Just read on MSNBC about how the GOP is shunning Ron Paul, but he’s picking up the politically independent in Iowa.
I like his thoughts on how to phase out pieces of the welfare state. Not all at once, but doing it in a common sense, gradual manner…
Since most Americans have become accustomed to the [...]

The “inevitability” meme is always a blessing and a curse. Hillary Clinton found that out last night when she tried to have it both ways on a key immigration issue and instead found herself having an awfully confused night.
Politico agrees:
PHILADELPHIA – – We now know something that we did not know before: When Hillary Clinton [...]

[Republished from 2008Central.net. This live blog will be updated periodically on Donklephant. For the latest, please visit the active post.]
We are ready to go! The debate starts at 9pm EDT. It will air on both MSNBC and on MSNBC.com and will be moderated by Brian Williams with supplemental questions from Tim [...]

What is the real story? It is not about whether GWB or LBJ is the biggest spender. It is not about whether Republicans or Democrats are bigger spenders. It is not about whether GWB is hypocritically claiming to be an advocate of fiscal responsibility. The real story is about what happens to spending under divided vs. single party control of the federal government.

Good morning all. I spoke with a reporter last week about Voxant’s content/advertising solution, and she included us in the story. And while I cringe at her characterization of Donklephant being nearly unknown in the blog world. when you compare our traffic to the popular sites in the blogosphere, well, it’s not exactly untrue.
Still, we [...]

This podcast covers: (1) Poll craziness – Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney; (2) Romney’s speech on faith; (3) Obama ratcheting up pressure on Clinton; (4) Consequences in Florida for DNC; (5) Chris Dodd on Meet The Press; (6) Tom Tancredo is not running for re-election; (7) Kucinich, Richardson and UFOs; (8) Edwards brings the hammer [...]

Heh.

That’s the goal his campaign has set, but he’s only raised $2.3 million so far. The goal for the end of October is $4 million, but it’s up in the air whether he can raise $1.7 million in just a little over 2 days, especially since he’s only raised the 2.3 in the last 29. [...]

And Edwards is fading…
From TIME:
The University of Iowa Hawkeye Poll, released at 8 a.m. Monday morning, shows Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in a heated battle on the Democratic side. Clinton leads the poll with 28.9% while Obama garnered 26.6%. John Edwards trails with 20%, a 6-point drop from the last Hawkeye poll in August.
For [...]

From TIME:
On the Republican side, the Hawkeye poll showed that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has widened his overall lead by 8 percentage points, to 36.2%. But Mike Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas, has gained ground despite spending just $1.7 million compared to Romney’s $53.6 million. Huckabee is up from less than 2 % [...]

I’ve posted some new pictures at the bottom of the page. Enjoy.
Courtesy of TheNewsRoom.

What does it mean when somebody defects to the McCain campaign?
Fred, we hardly knew ye…
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) — Republican Fred Thompson played down a staff member’s departure and a New Hampshire supporter’s defection Wednesday, saying it’s not up to him to know what’s going on at every level of his presidential campaign.
“This is a [...]

I found this over at Political Insider…
During an MSNBC interview Wednesday, Rep. Ron Paul was asked if he would run for president as a third-party candidate. Paul replied, “No, I don’t plan to run in a third party. That’s not my goal. But if we have a candidate that loves the war and loves the [...]

Yet another story about missing the big fish, this time from Col. David Hunt…
We know, with a 70 percent level of certainty — which is huge in the world of intelligence — that in August of 2007, bin Laden was in a convoy headed south from Tora Bora. We had his butt, on camera, on [...]

While Ron Paul’s large growing popularity continues to surge and thrust ever upward, RedState’s flaccid popularity seems small, shrunken, perhaps even impotent by comparison.

You can say you’re one thing all you want, but if the evidence proves otherwise…
From McClatchy:
WASHINGTON — George W. Bush, despite all his recent bravado about being an apostle of small government and budget-slashing, is the biggest spending president since Lyndon B. Johnson. In fact, he’s arguably an even bigger spender than LBJ.
“He’s a big [...]

That’s right. The conservative version of Daily Kos just banned all talk of him over at their site.
So why did they take such heavy handed measures? Were they simply just annoyed? Scared? A little bit of both?
Ed Morrissey tries to sort it out…
It’s their community, of course, and they set the rules. However, this doesn’t [...]

Heh…sounds like a couple guys need to do some serious thinking about their campaigns.
From E&P:
NEW YORK He’s been “in” the race for less than a week, and already faux-pundit Stephen Colbert has surged ahead of longtime candidate Gov. Bill Richardson in one national poll gauging the race for the Democratic nod for president. And watch [...]

Yep, my hosting company just told me that they couldn’t find my lost files in their backups and so it’s gone forever. That’s a good month and a half’s worth of work that just went poof!
Needless to say I will be backing things up every night and this will never happen again. But at least [...]

Well, this one slipped by me as the site was being destroyed and then cobbled back together.
From the KC Star:
An emotional Brownback on Friday formally ended his bid at a statehouse news conference, saying his “Yellow Brick Road just came up short of the White House this time.”
Asked about running for governor in 2010, the [...]