Tom Shattuck

CPAC Straw Poll Favors Rand Paul But Walker is Real Victor

Originally published March 1, 2015. Rand Paul has won the CPAC straw poll for the third year in a row — but the real winner was Scott Walker. Paul got 26 percent of the vote in a field of 17 in the annual presidential preference survey while Walker was a... Read more →

Walker Walks the Walk at CPAC

Originally published February 28, 2015. “Big Government Sucks.” That’s the slogan of the hordes of young people at the Conservative Political Action Conference. The lesson from this year’s CPAC was that if you wanted to win over this energetic crowd it behooved you to be succinct and rebellious — like... Read more →