Political bits
Drudge is pushing a story that McCain is trying to quash a NYTimes piece regarding a lobbyist who allegedly wrote a section of the Telecom bill. (AP) Campaign response and the lobbyist has hired a defense lawyer.
(JohnMcCain) McCain has his Christmas ad up, and, unlike Huckabee, the cross is anything but subliminal. (He manages to get his torture story in again.)
(Politico) Fred Thompson is running out of money.
(WSJblog) "Mike Huckabee, talking to a throng of reporters in a shopping mall parking lot, suggested that if Mitt Romney gets the Republican nomination for president, it will be hard to endorse him in a genuine way."
(PS. From the Huckabee response, I think the Romney attacks on immigration and pardons must be working.)
(AP) Tancredo drops out and endorses Romney. (No Romney appearance with Tancredo.)
And, Furthering the earlier discussions of Huckabee's religion and its impacts, (Politico) "The hotel, packed with roughly 200 Huckabee supporters, erupted in applause, hollers and Amens. " (You're telling me that's not going to freak people out?)
(JohnMcCain) McCain has his Christmas ad up, and, unlike Huckabee, the cross is anything but subliminal. (He manages to get his torture story in again.)
(Politico) Fred Thompson is running out of money.
(WSJblog) "Mike Huckabee, talking to a throng of reporters in a shopping mall parking lot, suggested that if Mitt Romney gets the Republican nomination for president, it will be hard to endorse him in a genuine way."
(PS. From the Huckabee response, I think the Romney attacks on immigration and pardons must be working.)
(AP) Tancredo drops out and endorses Romney. (No Romney appearance with Tancredo.)
And, Furthering the earlier discussions of Huckabee's religion and its impacts, (Politico) "The hotel, packed with roughly 200 Huckabee supporters, erupted in applause, hollers and Amens. " (You're telling me that's not going to freak people out?)
posted by mikevotes at
2:12 PM
6 Comments:
I attended that Bush social security town hall meeting in Denver back in 2005 in which 3 people were asked to leave. I was totally freaked out by the Amens AND Hallelujahs that I 'witnessed' there. Still, I would like to believe that Americans have enough sense to want their religion separated from their politics.
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Ptelea, at 12:07 AM
I want to believe that, too.
(We had a longer discussion of this below in the picture of the Huckabee supporter.)
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mikevotes, at 7:07 AM
I think the majority of Americans are pretty sensible. The problem is getting them to vote.
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Anonymous, at 9:39 AM
Polling shows that on the issues, most Americans are against the Southern Baptist legislative agenda.
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mikevotes, at 11:42 AM
I think there's a gap between the average American and the average American voter. I don't know whether it's cynicism, apathy or ignorance, but one-third of eligible voters don't vote on Presidential elections and over half to two-thirds don't vote in off-year elections.
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-epm, at 6:05 PM
I actually thought Presidential turnout was lower than that. Maybe that's eligible to vote versus registered.
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mikevotes, at 8:33 PM
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