–President Obama on Anthony Weiner
–2 minutes. The debate hasn’t started yet, but the crowd is already restless. A mutiny is afoot. CNN may host this thing, but can CNN’s John King control it? “Let’s do the pledge,” shouts out someone in the audience, and then it happens, a spontaneous eruption of patriotism. The candidates hold their hearts onstage. This [...]
Representative Michele Bachmann used Monday night’s CNN-WMUR debate among GOP presidential hopefuls as an unconventional venue to make it official: she’s running for President. “I just want to make an announcement here for you, John, on CNN tonight,” Bachmann told the debate’s moderator, John King. “I filed today my paperwork to seek the office of [...]
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann gave an electrifying performance in Monday’s night Republican presidential primary debate at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, using the platform to announce her decision to formally file papers to run for President and delivering plenty of crowd-pleasing soundbites. But while Bachmann made headlines and outperformed low expectations, it was prohibitive front-runner Mitt Romney who [...]
The amount of money the state of Alaska and news organizations are spending on the Sarah Palin e-mails — copying costs, shipping costs (or flight costs), man-hour costs, and opportunity costs — should inspire some skull-clutching. It’s all the more extravagant considering how much of the content has been redacted, how old the e-mails are [...]
The crux of The New York Times‘ political story du jour is that Obama is now trying to repair relations with previously supportive Wall Streeters because they’re mad at him: Mr. Obama, who enraged many financial industry executives a year and a half ago by labeling them “fat cats” and criticizing their bonuses, followed up [...]
Seven Republican presidential hopefuls will take the stage Monday night at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. With the possible exception of Mitt Romney, none of them have as much riding on the Granite State as Jon Huntsman. And yet the former Utah governor will be watching the debate on television, capping a day [...]
If Mitt Romney has his way, Monday night’s Republican primary debate in New Hampshire will be all about Barack Obama. If Mitt Romney’s Republican rivals have their way, Monday night’s debate will be all about Mitt Romney. Herein lies the danger, and the opportunity, for Mitt Romney, who has emerged as expected as the early [...]
Battleland’s Adam Zagorin with the scoop: TIME has learned that a prosecutor tasked with probing the CIA – John Durham, a respected Republican-appointed US attorney from Connecticut – recently began calling witnesses before a secret federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, looking into, among other things, the lurid November 4, 2003 “homicide,” documented by the [...]
Political strategists Roger Stone and Ed Rollins go way back. Both have ties to Nixon. Both worked to put Ronald Reagan into the White House in the 1980s. Both worked on Jack Kemp’s failed 1988 presidential bid. And they both got bad press for their involvement with Bob Dole’s 1996 effort. The similarities also extend [...]
