There's higher voter turnout among Hispanic evangelicals than among Hispanics in general. |
There's very little to gain from a debate and there's always a possibility they'll make a mistake and give the other candidate a chance to get back in. |
They did not play well and the 'chemistry' was missing. |
This group is preaching to the choir and not to the whole church yet. That's a real challenge that they face, how to broaden their message to other groups. |
This is a classic confrontation between purists and pragmatists. It has been going on in both parties since the 1960s. This example is especially stark because DeWine and his critics are both conservative and committed to the same basic values. |
This is not a new phenomenon, in Ohio, and in fact in most of the Midwest, there has been a decline in manufacturing jobs for 25 years. But the recent recession exacerbated the decline and while the economy generally appears to be improving, it's recovering more slowly in this area, meaning Ohio and the job recovery or jobs are lagging behind the rest of the economic numbers. |
This is pretty unusual to have this this early but I think it shows how competitive the race is. |
This is the third in the trilogy. |
This situation does cast a bit of a cloud over that legacy, but I think it's important not to overstate it. Certainly, he gets high marks for how he's handled the situation. He could have fought it every step of the way. |
Those big things are hard to do under the best of circumstances. Surely there are smaller things he can do, such as with the tax code. |
Traditionally religious people in the United States tend to have a traditional view of marriage and that comes very directly from the Old and New Testament. You simply can't have a debate about these topics without religion becoming part of the debate. |
We didn't want the second line because that is as bad as being off a 10m handicap. |
We had a party, a Father's Day party, going-away party and daughter's birthday party all wrapped up in one, ... He was great; the thing of it is he loves kids. |
We kind of just fell into this cycle of boozing on the weekends. Nothing really got done. |
We'll see Bush charging up his base, but in ways that won't alienate other folks. It's hard to do both things. But there are not enough base voters in either camp to win, so they need to reach out to the middle and poach the other guy's turf. |