Opinion: Cain's Flukey Win in Iowa Poll Says More About GOP Shuffling
The latest Iowa Poll has 23 percent of likely caucusgoers saying Herman Cain is their first choice, with Mitt Romney trailing with an indistinguishable 22 percent. Romney gets the vote of just 10...
View ArticleWatch: Perry's "Oops" Highlight of GOP Debate
1. Let's just get this one out of the way: Rick Perry, listing the three government cabinets he'd like to axe as president... stalled out at number three. "I will tell you, it is three agencies of...
View ArticleGOP Foreign Policy Debate: A Live Tweet Recap
This — the so-called "Commander-in-Chief" debate, hosted by CBS News and National Journal — was by far the most boring of the debates to date, at least if your standard for interesting is "sudden...
View ArticleOpinion: Bachmann, Paul and Huntsman Unfairly Excluded from Debate Questions
Think what you will about Ron Paul or Michele Bachmann or Jon Huntsman, they all have a legitimate point in their complaint that they were deliberately left out of the CBS debate on Saturday night.The...
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GOP Book Report: Highlights from the 2012 Campaign Reads
All but one GOP candidate released a book during this election cycle - Rick Santorum's last and only book came out in 2006. So what did voters learn about the candidates—their biographies, their...
View ArticleOpinion: The Questions We Should be Asking the GOP Candidates
We are now recovering from gazillionth GOP presidential debate, and there is no end in sight. The ratings show that people are enjoying watching the contenders slug it out, but they can obscure the...
View ArticleOpinion: Huntsman's Failure Shows GOP's Extremism Problem
It’s only a matter of time before it’s Rick Santorum’s turn.Why not? Why shouldn’t Rick get his moment at the head of the GOP pack? The merry-go-round of candidates who have shared the top spot...
View ArticleOpinion: Are You Smarter Than a Frontrunner?
Slammed as the Stupid Party, the GOP turns to Newt Gingrich as its new egghead savior.With just under five weeks to go before the Iowa caucuses mark the official start of the Presidential primary...
View ArticleOpinion: What the Cain Train Derailment Means for the GOP Field
In suspending his campaign Saturday, onetime presidential contender, short flash-in-the-pan, and former Godfather’s Pizza executive Herman Cain thundered, “I’m not going away!” Here's why that might...
View ArticleOpinion: Iowa Debate Report Card - Newt Wins by Not Losing
GOP Drake University Debate Results – Steffen Schmidt Saturday night's GOP debate in Des Moines, Iowa consolidated Newt Gingrich’s front-runner status. Although targeted by all the contenders and...
View ArticleRomney Tries to Reassure New Hampshire Voters
After taking a week off to campaign and fundraise elsewhere, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney returned on Sunday to New Hampshire, the only early state where he still holds his lead over...
View ArticleOpinion: Romney, Gingrich and the French Connection
"In France, for instance, I'm told that marriage is now frequently contracted in seven-year terms where either party may move on when their term is up. How shallow and how different from the Europe of...
View ArticleOpinion: Tonight's Debate is Ron Paul's Moment
There are those of us who watch politics the way other devotees tune into sports. Instead of checking out box scores, we scan the poll numbers. In both worlds, the players become celebrities - we...
View ArticleOpinion: Debate Report Card - Paul Flops, Bachmann Attacks, Perry as Tebow?
I had the opportunity to again live-blog the GOP debate in Sioux City, Iowa for WNYC and the Des Moines Register, and I must say from the get go that I was disappointed. It was largely an oops-free...
View ArticleOpinion: Be Thankful for Iowa
It's one week from showtime - the January 3 Iowa Caucuses are almost here. We are putting on our best faces, cleaning up the more than 1,700 caucus precinct sites, and getting ready for the national...
View ArticleOpinion: Let's Keep Our Paranoid Politics From Destabilizing America
The 2012 presidential election is turning out to be one of those tense and paranoid contests, much like the atmosphere surrounding the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was so hated and feared...
View ArticleOpinion: In Obama and Senate Wins, 2012 is Year of the Woman
There were many important results on election night and I was with a huge group of voters in Des Moines, Iowa as we covered the returns live. I talked to dozens of Iowa voters and can report some of...
View ArticleOpinion: The Ames Straw Poll is Woodstock for Politicos - Don't Kill it!
This week, Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, a Republican, said that it's time to kill off his party's Ames Straw Poll. Held every four years in the summer before the Iowa caucuses, the poll is both a...
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