Posted on July 1, 2008 by Joe Loveland
Hoping to see a lot of President George Walker Bush in our fair city during the Republican National Convention? Well, he’ll be harder to find than the St. Paul Winter Carnival medallion. This Gallup poll shows why Bush largely will be kept in hiding, if the handlers of Senator John McCain and Senator [...]
Filed under: Communications, Politics | Tagged: Gallup, George Bush, John McCain, Norm Coleman, poll, Republican National Convention, St. Paul | 1 Comment »
Posted on June 26, 2008 by Jon Austin
Quinnipiac, along with the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, has today released head-to-head survey results from four battleground states:
COLORADO: Obama 49 - McCain 44
MICHIGAN: Obama 48 - McCain 42
MINNESOTA: Obama 54 - McCain 37
WISCONSIN: Obama 52 - McCain 39
Interestingly, but not surprisingly, President Bush’s approve/disapprove ratings in those states are abysmal:
31 [...]
Filed under: Politics | Tagged: Tim Pawlenty, John McCain, Minnesota, Barack Obama, Norm Coleman, Al Franken, George Bush, Colorado, Michigan, Wisconsin, Quinnipiac | 2 Comments »
Posted on May 28, 2008 by Jon Austin
Honest to God, folks, it’s getting harder and harder to sustain my outrage at the current administration.
There’s just so much to be pissed about, I get tired thinking about everything. It’s like having moral mono; I know I should be energized and out there but instead I just want to pull the covers up and [...]
Filed under: Politics | Tagged: George Bush, Scott McClellan | 11 Comments »
Posted on May 16, 2008 by Joe Loveland
President Bush’s speech criticizing Senator Obama in front of the Israeli Knesset yesterday knocked Senator Clinton completely out of the news cycle when she desperately needs to be dominating it.
The President’s focus on Obama, rather than Clinton, made it feel as if the Democratic nomination race was over, at a time when Clinton [...]
Filed under: Communications | Tagged: Barack Obama, George Bush, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Knesset | 3 Comments »
Posted on April 30, 2008 by Jon Austin
Today’s report that the country’s gross domestic product grew just 0.6 percent in the 1st quarter of the year is one more page of bad news for GOP strategists. As Dr. Loveland pointed out in a comment yesterday, GDP growth is a fairly reliable predictor of elections in this country: when 2nd quarter GDP [...]
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Posted on March 4, 2008 by Joe Loveland
The F word versus the W word.
That might sum up the Coleman-Franken race, if that is the Minnesota U.S. Senate race that ultimately materializes.
Senator Coleman is already gleefully spotlighting Al Franken’s raunchy rhetoric to prove that the professional comedian and talk radio jock is insufficiently Minnesotan and “Senatorial.”
Of course, Coleman has words [...]
Filed under: PR, Politics | Tagged: Al Franken, campaign, George Bush, Minnesota, Norm Coleman, U.S. Senate | No Comments »