Informed Speculation

Well, why the hell not? The 2008 presidential campaign strategists must be as wily as chess masters in allocating resources with front-loaded primaries and an ever-changing calendar. It got more complicated today as South Carolina Republicans moved up their balloting, making December voting elsewhere a possibility. The Republican Party in South Carolina announced it will [...]

Something must be wrong with my television – call the repairman! Jeez…well, for the six of you who still care, Mark Halperin does the usual grading thing on the latest Democratic suck-up-a-thon, this time at the alter of organized labor. This election is getting b-o-r-i-n-g…hope things spice up quick – it’s too late to rename [...]

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry: The New York Times is poised to stop charging readers for online access to its Op-Ed columnists and other content, The Post has learned. After much internal debate, Times executives – including publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. – made the decision to end the subscription-only TimesSelect service but [...]

The latest Gallup poll shows a 9-point shift towards the view that the surge is making things better in Iraq.  That’s the good news.  The bad news is that this is still a minority opinion by a good margin: USA TODAY’s Susan Page reports that President Bush is making some headway in arguing that the [...]

…but then, there’s a debate every day, isn’t there?  This one was won by Mitt Romney, says Mark Halperin, but he also says Rudy accomplished job #1 – staying clear of big gaffes… Meanwhile, 7 of the 8 Democrats kowtowed to the Nutroots® this weekend, if you haven’t already heard.  Don’t know who won, but [...]

…but oh, how I wish I was wrong.  My fears about the subprime meltdown are starting to come to pass, as you know if you have been watching the stock market swoon lately (one of my IRAs is down nearly 10% in the last two weeks alone).  I freely admit to being wrong in many [...]

Voters are in a New York state of mind, according to the their latest poll results: If the primaries were held today, Senator Clinton would best her closest rival, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, by a comfortable 44 percent to 23 percent margin. This represents a 5 point jump since the June NEWSWEEK Poll, which gave [...]

Or just an anomaly? After several polls that showed Fred Thompson and Rudy Giuliani virtually tied, the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll has Rudy up big again: Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s bid for the White House is gaining support, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. Matched with other Republicans, Giuliani [...]

Interesting short piece at Techdirt on one possible implication of the sale of Dow Jones to Rupert Murdoch: the demolition of the paid subscriber wall that shields most of the Wall Street Journal’s content from the huddled masses yearning to breathe the hallowed air of the Journal’s famed editorial page in its entirety, not to [...]