CNN Poll: McCain Rockets to Big Lead

Posted: 11 Jan 2008 04:39 PM CST

CNN's new national survey, completed January 9-10 (443 Dem RV, 397; MoE +/-4.5%; GOP RV, MoE+/-5%), shows John McCain surging into a commanding lead after his win in New Hampshire on Tuesday:...

Rudy Aides Go Without Pay

Posted: 11 Jan 2008 01:06 PM CST

The Giuliani campaign has asked staffers to go without their January paychecks, MSNBC is reporting: "We have enough money, but we could always use more money," contended Mike DuHaime, Giuliani's...

Another Score for Obama

Posted: 11 Jan 2008 12:26 PM CST

Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano has endorsed Barack Obama....

Thoughts on Last Night

Posted: 11 Jan 2008 10:55 AM CST

Fred Thompson had the best night, but it seemed to me everyone had their moments. Romney gave a great answer on being an agent of change to fix a broken system, Thompson's answer on Pakistan was the...

McCain: 'Michigan Endorsed'

Posted: 11 Jan 2008 10:50 AM CST

Michigan newspapers agree:...

Edwards: 'Mill'

Posted: 11 Jan 2008 10:29 AM CST

Running in South Carolina: Fifty-four years? I'm know I'm not the only one who questions whether infant John believed in anything other than the baby bottle. Why not just say three decades? That's...

Hillary: Obama Was 'Part-Time' Senator

Posted: 11 Jan 2008 10:19 AM CST

Via TMP Cafe, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports from the trail: Clinton implied that Obama's career has mostly been spent running for office rather than governing. "He was a part-time state...

The Culinary Fight

Posted: 11 Jan 2008 09:31 AM CST

It's a bit of inside baseball, but Jon Ralston of the Las Vegas Sun has probably the most important column of the day on the battle that threatens to rip apart one of Nevada's most powerful unions:...

Mystery Solved!

Posted: 11 Jan 2008 08:48 AM CST

Last night's debate in South Carolina has produced two story-lines from the laptops of the national press corps: (1) McCain unscathed, and (2) Fred Thompson is back. The former seems true enough. The...

The Daily 2008

Posted: 11 Jan 2008 06:54 AM CST

On this day in 1989 Ronald Reagan gave his farewell address from the Oval Office: "All in all, not bad, not bad at all." Speaking of Reagan, here are today's top election stories: "Republicans Battle...

The Political Landscape After Iowa & NH

Posted: 12 Jan 2008 12:50 AM CST

Five elections. Five winners. Barack Obama (Iowa Democratic caucus), Mike Huckabee (Iowa Republican caucus), Mitt Romney (Wyoming Republican caucus, held Jan. 5 when no one was watching), Hillary...

GOP Candidates Go Supply-Side

Posted: 12 Jan 2008 12:40 AM CST

The New Hampshire primary may not have confirmed who's going to win the GOP nomination (or the Democratic nomination, for that matter). But it just may have told us where voting Republicans stand on...

Women vs. Oprah

Posted: 12 Jan 2008 12:30 AM CST

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The absence of Oprah Winfrey from the frantic four last days of the New Hampshire primary campaign after her heavy schedule in Iowa backing Sen. Barack Obama may be traced to...

Will Mayor Bloomberg Run?

Posted: 12 Jan 2008 12:25 AM CST

While Obama and Clinton wrestle and the four Republican candidates face one another, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's shadow increasingly falls over their playing field. Armed with as much...

George in Jihadland

Posted: 12 Jan 2008 12:25 AM CST

US President George W. Bush arrived in Israel at the start of an eight-day tour of the Middle East at an interesting moment. In the lead-up to his trip, enemy forces, of both the terrorist and state...

Immigration: A Modest Proposal

Posted: 11 Jan 2008 12:30 PM CST

No issue seems to excite the GOP base more than immigration and the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants already here. Politically correct Democrats maintain there are no illegals, only...

GOP 'Fusionism' Comes Un-Fused

Posted: 11 Jan 2008 12:00 PM CST

The battle in the Democratic primaries is less over the substance of the party's soul than over its style. Some critics have faulted Barack Obama for clinging to woozy generalities in his speeches...

The Long Battle to Come

Posted: 11 Jan 2008 08:00 AM CST

NASHUA, New Hampshire - There's a running joke in the Granite State that "New Hampshire has a history of correcting Iowa's mistakes." And while it's true Iowa and New Hampshire have frequently...