Adam Goodman"s predictions

Check out Republican political consultant Adam Goodman hemming and hawing about his presidential campaign predications today on Political Connections. Reluctantly, and with lots of qualifiers, the former Giuliani adviser finally picked:
“I believe it’s going to come down to John McCain in the Republican primary, with a real possible threat from either Rudy or (Mike) Huckabee. And on the Democratic primary I think Saint Hillary is going to rise enough to the occasion that she’s going to be on the ballot and it’s going to create one of the most interesting modern day national political campaigns this country has ever seen.”
Political Connections airs on Bright House Network’s Bay News 9 at 11 a.m. and 6:30 p.m

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Here was Adam Goodman's last prediction

St. Pete Times....flashback

His task:

Get Harris elected senator

Top Republicans want her to stay out of the Senate race, but imagemaker Adam Goodman is in Katherine Harris' corner.

Thanks for helping us lose theat U.S. Senate seat Adam.

"http://www.sptimes.com/2005/08/09/Worldandnation/His_task__get_Harris_.shtml

I'll stick with my first choice:
Gov. Mitt Romney.

Goodman's judgment?

Two words

Katherine Harris

Please stop interviewing yesterday's disasters and focus on folks who really know what they are talking about... and can provide credible insight.

Seems this guy gets booted or regularly quits campaigns. Why should anyone trust his judgment if his MO is to switch horses in mid-stream all the time.

[Tom]

Adam did help elect Rick Baker.

The reason Goodman is free to comment on the presidential is because none of the campaigns want him to do any work for them. Including the guy whose name he prostituted for years and who is in the painting he made certain appeared behind him in the article that 10:18 linked.

He uses a little too much dye in his hair. His beard gives it away.

Katherine Harris is all you need to say. What a joke

[timesout]

McCain will win the nomination with the help of the Bushies and a silenced media in iraq. The story line will be that We're Winning and McCain is a winner.

If the question "what are we winning" is asked of McCain and he answers honestly, he'll never be president. Knowing this his answer will be a lie, the lie will contradict his Straight Talk campaign strategy and he'll be discounted as another NeoCon in a Company Suit.

As we weaken ourselves in Iraq, Russia, China, India, the EU, Opec, and others are strengthening their places in the world. We have hocked our pensions, we have hocked our houses, we have hocked our ports, roads, building to foreign investors and the War Debt, what's left, our National Parks?

McCain has nothing to offer but tickle talk about heroes and country. Where is he going to get the troops after all the Low Fruit is picked from the trees? A draft? Great, finally reality will touch the Pampered Shopping Class.

McCain did well in New Hampshire because he got independents to vote for him, not registered Republicans, and there is not a large evangelical crowd in that state. Independents voted for him because at his core McCain is a liberal. He's tried hard to disguise it as of late, but he has one of the most liberal voting records of any Senate Republican. So, wrap a liberal skin around a very old man, and voila: John McCain. Wait until he hits a Republican-only primary in Florida where evangelicals abound.

evangelicals abound in Florida? that's news to me, and probably to Tom Gallagher as well...this state has a little bit of everyone on its GOP soup

[michael t]

Timesout - you certainly have the 'big picture' in all of this. Everyone seems to lose focus on yesterday's poll trend or sound bite. To paraphrase Barnum, there will be a lot of fools made this election.

But I think the foreclosures, shrinking pensions and IRAs, dropping dollar, fleeing jobs, losses in Iraq and Afghanistan, medical and pharm costs, and so on will finally create momentum from dissatisfied souls.

To paraphrase Jagger; we may not get what we want, but hopefully we'll get what we need for a change.

[Robert]

You know, this summer's GOP convention may be the first time in years that the nominee will be determined in more than one vote. It could get ugly.

On the Democratic side, Hillary will be chosen thanks to the "superdelegates". These are various federal and state legislative leaders, governors, and other party stalwarts who are automatically chosed based on their office. They are "free agents" who are not bound by caucus or primary results, and can support the candidate of their choice. While there will be some who will support Obama or Edwards, many of them are party traditionalists who take the attitude that "It's Hillary's turn; give her the chance!" Those "superdelegates" will put her over the top. God help us...

[Will DePort]

Even if Rudy wins the GOP with his big state strategy, his big state strategy does him no good in the legislative process after this election gets thrown into Congress. Each state has the same voting power. All a candidate needs is to convince 28 people in the 17 smallest states and he/she is in the White House. Rudy can't compete. Rudy is un-electable.

[monica lee]

Adam Goodman?! Who?! Ben McKay, Marc Reichelderer, and Dan Berger "created" Katherine Harris. Goodman destroyed her.

Evangelicals did not trust Tom Gallagher because he pandered to them and was not one of them. You have to be believable.