In the 2010 election the New Hampshire Republican Party took 298 out of 400 House seats, 19 out of 24 state Senate seats, and all five seats on the Executive Council. A little over a year later, in the state's presidential primary, the same (more or less) electorate gave over 56 percent of its votes to a couple of moneyed "moderates," one of whom served in the Obama administration and the other of whom left no trace in office other than the pilot program for Obamacare. Another 23 percent voted for Ron Paul.
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In the News
"Dancing with the Stars" must hear from conservative America that the hour has come for Mark Steyn on the big stage...
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Happy Warrior
Flipping channels in my hotel room the other night, I caught ten minutes of Hitchcock's North by Northwest, a film I like enormously. It's an "old" movie, from the Fifties, but Cary Grant's suit is pretty much identical to the suits around today. Likewise, his shirt and tie. The architecture is familiar. To a viewer from 2011, a film from the 1950s is a glimpse of an earlier version of what's still recognizably our world. But what would a visitor from Eisenhower's America make of our time? He ...
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Ave atque vale
Tony's death is a particular shock to those of us who enjoyed his company on the NR cruise just a few weeks ago. He was his usual convivial self, and fully engaged in the 2012 campaign season.
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In the Corner
Yes, Newt was on grand form last night.
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In the Corner
Okay, Andrew, as National Review's in-house demography bore and at the risk of wearying readers of both my recent apocalyptic tomes, I'll bite...
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In the Corner
One of the most disturbing features of the US justice system is its ever more grotesque loss of proportion, at the federal level and in far too many states and municipalities...
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The Hugh Hewitt Show
HH: On today's program I had a conversation with Mark Steyn about Rick Perry's comments on the MSM from yesterday's program. The transcript is here.
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