Tag Archives: Elections

In the Talking Heads’ song “Once in a Lifetime” there is a moment when lead singer David Byrne awkwardly belts out a question: “How did I get here?” That’s the question Republicans should be asking themselves right now. Facing a … Continue reading →

Rick Santorum can take some satisfaction from the fact that he split the delegates from Mitt Romney’s home state of Michigan. But this functional tie doesn’t help Santorum much with the perception of momentum going into Super Tuesday. So just … Continue reading →

Mitt Romney dodged campaign disaster last night, pulling off a 3-point win over Rick Santorum in his home state of Michigan, while splitting the state’s delegates. But the real question is why the race was so close—and that says as … Continue reading →

All eyes are on the too-close-to-call Michigan primary—but paying too much attention to the popular vote there could miss the point. The real prize in this nomination fight is delegates, and Rick Santorum could win a majority of them in … Continue reading →

The 20th—and possibly final—Republican primary debate was messy at times, but it will leave a mark, not so much for the candidates’ successes but because of the missteps that were made and that might soon show up in an attack … Continue reading →

With Texas court-ordered to move its primary back to at least May 28, the delegate math it takes to win the GOP nomination just got a lot tougher. Now, the likelihood that any candidate will clinch the nomination before late … Continue reading →

After the epic fail of Iowa’s caucuses—falsely naming Mitt Romney the winner for more than a month—now it looks like there’s trouble brewing in the Maine caucuses as well. Romney was named the narrow winner in Maine on Saturday over … Continue reading →

Rick Santorum was a lawyer for professional wrestling. It sounds like a surreal plot of political pulp fiction, but it’s true. Back in the late 1980s, the family-values candidate played a central role in deregulating professional wrestling in Pennsylvania as … Continue reading →

This is the story of Newt and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. It is a tale of two caucus states where Newt was schooled by Rick Santorum in the ways of social-conservative voters and one state where … Continue reading →

“Killed bin Laden. Saved GM.” That’s a Dirty Harry–style slogan for Obama 2012—direct, unflinching, and unsentimental, no poetry or promises. It’s all about results. It can be remembered in a bar, and it fits on a bumper sticker.

Money, momentum and Mormons: these three factors gave Mitt Romney a convincing win in Saturday’s Nevada caucus. Mr. Romney was long expected to roll to victory in a state where he captured 51 percent of the vote four years ago. The … Continue reading →

As if to prove the point that this nomination race is far from over, Mitt Romney took to the airwaves Wednesday morning and promptly stepped on his lip. The occasion was a post-Florida victory lap interview with CNN’s Soledad O’Brien. … Continue reading →

No, it’s not your imagination. Things are uglier than ever in the Sunshine State. A staggering 92 percent of the political ads run in Florida over the last week of the campaign have been negative.