With an ongoing debt crisis, two wars, and a drought across much of the country, what better way for members of Congress to spend their time than to r...

It's Monday, and are people any happier with the current state of the GOP field? I mean, Jon Huntsman is going to join up this week! How does that gra...

After spending the past two weeks taking two steps back for every one step forward in terms of making a run for the presidency, South Dakota Republica...

Last week, it was reported in Politico that Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) was leaning against running for president. On Thursday, Carl Cameron of Fox News ...

John Thune is on every short list of Republican presidential prospects, which for most people raises two questions: Who? And why?...

But on two of the three major political exchanges -- markets in which users bet on or buy stocklike futures contracts for candidates they think will w...

Grover Norquist, president of the conservative advocacy group Americans for Tax Relief, said recently that if Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) wants to be con...

Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), a potential 2012 presidential candidate, appeared to unofficially launch one of the first salvos in the forthcoming GOP prim...

In a calmer climate, Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) makes for a credible presidential candidate. However, he carries with him what has turned out to be, in this election cycle, a black mark: He voted for the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

Today's candidate filing deadline in South Dakota marks the start of serious talk about Sen. John Thune's potential presidential campaign in 2012....