Perry Could Form Broad GOP Coalition
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 25th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Perry Could Form Broad GOP Coalition
Ron Brownstein, National Journal
About Us Questions? Call us at 800-207-8001A closer look at today's striking Gallup poll showing Texas Gov. Rick Perry rocketing to the top of the 2012 Republican presidential field captures the threat his campaign could pose to Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who had previously been considered the front-runner.The Gallup results show Perry displaying broad reach across the party, with appeal that, for now at least, transcends lines of income and education. Those results underscore Perry's potential, as a staunch social conservative with a strong economic story…
Little Sunshine for Obama in Florida
John Hayward, Human Events
Magellan Data and Mapping Strategies has a new poll out for Florida, generally regarded as a crucial swing state, and occasionally seen as the swing state. In certain elections, its 29 electoral votes dangle like chads.It doesn’t look as if 2012 will be one of those elections. Magellan provides these grim numbers for the President’s extremely well funded, but sputtering, re-election campaign:
About That “Failed” Stimulus…
Jonathan Cohn, The New Republic
The economy is sluggish and unemployment is on the rise, but Republicans and their allies say they want nothing to do with President Obama’s agenda for job creation because it’ll be just another “failed stimulus.” Here's John Boehner making that argument on his official blog. Here's Karl Rove doing the same on Fox News. And here's Richard Posner offering his version at TNR — although, to be fair, he merely calls the stimulus “botched” and I'm not sure he qualifies as a Republican ally. Of…
