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And Ron Paul is raising $3,000 a minute, even without the blimp dropping tea into the harbor. He’s raised over $2 million already, and estimates have him at $9.5 million at the end of the day, which puts him at $16.46 million in Q4 fundraising. For a bit of perspective, only Mitt Romney raised more [...]

Can the Iowa caucuses be polled accurately? What’s fascinating is to see that Kerry, the eventual winner, gained 10 points in the polls in the last 9 days, taking it right out of Dean and Gephardt’s hides (with a little help from some undecided voters). So maybe the problem with polling isn’t that polls are [...]

It is crystal clear that the Congressional Democrats are divided and incapable at best, and incompetent at worst. We have been through month after month of similar “showdowns”, followed by similar collapses. This time, it at least has a financial price attached: if the Democrats are willing to sell out on the one overriding issue [...]

http://secretarysblog.hhs.gov/my_weblog/2007/12/note-this-after.html This blog post should be read by anyone who wants to have an opinion on Medicare, because it lays out — explicitly — the nature of Medicare’s $200 billion debt. This week, the Congress will begin working on the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) or what people call the “doc fix.” The doc fix [...]