Mitt Romney

From the lessons to be learned (or not) from the Massachusetts experience with health care reform comes this bit of history from James Mongan, president and CEO of Partners HealthCare: The policy matters less than the framing of it.
Speaking yesterday at a health reform forum in Washington sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation, Mongan, a [...]

Ron Faucheaux’s Clarus Research Group has a poll out testing two main things: independent voters’ take on President Obama and the relative strength of possible 2012 Republican candidates. On the first measure, 77 percent of independents say that the president is “eventually going to have to raise taxes,” 69 percent say he’s doing “too much [...]

Public Policy Polling breaks down its latest surveys on the “birther” conspiracies and the 2012 GOP presidential field and finds that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is the most popular candidate among “birthers,” while former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is the most popular among Republicans who know that the president was born in America. Among [...]

He’s made the cover of National Review. Why worry about that? Well …

Yes, already. Cityview, a Des Moines alt-weekly,  talks to Hawkeye State Republicans about the prospects for 2012 GOP candidates. Former Mitt Romney state communications director Tim Albrecht says of frontrunner Sarah Palin that “the second she touches [...]

The former and all-but-certain future GOP presidential candidate is coming out next March with a book tentatively titled “No Apology: The Case for American Greatness.” Motoko Rich reports that it will give us Romney’s “views on how to create a stronger economy, military and families, and his vision on jobs, education, health care, energy and [...]

Rasmussen Reports has an already-Drudged poll on the 2012 presidential election, which finds former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.) tying Barack Obama and soon-to-be former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) only trailing by 6 points.
I doubt you could find a Democratic consultant not named Doug Schoen who takes this serious, especially the high seven percent “some other [...]

Via Greg Sargent, the Rasmussen Reports poll on 2012 Republican candidates finds most Republican voters trusting Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) on national security and former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.) on the economy. Another item from the poll: the possible candidates that have been getting a lot of friendly coverage are less popular than media punching [...]

I don’t know what there is to this story apart from the obvious fact: Former Virginia Gov. George Allen must have a good literary agent. Not a fantastic agent, who could have gotten him a deal with Sentinel or Crown. But a good one. Regnery, after all, published Mitt Romney’s book.

Ed Kilgore’s analysis of the reignited strategists-vs-Sarah Palin slow-news-week imbroglio is on the mark:
This base of support for Palin — maybe not that large, but very passionate, and very powerful in places like the Iowa Republican Caucuses — isn’t going to abandon her just because the Serious People in the GOP laugh her off in [...]