The American Jobs Act will likely fail in a Senate vote tonight; Team Obama is ready to pounce. Cain pulls within the margin of error of the lead in two new national polls. He and Romney could be neck-and-neck in Iowa as well. The two men have a mostly amicable history. Cain now gets to [...]
The accelerated schedule is a blow to the political establishments in early states, which benefit from the glow of the national spotlight. It’s no fun for the candidates forced to campaign during the holidays, nor for the voters who might have to interrupt their vacations to make it to the polls. But not everyone should be gloomy about the truncated timetable. It’s yet another piece of good news for Mitt Romney’s charmed campaign.
For the most part, the Tea Party’s leaderless structure has been a source of strength. But it has also caused problems, such as when a clown bearing the movement’s brand spews bile that reflects poorly on its brand. When you resist defining who speaks for the Tea Party, anyone can claim the movement’s imprimatur for [...]
Jon Huntsman laid out his foreign policy vision with a speech in New Hampshire on Monday, further establishing himself as a skeptic of ambitious U.S. military commitments abroad. Huntsman has touched on these themes before: Scaling back the war in Afghanistan and turning it into a primarily counter-terrorism mission; containing the defense budget; relying more [...]
Forget Mitt Romney or Rick Perry. Forget Occupy Wall Street, a government shutdown, a credit rating downgrade or even the Tea Party. The biggest threat to President Obama’s re-election is Europe. Quite simply, Europe controls the fate of the global economy. As Obama himself said at his press conference last week: “The biggest headwind the [...]
–Presidential candidate Herman Cain on answering foreign policy questions from the press.
On the eve of yet another Republican presidential debate, Fred Barnes makes an important point in the Wall Street Journal: Presidential debates have acquired a ridiculously outsized role in the nominating process: The debates have overwhelmed the Republican race. “They are about all there’s been to the campaign,” says Fox political commentator Brit Hume. After [...]
One of the most important figures for understand the public’s deep economic angst, not to mention their unhappiness with Washington: Incomes have continued to fall since the recession technically ended. If this continues through the summer of 2012, Obama will be in dire trouble. A thorough autopsy of the Obama administration’s handling of the Great [...]
Gary Johnson’s mantra is that he doesn’t want to whine about things. But he does. A lot. He’s bitter. And to be sure, he has valid gripes—both about the media’s primary winnowing process and the entire flawed fashion in which the U.S. selects its President. “Never in my life did I think I would be denied a seat at the table,” he says. “I’m not on the poll. Is that right? Is that fair? Is that America? Not the America I envisioned.”
Mitt Romney faced a tepid reception when he spoke at the Values Voters Summit in Washington, D.C., on Saturday morning. Perhaps the crowd was still coming down from Herman Cain’s rousing Friday barnburner. But the central tension whenever Romney, who is Mormon, addresses an evangelical audience was more pronounced than ever: Can Christian conservatives get [...]
