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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 08, 2012 37 Comments

Endgame assessment: I give the debate to Newt (and so does Larry Sabato), who was aggressive without being offensive, and once again scored the line of the night about Romney "pious baloney." But, that said, I don't think much damage was done to Romney.  The upside for...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 08, 2012 9 Comments

Thanks to reader John, who wrote: If he/she has hope, I'd love to show him/her some change. At New Rochelle HS in New Rochelle, NY.  ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 07, 2012 29 Comments

One of the biggest applause lines of the night was when Newt Gingrich, responding to a long (and embarrassing for the moderators) line of questions trying to pin candidates down on gay marriage, contraception and gay adoption, responded as follows: Newt's response engendered praise even from...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 07, 2012 101 Comments

Endgame Analysis:  Romney has to be happy.  He came away unscathed.  No one went after him in a confrontational manner. The prevailing wisdom will be that Newt failed to attack, but Newt's in a no win situation.  If he attacks aggressively, he's bad, angry Newt; if...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 07, 2012 10 Comments

Debate starts at 9 p.m. Eastern.  Some things possibly relevant: There is another debate Sunday morning on Meet the Press.  Are they kidding? Via Instapundit, Byron York says that it was Newt's reaction to the negative ads rather than the ads themselves which did the most damage. ...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 07, 2012 18 Comments

Every now and then there is just one of those mainstream media moments which points out how false narratives are created. This time it's a story from CBS Boston titled Gingrich Left ‘Speechless’ By Young Voter’s ‘Old People’ Question (h/t reader punfundit in the Tip Line).  Here's the pertinent...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 07, 2012 11 Comments

I keep thinking, when, not if. And what will happen to the heavy missiles and chemical weapons. I presume the Israelis have a plan. Some of the latest headlines: Now we're getting tough - Obama Administration Seeks to Remove Syria From Human Rights Committee. 'Syrian military...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 07, 2012 26 Comments

The Romney campaign expects to have the nomination all but wrapped up by the end of January The Washington Post reports, and is using surrogates like John McCain to push the narrative that if Romney wins the first three (or four) states, it's over.  One of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 07, 2012 8 Comments

There must be tens of thousands of stories like this one from Charles Lane of The Washington Post about his child who died in utero just hours before a scheduled c-section: We, like the Santorums, took a photograph of the baby -- lying, as if asleep, in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 07, 2012 14 Comments

Kind of makes me want to smack the vehicle owner upside the head and scream, "snap out of it." From Linda in Tennessee, taken at the Whole Foods parking lot in Nashville: ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 06, 2012 50 Comments

This video (via Leslie of Temple of Mut) of Rick Santorum has made the rounds as evidence that Santorum is hostile to the Tea Party movement. The key sentence, in which he expresses and intention to "vocally, publicly oppose" the Tea Party, is ambiguous.  Was he saying he...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 06, 2012 53 Comments

It's so frustrating, the failure of conservative media and Republican campaigns to vet Mitt Romney's Bain days. Instead of hiring cartoonists to turn Newt into Marvin the Martian, National Review should have been digging deep into the public filings, court filings, and the financial history of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 06, 2012 19 Comments

Of course I'll be covering it, probably one of my "updates at the breaks" type of coverage, not a Live Event.  It starts at 9 p.m. Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos "moderated" the Drake Debate in December.   My prior posts: Drake Debate – Video highlights, Drake Debate...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 06, 2012 38 Comments

Via The Hill: Restore Our Future, a super PAC backing Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, will run full-page ads attacking Newt Gingrich in the Manchester Union Leader and The State in Columbia, South Carolina, the most prominent newspapers in the next two states to vote...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 06, 2012 22 Comments

There is a new jobs report out, with the usual caveats that the work force is shrinking, but the nominal unemployment rate is down to 8.5%.  That's the number which counts politically. The rate would be 10.9% if the same number of people were in the...

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