Presidential Candidates

The Good Guys: Young Candidates Demonstrate What Politics Could Be

Christina Gagnier | Posted 04.12.2012

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"Good guys" get elected when we stop electing the bad ones; we don't have to kowtow to large campaign budgets, flashy commercials and robocalls.

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Listening for the Voice of Aslan

Jim Wallis | Posted 04.12.2012

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Instead of voting for the candidates, the parties, and the Super-PACs, a new generation of believers will be voting for their values, their friends, and their own voices -- voting for us. And that is hopeful to me.

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Deep Voices Resonate With Voters, Speech Study Shows

| Karen Hopkin | Posted 03.15.2012

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Listen to this Podcast As voters vacillate among the contenders for the Republican nomination, it may matter less what the candidates say than ho...

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Tennessee College Kids Tell Us Which GOP Candidate Is The Craziest

Posted 03.06.2012

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To mark Super Tuesday, The Huffington Post teamed up with mtvU in an effort to take the political pulse on college campuses. We asked Vanderbilt Hu...

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GOP Candidate Defends Obama Against Santorum's 'Snob' Comment

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 02.29.2012

President Obama got support from an unlikely ally against GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum's "snob" comment -- namely, Newt Gingrich. Gingr...

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Debate Nation - The Need for Dialogue

Terry Newell | Posted 04.23.2012

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While conflict is built into our system of government (the Constitution enshrines political conflict and protects differences of expression), so is the need for consensus. We seem, of late, to be having far more of the former than the latter.

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How Do The Candidates Give?

Barbara Dobkin | Posted 04.01.2012

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We now know how wealthy some of our presidential candidates are -- but what we really need to know to judge each one's character is how they give those funds away.

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Romney's Oldest Son Links To Site That Makes Dig At Gingrich's Infidelities

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 01.30.2012

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Mitt Romney's oldest son, Tagg Romney, wrote on his Twitter feed Sunday afternoon: "This is my favorite video of the campaign so far." He added th...

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For Presidential Impersonators, Election Means Serious Business

HuffingtonPost.com | David Moye | Posted 01.14.2012

As the Iowa caucuses wound down, Dustin Gold began to panic. Suddenly Rick Santorum was the man of the moment, and Gold wasn't prepared. Gold is no...

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A Republican Candidate With a Difference

Marvin E. Quasniki | Posted 03.12.2012

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I'm Marvin E. Quasniki and I will be the next president of the United States. That's right, I said "I will be" and not "I would like to be," because frankly, I wouldn't like it. It's a terrible job. But our country's in the crapper and nobody else seems to be doing anything about it.

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MTV Asks: Do Politicians Care About Young People?

Posted 12.23.2011

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MTV has launched a brand new political campaign for young people called "The Power Of 12." So, what makes this one different from previous campaigns,...

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Gingrich Leads, But For How Long?

HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Blumenthal | Posted 12.09.2011

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WASHINGTON -- A slew of new polls shows Newt Gingrich leading the race for the Republican nomination, both nationally in three of the first four prima...

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Our Wordy Politics

Michael Brenner | Posted 02.01.2012

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The numerous Republican aspirants produce hundreds of thousands of words weekly. Yet the public's knowledge of who they are, their true convictions, what they might do about the country's problems -- and of those problems themselves -- is flat-lined. Why?

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Polls: Who Would Gain If Cain Quits?

HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Blumenthal | Posted 11.30.2011

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WASHINGTON -- If Herman Cain chooses to exit the presidential race, Newt Gingrich will likely see a modest increase in his lead over Mitt Romney in na...

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Students As School Janitors? This Politician Thinks So

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 11.21.2011

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Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich gave some insight into why he believes child labor laws condemn poor children to remain in poverty in ...

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Should a President Be Intelligent?

Gary Hart | Posted 01.19.2012

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Neither Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, nor John Kennedy were intellectual giants. But the keenness of their respective minds was revealed every day. And they were not threatened by smart people around them.

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The Most Epic Debate Fails

Posted 01.11.2012

Since the first nationally televised debate in 1960 (an event that was enshrined in history for launching John F. Kennedy to stardom), the broadcast e...

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FACT CHECK: Mitt Romney's Clunker Claim On Auto Bailout

AP | CALVIN WOODWARD and CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 01.09.2012

WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney's claim that President Barack Obama "gave GM" to the United Auto Workers stood as one of the overstatements of the nigh...

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Romney Flips On Issue Moments After Claiming Consistency

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.09.2012

Mitt Romney either fully flipped or struck a decidedly different note on the issue of extending the soon-to-be-expired payroll tax cut during the Repu...

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Mitt Romney Insists He 'Was Frankly Right' On Auto Bailout Stance

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 01.08.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney has made a very simple argument about his controversial stance regarding the auto bailouts of 2008 and 2009: He was right al...

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Vegas Debate Shows It's Romney Versus Perry

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.18.2011

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LAS VEGAS -- The Republican debate here Tuesday night made one thing very clear: It's Romney versus Perry. Rick Perry, the Texas governor, has fall...

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GOP Candidate Goes After Former Boss — President Obama

AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 12.10.2011

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HOOKSETT, N.H. — Republican presidential contender Jon Huntsman on Monday called for scaling back U.S. involvement in international conflicts &n...

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Observers Praise Romney, Paul And Perry Ground Games

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 11.30.2011

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Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and Ron Paul are said to have the best ground games in the early primary states, according to local Republican insiders in New...

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On the Republican Menu? Indigestion.

Rick Horowitz | Posted 11.29.2011

George Orlando Pickemright -- "G.O.P." to his friends, and he has millions of friends -- has a menu in his hands, and a hole in his soul. Where there ought to be passion -- the white heat of unbridled appetite -- he feels only vague stirrings.

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LIVE UPDATES: GOP Candidates Face Off In Sunshine State Debate

Posted 11.22.2011

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Nine candidates vying for the Republican presidential nomination are facing off in a primary debate in Florida on Thursday night. The two-hour eve...

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