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Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 08, 2012 18 Comments
Last month, Cornell celebrated a successful bid for a NYC-based tech campus. The win is a big boost for Cornell’s standing and opportunities for undergraduates. Since the announcement, though, I’ve been waiting for thing to “get political.” Frankly, I’m surprised it took so long…. As...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 08, 2012 13 Comments
I’m beginning to like The Legal Insurrection Daily, which automatically pulls blog and news items based on my Twitter feed and those I follow on Twitter. The LI Daily pulls stories I sometimes have not noticed, like this one from the Israel Ministry of Foreign...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 08, 2012 63 Comments
So what did last night mean? Rick Santorum won the two non-binding caucuses where all candidates competed, and the Missouri non-binding primary where Newt was not on the ballot. Does it mean that the Republican electorate all of the sudden has fallen in love with...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 07, 2012 49 Comments
Endgame quick analysis: Great night for Santorum. Now he has to show he can win with Newt also in the field and when Romney cares enough to spend money and attack. Horrible night for Romney. Another hole in the bubble of electability, and the new...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 07, 2012 14 Comments
Some more things before the late night returns from the Minnesota and Colorado caucuses and the Missouri primary: ShePAC – a SuperPAC for conservative female candidates.  (h/t TexasGrizzlette)  When do middle aged male bloggers who are as good once as they ever were get a SuperPAC?...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 07, 2012 23 Comments
This could not wait for Saturday Night, because it is just way too bizarre an attempt to turn nothing into a charge of racism. Short background:  Pete Hoekstra, running for Senate from Michigan against Debbie Stabenow, ran a commercial in Michigan during the Super Bowl...

Posted by Louis R. Lombardi on February 05, 2012 35 Comments
Government entanglement in our lives is increasing exponentially. Nowhere is this more evident than the recent assault on religious freedoms from varying governmental entities. As Rick Santorum would put it, “It is a top down approach” and it truly is. From the top, we have...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 05, 2012 102 Comments
I had the pleasure a couple of weeks ago of meeting with Anne Sorock and Yvonne Ralsky, co-founders of The Fontier Lab. The Frontier Lab, among other things, utilizes “deep values research” common in consumer products marketing analysis (Anne is a Cornell Business School graduate who concentrated...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 04, 2012 119 Comments
I’ll post the Nevada results later.  Romney won big there in 2008  (51.1%) because of the heavy Mormon turnout at the caucuses and is expected to do so again. The big story was the revelation in The NY Times that the Romney campaign, both directly...

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on February 04, 2012 43 Comments
Rick Santorum recently released  an attack ad on Newt Gingrich criticizing him as a big government conservative touting the line, “Rick Santorum for President. He doesn’t just talk a good conservative game, he lives it.” Why is Santorum drawing attention to his fellow candidates’ records...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 03, 2012 74 Comments
We are at the mercy of misleading statistics which nonetheless form the media narrative. I posted earlier today about workers leaving the workforce in droves, which drives down the nominal unemployment rate and renders it a misleading statistic.  Yet the details are the details, and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 02, 2012 59 Comments
You will understand what I mean later, I’m just waiting for 100% verification before I run the post. But enough of the tease, untl then: Trump on Romney in April 11 “he’s going to lose. He doesn’t resonate, you know?” Union membership dwindling in Wisconsin...

Posted by Trionic Labs on February 02, 2012 43 Comments
This is my first post so I thought I would introduce myself – I’m Ed Burns and I’m not a law student, nor do I play one on television, but I do provide development and support here at Legal Insurrection. Most of my work is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2012 196 Comments
Looks like turnout down 200k from 2008.  Notice that when Romney ties/wins (IA, NH, FL) no turnout surge, when Newt won in SC huge turnout surge.  Turnout will be important in November 2012, and while Romney is winning, he’s not motivating new voters to come...

Posted by Louis R. Lombardi on January 29, 2012 9 Comments
With the Republican primary taking up all the oxygen, other issues of importance have been flying under the radar. One such issue is our peace initiative in Afghanistan. The Obama administration has decided to engage Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef as a conduit to the Taliban...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 29, 2012 44 Comments
I have told you that Bain would be our undoing in a general election. But whenever someone questions Bain, they are accused of being anti-capitalist. Wishing it away will not make it go away, as an article in The Boston Globe about Domino’s Pizza shows,...
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