A CHANGING, ENDURING AMERICA

Last year’s Super Bowl ads included several Big Business suck ups to Obama. Their cash and their ads worked for him, doggonit. This year’s ads point to a changing America. Last year’s “We Are Young” song got transformed into Taco Bell-munching...

GOVERNMENT BY ANGER AND CASH

In his inaugural address President Obama spoke of “hard choices” on the deficit. But specifics? “Almost entirely absent.” Obama instead offered up “a list of liberal solutions.” Pundit after pundit heard Obama as hectoring America. This leftist onslaught appeared...

COUNTY PARTIES IN 2012

Colorado’s big county parties raised real cash in the 2012 election cycle. As activists in either party consider future county leaders, they need to be aware that large funds flow through this level of political organization. Only Broomfield, Douglas and...

DRILLING DOWN IN JEFFCO

Newt Gingrich plans to spend six months in research to learn why Republicans lost so broadly in 2012 and what counter strategies may allow Republicans to regain the lead in American politics. Newt says the 2012 problem was not Romney, but – broadly – the Republican...

TURNOUT MATTERS

We finally have Colorado election numbers that begin to tell the story of 2012. Some national background. It appears fewer rural Americans voted.  DailyYonder.Com reported this decline:  (Thanks to Bill Bishop of Daily Yonder for permission.) Sean Trende, focusing on...