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A new poll suggests that if the popular moderate Evan Bayh is on the ticket, Indiana could turn just purple enough to register blue.
From IndyStar:
Growing discontent among Indiana voters shows up clearly in views on next year’s presidential race: Forty-seven percent said they anticipate voting for the Democratic presidential candidate if Bayh is on the [...]

I guess he’s had enough.
From Politico:
The announcement took Capitol Hill by surprise because Lott, the former majority leader, seemed to be relishing his job, the second-ranking GOP leadership job.
He had regained a post in leadership after he resigned following racially insensitive remarks at a birthday party for the late Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.). [...]
Lott [...]

Specifically, if Huckabee somehow pulls off a win in Iowa, it might actually steamroll him towards victory in a lot of other states. Same with Ron Paul, although I think Iowa is out for him. His supporters should focus on pulling off an upset in New Hampshire.
Because then take South Carolina. The latest Rasmussen poll [...]

He’s apparently getting a bunch of foreign policy wonks to bring him up to speed.
From Huffington Post:
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been receiving foreign policy briefing sessions on a wide variety of topics, providing the strongest indication yet that he is considering a run for the White House, the Huffington Post has learned.
The [...]

Yesterday I wrote about “The Rise Of The New Libertarianism” and today I read an article that makes a lot of the points I discussed, and then some.
Specifically, it talks about how more and more libertarians are speaking out
The lefty Internet titan Markos “Daily Kos” Moulitsas penned a widely read manifesto last year pegging the [...]

The answer: when we leave.
See, the surge has given them a gift they’re squandering. And the Bush administration is beginning to set expectations for political progress accordingly. So for the time being, the focus is being placed on passing a national budget. That’s good, but I think we’re all slowly realizing that they only way [...]

I ran across this quote over at Political Wire from a Clinton spokesman:
“Our definition of success doesn’t necessarily mean coming in first.”
It’s pretty obvious what’s going on here. She’s losing ground in the polls so expectations are being set accordingly. Because the only way she can mute Iowa’s effect on the rest of the race [...]

Washington Times has an article about the growing number of “Celebertarians” and how they’re just one indication of a growing third way movement in this country.
For instance…
Comedian Drew Carey can be seen on a series of funny-but-not-kidding Internet-TV episodes sponsored by the Reason Foundation, a Los Angeles-based think tank. So far, Mr. Carey has recommended [...]

Ron Paul?
Yep, it looks like the campaign wants money sooner rather than later, so they asked the guy who set up the Nov 5th money bomb to move the Dec 16th event to Nov 30th. However, there’s still going to be a money bomb on Dec 16th?
Bad move.
From Free Market News:
Ron Paul “Money Bomb” creator [...]

There it is folks, and it looks like it won’t be the second contest, but the third. Wyoming snuck in there because New Hampshire has this silly law in its constitution that it has to be 7 days before the next primary. However, Wyoming is a caucus, so New Hampshire is technically still the first [...]

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Odds are that Iowa will go to Romney and Huckabee. Paul could pull off a 3rd place finish there, but even that is looking increasingly unlikely because Thompson and Giuliani will most likely grab the 3 and 4 spots. That puts Paul in 5th, the same place he was at in the straw poll.
That brings [...]

Hey kids, do you like to track suspicious activities and potential terrorist acts?
Then look no further than the Global Incident Map, a Google Maps mashup that shows you where the bad stuff could be going down. Stress “could be.” It also updates ever 420 seconds, and all in all it’s not such a bad [...]

From the NY Times:
Two teams of scientists reported yesterday that they had turned human skin cells into what appear to be embryonic stem cells without having to make or destroy an embryo — a feat that could quell the ethical debate troubling the field.
All they had to do, the scientists said, was add four [...]

It appears as if this is the case.
From NY Times:
Two teams of scientists are reporting today that they turned human skin cells into what appear to be embryonic stem cells without having to make or destroy an embryo — a feat that could quell the ethical debate troubling the field.
All they had to do, [...]

Yep. He’s talking out…finally.
From the book, “WHAT HAPPENED: Inside the Bush White House and What’s Wrong With Washington”:
“I stood at the White house briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the seniormost aides in the White House: Karl [...]

From the Politico daily newsletter:
Fractured results in the initial primaries and caucuses disrupt Mitt Romney’s plan to rack up a series of convincing wins ahead of the big states where Giuliani expects to run well. It’s harder to build a head of steam when you’re fighting gnats, and any success the also-rans achieve will dilute [...]

He recently said the following…
“One year from now, we will have elected a new president. As eager as I am for that reality, I can’t imagine any one of the current candidates for their party’s nomination being chosen by the American people to lead this nation for the next four years. I believe the person [...]

Wow, now this is funny. Probably the best campaign commercial I’ve seen so far.

Mike has to be counting his lucky stars that he was able to make an ad this cool.
Good times.