Chattering The Obvious

By Kleinheider Posted on June 3, 2008 at 10:25 am

Liz Garrigan relays the chatter on Bill Frist 2010 Gubernatorial campaign:

By the way, consensus among the chattering classes is that Frist will tap Saltsman to run his 2010 gubernatorial campaign.

This, of course, is quite a surprise considering Chip Saltsman has long been a close Frist confidante, who was helping plan Frist’s aborted 2008 Presidential run and who would have likely been integral in a Gubernatorial effort regardless of the success of the Huckabee run.

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Tags: 2010 Governor's race, Bill Frist, Chip Saltsman, Mike Huckabee  

Stations Of The Cross: Obama Goes Fundie In Kentucky

By Kleinheider Posted on May 13, 2008 at 7:49 am

Back during last year’s Yuletide political season, Mike Huckabee took a fair bit of grief for allegedly inserting a subtle appeal to his fundamentalist faith in a television.

Fast-forwarding to the present, we find Barack Obama having essentially clinched the nomination locked in a struggle to prove his electability. How does he choose to go after the Appalachian Kentucky voters whose ethnic brethren have so rejected his candidacy?

Religion.

Doug Forrester has scanned in some very interesting mailers the Obama camp is circulating in Kentucky in hopes of appealing to men and women of faith.

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Tags: Appalachia, Barack Obama, fundamentalism, Mike Huckabee, the cross  

Anti-McCain GOP Primary Vote Not Unprecedented

By Kleinheider Posted on May 7, 2008 at 12:53 pm

The Ground Game argues that the substantial vote against John McCain in the recent primary contests in PA, IN and NC are not demonstrably different from George W. Bush’s performance after he had clinched the nomination in 2000:

[A]re his primary results really that different compared to what George W. Bush received after effectively wrapping up the nomination against McCain in 2000? Bush was considered extremely well-liked by the party’s base, and was the frontrunner going back at least till 1999, up through when McCain officially withdrew on March 9, 2000.

So, what happened in the primaries after that? Results from the Associated Press show that Bush’s numbers in 2000 are largely comparable to McCain’s in 2008. For example, even in the June 6th South Dakota primary, Bush fails to cross the 80 percent threshold. In fact, Bush rarely crossed the 80 percent threshold despite having effectively wrapped up the nomination after Super Tuesday.

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Ron Paul And Mike Huckabee Combine For 27% In Pennsylvania

By Kleinheider Posted on April 23, 2008 at 10:02 am

R. Neal points out some interesting results yesterday from the Republican primary in Pennsylvania:

McCain won with 73% of the vote. Ron Paul Ron Paul Ron Paul got 16%, followed by Chucklebee at 11%.

73% doesn’t seem like a very strong showing by the presumptive nominee and savior of the Bush GOP legacy against two guys who already dropped out.

It sounds like a third party Ron Paul Ron Paul Ron Paul/Mike Huckabee ticket is just what the GOP disaffected need. Democrats would be happy with that scenario, too.

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Tags: 27%, 73%, Mike Huckabee, Pennsylvania, Republican Primary, Ron Paul