that ordinary people are the real heroes of America.
On Friday, he released a tougher piece. (My thanks to commenter Peder, who called attention to it in the thread under the previous post.) This one, titled “The Politics […]

Lieberman, Kerry, Dean, Kerry, Bush.
Good Friday morning Fellow Seekers,

It’s fine to describe Hillary Clinton as the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. She is. You could say the same about Rudy Giuliani on the Repub side, although his situation is more complicated.
It’s fine to laugh and roll your eyes when pollsters say that their poll results […]

Fact #1:Everything about the mood of the country (we want change!), the partisan identification trends (Dems, 50- Repubs, 35), and the issue environment (for example, he said, polls show a spike in concern about rising levels of economic inequality) favors the idea that 2008 should be a very good year to run for office as a Democrat,says pollster […]

If, like me, you’ve been surprised that a pro-choice candidate like Rudy Giuliani could continue to come out on top among Republicans in presidential horserace polls, the answer must surely, at least in part, be in these results from the Pew Reseach Center:

Good Monday morning Fellow Seekers of Wisdom and Truth,
The New York Times had a good tough piece Saturday about a half-truth that Rudy Giuliani has been perpetrating throughout the presidential campaign so far.  It comes down to this:
Giuliani, who is running hard as a fiscal conservative, consistently claims — most recently in a radio ad now running in Iowa […]

The Mitt Romney for prez campaign released a new ad running in Iowa that seeks to build on his win in the Saturday straw poll. You can watch it here (note that on this link, the 30-second spot is followed by several minutes of other footage of Romney in Iowa). The script is brief, with Romney […]

In the last two televised debates – one by the Repub. presidential field on Sunday morning and one by the Dems. on Tuesday evening – Sen. Barack Obama has been accused of cluelessness and recklessness for saying that he would try to capture or kill Osama bin Laden if he knew where the Al Qaida leader was hiding in […]