Florida did not even try to hold the first primary. Unlike Michigan (discussed here), legislators there just sought to be among the first, holding voting on January 29th. Every state would like to have an impact, holding primary elections before some candidate is assured of victory and issue positions have been locked in. The timing [...]

Possibly after reading Jeff’s article about Primary Timing and Election Impact, the DNC voted on Sat. to refuse seats for FL representatives at the convention unless ths state delays the date of its primary per the party’s calendar. Ahh, the power of the candidates’ spouses (oops, almost said “wives”). Ann Romney comes out of the [...]

Iowa and New Hampshire jealously guard traditional roles in the Presidential election process. The importance of the early contests is so great that any interested candidate makes many visits, beginning months before the actual election. Anyone wishing to avoid elimination needs a message that resonates with New Hampshire Yankee thinking and mid-western corn belt wisdom. [...]

Mitt Romney has his own solution to the healthcare crisis, read about it here. John Edwards is beginning to take a fiercer tone in his speeches. Fox News has canceled their upcoming Democratic debate. Find out why. Obama is debating Hillary’s call to depose the prime minister of Iraq. There is an excellent article on [...]

If you’ve been reading for a while, you’ve probably already taken a look at our welcome/about page. If you haven’t, you might want to go take a look now. On that page we said: Within a few months we hope to develop two stock portfolios for each candidate. The bullish portfolio will be stocks that [...]

I’m actually chuckling a little bit while reading this first article, MTV and MySpace team up to bring the young people into dialog with the candidates. Romney is strongly advocating states’ rights on abortion. Hillary Clinton thinks that the Iraqi parliament should install a new leader that’s more unifying. Joe Biden is doing a bit [...]

I’ve never heard of this Sam Nunn guy prior to the article I read on him considering running for president. I figure it would be a good idea to research his economic policies and make a preliminary decision. Of course it’s up to you to discuss him in the forum and make the electionstocks final [...]

Romney is putting a lot of space between himself and the Bush administration. Howard Dean has finally decided what to do about the states that are moving up their primaries against the DNC’s wishes. While Barack keeps up with his foreign policies, Huckabee is bringing it back to the homeland. Sam Nunn is now considering [...]

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are companies that might be able to help with the sub prime mortgage crisis with help from Chris Dodd, but first a little background. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are both government sponsored enterprises (GSE). What does this mean and entitle them to? This article is rather old, but still [...]

Obama is starting to have a tough time appearing as a representative of change. He also wants to ease up on relations with Cuba. Giulani loves the Yankees more than he loves helping rebuild his own city. McCain feels that New Hampshire will be an important state for him later in the election. The GOP [...]