Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
Only one result from the Iowa Democratic caucuses will surprise me tonight: a big win for Hillary. Three outcomes seem possible: Edwards wins big. But Mr. Conventional Wisdom decrees that he has to win again somewhere else to prove he’s not a one-hit wonder. Obama wins big. And Mr. Conventional Wisdom says that Hillary is…
A friend who is in Iowa this week was struck by two things: “How seriously the Iowans we’ve met take their politics and with what discipline they entertain each candidate’s view” “The Obama headquarters was full of energy and not a person over 30.” News reports suggest that maybe 100,000 of Iowa’s two million voters…
2008 will be a good year. It’s the last year of the Bush Presidency. So let’s get off to a good start with this from David Letterman (thanks to the reader who passed it on): President Bush has attended a conference on what to do about malaria. At the end, Bush announced, “The U. S.…
Money talks in politics and there is more money – a lot more – in Charlotte than anywhere else in North Carolina. So the emergence of two new candidates from Charlotte may be Republicans’ best hope of nominating candidates who can match the Democrats’ – until now – huge financial edge in the campaigns for…
Here is a bit of speculation – just for the fun of it – with the first round of Republican Presidential primaries around the corner. Mike Huckabee – Rolls to victory in Iowa, then South Carolina. Which makes him one of the final two Republicans left standing. He will fight it out with either Romney,…
Some free advice for State Senator Walter Dalton, Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor: Don’t dodge debates. Don’t give your opponents that club to beat you with. Dalton is saying he won’t participate in debates matching the Democratic candidates. So one opponent, Hampton Dellinger, is riding Dalton hard about it. Dalton needs to wake up, smell…
The Republican presidential race is serving one useful purpose. It is forcing us to think about the role of religion in politics. Too many people either assume or dismiss that role without thinking hard about it. Examine this statement by Mitt Romney: “Freedom requires religion, just as religion requires freedom.” Really? Does freedom really require…
I must admit Romney’s statement – “Freedom requires religion, just as religion requires freedom” – sounds like a political slogan, not theology. After all, religion has been around since before God told Abraham to leave Ur and go to The Promised Land; it survived the Pharaohs, Romans and The Dark Ages when there was little…
A new nationwide poll shows that, if they could run against each other in 2028, Barack…
Senator Phil Berger was out of touch with voters in his district – and suffered the…
A reassuring lesson from our trip to Germany and Czechia is that dictators, despots and tyrants…