by Jim Heath | Feb 27, 2016 | Book Excerpts, Debates, Democrats
CLINTON AND THE RACE CARD Excerpt from Front Row Seat at the Circus by Jim Heath: It was a much colder January evening as we reported live from outside the Palace Theatre in Myrtle Beach—at one point I couldn’t feel my lips move—and the security for this debate much...
by Jim Heath | Feb 10, 2016 | Delegates, Democrats, Republicans
NEW HAMPSHIRE SENDS A CROWDED GOP FIELD SOUTH Let’s put this into historical perspective. Candidates spend over a year campaigning in this first-in-the-nation presidential primary state. They raise millions of dollars to spend it on advertising and a ground game...
by Jim Heath | Feb 9, 2016 | Democrats, Republicans
NEW HAMPSHIRE VOTES – THE WINNERS ARE PREDICTABLE The first-in-the-nation presidential primary happens today and the winners, when the votes are counted, will be all too predictable. On the Democratic side, Vermont’s Independent Senator Bernie Sanders...
by Jim Heath | Feb 7, 2016 | Democrats
SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE PAID FOR BY (UNKNOWN) I listened to Bernie Sanders giving a speech in New Hampshire last night as we approach a critical moment in Campaign ’16. What I heard from him was, “free stuff, free stuff, more free stuff” with a plan...
by Jim Heath | Feb 6, 2016 | Book Excerpts, Democrats, Republicans
NEW HAMPSHIRE LEADS THE WAY Excerpt from Front Row Seat at the Circus by Jim Heath. New Hampshire has been a great start to our presidential selection process. What political junkie has not stayed up until midnight on Election Day to watch the first returns come in...
by Jim Heath | Feb 2, 2016 | Delegates, Democrats, Republicans
MY TAKE ON IOWA On the Republican side, it was a great night for Ted Cruz. He held the critical Iowa evangelical votes, won convincingly (following Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum) and positions himself well heading into the southern primaries. Cruz had to win Iowa....
