McCain Looking Strong in the Northeast
New polls in New Jersey and Connecticut show John McCain tied with or leading both of his Democratic rivals in those two states. A new Rassmussen Reports survey of Garden State voters released today...
View ArticleCould Lieberman Deliver Connecticut to the GOP?
Joe Lieberman (?-CT) has been spending plenty of time with John McCain lately, and now we get word from Ben Smith that’s he hosting conference calls with reporters bashing Barack Obama on Iran....
View ArticleThe Five Places McCain Should Go
Cross-posted at The Next Right. Politico’s Charlie Mahtesian and Amie Parnes wrote an article yesterday about the “Five Places Obama Should Go,” and four out of the five areas they identified were...
View ArticleThe Politics of Greenwich: “This is Our Katrina”
The Wall Street Journal reports on how the financial crisis is being handled in the hedge-fund hub of Greenwich, Ct., a town that “pays 13% of all state income taxes in Connecticut with only 1.8% of...
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More on the Geography of the “No” Votes
1. “Sun Belt 1, Manhattan 0″ I wrote on Tuesday that representatives from the financial hubs mostly voted “Yea” and those from poor urban cores and fly-over states mostly voted “Nay.” This is true, but...
View ArticleRed and Blue Schizophrenia
The Montreal Gazette asks why we cast Republican states (i.e. conservative ones) as red and paint Democratic ones (liberal) as blue: “Red is the traditional shade of the left – nearly all Communist...
View ArticleThe GOP Now has ZERO Representatives in New England
Rep. Chris Shays was their last holdout, but he lost his CT-04 seat tonight by nearly 10 points. The GOP is now a phantom party in Northeast. Two of the people I trust most on politics — Chuck Todd and...
View ArticleA Republican Resurgence in George H.W. Bush States?
George W. Bush unveiled plans this week for his presidential library at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and according to architects’ renditions, it will have a front yard that is designed to...
View ArticleWho is In Charge of the Map at the NRCC?
The Hampton Roads Daily Press reports that the NRCC sent out a press release on Monday hitting Rep. Glenn Nye, Democrat from Tidewater Virginia, for screwing over the taxpayers of New Mexico: “If New...
View ArticleBlue States Most in Debt
Forbes: The five states in the worst financial condition–Illinois, New York, Connecticut, California and New Jersey–are all among the bluest of blue states. The five most fiscally fit states are more...
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