Official 2008 Delegate Counts

I can’t seem to figure out the official delegate count anywhere. I’ve been to multiple major news sites and get a different answer from each. As of January 16, 2008 here is what 3 major news sites where reporting for the GOP Delegate Count:
Fox News:
Mitt Romney 42
Mike Huckabee 21
John […]

St. Louis Straw Poll

The ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH is reporting that the National Federation of Republican Assemblies, a group that bills itself as “the Republican Wing of the Republican Party” will be host to thousands of Republicans from around the country this weekend in St. Louis.
The highlight of the meeting is expected to be Sunday’s straw poll to […]

White House 2008 Rankings: The Republicans

This ranking comes by way of the Mark Ambinder’s blog. In the article he also provides a link to the Democrat’s rankings for the month of July:
“In our opinion, Rudy Giuliani had the best July, followed closely by Mitt Romney.
(These will be our last rankings for a month, not because we don’t like to write […]

Q1 Fundraising Insights

I know that first quarter fundraising totals are old news, but I wanted to look at it from a different angle. I’ll try and finish second quarter numbers as soon as possible and post some overall insights using the same approach. I took a “winner take all” approach to the numbers and assigned […]

Poll Shows Clinton With Solid Lead Among Democrats

July 23, 2007 (Washington Post) By a wide margin, Democrats view Sen. Hillary Clinton (N.Y.) as the party’s candidate best positioned to win the general election, and she holds a double-digit lead over Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) in the race for the nomination, according to a new Washington Post ABC NewsPoll.How competitive the […]

McCain, Edwards slip in New Hampshire

July 18, 2007 (CNN) The Democratic and Republican presidential front-runners held their spots in a new CNN/WMUR poll of New Hampshire voters, but further back in the pack, the field has shifted on each side. Among Democratic contenders, Sen. Hillary Clinton wields a solid lead over Sen. Barack Obama, with the former first lady claiming […]

Romney Gains Credibility In Early Primary States

June 25, 2007 (Washington Post) When former governor Mitt Romney began airing television ads in a handful of states last winter, his opponents paid little notice. Early advertising in presidential campaigns — particularly commercials broadcast almost 11 months before the first contests — seemed a classic waste of resources.Four months and more than $4 million […]

Clinton, Giuliani Maintain Leads, But GOP Shows Signs of Shifting

June 3, 2007 (Washington Post) Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York holds a solid lead over her rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination, while the contest for the Republican nomination appears even more unsettled than it did when it began five months ago, according to a new Washington Post/ABC News poll.
Clinton’s lead remains steady […]

Romney’s on a roll, in the money and the polls

May 21, 2007 (Chicago Tribune) For Mitt Romney, the multimillionaire venture capitalist turned Olympic savior turned politician, all is going according to plan.
With an eye-popping $21 million raised in the first quarter of this year for his presidential campaign and a steady stream of television advertising, the one-term former governor of Massachusetts has caught the […]

Poll shows Romney leading in New Hampshire

May 7, 2007 (The Hill) New poll results released Monday show former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney surging into the lead for the Republican presidential nomination in New Hampshire.
The SurveyUSA poll, conducted after last week’s GOP debate and on behalf of WBZ-TV in Boston, shows Romney in the lead in the early-primary state with 32 percent. […]