- $10 million in political TV advertising has been broadcast in Iowa this month; Perry, Romney and their respective PACs account for 80% of it.
- Romney’s campaign says he has the nomination all locked up.
- There are scenarios where he could lose, but not so many.
- The rise of absentee voting in Florida could decide its primary early.
- Gingrich runs afoul of paper trails on his first divorce and feelings about Romneycare.
- He won’t make the ballot in Virginia–a setback his campaign equates to Pearl Harbor–and the backstory is bizarre.
- It’s never too late for Bill Kristol.
- Ron Paul’s evolution on newsletter authorship.
- U.S. social mobility is becoming myth.
- Our debt is still golden.
- Congress didn’t feel the recession.
- America’s conflicted on inequality.
- The administration will let Yemen’s Saleh into the U.S. for medical treatment.
- Andrew Exum thinks it’s a bad idea.
- And Obama gets a faceful of baby.
