Sherry Jeffe
Sherry Jeffe
against burned candidates embrace guess run stay wants wing
My guess is he's going to stay away from anointing candidates, having been burned once. He's not stupid. If he wants to run for the center, he can't embrace a set of candidates against the conservative wing or one that comes from the conservative wing. That's politically dicey whichever way he goes.
against election everybody knowing legacy limits shape term
This is the legacy of term limits everybody against everybody else. There's just no way of knowing how the election will shape up.
drag mighty polling telling
Their polling must be telling them that he's a drag on his own initiative. How have the mighty fallen.
carrots speaker
The speaker has very little in the way of carrots or sticks.
annoyed asked clearly compete election president until
Schwarzenegger is clearly annoyed as he asked that the president not come until after the election because he did not want to compete for cash.
felt release
They felt that it would release the stranglehold that partisanship had on government,
bond contested democratic helpful influences issues primary
There will be a contested Democratic primary (for governor). I don't know if that influences turnout, but if it does, that would be helpful to Reiner. On the other hand, if there are a lot of bond issues on the ballot, that could have some fallout.
extent george large three
Three words: George W. Bush. His personality to a large extent got him his victory.
game
The permutations and combinations are endless. It's like a game of three-dimensional chess.
casualties indication moving troops
There has to be some real indication that we're moving the troops out. There has to be an indication that casualties are tapering off.
illegal reality situation
The reality of the situation is that there is nothing illegal about doing it,
arnold referendum rhetoric
I think it's flat-out a referendum on Arnold and his agenda. I don't think there's any way around that. He's made it so by his own rhetoric and his own positioning.
charm charming pants question
He's got to charm the pants off the delegates. That would help. The question is: How does he do it?
mistake plain taking
He made the mistake of taking on the first responders. That was just plain crazy.