Chris Christie is only the latest in slew of politicians whose supposed 2012 aspirations turned out to be nothing more than D.C.’s collective fever dream.
Democrat Earl Ray Tomblin has won a full term as West Virginia governor. Herman Cain now ties Romney in one national poll and is hot on his heels in another. Romney, Perry and Huntsman will boycott a Univision debate over the network’s tiff with Florida Republicans (notably Marco Rubio.)
The conventional wisdom holds that the race for the Republican nomination is shaping up as a two-man tussle between Mitt Romney and Rick Perry. But in New Hampshire, the pitched battle will be between a number of candidates vying to become the Romney alternative.
–GOP Presidential candidate Herman Cain, in an apparent reference to Sarah Palin’s dig that he’s “the flavor of the week,” noting his own steady rise in the polls.
She won the Iowa Straw Poll just two months ago, but since then, Michele Bachmann has plummeted in the polls, and it’s beginning to look like Ames was her apex. Now, in a series of low-production-value online videos, the self-styled “comeback kid” is telling voters “Don’t Settle”—in life or on a moderate Republican presidential candidate.
On Monday I had a meeting on Capitol Hill with the chief of staff of a black representative in Congress. The subject: race and the 2012 election. Surprisingly, one topic that did not come up in the hour-long chat was the Washington Post front-page story on Sunday that seemed to portray Texas Gov. Rick Perry [...]
Even after weeks of fevered divination and his September Sermon on the Mount at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, it should surprise no one that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie isn’t running for President.
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has always worked according to her own clock and cared little for the timing of others. Through most of the summer, the smart money in Washington has been betting she would not run–and she’s checking in at just 9% in the latest national horse-race poll. But Palin has a way [...]
Herman Cain is surging and Rick Perry is cratering, in a new national poll as well as in Florida. Romney has staked out solid ground on the right of the immigration debate, but he might get stuck there. Romney vigorously defends Alwaki killing. Cain isn’t sure.
