The G.O.P. is at war with itself. Or so we’re told.
Unaccustomed to their new minority status and unsure how to handle a Democratic president with enormous popularity and considerable legislative momentum, Republicans are dividing themselves into opposing camps, each convinced that a different formula will return them to glory.
This, at least, is the Read More
If the Obama campaign prevails in Florida, where polls show him clinging to a narrow lead, a crucial factor will be the high volume of early votes cast. Which, in turn, could make the state’s Republican governor, Charlie Crist, a bit of a hero for the Democrats. (It was Crist who ordered that Read More
If the Obama campaign prevails in Florida, where polls show him clinging to a narrow lead, a crucial factor will be the high volume of early votes cast. Which, in turn, could make the state’s Republican governor, Charlie Crist, a bit of a hero for the Democrats. (It was Crist who ordered that Read More
MIAMI—John McCain is about to appear at a rally in a packed gym here at Florida International University, where a giant American flag is hanging over the stage like a canopy between two big blue banners, one reading “Florida” the other “Victory.” Pro-McCain signs are written in Spanish and English, and a large Cuban contingent Read More
ST. PAUL—The latest word is that Hurricane Gustav has been downgraded to a Category 1 storm and that water levels in New Orleans are receding – strong and encouraging signs that the Crescent City and the rest of the Gulf Coast will be spared tragedy and destruction on the scale of Hurricane Katrina.
And Read More
Suddenly, after running well ahead of him for months, John McCain has fallen four points behind Barack Obama in Florida, at least according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday. This should be cause for alarm among Republicans, even if it is sharply at odds with other recent surveys in the state that Read More
John Turnbull, the owner of Windows We Are, Inc. in Bay Ridge, where John McCain is set to deliver a speech with an introduction by Michael Bloomberg, just told me he’s a Democrat and voted for Al Gore in 2004 2000.
But being a Democrat in Bay Ridge is sort of like being a Read More
Rudy Giuliani stands by his support of publicly funded abortions.
Giuliani met with Florida Governor (and McCain ally) Charlie Crist.
Hillary Clinton’s blogger Peter Daou is pushing her petition urging the President not to veto legislation meant to speed the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq.
