In the wake of Wednesday’s debate, the Republican National Committee has suspended its partnership in a planned February debate with NBC News and Spanish language network Telemundo.
Everyone is sick of the current approach. The candidates are looking for a new one.
Several Republican candidates for President want to “fix” the debates, but they wouldn’t like the one thing that would definitely fix them.
While it did draw 14 million viewers, last night’s CNBC debate had the smallest audience of any Presidential debate so far. That was probably a good thing for CNBC considering how bad the debate was.
The worst-moderated debate thus far may have reordered the field.
Once the Republican frontrunner, Jeb Bush is now floundering and dealing with donors worried that they may be backing the wrong horse.
Two new polls show that political efforts to enact more stringent gun control at the national level are not likely to succeed.
A pair of new polls confirms that Republican hopes that Donald Trump would fade are failing to come true.
Jim Webb’s campaign for the Democratic nomination has been largely forgettable, so now he’s apparently threatening to run as an Independent.
If pre-election polling is to be believed, Stephan Harper and Canada’s Conservative Party seem likely to lose power after Monday’s elections, but there are several reasons why this may not end up being the case.
After complaints from several campaigns, and threats of a boycott by the men at the top of the field, CNBC and the RNC have agreed to some rule modifications for the upcoming Republican debate.
Donald Trump is threatening to boycott the next Republican debate if there aren’t format changes. The GOP should call his bluff.
In addition to doing everything she needed to do last night, Hillary Clinton also destroyed whatever logic remained for a Joe Biden candidacy.
While a brilliant and accomplished man, he’s absolutely clueless about politics and world affairs.
Obama’s first Secretary of State has come out against Obama’s Trans Pacific Partnership.
One of the nation’s preeminent polling firms is sitting out the 2016 primaries.
Quietly, Florida Senator Marco Rubio has been moving close to the front f the race for the Republican Presidential nomination.
President Obama is reportedly considering a plan that would keep up to 5,000 American troops in Afghanistan past the withdrawal date he had already set.
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.
Budget cuts mean it is now harder to get an ID in much of Alabama.
The criteria for next month’s third Republican Presidential debate have been announced, and they’re likely to end up being bad news for several Republican candidates.
The next Republican debate is likely to be a lot smaller than the previous two, and that could prove fatal for several candidates.
The final GDP revision for the second quarter showed the economy grew at a nearly four percent rate.
One week after the second Republican debate, Donald Trump is still at the top of the GOP field, and that doesn’t seem likely to change any time soon.
The pressure on Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz to expand the 2016 debate schedule is increasing.
The first significant national polls taken in the wake of last week’s debate show that Donald Trump has slipped somewhat, but still remains the clear leader of the Republican race for President.
Time is running out for Joe Biden to make a decision about running for President, and it’s still not clear what he’ll do.
More than 23 million people watched the debate Wednesday night.
The final effort to block the Iran Nuclear Deal failed in the Senate yesterday, meaning that the deal will now move forward.
With the exception of Rand Paul, the foreign policy discussion at last night’s debate was about as bad as you’d expect.
The Republican candidates for President took to the stage last night for a debate that seemed to last forever and accomplished nothing.
Prosecutors in South Carolina announced that they will seek the death penalty for Charleston shooter Dylann Roof.
The RNC wants Donald Trump to sign an oath that he will not run as a third-party candidate if he doesn’t win the Republican nomination.
President Obama now has enough votes in the Senate, and probably the House, to ensure that Congress cannot block the nuclear deal with Iran.
CNN has revised its criteria for the main September 16th debate such that Carly Fiorina will now most likely make the cut.
Some of Hillary Clinton’s Democratic opponents are complaining about the DNC’s parsimonious debate schedule.
Carly Fiorina will most likely be excluded from CNN’s prime time debate in September, so of course her campaign is complaining about rules that were established months ago.
Republican officials in three states are looking at ways to keep Donald Trump off the primary ballot unless he pledges to support the eventual GOP nominee.
Susan Crawford claims that “Cable-Only Presidential Debates are the New Poll Tax.”
For a variety of reasons, it’s unlikely that the Republican field will shrink significantly before the Iowa Caucuses.
Donald Trump is still in the lead of the Republican circus, but the rest of the field remains uncertain in the wake of the first debate.
Donald Trump isn’t backing down from his post-debate meltdown, now the only question is what the polls will tell us when they come out.
