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Tonight’s tracking polls for WMUR and CNN show Barack Obama and John McCain retain their leads for their parties’ primaries tomorrow. Obama leads Democrats with 39% and McCain tops Republicans with 31%, down one percentage point from yesterday. Obama’s lead over Hillary Clinton is also down by one percentage point; she is at 30% now. […]

Weekend polling by WMUR and CNN shows Barack Obama with a double-digit lead going into Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary. The poll, conducted over the weekend, finds Obama with 39% of the support, to Hillary Clinton’s 29%. A poll released Saturday had found them in a dead heat at 33%.
This latest tracking poll also shows John […]

Republican Mike Huckabee was projected the winner of his party’s Iowa caucuses not quite one hour after the process began. Huckabee ran a God-centric campaign in a state with many evangelicals. It’s a different electorate here in New Hampshire, where the first-in-the-nation primary will be held January 8.
Huckabee has spent only about $30,000 to advertise in […]

At long last, the dispute between New Hampshire and Michigan over primary election dates is over, after the Michigan Supreme Court gave that state the go-ahead to hold its primary January 15. New Hampshire then announced its primary will be January 8, retaining its first-in-the-nation status. That’s the earliest presidential primary ever and is three […]

The Republican field of presidential candidates has shrunk by one. Kansas Senator Sam Brownback dropped out this week, citing a lack of support and money. No surprise here; last month he gave a speech in the heavily-populated (for New Hampshire) southern part of the state and only a handful of people showed up. Perhaps it […]

I loved disco in the late 70’s and early 80’s, still do. I especially loved the oh-so-gay Village People and their “wink-wink” smash hit, YMCA. Now imagine if Idaho Republican Senator Larry “airport men’s room” Craig ran into the Village People during a layover (I’d rate this PG-13):
Update 10/15 Well, darn. The video’s no longer available. […]

Republican former senator Fred Thompson took part in his first presidential debate on Tuesday, having lowered the expectations for himself. He nearly hit that mark. It must have been disappointing for those hoping Thompson, a former actor, could energize the base the way Ronald Reagan, another ex-actor, did. Thursday, Mike Keefe of The Denver Post came […]

Rudy Giuliani’s front-runner status as the Republican presidential nominee has some in his party so worried they’re threatening a third-party effort so they can once again embrace a candidate who is as anti-abortion and anti-gay rights as they are. Bob Englehart of the Hartford Courant was in fine form Tuesday.

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President Bush thinks Hillary Clinton will be the Democrats’ nominee next year. In an interview for a book, he broke his self-imposed rule not to discuss presidential politics.
He also thinks the Republicans will win the election after “a tough race”, but has not publicly singled out a candidate for his own party. He has expressed surprise […]

A new report shows quite a shift in contributions by members of the US military to Democratic presidential candidates. Historically the military has leaned strongly toward Republicans but Capital Eye, published by a campaign finance watchdog group, has found a sharp increase that suggests the GOP is losing the support of the troops. 
In its report, […]

It’s finally starting to feel like primary time, a bit late this go-round. Yard signs and bumper stickers have been late to appear — I’ve seen one of each for Ron Paul and one huge, next-to-an-interstate sign for Rudy Giuliani. That’s it. [Afternoon yard sign update: two Romneys, one McCain] I’ve seen a couple TV […]

Remember those “What I did on my summer vacation” essays from grade school? Idaho Republican Larry Craig’s would be short: I resigned my Senate seat after a sex sting in an airport men’s room.
If you’ve wondered what on earth was he thinking — other than not getting caught – John Cole of the Scranton Times-Tribune offered one possible (and […]

Reuters has a concise, non-partisan roundup of reactions by leading presidential candidates to the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. It’s simply their words without spin or interpretation, which I like since we are capable of thinking for ourselves. You’ll find it here.
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George Bush had the audacity to compare the Iraqi mess with Vietnam to try to justify his military commitment in Iraq. He told a convention of veterans that withdrawing would lead to massive suffering, even deaths:
One unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of America’s withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens whose agonies […]

Republican Senator John McCain has changed his mind about illegal immigrants.
At one time he championed a bill that would have enabled many of the estimated 12 million illegal aliens in the US to achieve citizenship through a guest worker program. The bill failed earlier this year and McCain, whose presidential campaign is also failing, has a […]