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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 30, 2011 24 Comments

It's the major headline at Drudge: But the headline suggests it's a reaction to polling, but instead it was questioning by Frank Luntz about Newt's mother. The most poignant moment to me was not the discussion of his mother but at 4:25 when he recounted a story...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 30, 2011 35 Comments

Who would have expected it.  Ann Coulter in her endorsement of Mitt Romney gave a very misleading account of Rick Santorum's immigration record, asserting that he voted against E-Verify. Ann's a lawyer, so she knows that omitting material facts can be just as much a fraud...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 30, 2011 18 Comments

Readers have been emailing me about the dangers of the Stop Online Privacy [wow, what a slip] Piracy Act but I've been a bit distracted.  Here's the concern from the Electronic Frontier Foundation: The "Stop Online Piracy Act"/"E-PARASITE Act" (SOPA) and "The PROTECT IP Act" (PIPA)...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 30, 2011 29 Comments

Via Byron York, a preview of a book by Boston journalist Ronald Scott: According to Scott, Romney revealed that polling from Richard Wirthlin, Ronald Reagan's former pollster whom Romney had hired for the '94 campaign, showed it would be impossible for a pro-life candidate to win...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 30, 2011 28 Comments

"Why Is No One Attacking Romney?"  That's the question I have been pounding all fall, particularly in the past 6 weeks. It's also the question asked by Alex Roarty at National Journal: It's an old story this primary, where Romney has not faced the kind of...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 30, 2011 9 Comments

The Best Tweet of the Year competition was really, really tough. There were so many great tweets arising out of the Occupy Wall Street protests that it could have been its own category.  Not surprisingly, Obama also was a hot topic. I excluded from consideration tweets...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 29, 2011 26 Comments

One of the conspiracy theories floating around the comment section here and elsewhere was that Michele Bachmann served as the attack dog against everyone but Romney in the hope of gaining a VP nod. The speculation was fueled by Bachmann's relentless and often inaccurate attacks on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 29, 2011 49 Comments

A certain someone already has declared that the media got the primaries all wrong, and that it was going to be Mitt all the time.  Others have written off Newt and Perry to the dustbin of history.  The emerging media consensus, pushed by the mainstream...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 29, 2011 8 Comments

With war in Israel  just one shot or rocket or kidnapping away, it's always worth seeing the faces of the people who will fight it. The Jewish New Year was in September, so this is the IDF's New Year's greeting to you (via Sheya): ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 29, 2011 33 Comments

Rick Santorum has lived in Iowa for months, visiting every county, street, house, coffee shop, bakery, and front porch waiting for his time to come.  It may have arrived, if the recent polling is indicative of reality. But because Santorum's surge comes just days before the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 29, 2011 17 Comments

I noted the other day Romney’s emerging secrecy problem, including the refusal to release income tax returns even if he becomes the nominee. This is a break with standard practice for nominees, and creates a no win situation in which Romney makes his income and taxes...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 29, 2011 33 Comments

John Hinderaker of Power Line Blog wrote an endorsement of Mitt Romney on Tuesday.  It was about as good an endorsement as I have seen, but kept coming back to one theme, electability. I don't think we can judge electability just yet because no one really has challenged...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 29, 2011 9 Comments

The worst Bumper Sticker of the Year competition was almost as tough as the Best Bumper Sticker of the Year competition.  Thanks again to those who made nominations. Not surprisingly, it was dominated by various forms of Derangement Syndrome. 1st Place - "Tea Party" sounds so much nicer...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 28, 2011 28 Comments

I'm trying to make this an Iowa free day, which given the polls coming out today probably is a good thing: 'Drive to kidnap IDF soldiers up since Schalit deal' - Hmmmm, trading 1000 for 1 is a motivator.  Who whoulda thunk it. New York Times Staffers Express...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 28, 2011 13 Comments

Operation Counterweight has started.  We need people in the House and Senate who are not afraid to fight. In many states and districts, it will be easy.  In others it will be hard. We are going to have to win a couple of hard ones in order to...

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