Obama Holds Edge Over Romney In General Election Matchup, Poll Finds
Boosted by improved public confidence in his economic stewardship, President Obama for the first time holds a clear edge over Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in a hypothetical general-election matchup, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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Bachmann: ‘i Was The Perfect Candidate’
There was one perfect candidate in the GOP presidential race, says Michele Bachmann.
And that candidate was Michele Bachmann.
The Minnesota congresswoman, who dropped her White House bid after placing sixth in the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses, told Bloomberg TV’s Al Hunt in an interview that aired over the weekend that GOP primary voters had their chance, but they missed it.
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Romney Camp Downplays Its Chances In Minnesota
Four years ago, Mitt Romney swept Minnesota’s GOP caucuses with 41 percent to Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) 22 percent.
Will the former Massachusetts governor win just as handily when Minnesota votes tomorrow?
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Karl Rove ‘offended’ By Clint Eastwood’s Chrysler Ad
A Chrysler ad aired during the Super Bowl Sunday night has inspired ire among some Republicans and admiration among some Democrats — with both sides seeing a political message that boosts President Obama.
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Secret Money Is Funding More Election Ads
More than a third of the advertising tied to the presidential race has been funded by nonprofit groups that will never have to reveal their donors, suggesting that a significant portion of the 2012 elections will be wrapped in a vast cloak of secrecy.
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Jon Huntsman Joins Huntsman Corp. Board Of Directors
It’s a family affair.
Last month, Jon Huntsman’s post-campaign plans began to come into clearer focus when the Huntsman Cancer Foundation announced that the former Utah governor and ambassador to China would succeed his father, Jon Huntsman Sr., to become the organization’s new chairman.
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Gingrich Moon Shot: Polling Well
Good news for NASA!
The Washington Post- ABC News poll released Monday contains some good news for the increasingly underfunded space agency and some excellent news for presidential candidate Newt Gingrich.
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Why Rick Santorum Or Newt Gingrich Dropping Out Wouldn’t Change Much — In One Chart
Depending on the results of Tuesday’s contests, there may be pressure on either Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum to drop out of the GOP presidential race.
At which point the other one would have a good shot at beating Mitt Romney head-to-head, right?
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Rick Santorum Starts To Get Newt Gingrich Treatment From Mitt Romney
LAS VEGAS — Rick Santorum is starting to receive the Newt Gingrich treatment.
With polls showing Santorum the more serious threat in two states voting on Tuesday, Minnesota and Missouri, Mitt Romney’s campaign on Monday unloaded on the former Pennsylvania senator the way it did on Gingrich in the run-up to last month’s Florida primary.
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Marco Rubio Takes On Obama Over Contraceptive Rule
Marco Rubio has said he’s not interested in being vice president. Repeatedly.
But the Florida Republican senator has thrust himself into the middle of a high-profile, hot-button controversy — a move that will likely spark more talk of his future plans.
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The True Conservative Alternative: Ron Paul?
Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are fighting for the right to be the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney.
But they both lost that battle in Nevada — to Ron Paul.
Entrance polls from Saturday’s Nevada caucuses show Romney racking up huge wins among the vast majority of demographics, which isn’t surprising given that he took about 50 percent of the vote.
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Mitt Romney’s Misfire On The National Anthem
“We are the only people on the earth that put our hand over our heart during the playing of the national anthem. It was FDR who asked us to do that, in honor of the blood that was being shed by our sons and daughters in far-off places.”
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Bill Clinton, ‘america's First Jewish President’
Little Rock, Ark. — Bill Clinton was affectionately introduced as so pro-Israel that he was effectively “the country’s first Jewish president” on Saturday night. In town to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Jewish Federation of Arkansas., Clinton was awarded the group’s Tikkun Olam Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Get The Growth, Then The Debt Reduction
A grim surprise was tucked inside the Congressional Budget Office’s latest budget outlook. Economic growth, it said, will be 2 percent in 2012, falling to 1.1 percent in 2013. That’s horrible.
It’s far beneath the growth rate required for the economy and the job market to recover. But it’s also probably wrong— provided that Congress wants it to be wrong. Because the CBO isn’t saying the economy can’t grow faster than that. It’s saying the economy won’t grow faster unless Congress makes some hard decisions, and soon.
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K Street: The Route Of All Evil, Or Just The Main Drag?
It’s the symbol of all that’s wrong with Washington, the front line where the Occupiers dug their anti-authoritarian trenches, the boulevard that has been shorthand for capital corruption during recent Republican debates.
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On Campaign Trail, Romney Skips Questions In Taking Up Mantle Of Likely Gop Nominee
LAS VEGAS — Mitt Romney answered his last question from a voter three weeks ago, and just about every day since then, he has swept through towns across America like a whistling train conductor proclaiming, “All aboard.”
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For Gop Candidates, February Lull A Time To Regroup
After a blockbuster few months, the race for the Republican presidential nomination may be about to hit the snooze button.
The closely watched early states are done, and the competition has been whittled down to a hardy four candidates. The next landmark day is a month off — March 6, otherwise known as Super Tuesday.
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Postal Regulatory Chairman’s $70,000 In Travel Comes Under Scrutiny
Days before the U.S. Postal Service announced record-setting losses in September, the nation’s top postal regulator traveled to Scotland for meetings with European envelope manufacturers.
A few weeks later, Postal Regulatory Commission Chairman Ruth Y. Goldway visited Portugal, Switzerland and China to meet with international postal regulators.
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