Not Without A Fight
Hillary Clinton is declared the winner in the February 5 New Mexico primary and gets 14 of 26 delegates. Yes, in a sense, it is old news but the timing could not be better for her. Her complaint about...
View ArticlePost-Racial No More
Gail Collins writes an entire column bemoaning that the Democratic primary race is “now all about white men.” Obama tries to bond with these voters over bowling, but his “37” brings howls of derision...
View ArticleRe: His To Lose
John, I’m as realistic as any other observer about the uphill struggle John McCain faces. He’s got the drag of George W. Bush’s unpopularity, the economy, the falling number of registered GOP voters,...
View ArticleObama’s Map
I agree with Jennifer that if Obama cannot win Florida – and the high percentage of retired military there would seem to make his inability to win there a certainty – the electoral college map is much...
View ArticleOne Step Closer . . .
Since Iran’s nuclear program was exposed in August 2002, Tehran has protested its innocence and claimed its nuclear program has only civilian purposes. The IAEA has just produced its latest report and...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
What does French President Nicolas Sarakozy really think of Obama? “Obama has been in power for a year, and he has already lost three special elections. Me, I have won two legislative elections and the...
View ArticleDemocratic Governors Upset with Obama
Reading the headline “Democrats worried about Obama track record,” one is tempted to say, “They should be.” Liz Sidoti and Ron Fournier write: Democratic governors said Sunday they worry about...
View ArticleObama OKs Assassination of American Citizen
…and no, it’s not Rush Limbaugh. Mr. Awlaki, who was born in New Mexico and spent years in the United States as an imam, is in hiding in Yemen. He has been the focus of intense scrutiny since he was...
View ArticleRE: The Tax Issue Is Back
As I’ve noted before, Obama has brought the tax issue roaring back. Nothing like a liberal president willing to raise taxes on the non-rich (after promising not to), small businesses, and capital...
View ArticleLIVE BLOG: Call It Whatever You Want
Mark Kirk and Pat Toomey have gone ahead in two Blue States. If the GOP captures Illinois and Pennsylvania Senate seats, gets more than 55 seats (the most since 1932), and gains governorships from...
View ArticleLIVE BLOG: Geography
In 2008, the Republican Party was thought to be headed for minority status as a rump party of the South. Tonight, the governorships of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, and New Mexico are in GOP...
View ArticleDiversity Matters Only on the Left
As the New York Post‘s editors remind us: Remember the “angry, racist Tea Party?” For months, that was the line pushed by Democrats, the NAACP and much of the mainstream media. Funny, though: The Tea...
View ArticleSenate Shifts
Fred Barnes makes a key observation: Ten Democrats whose seats are up in 2012 come from right-leaning states or saw their states scoot to the right this week: Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Bill Nelson of...
View ArticleIt’s the Whole Country
David Brooks zeroes in on the Democrats’ meltdown in the Midwest: Over the past two years, these voters have watched government radically increase spending in an attempt to put people back to work....
View ArticleSearching
As I noted on Friday, the GOP could use some unifiers who can fuse the Tea Party’s enthusiasm and small-government devotion with the mature street smarts of conservative stalwarts who possess...
View ArticleDohrn vs. the Tea Party
The supposedly racist Tea Partiers helped elect two African-American congressmen, an Indian-American woman governor of South Carolina, Hispanic governors in Nevada and New Mexico, and even a couple of...
View ArticleThe 2010 Midterm Election in Perspective
In shifting through the fine analysis that emerged in the aftermath of last week’s midterm elections, a few data points are particularly noteworthy: Republicans picked up more House seats than in any...
View ArticleFollow the States, But Only the Right Ones
This report makes the point that, unlike the federal government, state officials have had to make hard choices to balance their books. The impression one gets listening to the mainstream media and...
View ArticleRepublicans and the Hispanic Vote
Rep. Lamar Smith gets it partially right when he touts the election of Hispanic Republican candidates and of non-Hispanic pro-border-enforcement Republicans with the help of a significant number of...
View ArticlePolitics Dictates Deportations Policy
For three and a half years, Hispanic activists have complained the Obama administration was all talk and no action when it came to satisfying their demands for more lenient immigration guidelines. But...
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