Jan 26, 2012
Never before have debates in the primary/caucus season ever meant so much to the final outcome of the vote as this year.
It seems that the public is infatuated with these endless verbal battles. And each contest seems to result in some degree of a shift in public opinion....
Jan 19, 2012
After years as an officeholder, strategist, pollster, you name it, I have truly come to despise politicians. This year's GOP nomination process has sealed the deal.
Is there an honest broker among the bunch? I mean, really, we have heard the bull from the Obama...
Jan 12, 2012
Yes, Mitt Romney has a huge advantage in the race for the Republican nomination for president. Yes, Newt Gingrich and perhaps Rick Santorum made bad decisions by participating in the New Hampshire primary, given that Romney could outspend them in a state where most...
Jan 6, 2012
It will become conventional wisdom over the next few weeks that the Republican Party and its candidates for the nomination have been damaged by the close and surprise finish in Iowa.
They will suggest the field is weak and that the failure of a candidate to win a mandate...
Dec 29, 2011
I have been polling Iowa presidential caucuses for several cycles now. Our InsiderAdvantage final poll never has failed to show the actual winner of an Iowa presidential caucus. This includes John Kerry's upset win in 2004 and Barack Obama's win in 2008, as well as Mike...
Dec 22, 2011
Yes, I know that Marley and Me was a hugely successful movie that came from a book. But as this Christmas approaches, seeing most of the Republican candidates for president desperately ripping each other apart with vicious and cruel statements, I am reminded again of...
Dec 15, 2011
Iowa Republican front-runner Newt Gingrich is really disliked by the so-called GOP Establishment. These are the folks who backed George H.W. Bush against Ronald Reagan in 1980; sat back and watched Bob Dole take one for the team in 1996; and generally want a candidate who...
Dec 8, 2011
The GOP race for president is coming to a head very quickly. Yes, Newt Gingrich had a terrible launch. But that was in political time eons ago. Now, Gingrich is the last man standing. And if he keeps his mouth shut, he will be the GOP nominee.
He can run the table after...