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• Change Is Good. Polls Are Caca.

  Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 11:11 AM By Melinda Henneberger
  
  Every year for Lent, I give up speaking ill of anyone. It is a long 40 days, and it begins today. (I mention this so that if it seems like I've had my brain removed, no, I haven't, and I will be back to my old critical self before you can say mortification Read More...
  Filed under: Barack Obama, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, Democrats, Republicans, '08 election, Evangelicals, Christians, polls, Super Tuesday

• GOP Women Thought Huckabee Won the Night

  Posted Thursday, January 31, 2008 3:29 PM By Melinda Henneberger
  
  Now this is interesting; I see where a focus group of Republican women has declared Mike Huckabee the winner of last night's debate. These undecided, right-leaning women thought Mitt Romney came off as phony, arrogant and "a snake''—and one woman who Read More...
  Filed under: Mike Huckabee, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Republicans, debates, politics, '08 election

• McCain: Take That, Laughing Boy

  Posted Thursday, January 31, 2008 1:38 PM By Melinda Henneberger
  
  C'mon, John , there was one great moment in last night's GOP debate: When Mitt Romney sneered that John McCain couldn't be too darn conservative or else the New York Times wouldn't have endorsed him, hehhehheh, and McCain flipped him his riposte—something Read More...
  Filed under: Mike Huckabee, John McCain, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, '08 election, debate

• Republican Wallflowers

  Posted Tuesday, January 29, 2008 9:59 PM By Emily Bazelon
  
  No gender gap, no respect. That's the story for Republican women voters in the primaries so far. Tonight, according to exit polls , they broke for John McCain 32 percent over 30 percent for Mitt Romney. Which means they voted along the same lines as GOP Read More...
  Filed under: Mitt Romney, '08 election, women, John McCain

• That Hurts My Feelings!

  Posted Sunday, January 06, 2008 2:09 PM By Melinda Henneberger
  
  Sunday was the Feast of the Epiphany , but the homilist hadn't had one while preparing his sermon—it happens, even to Jesuits—so I drifted back to the epiphanies of the previous evening's presidential debates while he struggled to connect the dots between Read More...
  Filed under: Barack Obama, women, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Mitt Romney, gender issues, '08 election

• Mitt: Pander Better, Please

  Posted Thursday, December 06, 2007 3:19 PM By Melinda Henneberger
  
  Emily, thanks for bringing up Dick Cheney's bragging ; I thought I was doing OK without Jon Stewart, but now I see I was only fooling myself. Speaking of which, poor Mitt : He had to address the Mormon question , but then did so in a way that told us Read More...
  Filed under: Mitt Romney, Republicans

• Forget the Evangelicals in '08. What About the Jews?

  Posted Wednesday, November 14, 2007 6:14 PM By Torie Bosch
  
  It seems like much longer than three years ago that Howard Dean was hailed as the great hope for Web political organizing. Now, Ron Paul has replaced him as the no-chance-in-hell candidate to best harness the misdirected money and idealism of the Internet Read More...
  Filed under: Ron Paul, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Democrats, Republicans, '08 election, election, Evangelicals, Howard Dean, Christians

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