The effort to forge some kind of consensus independent of the RNC among the Republican candidates for President regarding debates appears to have failed. To the surprise of nobody who has been paying attention.
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.
Paul Ryan is getting pressure from all sides to get into the race for Speaker Of The House.
One of the nation’s preeminent polling firms is sitting out the 2016 primaries.
With time running out for him to make a decision, a new report shows how deeply Vice President Biden has been in stirring up the speculation that is now surrounding him.
A woman who has been running for President for at least eight years is apparently having trouble explaining why she wants to be President.
WaPo’s Robert Costa reveals an emotional reaction by the Speaker to the papal visit to Congress.
There was far too much pseudoscience in evidence during the Republican Debate on Wednesday.
The latest effort by conservative Republicans to oust John Boehner appears to be coming to an unsurprising end.
The Republican candidates for President took to the stage last night for a debate that seemed to last forever and accomplished nothing.
Scott Walker used to have a commanding lead in Iowa, now he’s in 7th place. That’s just another sign of the troubles facing his campaign.
Speaker John Boehner seems likely to see another leadership threat from fellow Republicans this fall.
Jeb Bush’s campaign has been in a rough patch for several weeks at least, and now he’s lost three top fundraisers.
Hillary Clinton has a bit of a public image problem, but it’s not clear if that will hurt her politically.
If the Administration gets its way, efforts to block the Iran nuclear deal may come to a quick end in the Senate.
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.
Even if Donald Trump isn’t the Republican nominee in 2016, he could still end up causing real harm to the party’s chances of winning the White House and holding on to the Senate.
For a variety of reasons, it’s unlikely that the Republican field will shrink significantly before the Iowa Caucuses.
Another poll shows that a majority of Americans oppose the Iranian nuclear deal, but the effort to defeat it in Congress is still likely to fail.
While new information seems to come out on a daily basis, Hillary Clinton would rather that everyone think that her private email server wasn’t really a very big deal.
The POLITICO gang report that a “Joe Biden strategy for [a] White House run [is] taking shape.”
The fallout from Donald Trump’s debate performance, and his comments afterward, continues, and it’s leading some to wonder if we may finally be at the end of this ridiculous charade.
Recent polling has shown the American public to be highly skeptical, at beast, of the Iran Nuclear Deal. That may not be enough to kill it in Congress, though.
Donald Trump leads in the first of the final polls to be released before Thursday’s debate.
The first of a series of polls in anticipation of next week’s debate shows Donald Trump still at the top, with a surprise coming out of Ohio.
With just over a week to go, Republican candidates for President are fighting for the movement in the polls that could get them in to the August 6th debate.
The Huffington Post announced today that they would not be covering Donald Trump in their politics section from this point forward. That’s the wrong thing to do.
Republicans have nobody to blame but themselves for the anti-immigrant Frankenstein in their midst.
While “fundamentals” will have more impact on choosing our next president than what happens on the campaign trail, the race itself is important.
The NYT has left Ted Cruz’ new book off its bestseller list, despite it selling more copies than 18 of 20 titles on said list.
The winners of the Women’s World Cup will get paid far less than the men that played last year, but that’s not because of sexism.
In an ordinary year, Ohio Governor John Kasich seems like he’d be a perfect candidate for Republicans in an era when winning the Buckeye State is essential to winning the White House. But things are far from ordinary in the GOP.
If Jim Webb runs for President, he will be the only candidate in either party who is on record defending the Confederate Battle Flag. And he’s thinking of running as a Democrat.
Chris Christie appears set to enter the race for the Republican Presidential nomination, but voters back home in New Jersey don’t seem to think very highly of him anymore.
As Governor Haley pushes the South Carolina legislature to take the Confederate Flag down, the movement moves beyond the Palmetto State.
Jeb Bush’s campaign launch seems to be going well so far, while Rand Paul and Ted Cruz (and Donald Trump) seem to be slipping.
We live in a random and chaotic universe.
After months of “not running,” Jeb Bush will formally enter the Presidential race on June 15th.
The FCC appears set to “encourage” telephone companies to install robocall blocking technology. Pollsters are panicking.
Bill and Hillary Clinton have done quite well for themselves of the speaking circuit.
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