No, not the sugar-free Coca Cola substitute, just links open in my browser's tabs from the last few weeks, still all timely presented here in semi-reverse chronological order, with brief comments. Enjoy!
Here is this morning's post-Illinois delegate count for the Republican primary. Inevitable Romney has only 10% more than half the first-ballot-bound delegates awarded so far. Really! 560 vs 453 for all others. No wonder his supporters are railing at the others to withdraw. In a related story, here is an analysis from the local New York liberal paper on the possibility of a contested Republican convention wresting away the Inevitable's rightful prize.
From today's WSJ comes this disestablishmentarianist treatise from FreedomWorks heroes Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe. I couldn't agree more with their message that "When we act like us, we win. When we act like them, we lose."
Here is a very thoughtful, though long and to a certain extent technical analysis of the upcoming Supreme Court argument against the broad power grab by the Progressivists known as Obamacare. It makes clear that Our Court's previous vacillation on the Commerce clause leaves no precedents worth banking on. No matter what our unelected lifetime legal legislature -- hacks in black?-- decide this time, it will be revolutionary as far as their historical pronouncements are concerned. Here is the Washington Post on the same subject, but with a lot of wishful thinking: Roberts and Scalia possible defectors from deciding the individual mandate unconstitutional? Get real!
As you well know, unless you've been one of your state's electors you've never voted for President. So, only polls that consider the electoral college weighting or the popular vote in states that might go either way really tell us anything. Here is one of those, from USA Today/Gallup, done about a month ago -- the graphic is a bit tricky: click the gray tabs at right to get all the info. It shows that in swing states controlling the 156 electoral votes that will decide the election, Obama trailed Santorum by 5 points and Romney by 2 points among registered voters. Stunning, especially when you consider that registered voters -- only 70% of whom will vote -- poll a few points less Republican than likely voters. The data is from mid-February; watch for a new one of these to be released in the next few days.
