Hoping for lightning to strike in next year’s South Carolina primary — a key early battleground state in the Republican presidential sweepstakes — former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum generated some thunder on the right this weekend when he announced several key additions to his fledgling […]

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann appear headed for a real dogfight in Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucus, according to a poll published earlier this evening by the Des Moines Register. The poll, based on telephone interviews of 400 likely Republican caucus-goers, shows […]

Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann, who will make a pair of television appearances tomorrow in advance of her formal declaration of candidacy on Monday — appearing on both CBS’s “Face the Nation” and “Fox News Sunday” — is running a 60-second radio spot in Iowa […]

American Crossroads, one of two outside organizations founded by Karl Rove and former RNC chairman Ed Gillespie that played such a large role in the 2010 mid-term elections, is launching a new television commercial slamming President Obama on the economy. The hard-hitting 30-second spot, which is […]

U.S. Rep. Thad McCotter of Michigan — the darkest of dark-horse candidates — secured a spot in the Ames Straw Poll yesterday, the clearest indication yet that the folksy, guitar-playing congressman is seriously considering jumping into the fray. Long regarded as the most prominent straw […]

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann told the National Right to Life convention in Jacksonville, Florida, earlier today that the GOP shouldn’t nominate somebody who hasn’t been consistent on the issue of abortion. Without mentioning frontrunner Mitt Romney by name, the Minnesota congresswoman said that this was […]

Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson told CNN on Thursday that he has no intention of seeking the Libertarian Party’s presidential nomination in 2012. “The idea of getting elected actually appeals to me more,” said Johnson, who will appear on CNN’s “John King, USA” tomorrow night. Former […]

The tiny Prohibition Party, once a significant third party in American politics, nominated little-known Jack Fellure, a retired engineer and Baptist minister from West Virginia, for the nation’s highest office earlier today at its sparsely-attended national convention in Cullman, Alabama. A newcomer to the dry […]

Coming on the heels of another disastrous day in what has thus far been a pretty rocky campaign, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said that he’s not interested in talking about the problems that have plagued his candidacy in recent weeks. He’s more […]

Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who delivered a fiery speech to the Republican Leadership Conference yesterday, won a resounding victory in the organization’s presidential straw poll earlier today, defeating his nearest rival, Jon Huntsman, by 230 votes. Paul, who has won a string of straw polls in […]