Pasadas las midterms, doy por concluída esta etapa que comenzó con la precampaña del 2008 y este blog queda como archivo. Después de 2,192 posts, he decidido que para no mezclar temas antiguos con actuales lo mejor es que nos traslademos todos a un nuevo blog. Este seguirá abierto para consultarlo como una de las mejores hemerotecas en español de las elecciones presidenciales de 2008, pero no habrá más actualizaciones. Os espero en un nuevo blog dedicado de forma exclusiva a la elección de 2012. Ya está en funcionamiento. Gracias :)
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domingo, 7 de noviembre de 2010
jueves, 4 de noviembre de 2010
Grandes triunfadores: Rick Perry (R)
Rick Perry es el primer Gobernador de Texas que consigue ser reelegido para un tercer mandato. Con esta victoria, los republicanos estarán 20 años consecutivos (desde las elecciones de 1994) ocupando la Gobernación de Texas, algo impensable hace sólo dos décadas en este estado de fuerte tradición demócrata en elecciones locales -los demócratas lo gobernaron durante 104 años consecutivos. Ver lista de Gobernadores de Texas.
Ahora todo el mundo espera a que el Gobernador Perry se pronuncie definitivamente sobre si se presenta o no a Presidente en 2012. Texas tiene una economía diversa, con un índice de paro inferior a la media nacional (8.1%) y está considerado el mejor estado para hacer negocios porque no cobra impuestos sobre la renta personal, ni impuestos sobre las ganancias de capital, ni sobre la renta corporativa. En cambio es uno de los estados que menos gastos destina a la educación, la sanidad o a programas sociales.
Ahora todo el mundo espera a que el Gobernador Perry se pronuncie definitivamente sobre si se presenta o no a Presidente en 2012. Texas tiene una economía diversa, con un índice de paro inferior a la media nacional (8.1%) y está considerado el mejor estado para hacer negocios porque no cobra impuestos sobre la renta personal, ni impuestos sobre las ganancias de capital, ni sobre la renta corporativa. En cambio es uno de los estados que menos gastos destina a la educación, la sanidad o a programas sociales.
domingo, 31 de octubre de 2010
2012: Palin en FNS; Barbour en MTP
Sarah Palin en Fox News Sunday (Fox News)
Haley Barbour en Meet The Press (NBC) debatiendo con el presidente del Partido Demócrata, Tim Kaine.
Haley Barbour en Meet The Press (NBC) debatiendo con el presidente del Partido Demócrata, Tim Kaine.
sábado, 30 de octubre de 2010
2012: Romney en NH; Pawlenty en PA
El Gobernador Mitt Romney estuvo ayer en Salem, Nashua y Stratham, tres ciudades de New Hampshire, haciendo campaña por Frank Guinta (en el video) y Charlie Bass, los candidatos republicanos a la Cámara de Representantes por los dos distritos del estado. En días anteriores estuvo en Carolina del Sur y Florida, y participó por teleconferencia en un acto de Sharron Angle en Nevada. El lunes estará en un lugar improbable para un republicano, Rhode Island.
También está siendo intensa la actividad del Gobernador Tim Pawlenty. El martes estuvo en San Antonio, Texas, el miércoles en Albuquerque, New Mexico, y el jueves en Atlanta, Georgia, y New Orleans, Louisiana. Ayer se unió a Haley Babrour en Pennsylvania (en el video) y Ohio, y el domingo estará en solitario en Iowa.
También está siendo intensa la actividad del Gobernador Tim Pawlenty. El martes estuvo en San Antonio, Texas, el miércoles en Albuquerque, New Mexico, y el jueves en Atlanta, Georgia, y New Orleans, Louisiana. Ayer se unió a Haley Babrour en Pennsylvania (en el video) y Ohio, y el domingo estará en solitario en Iowa.
jueves, 28 de octubre de 2010
2012: Barbour pisará 13 estados en 5 días
No sabemos si quiere ser Presidente, pero la implicación del Gobernador Haley Barbour, de Mississippi, presidente de la Republican Governors Association (RGA), en estas elecciones está siendo mayor que la de ningún otro a nivel individual. Sus comités de acción política han destinado medio millón de dólares en contribuciones directas a 25 candidatos republicanos a Gobernador en toda la Unión y a 31 candidatos al Senado, y ha convertido a la RGA en el comité nacional de campaña más eficaz en recaudación de dólares. Si decidiera luchar por la Presidencia le costaría muy poco tiempo convertirse en el candidato mejor organizado.
Está cerrando la campaña con una intensa gira por 13 estados en 5 días, llevándose con él a varios Gobernadores. El martes estuvo con Bobby Jindal (Louisiana) en New Mexico, y después viajó sólo hasta Wyoming y Dakota del Sur; ayer se llevó a Jindal y a Bob McDonnel (Virginia) en una gira relámpago por tres estados, Iowa, Wisconsin e Illinois; hoy estará con McDonnel en Pennsylvania y New Hampshire; mañana estará con Chris Christie (New Jersey) en Michigan, y después Tim Pawlenty (Minnesota) se les unirá en Ohio y otra vez Pennsylvania; y el sábado se llevará a Christie a Oregon y a Pawlenty a Minnesota, y terminará la jornada viajando en solitario hasta Florida.
Video: Barbour, Jindal y McDonnell ayer en Homer Glen, 18 kilómetros al sur de Chicago, en Illinois. Participaron en un rally del Tea Party de apoyo a Bill Brady, candidato republicano a Gobernador.
Está cerrando la campaña con una intensa gira por 13 estados en 5 días, llevándose con él a varios Gobernadores. El martes estuvo con Bobby Jindal (Louisiana) en New Mexico, y después viajó sólo hasta Wyoming y Dakota del Sur; ayer se llevó a Jindal y a Bob McDonnel (Virginia) en una gira relámpago por tres estados, Iowa, Wisconsin e Illinois; hoy estará con McDonnel en Pennsylvania y New Hampshire; mañana estará con Chris Christie (New Jersey) en Michigan, y después Tim Pawlenty (Minnesota) se les unirá en Ohio y otra vez Pennsylvania; y el sábado se llevará a Christie a Oregon y a Pawlenty a Minnesota, y terminará la jornada viajando en solitario hasta Florida.
Video: Barbour, Jindal y McDonnell ayer en Homer Glen, 18 kilómetros al sur de Chicago, en Illinois. Participaron en un rally del Tea Party de apoyo a Bill Brady, candidato republicano a Gobernador.
miércoles, 27 de octubre de 2010
2012: Thune se deja ver en Florida
El Senador John Thune ha estado en Florida haciendo campaña por la elección de Rick Scott como Gobernador. Hasta ahora había estado apoyando sólo a candidatos al Senado, siempre tutelado por el National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee (NRSCC). Esta vez su presencia ha sido reclamada por un candidato a Gobernador necesitado de ayuda. Han estado en el condado de Volusia, en la costa oriental de la península de la Florida, cerca de Daytona Beach, territorio demócrata.
Thune es el potencial candidato presidencial que más ha progresado en visibilidad en el último mes y medio -desde el reportaje del Weekly Standard. Un caso opuesto está siendo el de Mitch Daniels, que sigue concentrado en las elecciones locales de Indiana, con una mínima visibilidad nacional.
Thune es el potencial candidato presidencial que más ha progresado en visibilidad en el último mes y medio -desde el reportaje del Weekly Standard. Un caso opuesto está siendo el de Mitch Daniels, que sigue concentrado en las elecciones locales de Indiana, con una mínima visibilidad nacional.
2012: Romney en Iowa por segunda vez este año
Mitt Romney pasó ayer el día en Iowa apoyando a Terry Branstad, candidato republicano a Gobernador. Por la mañana estuvo en Cedar Rapids, al mediodía en Dubuque, y por la noche en Bettendorf. Es sólo su segunda visita al estado en lo que va de año.
En los próximos días estará en New Hampshire y Carolina del Sur, otros dos estados que forman parte del grupo de los primeros cuatro estados que votarán en primarias presidenciales. En Carolina del Sur, el Gobernador Romney se unirá al héroe local, el Senador Jim DeMint, para recorrer en autobús el 5º Distrito apoyando al republicano Mick Mulveney que pretende derrotar al poderoso Congresista demócrata John Spratt, presidente del Comité de Presupuestos de la Cámara de Representantes, que lleva 28 años ocupando el escaño.
Video: Romney ayer en Cedar Rapids, IA.
En los próximos días estará en New Hampshire y Carolina del Sur, otros dos estados que forman parte del grupo de los primeros cuatro estados que votarán en primarias presidenciales. En Carolina del Sur, el Gobernador Romney se unirá al héroe local, el Senador Jim DeMint, para recorrer en autobús el 5º Distrito apoyando al republicano Mick Mulveney que pretende derrotar al poderoso Congresista demócrata John Spratt, presidente del Comité de Presupuestos de la Cámara de Representantes, que lleva 28 años ocupando el escaño.
Video: Romney ayer en Cedar Rapids, IA.
martes, 26 de octubre de 2010
2012: detalles de la reunión de Romney en DC
Hace unos días nos enterábamos de la reunión de Mitt Romney con gente de K Street en Washington DC. Ahora American Spectator nos da más detalles de aquel encuentro.
(...) MEETINGS WITH MITT
Back in the 2008 primary season, Mitt Romney's staff ran a tight and close-knit shop, and when meeting with prospective donors felt confident enough in their campaign to lay it on the line bluntly. "I remember being at a meeting of [Gov. Jeb] Bush alumni here in D.C.," says a former Bush staffer, "and the Romney people who organized the meeting telling us something along the line, 'You need to make your decision soon; either you join us or you're out of luck. I left there joking about finding a horse head in my bed if I didn't sign up right away."
So perhaps Romney and his fundraising team didn't intend to make a recent donor recruitment luncheon feel like an organized crime meeting, but the all-expenses-paid lunch they hosted at Carmine's Italian eatery in downtown Washington had that feel, according to several attendees. The lunch, attended by about 25 men and women who were active fundraisers for candidates in 2008 and 2010, was one of several Romney and his team are holding around the country to recruit new people to Romney's money team.
Aides to Romney cautioned attendees that their candidate had not made up his mind about running 2012. "We thought given the layout and the kinds of people who were there that that was intended as a joke," says one attendee.
The luncheon featured a detailed PowerPoint presentation that laid out a case that Romney has been raising more money and supporting more Republican candidates than others in the prospective 2012 field. He explicitly targeted Newt Gingrich, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, but had nice things to say about Sen. John Thune, whom Romney insiders say the former Massachusetts governor regards as not a serious threat to win a GOP presidential nomination that Romney believes is rightfully his given his failed run in 2008.
"It was an impressive road show," says another attendee. "He had answers for everything, and clearly is going to run on the economy and his finance background. He even had a better answer for why Romneycare isn't like Obamacare. He's clearly running, so why they make it seem like he isn't makes the whole exercise a bit of a farce." (...)
(...) MEETINGS WITH MITT
Back in the 2008 primary season, Mitt Romney's staff ran a tight and close-knit shop, and when meeting with prospective donors felt confident enough in their campaign to lay it on the line bluntly. "I remember being at a meeting of [Gov. Jeb] Bush alumni here in D.C.," says a former Bush staffer, "and the Romney people who organized the meeting telling us something along the line, 'You need to make your decision soon; either you join us or you're out of luck. I left there joking about finding a horse head in my bed if I didn't sign up right away."
So perhaps Romney and his fundraising team didn't intend to make a recent donor recruitment luncheon feel like an organized crime meeting, but the all-expenses-paid lunch they hosted at Carmine's Italian eatery in downtown Washington had that feel, according to several attendees. The lunch, attended by about 25 men and women who were active fundraisers for candidates in 2008 and 2010, was one of several Romney and his team are holding around the country to recruit new people to Romney's money team.
Aides to Romney cautioned attendees that their candidate had not made up his mind about running 2012. "We thought given the layout and the kinds of people who were there that that was intended as a joke," says one attendee.
The luncheon featured a detailed PowerPoint presentation that laid out a case that Romney has been raising more money and supporting more Republican candidates than others in the prospective 2012 field. He explicitly targeted Newt Gingrich, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, but had nice things to say about Sen. John Thune, whom Romney insiders say the former Massachusetts governor regards as not a serious threat to win a GOP presidential nomination that Romney believes is rightfully his given his failed run in 2008.
"It was an impressive road show," says another attendee. "He had answers for everything, and clearly is going to run on the economy and his finance background. He even had a better answer for why Romneycare isn't like Obamacare. He's clearly running, so why they make it seem like he isn't makes the whole exercise a bit of a farce." (...)
domingo, 24 de octubre de 2010
2012: los grandes donantes a la espera
Maggie Haberman y Kenneth Vogel (Politico.com) nos hablan de la situación de los grandes donantes del Partido Republicano de cara a las presidenciales de 2012.
GOP mega-donors look toward 2012
(...) As the 2010 campaign draws to its raucous close, the Republican Party's biggest donors are slowly beginning to choose sides, with some still looking for a strong alternative to a populist conservative movement that makes them uneasy.
The big New York, Texas, California and Florida donors who traditionally play a key role in choosing the GOP nominee lined up behind George W. Bush in 2000 and, largely, John McCain in 2008.
This year’s early favorite appears to be Mitt Romney, donor sources confirmed to POLITICO, who has already lined up quiet commitments from more than a dozen top names, among them billionaire David Koch and his wife, Julia, financier and former Goldman Sachs partner Lewis Eisenberg, New York Jets owner Woody Johnson and Ogilvy Government Relations Chairman Wayne Berman.
Romney is already raising copiously for his political action committee and has the help of his longtime campaign finance adviser, Spencer Zwick, who’s currently assisting Meg Whitman’s gubernatorial campaign in California — a role that also provides the former Massachusetts governor with a toehold in a major state.
But other big donors remain unsure of Romney. His 2008 run showcased his strengths and drawbacks, high among them the government-run health care plan he supported while in Massachusetts.
Some in the big-donor class claim to welcome the tea party’s energy, but many are nevertheless nervously eyeing Sarah Palin, who posted big numbers this quarter with a surprisingly small number of maximum donations — a sign that she could be poised to, like GOP Senate nominees Sharron Angle in Nevada or Christine O’Donnell in Delaware, capture an Internet cash wave that has largely favored Democrats so far. Continúa (...)
GOP mega-donors look toward 2012
(...) As the 2010 campaign draws to its raucous close, the Republican Party's biggest donors are slowly beginning to choose sides, with some still looking for a strong alternative to a populist conservative movement that makes them uneasy.
The big New York, Texas, California and Florida donors who traditionally play a key role in choosing the GOP nominee lined up behind George W. Bush in 2000 and, largely, John McCain in 2008.
This year’s early favorite appears to be Mitt Romney, donor sources confirmed to POLITICO, who has already lined up quiet commitments from more than a dozen top names, among them billionaire David Koch and his wife, Julia, financier and former Goldman Sachs partner Lewis Eisenberg, New York Jets owner Woody Johnson and Ogilvy Government Relations Chairman Wayne Berman.
Romney is already raising copiously for his political action committee and has the help of his longtime campaign finance adviser, Spencer Zwick, who’s currently assisting Meg Whitman’s gubernatorial campaign in California — a role that also provides the former Massachusetts governor with a toehold in a major state.
But other big donors remain unsure of Romney. His 2008 run showcased his strengths and drawbacks, high among them the government-run health care plan he supported while in Massachusetts.
Some in the big-donor class claim to welcome the tea party’s energy, but many are nevertheless nervously eyeing Sarah Palin, who posted big numbers this quarter with a surprisingly small number of maximum donations — a sign that she could be poised to, like GOP Senate nominees Sharron Angle in Nevada or Christine O’Donnell in Delaware, capture an Internet cash wave that has largely favored Democrats so far. Continúa (...)
2012: perfil de Pawlenty en el WaPo
George Will ha escrito un perfil muy positivo del Gobernador Tim Pawlenty en el Washington Post.
A blue-state governor with red-state qualities
(...) Northern Iowans are Minnesota Twins and Minnesota Vikings fans. This fact could be portentous 16 months from now when the Iowa caucuses occur and Minnesota's two-term governor, Tim Pawlenty, probably will be seeking the Republican presidential nomination.
The son of a South St. Paul truck driver, Pawlenty was 16 when his mother died. A short while later, his father lost his job. Nevertheless, Pawlenty became his family's first college graduate. His political message -- he calls himself a Sam's Club rather than a country club Republican -- should resonate in a social climate conditioned by voters' recoil against spending and the political class that does it. "All the stuff the country is now favoring, I've done," he says.
Settled by many Scandinavians and Germans who arrived with European, especially Bismarckian, notions of social democracy, Minnesota has furnished leaders of American liberalism -- Hubert Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy, Walter Mondale, Paul Wellstone. In the four decades before Pawlenty was elected governor in 2002, the average two-year increase in state spending was 21 percent. During his tenure, the average annual increase has been 2 percent. He says that the current two-year budget cycle will be the first in 150 years in which spending will be cut in real, constant dollars. Continúa (...)
sábado, 23 de octubre de 2010
2012: Palin en Orlando, FL
Sarah Palin ha sido esta tarde la estrella invitada en un multitudinario acto de recaudación del Partido Republicano de Florida, en el World Center Marriott de Orlando, al lado de Disney World. Al evento han asistido además de los más importantes recaudadores de fondos de Florida, figuras nacionales como Michael Steele (presidente nacional del partido) y Grover Norquist (presidente de Americans for Tax Reform), y candidatos estatales como Marco Rubio (Senado), Dennis Ross (12º distrito), Sandy Adams (24º distrito), Adam Putnam (Comisionado de Agricultura) y Jeff Atwater (Tesorero). No ha asistido Rick Scott (candidato a Gobernador) porque sus asesores han considerado que en una elección igualada no le convenía aparecer con Palin.
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2012: Thune pronuncia el Weekly Republican Address
El Senador John Thune fue ayer el encargado de pronunciar la tradicional alocución semanal del Partido Republicano.
jueves, 21 de octubre de 2010
2012: Romney en K Street
El Gobernador Mitt Romney debe estar comiendo a esta hora con gente importante de think tanks, lobbies y grupos de apoyo de Washington DC.
Ben Smith en Politico.com:
(...) Mitt Romney and two of his senior aides are holding a small lunch in Washington today to brief GOP lobbyists and potential 2012 supporters on what the former governor and his PAC have done for candidates this cycle.
"Spencer Zwick, Finance Director and Matt Rhoades, Executive Director will join the Governor at lunch to give an update on the political activities of the Free and Strong America PAC," wrote Drew Maloney, one of Romney's top K Street backers, in an e-mail sent by another lobbyist to POLITICO. "The Governor has traveled across the country supporting many state and federal candidates. The PAC has given more than $800,000 to federal candidates and raised millions for many of the competitive races."
The gathering, to take place at a downtown restaurant, will be held in a room that only seats about 20-25 people, Maloney wrote. It's not a fundraiser.
Zwick, often called Romney's "Sixth Son," is the former governor's top money man and has spent much of this year privately meeting with GOP heavyweights who may have backed other candidates in the 2008 race; in other words — some of the very folks getting face time with Romney today. Rhoades, the comms director on the '08 campaign, is now Romney's Boston-based top political aide and is widely expected to play a senior managerial role in '12 campaign. (...)
Ben Smith en Politico.com:
(...) Mitt Romney and two of his senior aides are holding a small lunch in Washington today to brief GOP lobbyists and potential 2012 supporters on what the former governor and his PAC have done for candidates this cycle.
"Spencer Zwick, Finance Director and Matt Rhoades, Executive Director will join the Governor at lunch to give an update on the political activities of the Free and Strong America PAC," wrote Drew Maloney, one of Romney's top K Street backers, in an e-mail sent by another lobbyist to POLITICO. "The Governor has traveled across the country supporting many state and federal candidates. The PAC has given more than $800,000 to federal candidates and raised millions for many of the competitive races."
The gathering, to take place at a downtown restaurant, will be held in a room that only seats about 20-25 people, Maloney wrote. It's not a fundraiser.
Zwick, often called Romney's "Sixth Son," is the former governor's top money man and has spent much of this year privately meeting with GOP heavyweights who may have backed other candidates in the 2008 race; in other words — some of the very folks getting face time with Romney today. Rhoades, the comms director on the '08 campaign, is now Romney's Boston-based top political aide and is widely expected to play a senior managerial role in '12 campaign. (...)
martes, 19 de octubre de 2010
2012: Bob McDonnell no se presenta
El Gobernador Bob McDonnell, de Virginia, ha dejado claro en el programa de Greta Van Susteren (Fox News) que no se presenta a Presidente (en 2012). Desde que el año pasado ganó la Gobernación de Virginia (con un impresionante 59% de los votos) con una campaña modélica centrada en la economía con el eslogan "Bob's for jobs", McDonnell es uno de los referentes de futuro para los republicanos. Este año ha presidido en Richmond hasta 15 recaudaciones de fondos para candidatos republicanos de otros estados, como Marco Rubio, Rick Perry, Tom Corbett, etc.
(...) GRETA VAN SUSTEREN: "Sé que va a decirme que está interesado en Virginia, que ese es su trabajo ahora, que ama su actual trabajo, y ya está sonriendo. Pero se habla mucho de usted, y de si tiene o no algún interés en buscar la nominación republicana en 2012. ¿Tiene algún interés?"
GOBERNADOR MCDONNELL: "Bueno, tengo un gran interés en quién va a gobernar este país porque vamos en la dirección equivocada, y creo que este próximo noviembre vamos a ver algunos cambios. De verdad, me gusta ser Gobernador de Virginia. No me presento a Presidente. Quiero ayudar... creo que habrá varios de mis colegas gobernadores republicanos que se presentarán, creo que un gobernador sería un gran Presidente, y que a mí me quedan tres años y medio como gobernador.
Este es el puesto que ocuparon Thomas Jefferson y Patrick Henry. Soy increíblemente privilegiado por hacer esto, y tengo un montón de grandes ideas sobre desarrollo económico, transportes, reforma educativa, elección de colegios, una serie de cosas que quiero hacer como Gobernador de Virginia, y que me va a llevar tres años y medio hacerlas."
GRETA: "Vale, déjeme preguntárselo de otra manera. No me ha dado un "sí" como respuesta. ¿Se podría decir que tampoco me ha dado un "no"?"
MCDONNELL: "No me presento a Presidente."
GRETA: "¿Tiene algún interés?"
MCDONNELL: "Ya sabes... tengo interés en gobernar. Llevo 20 años haciendo esto. Me gusta obtener resultados, resolver cosas..."
GRETA: "Presentarse a Presidente es gobernar."
MCDONNELL: "Sí pero me gusta hacer lo que estoy haciendo ahora, así que no me presento en 2012. Estoy interesado en completar mi mandato y después hacer cosas más grandes por Virginia. Ya tenemos un gran estado y tengo grandes planes para hacerlo aún mejor."
GRETA: "No puedo decir que no lo he intentado."
MCDONNELL: "Lo has intentado. Buen trabajo, Greta." (...)
(...) GRETA VAN SUSTEREN: "Sé que va a decirme que está interesado en Virginia, que ese es su trabajo ahora, que ama su actual trabajo, y ya está sonriendo. Pero se habla mucho de usted, y de si tiene o no algún interés en buscar la nominación republicana en 2012. ¿Tiene algún interés?"
GOBERNADOR MCDONNELL: "Bueno, tengo un gran interés en quién va a gobernar este país porque vamos en la dirección equivocada, y creo que este próximo noviembre vamos a ver algunos cambios. De verdad, me gusta ser Gobernador de Virginia. No me presento a Presidente. Quiero ayudar... creo que habrá varios de mis colegas gobernadores republicanos que se presentarán, creo que un gobernador sería un gran Presidente, y que a mí me quedan tres años y medio como gobernador.
Este es el puesto que ocuparon Thomas Jefferson y Patrick Henry. Soy increíblemente privilegiado por hacer esto, y tengo un montón de grandes ideas sobre desarrollo económico, transportes, reforma educativa, elección de colegios, una serie de cosas que quiero hacer como Gobernador de Virginia, y que me va a llevar tres años y medio hacerlas."
GRETA: "Vale, déjeme preguntárselo de otra manera. No me ha dado un "sí" como respuesta. ¿Se podría decir que tampoco me ha dado un "no"?"
MCDONNELL: "No me presento a Presidente."
GRETA: "¿Tiene algún interés?"
MCDONNELL: "Ya sabes... tengo interés en gobernar. Llevo 20 años haciendo esto. Me gusta obtener resultados, resolver cosas..."
GRETA: "Presentarse a Presidente es gobernar."
MCDONNELL: "Sí pero me gusta hacer lo que estoy haciendo ahora, así que no me presento en 2012. Estoy interesado en completar mi mandato y después hacer cosas más grandes por Virginia. Ya tenemos un gran estado y tengo grandes planes para hacerlo aún mejor."
GRETA: "No puedo decir que no lo he intentado."
MCDONNELL: "Lo has intentado. Buen trabajo, Greta." (...)
2012: Bobby Jindal gusta en NH
Él dice que no se presenta pero ha dejado muy buena impresión en su visita a New Hampshire. Andrew Cline, editor de la página de opinión del Union Leader, ha tenido muy buenas palabras para la intervención del Gobernador Bobby Jindal, de Louisiana, en un acto de recaudación de fondos celebrado hace unos días en Portsmouth.
(...) Before yesterday, the New Hampshire scouting report on Bobby Jindal was that he was sharp as a whip, but very wonky, and policy wonks tend to lack the social skills needed to thrive in the primary.
After yesterday, the scouting report is very different.
What Bobby Jindal did at the 100 Club on Thursday afternoon was to swiftly, deftly, and without the slightest hint of insincerity or effort, make a few dozen important and seasoned New Hampshire Republicans say to themselves, "I like that guy."
(...) Before Jindal arrived, the mood in the room was similar to that of a charity cocktail party. It was mostly a lukewarm mix of business and social pleasantries.
By the time Jindal left, the room was practically vibrating with energy. Every person I spoke with after the event was impressed with the performance, and these are people who have weathered many primaries and met many presidents.
In the next few weeks, these people will meet other Republicans at campaign events, and they will tell of the great speech Bobby Jindal gave in Portsmouth. (...)
(...) Before yesterday, the New Hampshire scouting report on Bobby Jindal was that he was sharp as a whip, but very wonky, and policy wonks tend to lack the social skills needed to thrive in the primary.
After yesterday, the scouting report is very different.
What Bobby Jindal did at the 100 Club on Thursday afternoon was to swiftly, deftly, and without the slightest hint of insincerity or effort, make a few dozen important and seasoned New Hampshire Republicans say to themselves, "I like that guy."
(...) Before Jindal arrived, the mood in the room was similar to that of a charity cocktail party. It was mostly a lukewarm mix of business and social pleasantries.
By the time Jindal left, the room was practically vibrating with energy. Every person I spoke with after the event was impressed with the performance, and these are people who have weathered many primaries and met many presidents.
In the next few weeks, these people will meet other Republicans at campaign events, and they will tell of the great speech Bobby Jindal gave in Portsmouth. (...)
2012: Palin amadrina el tour del Tea Party Express
La Gobernadora Sarah Palin inauguró ayer en Reno, Nevada, el cuarto tour nacional del Tea Party Express. En dos semanas el autobús del Tea Party visitará 15 estados para capitalizar el descontento de los votantes y movilizar a los conservadores. La gira terminará el 1 de noviembre en New Hampshire.
sábado, 16 de octubre de 2010
2012: Thune en Washington
El Senador John Thune estuvo ayer en el estado de Washington haciendo campaña por la elección del republicano Dino Rossi para el Senado. Peter Hamby (CNN) vuelve a interrogarle sobre sus ambiciones presidenciales. Rossi observa y escucha con paciencia.
2012: Gingrich recauda 4 millones en tres meses
Newt Gingrich ha recaudado 4 millones de dólares en el tercer cuarto del año a través de su organización American Solutions. Es mucho en un momento en el que el dinero todavía no está pendiente de la campaña presidencial. Supera en recaudación a todos sus potenciales rivales, pero tiene truco: su organización, a diferencia de los comités de acción política de los otros posibles candidatos, es un grupo 527 que puede recibir donaciones sin límite, incluso de corporaciones. El problema está en que al no ser un comité de acción política tradicional, no puede donar dinero de forma directa a candidatos al Senado o al Congreso, y eso le impide tejer una red de apoyos e influencias como están haciendo Romney, Pawlenty o Palin.
(...) Gingrich’s 527 group, American Solutions for Winning the Future, in the third quarter accepted contributions of $300,000 from the coal giant Peabody Energy, $150,000 from an executive at Ohio’s American Electric Power and $100,000 from investment magnate Charles Schwab.
American Solutions' mission is advocating for less government spending and regulation, but it has come under fire for promoting the interests of its donors, including by opposing legislation to limit carbon emissions, and also for financing a shadow political operation for Gingrich.
It spent $3.7 million in the third quarter, including several thousand dollars on “major donor gifts” from Amazon.com. But the bulk of its spending went towards funding a 20-plus-person staff, polling, a slick web presence and Gingrich and his staffers’ travels around the country. For instance, in the third quarter, the group spent nearly $410,000 on charter jet airfare
(...) This year, it’s brought in a total of $9.9 million, more than the PAC fundraising of Gingrich’s next three most active fundraising potential rivals for the nomination. According to reports filed this week, former Gov. Massachusetts Mitt Romney’s PACs raised a total of $5.1 million this year, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s PAC brought in $2.5 million, and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s groups raised nearly $2.1 million. (...)
(...) Gingrich’s 527 group, American Solutions for Winning the Future, in the third quarter accepted contributions of $300,000 from the coal giant Peabody Energy, $150,000 from an executive at Ohio’s American Electric Power and $100,000 from investment magnate Charles Schwab.
American Solutions' mission is advocating for less government spending and regulation, but it has come under fire for promoting the interests of its donors, including by opposing legislation to limit carbon emissions, and also for financing a shadow political operation for Gingrich.
It spent $3.7 million in the third quarter, including several thousand dollars on “major donor gifts” from Amazon.com. But the bulk of its spending went towards funding a 20-plus-person staff, polling, a slick web presence and Gingrich and his staffers’ travels around the country. For instance, in the third quarter, the group spent nearly $410,000 on charter jet airfare
(...) This year, it’s brought in a total of $9.9 million, more than the PAC fundraising of Gingrich’s next three most active fundraising potential rivals for the nomination. According to reports filed this week, former Gov. Massachusetts Mitt Romney’s PACs raised a total of $5.1 million this year, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s PAC brought in $2.5 million, and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s groups raised nearly $2.1 million. (...)
jueves, 14 de octubre de 2010
2012: Thune en Colorado
El Senador John Thune, de Dakota del Sur, se ha dejado ver esta semana en los suburbios de Denver, Colorado, para participar en un rally de campaña en favor del candidato republicano al Senado, Ken Buck. La visita forma parte de una gira que de aquí al 2 de noviembre le llevará por seis estados con elecciones senatoriales competitivas. Thune cuenta con importantes contactos en Colorado, ya que el actual presidente del partido en el estado, Dick Wadhams, fue el campaign manager de su triunfal campaña contra Tom Daschle en 2004.
martes, 12 de octubre de 2010
2012: Mitch Daniels en Newsnight ( BBC)
El Gobernador de Indiana fue entrevistado ayer en el programa Newsnight de la BBC británica. Habló sobre el estado de la economía y sobre el 2012. Ver video aquí.
(...) "America faces for the first time, other than the nuclear threat of a few decades ago, a genuine survival level issue," Mitch Daniels says.
"My reading of history is that there are points of no return, past which nations will not recover to anything like their previous strength."
It is apocalyptic language, and since Mr Daniels is widely regarded as having a decent chance of becoming the next US president, all the more alarming.
Burdened by its $14tn debt, hemmed in by currency manipulation and trade rivalry, crippled - as Mr Daniels sees it - by a government whose size is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy - the US is, he believes, approaching a point of no return.
But towards what, I ask him, perennial decline?
"Decline might not be the right word. It might be very abrupt, very sudden. I am not predicting that but it cannot be excluded," he says. "My sense is that we'll have to do things in this country that the political smart money said you can't do." (...)
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(...) "America faces for the first time, other than the nuclear threat of a few decades ago, a genuine survival level issue," Mitch Daniels says.
"My reading of history is that there are points of no return, past which nations will not recover to anything like their previous strength."
It is apocalyptic language, and since Mr Daniels is widely regarded as having a decent chance of becoming the next US president, all the more alarming.
Burdened by its $14tn debt, hemmed in by currency manipulation and trade rivalry, crippled - as Mr Daniels sees it - by a government whose size is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy - the US is, he believes, approaching a point of no return.
But towards what, I ask him, perennial decline?
"Decline might not be the right word. It might be very abrupt, very sudden. I am not predicting that but it cannot be excluded," he says. "My sense is that we'll have to do things in this country that the political smart money said you can't do." (...)
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