Bloomberg’s Joke of a Headline Hides True Story

Obama wins in poll as investors resist Gingrich What does that headline say to you?  The description below the Bloomberg headline was “U.S. investors are rooting for Mitt Romney and those overseas are for Barack Obama. Newt Gingrich is generating little enthusiasm anywhere. “ From reading that, you might be fooled into thinking Bloomberg ran [...]

There Will Only Be One American Running for President In 2012

  There will only be one American for president in 2012, and I am not talking about President Barack Obama’s birth certificate. The 2012 election is in effect a Referendum on American Capitalism. If the Republicans choose Mitt Romney, as they surely must, he will represent American Capitalism. President Barack Obama will represent Europeanized State [...]

Effect of Debates vs. Campaign Fatigue

South Carolina is within reach for Newt.  However, he must now combat something other than superpacs and media.  Newt now has to overcome campaign fatigue.  I’m sure that all of the candidates are tired and have been traveling a lot, but that isn’t what I was referring to.  You probably noticed about a month ago [...]

Where New Hampshire Leaves Us

    The results of the Live Free or Die State’s first in the nation primary, did little to change minds or establish any great degree of certainty about the final outcome when Republicans gather to nominate a President in September.  Yet despite all the hand ringing, flavors of the many different weeks, sniping about who is to [...]

Hollow Victories?

One aspect of the Republican race for the nomination that may yet become a serious issue is the penalty assessed on NH, SC, FL, AZ and MI because they held their primaries before February. It has been the case that no Republican has won the nomination without winning SC and either IA or NH. Yet, [...]

Capitalism a Casualty of Campaign

What is happening to the Republican field?  It made some sense when Cain was attacked for being a businessman with no foreign policy experience and no political experience.  That was perhaps a fair shot at an outsider businessman candidate. Then came the attacks on Newt for having Freddie Mac as a client.  Newt not only [...]

Live New Hampshire Primary Election Result Updates

286 of 301 Precincts Reporting – 95% Name Party Votes Vote % Romney, Mitt GOP 94,252 39% Paul, Ron GOP 54,511 23% Huntsman, Jon GOP 40,388 17% Gingrich, Newt GOP 22,518 9% Santorum, Rick GOP 22,292 9% Perry, Rick GOP 1,668 1% Roemer, Buddy GOP 898 0% Total Write-ins GOP 788 0% Bachmann, Michele GOP [...]

Dixville Notch Opens the New Hampshire Primary With a Win for Romney and Huntsman

   With all the pomp and circumstance and meaning of Groundhog Day in Pennsylvania, New Hampshire has seen their first in the nation primary begin with the first voting in the state out of Dixville Notch. Out of the 9 voters in the small town, 4 are Independent, 3 are Republican, and 2 are Democrats.  As [...]

These Debates Could Be Game Changers

Come on.  We’ve heard these candidates in just over one million debates so far this year.  Another one?  Another two actually, this weekend leading up to the New Hampshire debates.  And these two debates could definitely wreak havoc on the standings going into New Hampshire. Mitt Romney is the undisputed front runner.  Ron Paul and [...]

Iowa Recap

Romney won, Bachmann quit, Santorum is rising, Paul is maintaining his status quo, Newt is struggling, Perry has faith, and Huntsman….who?  Iowa recapped: Mitt Romney Mitt Romney won in Iowa. Honestly?  No big deal. Romney will gain momentum from winning, but when people look at the numbers they will realize that if Michele Bachmann wasn’t [...]

Groundhog Day Came to Iowa Early and Rick Santorum Saw His Shadow

   Iowa proved to be an incredibly dramatic opening contests for the Republican presidential nomination that even included the added suspense of missing and improperly recorded vote totals.  But by 2:30 in the morning, all was resolved and the results gave Mitt Romney a 8 vote victory.  The closeness of the race did not help Mitt Romney but it [...]

A Political Week Like No Other

    This first week of the new year is probably one of the most politically important of this entire year. At least for Republicans. In many ways it will be an unprecedented week of decisions and opportunities. Most of the decisions are likely going to deal more with who can’t become President, than who will [...]

Architech of Massachusets Healthcare calls Romney a liar

This morning on CNN, M.I.T. professor of economics  Dr. Jonathan Gruber stated Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney is  “a liar” with regard to Obama’s national healthcare law and Romney’s Massachusetts healthcare.   In an interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, he openly expressed his discontent with Romney’s attempts to mislead the public and distort the effects of [...]

New Polling May Indicate That Gingrich Peaked Too Early and that Romney is the Consistent Candidate

   Some recent state polls in Iowa and News Hampshire offer mixed results for Newt Gingrich, encouraging news for Jon Huntsman, and great news for Mitt Romney. A new Rasmussen Iowa 2012 GOP Caucus Poll  shows Mitt Romney slipping in to the lead in  Iowa, a state where he has been consistently in the top [...]

Gingrich wins key endorsement, Romney needs to up his game

  New GOP front runner Newt Gingrich managed a huge coup today, by winning the endorsement of the State of New Hampshire’s most widely read newspaper, the New Hampshire Union Leader before New Hampshire votes on January 10, 2012. While the endorsement throws a huge bonus towards Gingrich’s chances, the snub by the newspaper deals [...]

New Hampshire Union Leader Endorsement of Newt Gingrich: What Difference Will It Make?

    The New Hampshire Union Leader is the Granite State’s largest newspaper and while it’s endorsements have not always been a make or break proposition for candidates running for President, it has almost always bucked popular thinking and strongly influenced the state of the presidential primary itself.   This time around, the Union Leader has again gone against the grain [...]

Romney Aims His First Ad at His Rival-in-Chief

    After visiting New Hampshire for thed first ime in two years, President Barack Obama tried to energize supporters andto  look-like like a hands-on leader and advocate for the middle-class, by pushing a proposal to extend a payroll tax break.   Speaking in a high school gymnasium, the President taunted Republicans by saying ”Don’t be a Grinch. Don’t vote to raise [...]