Given that most of the television coverage — as expected — tended to focus on states, even when most states do not award delegates on a winner-take-all basis, I jotted down Dark Lord Karl Rove’s “back-of-the-envelope” delegate estimates. On the GOP side, Rove estimated roughly 520-550 delegates for McCain, 220-250 for Romney, and 200 for Huckabee. On the Dems’ side, Rove had pre-California estimates of 629 delegates for Clinton, 568 for

“The poll also says that 52% of Canadians consider the US to be the most negative force in the world today.” (Video) (Though see comment by Canadian Mal, who feels that, although the conclusion is likely correct, it isn’t necessarily supported by the study) Also, “So, what are YOU in for?”  Some gay voters put off by “Straight Talk Express“

Sen. John McCain actually came in third, but by having his voters swing behind Mike Huckabee in the second round of balloting, he wins by getting the “Mitt Romney loses West Virginia” headline at the outset of Super-Duper Tuesday. At HotAir, Allahpundit didn’t think much of Mitt Romney’s response, telling Camp Mitt to “get over it.”  But the Romney campaign was already pushing the line that “a vote for Huckabee is a vote for

It seems like only yesterday that I wrote: The McCain campaign really needs to get the word out to their supporters that they are insulting the intelligence of the people they are trying to woo. That was in response to the McCain campaign leaking a letter Bob Dole wrote to Rush Limbaugh urging party unity for the general election. To see how this observation would play out, I tuned in Rush Limbaugh’s program

Oh, wait . . . that’s Bobby Knight.  Sorry. 

Mr. Adult Guy: But in politics, as in so many areas of human endeavor, the choice is not between good and evil but between something not so good and something worse. Some of my conservative friends are so horrified by the prospect of a McCain Presidency that they have threatened to take their marbles and go home, i.e., to vote for Obama, or even for Lady Macb—, I mean, for

1. purchase chips 2. and maybe some hummus 3. (unless you aren’t really all that health conscious, in which case you may want to go with a jalapeno cheese dip 4. — though that won’t win you any of Mike Huckabee’s love. 5. except maybe if you really, really dig Jesus, that is. 6. because then it’s probably a wash). 7. Amen. 8. But I digress. 9. So, to recap:

Hey, baby: Want to see my stimulus package? This is the latest in the Administration’s history of turning “record surpluses into record deficits,” declared Majority Leader Harry Reid, while Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad warned about “more deficit-financed tax cuts tilted to benefit the wealthiest.”  Lost amid the faux political outrage is the direct role that these worthies are playing in creating this larger deficit, thanks to the bipartisan $150

In the Weekly Standard, Tom Donnelly has an excellent piece up about the cartoony views of the war that Hollywood has been trying to peddle: In the launch issue of the new journal World Affairs, George Packer, longtime foreign affairs correspondent for the New Yorkeroffers important insights into this paradox. Packer is both an experienced and honest Iraq reporter and a longtime critic of Bush policy, so he is perhaps one of the

That is the conclusion of Chris Bowers at OpenLeft, after crunching the likely range of numbers after Super-Duper Tuesday: (I)n order to win the nomination without the aid of super delegates, in her best-case scenario after Super Tuesday, Clinton would need to win 76.2% of all remaining pledged delegates. Given our proportional delegate system, there is simply no way that is going to happen unless Obama drops out. Bowers then