The annual gathering showed us what the Republican Party would become years ago.
Many of the 2020 Democratic candidates for President are arguing that the caucus process itself is unfair and undemocratic. They’re right.
Michigan Congressman Justin Amash has quit a group he helped found nine years ago after they voted to condemn him for advocating for the President’s impeachment.
Justin Amash doubled down on his criticism of the President and his call for impeachment even as he came under fire from fellow Republicans.
President Trump is trying to politicize monetary policy. He should be resisted on this front.
Several states are getting rid of caucuses in favor of primaries, a move that could be to the disadvantage of candidates like Bernie Sanders.
Nominating Corey Stewart is beginning to look like the biggest mistake Virginia Republicans have ever made.
You might say he body slammed the opposition.
More trouble for Lt. General Michael Flynn.
While hardly the most compelling argument against an archaic institution, yesterday’s silliness was noteworthy.
Even if you’re not sure who you should vote for, it’s obvious who you shouldn’t vote for.
The idea that Donald Trump has gotten his racialized rhetoric from libertarians is simply errant nonsense. The libertarian view, broadly speaking, is not defined by Murray Rothbard, Llewellyn Rockwell, and Ron Paul and those who share their views. This is but a small and even fringe group of what could be called the libertarian community.
Bernie Sanders admitted, finally, that he likely won’t be the nominee.
There are many aspects of the way delegates to the party convention are chosen that is “undemocratic,” but it’s unclear why this is a problem.
Changes that the Republican National Committee made to delegate allocation rules in response to what happened in 2012 are helping Donald Trump in 2016.
Tonight’s Nevada Caucuses could be as chaotic as the floor of a Vegas casino, but Donald Trump seems to be in position to score another win.
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has dropped out of the race for the Republican nomination.
The final Des Moines Register poll before Caucus Night shows Donald Trump leading the GOP field, and Hillary Clinton with a narrow lead over Bernie Sanders, but much of the final outcome will depend on who shows up for the respective party caucuses.
We will have a two party system for the foreseeable future.
Rand Paul’s fundraising in the just completed quarter is disappointing enough that it’s clearly time for him to consider calling it a day.
Rand Paul’s Presidential campaign isn’t going so well at the moment.
Two new polls show Bernie Sanders rising in the polls in New Hampshire, but they likely don’t mean anything in the long term.
After 36 years, the quadrennial absurdity of the Iowa Straw Poll is dead.
Iowa Republicans may be a day away from putting the Iowa Straw Poll out of its, and our, misery.
Obviously, most of these people are smart enough to realize they can’t possibly win, right?
Rand Paul Is at a distinct disadvantage compared to his fellow Republican candidates for President.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker isn’t officially a candidate for President yet, but he’s doing quite well in Iowa anyway.
The Iowa Straw Poll seems to be dying, and that’s a good thing.
What if they held a straw poll and nobody came?
Jeb Bush will not participate in this year’s version of the Iowa Straw Poll.
Break out the sweater vests, Rick Santorum is getting ready to enter the race for the Republican Presidential Nomination.
There must be something odd in the water in the Lone Star State, because a bizarre conspiracy theory seems to have taken root there.
Rand Paul is carrying on a family tradition, winning the CPAC straw poll won many times by his father Ron.
The Kentucky Senator and medical doctor claims an undergraduate degree he doesn’t have.
Scott Walker surged to the top of a new poll of Iowa Republicans, but Iowa is not a very good predictor of success in the race for the GOP nomination.
Conservatives finally seem to be waking up to the truth about Sarah Palin.
Rick Santorum looks to be getting ready to hit the campaign trail again, but it’s doubtful he can find appeal beyond the religious conservatives who supported him in 2012.
Even leaving aside the fact that it is far too early to be making such assessments, the idea that Rand Paul is the front runner for the Republican nomination in 2016 fails the logic test.
Michele Bachmann leaves office at the end of the current Congress, but we may not have heard the last from her.
While it still seems unlikely that he’ll run, Mitt Romney does seem to be leaving the door open to a third run at the White House.
The fact that a candidate like Mike Huckabee could win the Iowa Caucuses is the reason to end the Iowa Caucuses.
It would appear that someone needs to introduce the Air Force to Article VI of the Constitution.