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GOP Cattle Call, So Who Do You Like In 2012?
14 January 2009
The First 2012 GOP Cattle Call….
It’s at CPAC — the Conservative Political Action Conference, held from Feb. 26-28 in Washington, D.C.
Attending: Gov. Sarah Palin, Gov. Mitt Romney, Rep. Mike Pence, Ex-Rep. Newt Gingrich, Gov. Bobby Jindal (who’s ruled out a 2012 run) and others…
CPAC’s straw poll in 2005 was won by then Sen. George Allen… probably because he was a Virginian. So it’s not terribly predictive…. but it is noticed, and meaningful.
And so it starts……
In other news from the same blog Marc Ambinder:
Obama Dines With Conservative Opinion Leaders
It’s true.
He motorcaded to a house in Maryland this evening, and if the press pool report is accurate, he is breaking bread with William Kristol and David Brooks. (If Brooks and Kristol seem to be unusually briefed about Obama’s thinking, you’ll know why.)
CBS News’s Dan Raviv tells the pool that the house, on Grafton Street in Chevy Chase, belongs to George Will. (Unless he’s moved.)
Tomorrow, I hear Obama has another private meeting with non-Republican opinion columnists.
Ellen Moran, the incoming White House communications director, set these meetings up.
Again — establishment opinion matters to the Obama communications team.
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