conservative base

DavidNYC kindly links one of my articles about the dozens of congressional districts that were carried by George W. Bush in 2004 and Barack H. Obama in 2008. Then he takes the opportunity to tar and feather conservative columnist and political guru Michael Barone, and a column he wrote in 2005 about how Bush’s carrying [...]

While the GOP’s conservative base may be clamoring for more of Sen. John McCain’s red-meat attacks on Sen. Barack Obama — particularly on Obama’s connection to former Weatherman William Ayers — McCain may be driving away moderates and independents in doing so.
William Milliken, a former Republican governor of Michigan, seemed to walk back his previous [...]