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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 17, 2012 23 Comments

The best evidence that Newt is rising in South Carolina is that the Romney campaign is rolling out a new effort to paint Newt as "unreliable." It's the campaign theme that worked well for Romney in Iowa, when Romney rolled out his strategy of crazy. Operation Zany...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 17, 2012 56 Comments

Organizers of the recall effort against Scott Walker say they have filed over 1 million signatures, almost double the number needed to obtain a recall election, reports JSOnline*: Democrats and organizers will file petitions with more than a million signatures Tuesday afternoon as they seek to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 17, 2012 11 Comments

There's a war going on between hackers in the Middle East: Israeli hackers said they brought down the official websites of Saudi  Arabia's Monetary Agency and Abu Dhabi's Securities Exchange on Tuesday in retaliation for a denial of  service attack on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 17, 2012 71 Comments

Last night's debate reminded people of why Newt surged in the fall before Romney's SuperPAC and almost the entire conservative media went after him in December. This was one of the highlights (which led to Juan williams asking the ill-fated follow-up on the "food stamp president" line): Here...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 17, 2012 55 Comments

I saw this coming from a mile away. Mitt Romney's original position that he would not release his income tax returns, a position he held to for several weeks, now is slipping. At the debate last night Romney gave a convoluted answer that he "probably" would release...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 17, 2012 1 Comment

So I'm not sure where the hostility to Golfer 1 is coming from. Thanks to reader Rich who writes: This is not your standard bumper sticker contribution, but it is pretty amusing. I was in the middle of a round of golf in Spring Hill Florida when I...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2012 155 Comments

Endgame Analysis:  I don't think Romney was mortally wounded, but he did stammer through some key issues such as the release of his tax returns.  Clearly Newt had almost all of and the biggest moments.  Probably Rick Perry's best debate, Santorum was uneven.  Probably Ron...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2012 2 Comments

We are approaching the 4th Anniversary of the assassination of Hezbollah terror mastermind Imad Mughniyeh in Syria, presumably by the Israelis although there has never been any public proof. Hezbollah has sought revenge, so far without success.  A major attack was just thwarted in Thailand: A foreign...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2012 17 Comments

The inflammatory Newsweek cover, and the heaping of praise on Obama by Andrew Sullivan, distract from the most important point of Sullivan's article at The Daily Beast, quoted in the title above. Obama has accomplished a lot for the Left in America.  He wants to accomplish a lot more. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2012 111 Comments

Six hours in the car alone with large gaps in radio coverage (or at least any radio you would want to listen to) can have a clarifying effect. And so it did: We are on a path to nominate someone who campaigned against Reagan, campaigned against the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2012 18 Comments

On the road for a while more, so tell us what's going on....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2012 53 Comments

It's been widely reported that Mitt Romney handed a woman some cash to help her out as he worked a rope line in South Carolina. video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player I'm all in favor of helping people in need, but when a politician does it publicly during...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2012 4 Comments

Over the weekend (is this still the weekend for you?): How nasty will the general election race card get? This nasty “Tea Party” in Fromanize is spelled “t-e-r-r-o-r-i-s-t” Going Godwin to defend Bain Remembering Tony Blankley Something New at LI Spy-CounterSpy In The Middle East ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2012 28 Comments

Ann Coulter already told us that Tea Partiers opposed to Mitt Romney were just a bunch of "birthers" (emphasis mine): Pemmaraju pressed Coulter on Romney’s conservatism, adding that the Tea Party has resisted him strongly, an indication he may not be as conservative as she thinks. Coulter...

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