by Jim Heath | Feb 12, 2016 | Book Excerpts, Republicans
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...
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 | Debates, Republicans
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...
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....
