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Barack Obama is speaking right now before a roomful of Jewish leaders at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual conference, and Hillary Clinton’s up next. Clinton isn’t expected to concede today, but imagine the favor she’d be doing Obama Read More...
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After Mitt Romney endorsed McCain last month, we figured Romney would crawl into a cave, never to return until 2012. The strained smiles, the too-tight handshakes—it felt like a testy family reunion. But since then, Romney has said repeatedly that he Read More...
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Mitt Romney’s endorsement of John McCain today was a fitting coda to his campaign, if only because you couldn't believe a single thing coming out of his mouth. (At least he knows how to do a proper endorsement, unlike Fred Thompson, who might as well Read More...
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About five minutes before Mitt Romney strode onstage at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., text messages started flying around the room. Romney was dropping out. Laura Ingraham was introducing Romney, but it sure sounded Read More...
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Mitt Romney is pulling out of the Republican race today, most likely after realizing he was mathematically eliminated from winning the nomination. Rather than pray for a brokered convention that turns to him as the party's savior, he's pulling out now Read More...
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Mitt Romney's time has come. But will he admit it? Romney has won six primaries and caucuses tonight. None of them matters. The two primaries—Utah and Massachusetts—took place in his home state. Four caucuses—North Dakota, Colorado, Montana, and Minnesota—have Read More...
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CNN just called a slew of states for McCain, Clinton, and Obama. Here's why none of them are suprising: Connecticut, New Jersey for McCain: McCain had Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani backing him. Oklahoma for Clinton: Read More...
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Poor Mitt. Even when he does something right, he still screws it up. Today at the West Virginia GOP convention , Mitt Romney finished in a strong first place--on the first ballot. Romney racked up 40.9 percent to Huckabee's 33.1 percent after the first Read More...
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Just because we didn’t live-blog doesn’t mean we didn’t watch the debate. For what it’s worth, we’re adding our belated thoughts to the cacophony of instant reaction . The executive summary: Nobody screwed up, only Romney helped himself. John McCain : Read More...
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Another presidency just opened up. Gordon B. Hinckley, president and "prophet" of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, died yesterday at the age of 97. We're always on the lookout for political omens , and this one can't be good for Mitt Romney. Read More...
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Did George Bush pass his bulge down to Mitt Romney? In 2004, Bush infamously had a giant, microphonelike bump on his back during a debate against John Kerry. Rumors were flying that Bush had a direct line to Karl Rove during the debate and that Rove was Read More...
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The holy grail of campaign opposition research is the perfect metaphor: an activity or hobby or object that captures a politician's character. For George W. Bush, the metaphor has been his ranch, allowing Hillary Clinton to describe his foreign policy Read More...
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Sometimes it feels unfair to take a person's small moment and blow it up to Cloverfield proportions. But when that person is Mitt Romney and the small moment is him trying to endear himself to black people, it’s impossible not to. In the first moment, Read More...
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Fred Thompson, in his withdrawal way-out-of-first-place speech, finally looked and sounded presidential. But, alas, his time has finally come, whether or not he wants to realize it—and it's all Ronald Reagan's fault. Thompson reached the most stirring Read More...
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Juicy bits from CNN's exit polls : Mike Huckabee and John McCain are in a tight race at the top. Young voters lean toward Huckabee, but seniors greatly favor McCain. This isn't surprising but could be a major factor if older voters turned out in greater Read More...
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In a caucus that nobody cared about, Mitt Romney is the predicted winner of the Republican contest in Nevada today. Yay for Mitt. Romney and Ron Paul were the only two candidates who paid any attention to Nevada, which lost its importance when South Carolina Read More...
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It seems home is where the votes are. Mitt Romney has won in Michigan, and we owe him at least a moment so he can bask in his gold-medal glory ... Now, with that out of the way, let's begin the dissection. A lot of the story line coming out of Romney's Read More...
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Perhaps wolverines do hibernate after all. Reports out of Michigan today suggest people didn't feel like plowing through inches of snow to vote in a primary that doesn’t matter for Democrats and sort of matters for Republicans (mainly if Romney loses). Read More...
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When all is said and done, Michigan Democrats may have more viable choices on the ballot than most other voters. Originally, Michigan residents thought that they would only be able to vote for Hillary Clinton, Dennis Kucinich, or Mike Gravel at their Read More...
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Mitt Romney, in his (sort-of) concession speech this evening, has picked up a new (to us) verbal tic. He listed a variety of Washington's failures and then said Washington promised to fix them. Then he said, over and over again after each point, "but Read More...
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