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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 18, 2012 45 Comments

So Obama is going to kill the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada, pending apparently another route being drawn up.  Which means that he has killed it dead, because any route is going to be met with objection and delay. Instead, let's build more of the bird...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 18, 2012 63 Comments

This is the first polling evidence of Newt's surge which has let Romney to relaunch Operation Zany and to haul out Susan Molinari and others to attack Newt. From Rasmussen this morning: The race for the Republican presidential nomination is now nearly even with Mitt Romney still on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 18, 2012 21 Comments

More Romney campaign theater of the absurd. The Romney campaign must know that Newt is surging in South Carolina: "There are some increasing signs -- though all of it anecdotal for now -- that Newt Gingrich is gaining some momentum three days before the South Carolina primary. First...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 18, 2012 29 Comments

Chris Christie on the Today Show this morning: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, one of Mitt Romney's most popular and visible surrogates, said Wednesday the Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor should release his tax returns as soon as they're available. "I would say if you...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 17, 2012 35 Comments

Andrew Kaczynski of BuzzFeed has located John McCain's 200-page opposition reasearch book on Mitt Romney.  It's embedded below. I turned to the section on Bain, and at page 136 found this sentence: Romney Served As CEO Of Bain Capital Through August 2001, Even Though He No Longer...

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...

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...

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...

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