Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * I was going to report here on Q1 fundraising totals for the presidential candidates, but I think there’s enough interest to warrant a full post. It’ll be up soon. * Former Wisconsin […]
The latest Newsweek poll included a variety of interesting questions about Americans and religious matters, including the not-surprising fact that 91% of the public say they believe in God and almost as many (87 percent) say they identify with a specific religion. Although one in ten (10%) of Americans identify themselves as having “no religion,” […]
The Bush administration’s purge-scandal strategy took an odd turn over the weekend, when White House officials pushed Senate Democrats to let Attorney General Alberto Gonzales move up his sworn testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The White House scrambled Sunday to move up [tag]Attorney General[/tag] [tag]Alberto Gonzales[/tag]’ planned testimony to Congress about his involvement in […]
NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell appeared on the Chris Matthews Show yesterday and mentioned a series of fascinating revelations, not the least of which was that Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, recently sat down for an exclusive chat with Senate Republicans to discuss strategy on Iraq legislation. “Petraeus went to the Republican […]
Sen. [tag]John McCain[/tag] (R-Ariz.) obviously thinks Americans are idiots. There’s no other explanation for his recent foolishness on Iraq, topped off yesterday by a fascinating [tag]shopping[/tag] trip to a [tag]Baghdad[/tag] market. As you probably recall, a week ago McCain appeared on Bill Bennett’s radio program, toeing the right-wing line on “progress” in Iraq. “There are […]
[tag]Matthew Dowd[/tag] has traveled a strange and circuitous political journey. A top strategist for Texas Democrats in the 1990s, Dowd left the party in 1999 to join [tag]George W. Bush[/tag]’s campaign team. He bought into the “uniter-not-divider” rhetoric and became a key [tag]Bush[/tag] insider, eventually becoming the president’s chief campaign strategist for the 2004 campaign. […]