A surprising name is emerging as the likely pick for the nation’s top diplomatic position.
The fight for marijuana legalization advances in California.
Clinton stumbles and leaves an event early, leading to the news that her campaign has been withholding health information from the press.
As the allegations of sexual harassment grow, reports are also growing that Roger Ailes may be out at Fox News much sooner than many may have anticipated.
As expected, Donald Trump scored a huge victory in his home state last night and now appears to be back on track to win the GOP nomination.
We’re in another Presidential election cycle so it must be time to speculate about Michael Bloomberg again.
In a new Gallup poll, Republicans say they want a “conservative” as their Presidential nominee, but they may regret what happens if they get the kind of hard-right conservative they seem to be thinking of.
Marco Rubio has been getting a lot of love lately from both conservatives and so-called ‘establishment’ Republicans, but his seemingly meager ground game in early states is raising doubts about his campaign.
Polls are quite useful in the right circumstances, but knowledge, complexity, and timing all have to be taken into account in determining what they are telling us.
Hillary Clinton’s attempt to explain her relationship with Wall Street and banking interests makes it sound like she’s channeling Rudy Giuliani.
Marco Rubio has won the support of a top Republican donor and bundler, giving a much needed boost to his campaign.
The POLITICO gang report that a “Joe Biden strategy for [a] White House run [is] taking shape.”
The last three polls to be released before Thursday’s debate show Donald Trump continuing to solidify his lead.
We are still a ways from actual voting–this needs to be remembered.
Republicans have nobody to blame but themselves for the anti-immigrant Frankenstein in their midst.
Rick Perry is hoping to do something that hasn’t happened before in American politics, come back from a campaign that imploded.
A new poll has some bad news for Jeb Bush in the Hawkeye State, which leads to the idea that maybe he shouldn’t waste too much time there to begin with.
And the fun part is that his main motive for running appears to be the opportunity to troll Rand Paul.
The confirmation of a new Attorney General has been held up nearly six months for what amounts to no legitimate reason.
Marco Rubio is the first Republican in the race who actually has a plausible chance to win the nomination, but it’s not going to be easy.
Rand Paul is carrying on a family tradition, winning the CPAC straw poll won many times by his father Ron.
Calling anyone a front-runner in a race where we’re still two years away from anyone casting votes is silly. Nonetheless, Rand Paul is an interesting guy to watch for those wondering if the GOP has actually changed.
The votes are in. And the outcome is meaningless.
Chris Christie waded into the debate going on in the GOP over foreign policy. His comments were less than helpful to say the least.
We’re actually not speculating about who might be running any more than we used to.
Big Brother is watching us. And he may be watching us a lot more after what happened in Boston.
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul won a completely meaningless straw poll.
Expectations are high for Paul Ryan heading in to Thursday’s Vice-Presidential debate. That’s not necessarily a good thing.
Not surprisingly, Romney campaigns staffers don’t seem to want to take responsibility for Clint Eastwood’s performance last night.
No, Barack Obama is not going to dump Joe Biden before the Democratic Convention.
Yesterday it became clear that the Presidential campaign is headed into the mud.
Was money the reason Scott Walker won on Tuesday? The available evidence says no.
A new poll finds that adding Chris Christie to the ticket would fail to deliver New Jersey to the Republicans.
The GOP’s response to the Obama campaign’s Osama bin Laden ad has not been helpful.
Thomas Friedman is fantasizing about Michael Bloomberg again.
A discussion in the comments thread of my “Time Running Out For GOP?” post led me to a post from four-plus years ago by frequent commenter and erstwhile blogger* Michael Reynolds titled “Money, Bombs and Jesus.”
There’s no law requiring Presidential candidates to release their tax returns. Should they be expected to do it anyway?
If you’re running low on cash, keeping it low-key in a state you can’t win sometimes make sense.
When candidates start talking about focusing on post-IA/NH primaries, they are in trouble.
South Carolina governor Nikki Haley becomes the latest Tea Party darling to back Mitt Romney.
Once again, pundits are suggesting that New York’s Michael Bloomberg might run for President. Though nobody seems to be able to explain why.
CBS accidentally admits that they are giving less attention to some of the Republican contenders.