The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For May 18, 2012
What began in Indiana continued in Nebraska this week, as long-shot state Sen. Deb Fischer scored an underdog victory in Nebraska's GOP primary for th...
What began in Indiana continued in Nebraska this week, as long-shot state Sen. Deb Fischer scored an underdog victory in Nebraska's GOP primary for th...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.04.2012
This coming Tuesday, in Indiana, voters will go the polls in the GOP Senate primary to decide if they are going to stick with six-term Sen. Dick Lugar...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.20.2012
For as long a time as your Speculatroners have been dutifully cataloguing the damage that the primary process has been doing to Mitt Romney's brand, w...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.13.2012
This week, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum decided that the time to quit his upset bid had finally come. He shuttered a campaign that had risen...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.06.2012
So, did you hear? This week, the GOP nomination pretty much became a settled issue. Barring some accident or emergency (or some freaktastic alchemical...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.30.2012
This week the attention that's mainly been lavished on covering the 2012 campaign got reoriented, slightly, in the direction of the steps of the Supre...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.27.2012
Americans Elect, as you likely already know, is a goofy, secretive little group with a unique view on how to go about starting a third-party candidacy...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.23.2012
But as important as the win in Illinois was for cementing Team Romney's delegate realities, the most critical turn in the race wouldn't come until Wed...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.16.2012
Last week, after the dust had settled on Super Tuesday, we surmised that you couldn't really call the 2012 GOP primary contest a battle between Mitt R...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.09.2012
Bill Kristol says it's just getting started. Sarah Palin says all bets are off. Other GOP luminaries say that so far, what they've seen has been "a collective yawn." What are they talking about? The GOP race for the 2012 presidential nomination, that's what. And all of these assessments have been handed down from on high in the wake of Super Tuesday's results. But wasn't Super Tuesday a pretty unequivocal win for Mitt Romney, leaving him as the only candidate with a path to the nomination that doesn't require a series of miraculous events?
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.02.2012
With nothing but weeks of time to fill between Maine's Caucuses and this week's primaries, we heard unending talk about the importance of the Michigan...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.24.2012
For the bulk of the campaign season, we've been keenly aware that the GOP establishment-types had some grave misgivings over the fact that Mitt Romney...
The Huffington Post | Sara Kenigsberg | Posted 02.23.2012
Former Louisiana Gov. Charles "Buddy" Roemer formally announced his third party candidacy for president today from the headquarters of Yowie, a video ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.20.2012
This week, one of the few things that anyone found worth talking about in the 2012 race was the extent to which money was likely to determine everythi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.03.2012
Congratulations, America: you survived January of 2012, along with its four super-hyped primaries and its eleventy-billion debates. Your reward? A sno...
Death Race | Posted 04.03.2012
Buddy Roemer and Gary Johnson are considered boutique candidates, dismissed by the Republican party. And yet when you consider the level of crazytalk that has pervaded the Republican nominating contest, it becomes apparent the only thing keeping them from recognition is money.
John V. Santore | Posted 03.31.2012
This audio report on the Buddy Roemer presidential campaign features interviews with Krista Johnson and Joshua Fischer. Johnson was one of just 17 Iow...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.30.2012
So, yeah, this campaign season is getting ridiculous. Credit the candidates, we guess! From one week to the next, we have seen the race seesaw between...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.21.2012
This week, as the 2012 race for the GOP nomination swung into South Carolina for its "First in the South" primary, things seemed to come in pairs. ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.13.2012
With two primary contests in the books, we've arrived at the point where everyone has so much to say about so little and only a few more minutes befor...
AP | By ERICA WERNER | Posted 01.10.2012
WASHINGTON -- On the eve of the crucial New Hampshire primary, President Barack Obama told supporters Monday that the Republicans vying for his job ou...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.07.2012
The real reason that we put up with the idea of the Iowa Caucus, despite the quadrennial concerns that it allows a few people from a small state to ha...
The Huffington Post | Meghan Neal | Posted 02.15.2012
While the political world speculated who would win Tuesday night's 2012 Iowa caucus, oft-forgotten GOP presidential candidate Buddy Roemer was busy tw...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.02.2012
This is our last Speculatron Slideshow of the calendar year, everyone. When we next have the opportunity to relate all of the week's campaign highligh...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.23.2011
We'll be home for Christmas, as the saying goes, but sadly, our heroic 2012ers -- still foraging for votes in the wilds of Iowa -- won't be able to sa...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.18.2012