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GOP Revival: There's An App for That

More important, a few Republican candidates have demonstrated that it is possible to transcend the party's conservative-moderate divide. In Virginia, Robert McDonnell won a landslide — the first Republican win in a governor's race there in 12 years — ...

From PATRICK RUFFINI, The Next Right,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Barack Obama,  Bob McDonnell,  Creigh Deeds

NY-23 Across America

What follows may be akin to one of those crazy ideas Dick Morris used to come up with in the Clinton White House, only one in ten of which turned out to be workable -- but when they worked, oh man, did they work. The key fact that sticks out in my mind ...

From PATRICK RUFFINI, The Next Right,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  White House,  Dick Morris,  Christopher J. Daggett

The Left's Tenacious Advocacy for a Public Option

If the public option passes in some form, thank the liberal blogosphere who put pressure on Democratic members of Congress to publicly threaten to derail health care reform if it wasn't included in the final bill. The specter of Democrats ...

From PATRICK RUFFINI, Eye On '08,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  White House,  U.S. Congress,  U.S. Democratic Party,  George W. Bush

NY-23: Doug Hoffman for Congress

Combined, the Republican and Conservative lines lead the Democrat 52 to 33 percent. And in a normal election, that would be that -- maybe 95% of the time the Conservatives cross-endorse the Republican.  Scozzafava's particularly egregious liberal ...

From PATRICK RUFFINI, The Next Right,  17 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Charlie Crist,  Bernie Sanders,  Joe Lieberman

Rising Rightroots and Declining Netroots Now at Parity (or Better)

Lost in the hubbub about the tea parties, the health care town hall protests, Joe Wilson, and the ACORN sting is the outcome of a long-simmering meta debate about the vibrancy of the grassroots right and its capacity to organize online. Along with a ...

From PATRICK RUFFINI, Eye On '08,  27 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  Joe Wilson (politician),  ACORN,  John McCain

Can We Have Buckley Back?

Over the last few days, Jon Henke has laid out the case for the Right more strongly disavowing outfits like WorldNetDaily that actively peddle Birther nonsense. To the extent the mainstream Right has weighed in, it has been to urge Jon to ignore WND ...

From PATRICK RUFFINI, The Next Right,  3 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Ronald Reagan,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama

The Public Albatross

Whatever the outcome of the health care saga, it seems safe to conclude that the public option is dead. It is worth analyzing its impending demise for what it teaches us about American attitudes towards government, and how political battles are ...

From PATRICK RUFFINI, The Next Right,  24 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Google Inc.,  Milton Friedman

Energy at the Edges Moves the Center

But Democrats are beginning to notice that opponents of health care reform have discredited themselves. They ramped up much too quickly. When smaller, conservative groups Astroturfed, they inevitably brought to the meetings the type of Republican ...

From PATRICK RUFFINI, The Next Right,  11 Aug 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Congress

Prepare for a Blowout

I am a strong proponent of the idea that candidate recruitment is the ultimate futures market of elections. Collectively, the decisions made by candidates on both sides tell a lot about where politicos on the ground see the political environment headed ...

From PATRICK RUFFINI, The Next Right,  26 Jul 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Congress,  Barack Obama

Don't Bet on Crist Over Rubio

Crist may be a slight favorite in the Republican primary, but money will have nothing to do with why. I bang this drum pretty often, but ask presidential nominees Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney how far early, high dollar bundler support got them. Or ...

From PATRICK RUFFINI, The Next Right,  13 Jul 2009

Related Topics: Hillary Rodham Clinton,  U.S. Republican Party,  Mike Huckabee,  Mitt Romney,  Terry McAuliffe

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