Mike Huckabee explains how he’ll appeal to SC voters by explaining how he and his crew ate fried squirrel made in a popcorn popper in college …
Are the smear artists down in South Carolina who are smearing John McCain trying to sully the good name of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth? Believe me, this one takes a few moments to explain. Paul Kiel gets to the bottom of it here.
A Ron Paul victory in Nevada?
From the AP:
No major GOP candidate has set foot in the state for two months, and some Republicans are bracing for a possible surprise first-place showing by long-shot Texas Rep. Ron Paul, the only Republican to broadcast TV ads in Nevada.
New South Carolina GOP primary poll out from Clemson University. McCain (29%), Huck (22%), Romney (13%) … Rudy suckin’ wind at 3%.
What’s the deal with the John Edwards media blackout?
(More than a few readers have pointedly asked TPM the same thing.)
Interesting. I just got robo-polled for the first time. Turned out to be from Rasmussen. When I saw the caller ID I thought it might be an actual call to me. But alas, I was to be polled. Six minutes eight seconds of my time. Relatively painless.
Late Update: Canvassing Manhattan? From TPM Reader JG …
Hi Josh,
Regular (daily) reader here.
Anyhow, I also just got my first robocall ever, from Rasmussen – and I also live in Manhattan.
It seemed a little strange when I saw your post, and made me wonder if Rasmussen is doing an NYC based poll, or a really large state poll, or if perhaps they are testing a new phone list. The poll itself was pretty innocuous, so I’m not suggesting anything
sinister. It was just surprising in a “What are the odds?” kind of way.Anyway, I just thought it would be a good idea to forward this on as a data point, in case any other readers also report the same experience.
By a process of elimination, Kevin Drum sees the light of Mittmentum.
From the Miami Herald …
Joe Lieberman, the one-time Democrat who narrowly lost the vice presidency, stumped in South Florida for a Republican presidential candidate this evening, putting his former party on alert: The GOP is after the Jewish vote.
Lieberman told about 200 Republican Jewish activists that he’s backing John McCain because his fellow senator and Iraq war hawk best understands the nature of the radical Islamic threat faced by ”our ally Israel” — while much of the Democratic Party has forsaken it.
”The Democratic Party, I believe, respectfully, has left the strongest roots of its foreign policy and national security,” Lieberman said, adding that McCain “has always believed that Israel is our natural ally, from the beginning of its modern existence to this day in the war against Islamic extremists and terrorists.”
