On Current TV, Countdown guest host David Shuster and I discuss Rick Santorum's recent victories and whether Mitt Romney's massive campaign budget is paying off:

"The silver lining for Romney here is, with Santorum doing so well, the conservative vote is still split -- assuming Gingrich can stay...

Newt's Fantasy Campaign software needs an upgrade if he is to go on. But after badly losing the Nevada caucuses reality seemed to creep into his thinking, suggesting that even he knows his quest has become largely theoretical.

During a rambling late-night press conference Gingrich chose less-than-certain words to describe...

Current TV's "Young Turks" Host Cenk Uygur asks the panel -- Michael Shure, Ben Mankiewicz, Craig Crawford and USC professor Ange-Marie Hancock -- a question from the live chat: With negative ads such a winning strategy for Romney in Florida, how negative will President Obama go, and when? "I'm a...

Could Newt Gingrich's humiliation of Mitt Romney in South Carolina, if repeated in Florida, lead to a brokered convention? Chatting here with Keith Olbermann about the possibilities.

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Mitt Romney pretty much lost it today with an apparent Occupy Wall Street protester, once again revealing a typically tone-deaf, 1960s "America: Love It or Leave It" mentality.

Romney was walking the rope line outside his headquarters in Charleston, S.C. on Thursday when a person off-camera asked, "What would you...

Romney now says big government is anti-American but he wasn't shy about feeding on the federal trough when he got the chance.

As a self-described "capitalist" he successfully lobbied the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to forgive his company's debts.

Romney's rescue of a business consulting firm was...

It's a state bordering on 10 percent unemployment having suffered decades of plant closings at the hands of Wall Street predators. Will South Carolina voters be receptive to the argument by Mitt Romney's GOP rivals New Gingrich and Rick Perry that his record in business as CEO of Bain Capital...

The Mitt Romney coronation routine runs afoul of a simple fact: After all the hoopla about Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina only 1.3% of the GOP's nominating delegates will have been chosen.

Only until we get to Florida's primary at the end of this month do we reach a...

From my GOP debate notebook:

• My One-word review: Mitt ("unflappable"); Newt ("tiresome"); Santorum ("sad"); Paul ("gone"); Perry ("foolish"); Huntsman ("pretty").
• Debate reversal: Candidates played their own drinking game: How many times would moderators ask about gay marriage instead of jobs?
• Even sadder than debate itself, ABC pundits desperately...

President Obama's campaign team should spend big bucks now on massive television ads to define Mitt Romney as the job-killing rich snob who favors privatizing Medicare that he is. Miss this moment as the GOP frontrunner is introduced to millions of Americans and Democrats, risk letting Romney define himself as...

Rick Santorum gripes about "blacks" getting welfare, Newt Gingrich calls Obama a "food stamp president," Mitt Romney parrots the KKK line, "America for Americans" and the list goes on. Republicans haven't evolved since Ronald Reagan talked about "welfare queens," quoted Jefferson Davis in Macon, GA, and pointedly visited Philadelphia, Mississippi...

Why Iowa shouldn't matter:

1. Caucuses don't even pick binding convention delegates.

2. The winner's raw vote total would fill one fourth of an NFL stadium.

3. Only 100,000 of the state's 3 million residents participate.

4. Presidents Gephardt, Huckabee, Harkin, Robertson.

5. Saying its worth is "winnowing" the field...

A great journalist, and my longtime friend, Sean Holton lost his 28-month battle with brain cancer this week, but not without leaving behind a journal of his struggle that inspired family, friends, and colleagues -- plus thousands who had never even met him, especially those who are dealing with cancer...

Forget the doomsday scenarios for the so-called Super Committee's failure to agree on debt reduction. Congress set this thing up to fail by making sure the consequences are not really as severe as advertised, leaving plenty of time for lawmakers to change anything they like. And President Obama's threat today...

My best friend -- and finest journalist I've ever known -- Sean Holton determinedly took a break from brain cancer yesterday to post this response to Facebook well-wishers:

"Thanks to all who have left so many encouraging messages of support on my wall during the past couple of...

It's President Obama's version of "Make My Day." He's moved on from "Pass This Bill" to "We Can't Wait." But in reality he's saying to Republicans, "I can't wait for you not to pass my bill." For ill or good, the Democratic strategy is all about winning by losing. The...

The political graveyard is littered with flat taxers. What better sign of Rick Perry's desperation than his embrace of a tax plan that the public always ends up rejecting once the details come forth.

Clearly a ploy to derail Herman Cain with his own tax cartoon, Perry's flat-tax...

Here's something protesters could get worked up about: President Obama caves to industry and savages his own health reform law, beating Republicans to the punch.

Citing cost concerns, the White House announced last week it has scrapped the long-term insurance program that was a key part of the President's...

What's the deal with wondering what can be done about corporate excess? Occupy Wall Street protesters are getting slammed for supposedly having no solutions, but there are plenty.

Tax computer-generated trades. Abolish subprime mortgages. De-regulate shareholder lawsuits. End corporate tax loopholes. Encourage employee ownership. Punish exporting jobs. And how...

Four decades and seven years ago, on May 2, 1964, a few hundred protesters in New York's Times Square were among the first who dared to challenge the war in Vietnam. It would take another few years for the nation to catch on, but it did -- and our government...