WATCH: Jim On History Recap Season 1 – Preview Of F-16 Flight!
Jim on History's first season on YouTube is now history. The first three-month run was a big success, with one of the episodes attracting over 20,000 views. In total, the first season garnered nearly 5,000 new subscribers to the Jim Heath Channel, and tens of...
WATCH: Discussing Western Water Crisis With Obama A DOZEN Years Ago
Jim on History analyzes the ongoing water crisis out west. Jim Heath and Barack Obama briefly discussed western water concerns over a dozen years ago in South Carolina. The conversation happened before the start of a formal interview back in 2007. This week, water...
WATCH: Jim On History – Garth Brooks Hugs The Presidents!
At Joe Biden's inauguration, Garth Brooks performed a stirring rendition of the classic spiritual "Amazing Grace." Jim on History looks back to his performance, and more importantly, what happened afterwards. Brooks, in a sign of true bipartisanship, made sure to...
South Carolina’s Mormon Problem
Mitt Romney twice lost the SC Primary Excerpt from Front Row Seat at the Circus by Jim Heath. From Chapter "Red, White & Blue" The 2002 Winter Games proved to the world that America was back on its feet. The $1.3 billion dollar event made tens of millions in...
Dirty Tricks South Carolina Style
Dirty tricks helped Bush beat McCain in 2000 DIRTY TRICKS IN PALMETTO STATE NOTHING NEW Excerpt from Front Row Seat at the Circus: One Journalist's Journey through two Presidential Elections by Jim Heath: To say the return to South Carolina in 2006 was painful for...
NEW HAMPSHIRE PUNCHES MANY TICKETS
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 to...
New Hampshire Predictions
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 - from next...
Sanders is Santa Claus
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 to fix a 90%...
GOP Governors Shine in Debate
GOP GOVERNORS DOMINATE FINAL DEBATE BEFORE NH VOTES The Republicans debate in New Hampshire Marco Rubio had a chance, with a good debate performance, to knock Chris Christie, Jeb Bush and John Kasich out of the race. But instead he was effectively...
New Hampshire is #1
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...
IOWA CAUCUS RESULTS ’16
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...
LET’S END THE CAUCUS SYSTEM
THE IOWA CAUCUS SUCKS For presidential candidates, the year leading up to the first caucus and primaries is filled with many hours of fundraising and endless trips to Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. Those three states—one Midwest, one Northern, and one...
Final Pre-Iowa GOP Debate Takes
The final GOP presidential debate before Monday's Iowa Caucus was held tonight. Here are my THREE TAKES. 1) Donald Trump didn't lose any of his supporters by not attending the debate, but he didn't gain any support either. If I'm an undecided Iowan I doubt his...
