Tuesday, November 21, 2006
How Many Others Will Flip?
More proof that New England Republicans are in danger of taking up permanent residence at the margins comes this morning when a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives switches from Republican to Democrat. North Stonington Republican Diana Urban, elected to a fourth term two weeks ago, often voted with Democrats in the legislature. Her departure from the ranks of the GOP reduces their number to 44 of 151.
Urban enjoyed a flurry of attention last summer when she launched a quixotic bid to run for the United States Senate as a petitioning candidate. She failed to collect the number of signatures required.
Why Urban waited until two weeks after the election to tell the voters of her district that she would no longer be a Republican is a question members of the GOP will be posing to Urban. [KEVIN F. RENNIE] How Many Others Will Flip?
CBS Poll Favors Obama, Clinton, and McCain
A newly released CBS Poll asked voters their impressions of potential 2008 Presidential Candidates from their home states. Senators Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain recieved strong support, while over half New York voters did not think Rudolph Giuliani would make a good President. CBS Poll Favors Obama, Clinton, and McCain
Clark's Iraq Plan
General Wesley Clark, and 2004 presidential candidate, had an op-ed piece in
today's USA Today. The article is entitled, "The Next Move." In it, Clark lays
out his plan for Iraq. Clark's Chess Match
today's USA Today. The article is entitled, "The Next Move." In it, Clark lays
out his plan for Iraq. Clark's Chess Match
Can Romney Win?
David Berstein says Mitt Romney's (R) chances to win the Republican presidential nomination depend on becoming the consensus alternative to frontrunner Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). According to polls, however, the person mouting the biggest challenge to McCain is Rudy Giuliani (R), not Romney.
"But some analysts and Republican insiders doubt that Giuliani is really planning to run for president. He’s just not that stupid: he does not imagine that Republican primaries can be won by a pro-choice, pro-gun-control New Yorker who moved in with a gay couple when his wife kicked him out of the mayor’s residence for having an extra-marital affair.As a result, all of Romney's actions in the last few months have been to ensure that he's seen as the viable conservative alternative to McCain -- someone who can speak to religious conservatives as well as business conservatives.
"Giuliani’s exploratory committee likely has a more short-term, pragmatic purpose: replacing his Solutions America political-action committee as the vehicle that pays him and his staff to travel around the country, speaking and raising money for himself and others. And, to maintain his A-list national profile."
Can Romney Win?
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