Two of the leading Republican presidential candidates spent more than they raised this summer, according to campaign finance reports filed yesterday, ...
Art Levine | Posted 10.15.2007 | Politics
You've got a chance to show that the conventional wisdom is wrong, because some GOP members are feeling the heat.
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Roston | Posted 10.15.2007 | Politics
Senator John McCain has announced that he will participate in a Spanish-language presidential candidates' forum on Univision. The event on the Spanis...
Mark Green | Posted 10.15.2007 | Politics
Pro-war and anti-growth, anti-minorities, anti-children. Not a good way to run for election. And variety of other realities combine to dig Republicans into an even deeper hole.
AP | Phillip Elliott | Posted 10.14.2007 | Politics
Mitt Romney was in Michigan, Colorado, Arizona and Nevada and then went back to Michigan. Rudy Giuliani visited Florida, Michigan, South Carolina, Ala...
AP | David Espo | Posted 10.14.2007 | Politics
Rep. David Hobson, a nine-term Republican from Ohio, announced plans to retire Sunday, the 12th member of his party to do so since the beginning of th...
AP | Charles Babington | Posted 10.12.2007 | Politics
Larry who? Now that scandal-tinged Idaho Sen. Larry Craig has reneged on a pledge to resign this fall, his fellow Republican senators act as though t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Roston | Posted 10.12.2007 | Politics
While the Democratic candidates for president have naturally raced to get statements out about Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize win, Republican candidates...
Michael Roston | Posted 10.11.2007 | Politics
The Republicans have decided to take a page out of the progressive playbook. In the days to come, watch for them to argue that the Democratic legislation will harm civil liberties.
Sherman Yellen | Posted 10.10.2007 | Politics
This past week felt like a bad sci-fi movie released by the moguls of Washington. Many of the Republican notables have finally broken out of their p...
Nathaniel Bach | Posted 10.10.2007 | Home
Apparently, "Ask Mitt Anything" town hall events come with a Barry Bonds-sized asterisk.
Politico.com | Roger Simon | Posted 10.08.2007 | Home
All he has to do is not fall asleep. All he has to do is not throw up. All he has to do is not drool. Has there ever been a major presidential c...
AP via ABC News | Posted 10.07.2007 | Home
Sen. Larry Craig has been chosen for induction into the Idaho Hall of Fame, despite his well-publicized arrest and guilty plea in an airport sex sting...
Washington Post | Peter Baker | Posted 10.06.2007 | Home
It had been four days since Meghan O'Sullivan left her job at the White House. Just four days since she gave up her Secret Service pass, her classifie...
The New York Times | LAURIE GOODSTEIN | Posted 10.06.2007 | Home
AFTER the 2004 elections, religious conservatives were riding high. Newly anointed by pundits as "values voters" -- a more flattering label than "reli...
CNN | Posted 10.06.2007 | Home
In South Carolina, the former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson's campaign is fond of pointing out their boss' Southern-fried heritage. "I think first of ...
AP | LARRY O'DELL | Posted 10.06.2007 | Home
U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Davis, a Republican who represented southeastern Virginia for seven years, died Saturday morning after a two-year battle with breast ...
AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 10.05.2007 | Home
Mitt Romney once said financing his own campaign would be a "nightmare." Writing checks, he said this week, is "painful." It doesn't seem to be stoppi...
New York Times | Michael Powell | Posted 10.04.2007 | Home
So what should a mayor do? Just let constituents call his weekly radio program on WABC -- the one called "Live From City Hall ... With Rudy Giuliani" ...
Nathaniel Bach | Posted 10.03.2007 | Home
At last weekend's Council of National Policy meeting, what emerged was that its members will consider throwing their weight behind a third-party candidate should Giuliani win the nomination.
HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 09.30.2007 | Politics
After convention speeches by the two Pats - Robertson and Buchanan - in 1992 helped elect Bill Clinton, organizers of the GOP's quadrennial gatherings...
AP | David Espo | Posted 09.29.2007 | Home
It is gallows humor time for Republicans in Congress, where one lawmaker jokes that "there's talk about us going the way of the Whigs," the 19th centu...
The New York Times' "The Caucus" Blog | Jennifer Steinhauer | Posted 09.28.2007 | Home
An effort to change the way electoral votes are apportioned in California has been stunningly abandoned and left for dead, even though most voters did...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 09.28.2007 | Politics
In a debate at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley in May, the GOP candidates tipped their hand on how they aim to get their votes in 2008.
Donald E. Scoggins | Posted 09.27.2007 | Politics
As successful businesses do, the GOP must locate new markets or face the prospect of declining market share.
Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack...
John McCain's famously cozy relationship with the press is getting a bit testy. Taking questions in...
**UPDATE 7/25** ThinkProgress now reports that the bar...
There is one more John McCain gaffe that...
As we have observed throughout the last several years,...
In a flagrant political act, the State Department has...
Major news organizations are drawing...
"Extra" has learned that Heather Mills' publicist, Michele Elyzabeth, has...
Will the mainstream media cover the John Edwards love child scandal put out there by the...
I have a wait problem. I hate to wait. When...
WASHINGTON — Congress approved mortgage relief for 400,000...
Ashcroft Claims Waterboarding...
New York Times | MICHAEL COOPER and ARON PILHOFER | Posted 10.15.2007 | Politics