Manchester, N.H.
After months of good fortune, Mitt Romney is having a particularly blessed week. Chris Christie’s announcement Tuesday that he will forgo a presidential bid cleared the field of a hefty obstacle –a moderate …
Manchester, N.H.
After months of good fortune, Mitt Romney is having a particularly blessed week. Chris Christie’s announcement Tuesday that he will forgo a presidential bid cleared the field of a hefty obstacle –a moderate …
Two days after Jon Huntsman said his presidential campaign would be “singularly” focused on New Hampshire, his team announced plans to plant its flag permanently in the Granite State, shifting its national headquarters from Orlando to Manchester.
The move reflects a stark reality: without a strong showing in the nation’s first primary …
Presidential campaigns are so 2008, like boyfriend jeans or Tila Tequila. If you want to win the White House these days, “Super PACs” are the thing to have.
0 minutes. Presidential debates come and go. But tonight’s GOP debate, the fourth in a series too numerous to bear, is a special treat. “We are all gathered under the wings of Air Force One,” says NBC’s Brian Williams, …
Mitt Romney’s second presidential run has largely focused on a single theme: Barack Obama has bungled the economy, and I’m the guy who can fix it. Romney points to his business and management expertise, honed in the boardrooms of …
After a spring of embarrassing ephemera (remember Donald Trump’s painful presidential flirtation/publicity tour?) and a summer of high-octane campaign kickoffs (Michele Bachmann, Jon Huntsman) that haven’t sustained much …
Jon Huntsman is mired in the cellar of presidential primary polls and battling the perception that his brand of conservatism may be better suited for a bygone era. His campaign needs a jolt of energy, and he’s hoping that the economic agenda he outlined during a Wednesday speech at a Hudson, N.H., manufacturing company will provide …
Jon Huntsman, who is running last in the latest Gallup poll and first in the magazine-profile primary, earned another encomium this week, this one from Michael Brendan Dougherty of The American Conservative. The piece does a good …
Presidential campaigns are all about the future, yet they take place in the present and rest upon the past. A candidate’s record, and performance in debates and on the trail, are what a voter has to go on. So the records of the Republican candidates when it comes to fiscal responsibility matter, especially in a nomination campaign that …
Say what you will about the Iowa straw poll. (“Good-natured fraud,” says Walter Shapiro. “Not very predictive,” says Jon Stewart. “Overhyped, underwhelming,” says Michael Crowley.) But no one can deny that the event …
It seems every week there is a story about Michele Bachmann that leads to a battle over whether said story was sexist. Her migraines. The money she spends on makeup. A mention of her being photogenic. Bachmann’s gender is not …
With each passing week, Texas Governor Rick Perry seems to be inching closer to a run for the presidency. His supporters have been calling around to social conservatives urging them to keep their powder dry. Conservative kingmakers have begun to discuss Perry as the only one who checks both the “conservative” and “electability” …
Jon Huntsman’s presidential campaign manager resigned on Thursday, just a month after the former Utah governor kicked off his bid for the White House. The departure of Susie Wiles, a former campaign manager for Florida Governor Rick Scott who helped guide the decision to base the campaign in Orlando, comes as Huntsman has struggled to …