Shortly after the mayoral speculation began, a woman stopped me in my apartment building to ask if I were going to run. It turned out that she was that rarity, a right-wing Manhattanite. But soon enough she was asking me what I thought of rent control. …
Read Original Story: 'Growing' in Office, Before You Take Office [Mark Krikorian] – National Review Online (blog)
A new Rasmussen survey shows that President Barack Obama is tied with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in a hypothetical 2012 matchup. The poll of 800 likely voters also suggests that a third-party presidential candidate – in this case former CNN…
Read Original Story: Poll: Obama, Romney tied; 3rd party candidate helps Obama – Seattle Post Intelligencer
Lou Dobbs for president? It takes at least a modicum of ego to seek the Oval Office, and Dobbs has been high on himself for years — even by ego standards within the news media. Dobbs is a Democrat’s finest dream and a mainstream Republican’s worst …
Read Original Story: Dobbs for what? – Foster's Daily Democrat
We present this story as demonstration that the 1-party party political system, where Democrats and Republicans fight for the right to represent K-street lobbyists, continues under siege. Former CNN host Lou Dobbs fueled already rampant speculation …
Read Original Story: Lou Dobbs, 'Mr. Independent,' Mulls White House Bid In 2012 – Daily Bail (blog)
Since his high profile departure from CNN, and then his exclusive first appearance on Bill O’Reilly’s Factor over at Fox News, Lou Dobbs has done the rounds. Some of his appearances have included the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Larry Kudlow’s show on …
Read Original Story: Where Next for Lou Dobbs? – World Television and Business News
Schadenfreude, taking delight in the misery of others, is a sin, a grievous sin, indeed one of the most grievous sins because it denies that essential sympathy with the human condition that is so obvious on virtually every page of the Gospels. …
Read Original Story: Schadenfreude & Lou Dobbs – America Magazine (subscription)
HILLSIDE, NJ (AP) — Former CNN host Lou Dobbs is seriously considering running for US Senate in New Jersey in 2012 as a stepping stone to a possible White House bid — a congressional matchup that would pit one of illegal …
Read Original Story: Ex-CNN host Lou Dobbs weighs Senate run in NJ – Lansdale Reporter
Mickey Kaus alerts us to the latest Greenberg-Carville’s Democracy Corps poll suggesting that 6% of likely voters might vote for Lou Dobbs in a Romney-Obama race in 2012. Even tossing a hypothetical Green party candidacy by Ralph Nader into the mix, …
Read Original Story: GOP Must Reclaim the Immigration Issue from Lou Dobbs – FrumForum
The latest speculation making the rounds about Lou Dobbs’s political future is that the former CNN anchor won’t run for president in 2012, but will instead aim for a Senate seat. The New Jersey resident is considering a challenge to Democratic senator …
Read Original Story: Lou Dobbs Already Backpedaling on His Signature Issue – New York Magazine
If former CNN anchorman Lou Dobbs decides to make an independent bid for president in 2012, he will probably find the political climate as hospitable for an insurgent run — if not more so — as it was in 1992, when Ross Perot captured a fifth of the …
Read Original Story: Dobbs, 2012 and the ghost of Perot – Reuters Blogs (blog)
