Some Republicans see the light on same-sex marriage. Whether the party will listen is another question.

A tough new Obama campaign ad highlights people who lost their jobs after a Bain Capital takeover–at a time Mitt Romney was not at Bain Capital.

There’s much to question about The Washington Post’s decision to run a 47 year old story about Mitt Romney.

Is there a Romney Doctrine?

Rick Santorum is urging Mitt Romney to go all-in on opposition to same-sex marriage. Not surprisingly, this is bad advice.

Mitt Romney is giving the commencement address at Liberty University today, which is interesting if only because of what the school’s Course Catalog has to say on the matter of Romney’s faith: LYNCHBURG, Va. — On page 173 of the course catalog for Liberty University, the country’s largest Evangelical Christian college, there’s a graduate course [...]

He may be running against Barack Obama, but Mitt Romney seems to mention Jimmy Carter a lot.

Mitt Romney wimped out. Again.

Will Obama’s announcement on same-sex marriage benefit him or Romney in the upcoming campaign?

There may be reason to doubt reports alleging that Mitt Romney engaged in vicious bullying of a gay classmate as an 18-year-old prepster.

Americans are getting pessimistic about the state of the economy again.

President Obama’s public endorsement of same-sex marriage has apparently caused people to open their wallets: It’s too soon to tell whether President Obama’s endorsement of same-sex marriage will help him or hurt him at the polls. But it’s already doing wonders for his pocketbook. The Obama campaign is enjoying a massive surge of contributions in [...]

Some blogger wants to pay someone to get Barack Obama’s college transcripts. It’s time for this silliness to end.

The battle is on for control of the Senate, but whoever wins is likely to have a very slim majority.

All of a sudden, people are talking about Mike Huckabee as a potential Romney running mate.

The day after President Obama expressed his personal support for gay marriage, a report has surfaced of his presumptive general election opponent engaging in a mean, anti-gay “prank” back in 1965.

Mitt Romney is proposing one of the biggest peacetime increases in military spending in U.S. history.

Some thoughts on the potential impact of the President’s announcement on same-sex marriage.

The same-sex marriage pivot that everyone was expecting has come.

Further thoughts on Ron Paul’s game plan, assuming he has one.

I’ve ignored the mini controversy over whether Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren was entitled to claim minority status on the basis of being one-thirty-second Cherokee, for the very good reason that I don’t give a damn.  Now, though, some on the right have dug into her ancestry and discovered that the great-great-great grandmother who may [...]

Another indication that Scott Brown wants Massachusetts voters to know that he’s not behold to the GOP: It’s a smart strategy, of course, and it appears to be working if the polls are any indication.

There’s an awful lot of speculation today that President Obama is going to have something new to say about same-sex marriage when he sits down for an interview at the White House this afternoon: The prevailing wisdom right now is that President Obama is going to have to take some kind of position on gay [...]

In “Why Dick Lugar lost,” Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake argue persuasively that the Tea Party was not the primary factor in the loss of the six-term senator. At its heart, Lugar’s defeat was attributable to the fact that he broke the political golden rule: Never lose touch with the people who elected you. “A [...]

Mitt Romney is being rightfully ridiculed for trying to take credit for saving General Motors and Chrysler.

Mitt Romney has a big problem. People don’t seem to like him very much.

Something tells me that the Obama campaign shouldn’t count on winning West Virginia this year: An obscure federal prison inmate gave President Obama an unexpected run for his money in the West Virginia Democratic Primary Tuesday, highlighting the deep dislike for the president in the Appalachian heartland. With 96% of the precincts reporting Tuesday night, [...]

An electoral setback for the marriage equality forces in the Tar Heel State: As expected, North Carolinians voted in large numbers on Tuesday for an amendment that would ban same-sex marriages, partnerships and civil unions, becoming the 30th state in the country and the last in the South to include a prohibition on gay marriage [...]

Dick Lugar entered the Senate in January 1977, and he’ll be leaving at the end of this year: Sen. Richard Lugar – the longest-serving senator in Indiana history – will lose his Republican Senate primary on Tuesday to state Treasurer Richard Mourdock, CBS News projects. With 62 percent of the expected vote in, the Tea [...]

Optimism sells. Someone should remind the GOP of this fact.

Just under a month after dropping out of the Presidential race, Rick Santorum endorsed Mitt Romney in perhaps the most impersonal way possible: Rick Santorum has officially endorsed Mitt Romney, and notified his supporters in an email sent Monday night. In the email, the former presidential candidate cited his Friday meeting with Romney in his [...]

The White House is playing a game that few people are buying.

Ron Paul’s supporters are racking up delegate wins at party conventions in caucus states, but it won’t matter in the end.

The New Yorker’s John Cassidy sees “Good and Bad News for Obama” in Nicolas Sarkozy’s defeat.

Did Joe Biden misspeak, or drop a hint that he shouldn’t have?

It would appear that Newt Gingrich is at least being realistic about his odds of being on the GOP ticket with Mitt Romney: Days after ending his run for the GOP presidential nomination, Newt Gingrich said Sunday he would not accept the Republican vice presidential slot if offered, and said Romney should focus on picking [...]

The Libertarian Party has chosen another former Republican politician as their Presidential nominee.

Phony wars on Stay At Home Moms, dogs, and Osama bin Laden. The Obama campaign is pointing at the shiny object, and the right is falling for it.

Elizabeth Warren’s Senate campaign stumbled badly this week.

When Dan Drezner tweeted “I’m not going to read anything dumber than this today,” my inclination was to scoff. He actually undersold it.

The latest poll of the Indiana Republican Senate primary is not at all good news for Dick Lugar: A new poll shows Treasurer Richard Mourdock building a commanding lead over Sen. Richard Lugar. The Howey/DePauw Indiana Battleground Poll, conducted by two prominent Republican and Democratic pollsters, shows Mourdock with a 48 percent to 38 percent [...]

Once again, the jobs market appears to be slowing.

Obama has an advantage in what is likely to be one of the most important states in November’s election, but the race is far from over.

The argument that Barack Obama hasn’t been vetted is simply absurd.

The much-touted online effort to find an “independent” candidate for President and get him or her on the ballot in all 50 states appears to be dying from lack of interest: A group clearing the path for an independent White House bid on Tuesday canceled the first phase of its search for a bipartisan ticket [...]

Based on the postmortems, it certainly seems like the Romney campaign threw Richard Grenell under the bus.

The GOP’s response to the Obama campaign’s Osama bin Laden ad has not been helpful.

Later today Newt Gingrich will, finally, be dropping out of the race for the Republican nomination, but he’s leaving behind a lot of unhappy creditors: Newt Gingrich ends his White House dream today with his political committee facing a mountain of debts — owing about $4 million to scores of businesses and campaign workers around [...]

Parties are in politics primarily to win the vote of the median voter, not to join together and sing Kumbaya.

Richard Grenell’s time as Mitt Romney’s foreign policy spokesman lasted less than a month. The fact that he’s gay appears to be the reason it ended.