Tag Archives: Romney

OK, Here’s My Election Prediction. What’s Yours? | Ricochet.com | 11.3.12

By Clark S. Judge | Published: November 5, 2012
The shouting has almost stopped. Weeks ago the voting began, but Tuesday the balloting storm reaches landfall. It is time for pontificators to prognosticate. So here you go.  My call: Romney 52%, 277 electoral votes; Obama 47%, 261 electoral votes. Romney wins Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, New Hampshire, Iowa, Colorado, and Wisconsin — and loses […]
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The Choice For Tomorrow | HughHewitt.com | 11.5.12

By Clark S. Judge | Published: November 5, 2012
Among the great failures of the mainstream media in this campaign has been to claim that neither candidate has laid out an agenda.  Both have been as clear as candidates can be about their plans for the nation in the next four years.  On this, the day before Election Day, let’s review the particulars: Energy: […]
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Foreign Policy Debate, Romney Looked Like The Real President | HughHewitt.com | 10.23.12

By Clark S. Judge | Published: October 23, 2012
Four debates, including the Veep debate.  Four wins for Romney-Ryan. Everyone had said about this debate that Romney needed to show we could trust him as commander in chief and head of our foreign policy.  He cleared that hurdle and then some. Given the political moment, the incumbent needed to look far superior to his […]
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Who’s Right, Gallup or Rasmussen? Today may tell. | Ricochet.com | 10.19.12

By Clark S. Judge | Published: October 19, 2012
By now it is clear that, in terms of public perceptions (maybe on points, too), all three debates have been winners for Romney-Ryan. But have they been big enough winners to push the GOP ticket over the top? In Washington, the question is being framed this way: Is Romney up 49-47 points, as pollster Scott […]
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Biden’s debate night bluster looks even worse 48 hours later | Ricochet.com | 10.13.12

By Clark S. Judge | Published: October 16, 2012
Rick Wilson persuasively argues below that Vice President Joe Biden’s principal objective going into Thursday night’s debate was to reenergize the dispirited Democratic base.  If so and if the vice president’s clownish performance fitted the script, it only confirms the cluelessness of the supposedly brilliant Chicago-based managers of the Democratic campaign. Everything I learned about […]
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“Lesson for POTUS Debate #2: It isn’t over ‘til it’s over” | HughHewitt.com | 10.15.12

By Clark S. Judge | Published: October 16, 2012
Can things get any worse for the Obama-Biden ticket? Two weeks ago the president debates the first capable opponent of his career and comes off as an empty suit.  One week ago the vice president puts on a clownish performance in his matchup with Congressman Paul Ryan. Then the polls tanked.  On Saturday this week, […]
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Hidden factor in the election: Obama advertising advantage | Ricochet.com | 10.09.12

By Clark S. Judge | Published: October 9, 2012
While, as Mollie notes below, the just released Pew poll showed a big move of voters producing a convincing Romney advantage, the Rasmussen poll today rates the race tied.  This was after a post-debate shift that that took Romney from two points down in Rasmussen’s tracking to as many up.  The two-point move between yesterday […]
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“Why the Obama Campaign and Such Friends as Paul Krugman Shout “Romney Lies” Even Though Romney Speaks the Truth” | HughHewitt.com | 10.08.12

By Clark S. Judge | Published: October 9, 2012
Yesterday, the Sunday morning talk shows were filled with Democrats touting their new excuse (they always have excuses) for President Obama’s inability to engage during last week’s debate: Mitt Romney lied.  Governor Romney’s brazen misstatements, they said, left the president so overwhelmed with disbelief that he found himself all but speechless. If you are like […]
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Five Debate Night Ideas for Romney and His Team | Ricochet.com | 10.02.12

By Clark S. Judge | Published: October 3, 2012
Last week Peter emailed me an invitation to join the Ricochet gang. I immediately said yes. As he explained in his generous introduction below, Peter and I met in Ronald Reagan’s White House, where we both served as speechwriters, first to Vice President George H.W. Bush, then to President Reagan.  Peter was one of the […]
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Reality Check: Mitt Romney’s Campaign Is Not Over | USNews.com | 09.29.12

By Clark S. Judge | Published: October 1, 2012
To read Politico, The Washington Post, and just about every publication in the MSMosphere, the Romney campaign is over. Done. Running 4.1 percentage points behind the president, as of Friday morning in the RCP average he is deader than a doornail. I don’t believe it. Yes. Yes. I’ve seen all those polls in the average: Rasmussen, Fox, Gallup, Bloomberg, […]
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Advice to Romney: Go Big, All In | HughHewitt.com | 10.01.12

By Clark S. Judge | Published: October 1, 2012
In GOP circles, the call continues to build for Governor Romney to deliver major addresses on the economy and foreign policy. In last week’s column, I noted that, in addition to my column the week before, this sentiment was being expressed among Republicans and conservatives around the nation.  I mentioned hearing it from another former […]
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Two Speeches Governor Romney Should Deliver on National Television | 09.17.12 | HughHewitt.com

By Clark S. Judge | Published: September 17, 2012
If you are wondering why President Obama came out of Charlotte with a week-long bounce, consider this: In the fortnight covering the Republican and Democratic conventions, the Obama campaign and allied independent expenditure committees ran roughly 41,000 ads, twice as many as their pro-Romney counterparts (http://tinyurl.com/8r2rhqq). Apparently the Obama people did not trust their man’s […]
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Picking Ryan – Romney Shows He’s Got Serious Policies and Great Political Instincts | HughHewitt.com | 08.13.12

By Clark S. Judge | Published: August 13, 2012
On Saturday Mitt Romney proved he is a serious man and will be a serious president.  He also demonstrated that he is a shrewd political strategist. In picking Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan to be his running mate, Romney bet both his election and his administration on a central task, reducing the national deficit and debt […]
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Gingrich’s Secret Weapon: Incredibly Innovative Campaign | HughHewitt.com | 01.23.12

By Clark S. Judge | Published: January 23, 2012
As they stumble dazed into Florida, the Romney forces had better think hard about what happened in South Carolina.  They will want to dismiss Saturday’s results as a fluke.  But in the Palmetto State, Newt Gingrich put into harness a totally new strategy of presidential campaigning – some of it visible, some below the surface. […]
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The GOP Race Turns Upside Down Again | HughHewitt.com | 01.17.12

By Clark S. Judge | Published: January 18, 2012
In this up and down year, last night’s South Carolina GOP debate turned the political world upside down again. Going into the debate, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney had every reason to believe that he was within days of locking up the nomination.  He had won (if just barely) the Iowa caucuses and more convincingly […]
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GOP New Year’s Blues | HughHewitt.com | December 27, 2011

By Clark S. Judge | Published: December 28, 2011
With the Iowa caucuses a week away, uneasiness pervades GOP circles in Washington and around the country. Part of the reason – but only part – stems from continuing disquiet about the field of candidates. “Mitt or Newt,” I was asked at a holiday party of longtime conservatives and activists last night.  No matter how […]
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