Everyone has wondered who the Sarah Palin of 2012 would be. The answer is…Sarah Palin....
HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 05.16.2012
With a new TV ad, an independent anti-incumbent super PAC is lobbing allegations of corruption into the congressional primary race heating up in El Pa...
Stewart J. Lawrence | Posted 05.23.2012
For the umpteenth time and counting, pundits and politicians -- Democrats and Republicans alike -- are predicting Mitt Romney's "inevitability" as the...
AP | WILL WEISSERT | Posted 05.22.2012
SAN ANTONIO — Presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Thursday said Republicans should give President Barack Obama another term if Santorum isn'...
Stewart J. Lawrence | Posted 05.16.2012
California has never mattered much in Republican presidential politics. But the Golden State seems destined to regain the political spotlight in 2012 because its June 5th primary is the last of the major delegate-rich contests in a GOP race that's beginning to look hopelessly deadlocked.
Posted 03.10.2012
The recent agreement reached between Democrats and Republicans over the Texas redistricting process broke an impasse that already caused postponing th...
Stewart J. Lawrence | Posted 05.05.2012
For all the attention now being given to the fiercely contested contest between Romney and Santorum in Ohio, Gingrich's expected win in Georgia could partially upstage them.
AP | CHRIS TOMLINSON and PAUL J. WEBER | Posted 04.30.2012
AUSTIN, Texas — Disheartened and angry over the latest Texas voting maps handed down by federal judges, Democrats and minority rights groups loo...
AP | PAUL J. WEBER | Posted 04.16.2012
SAN ANTONIO — The Texas primary, which once loomed as the biggest prize of next month's Super Tuesday and a possible kingmaker in the Republican...
Barrett Brown | Posted 05.25.2011
Palin backers have gone so far as to compare their favorite to Lady Margaret Thatcher. And so I will do likewise. In fact, I'm going to one-up all the Palinistas by pretending that Palin actually is Margaret Thatcher.
Dave Weigel | Jeff Muskus | Posted 05.25.2011
There's mostly gallows humor to be had in the campaign of Kesha Rogers, a member of the amazingly resilient Lyndon LaRouche cult who snuck past two ma...
Nancy L. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011
Democrats learned that calling out the extremists on the Right is electoral gold. But this year they can't rely solely on reasonable Republicans and Independents staying home in disgust.
Lauren DeLisa Coleman | Posted 05.25.2011
It seems that by looking at "user engagement signals" from number of re-tweets on Twitter to views and embeds on YouTube and much, one can begin to gauge societal sentiment in a surprisingly accurate manner.
AP | KELLEY SHANNON | Posted 05.25.2011
AUSTIN, Texas — Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison conceded the Republican nomination for Texas governor to Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday following a heated...
Time | Posted 05.25.2011
Washington has always been bad in the eyes of Texas, but more so nowadays than ever. And so the Lone Star State's governor, Rick Perry, wrapped up his...
Amy B. Dean | Posted 05.25.2011
Texas is ready to hear the message of Linda Chavez-Thompson, candidate for Lieutenant Governor.
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011
I can't wait to read Game Change, Mark Halperin's and John Heilemann's salacious new book about the 2008 presidential race, because they apparently rush in where I feared to tread when I was there.
Rachel Farris | Posted 05.25.2011
Ambassador Tom Schieffer, you wannabe-Democratic-nominee-for-Governor of Texas, hoping to skim past the primary, you have friends who are "no tells-ies" of your own.
Jonah Lalas | Posted 05.25.2011
It is early morning on August 28th at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. While thousands of delegates and enthusiastic supporters were rec...
The Swamp | Rick Pearson | Posted 05.25.2011
Democrat Hillary Clinton made it clear to reporters aboard her campaign plane today that in the final days of the Texas-Ohio delegate spectacular, her...
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011
It was a waiting room in Limbo, act three of Jean Paul Sartre play. Most the four hundred in the cafeteria had fallen into resignation, if not coma. ...
Daniel Nichanian | Posted 05.25.2011
Monday's polls hinted at a Clinton comeback in Ohio and in Texas, which prepared us for what came yesterday night. Now, surveys are registering Clinto...
Deanie Mills | Posted 05.25.2011
Nobody knew what to do with half a delegate. Some conferring took place. They said we'd have to toss a coin -- the other delegate and me. Hillary or Barack? Heads or Tails? Oh Lord how I wish I were kidding.
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011
The difference between the Clinton and Obama Texas ground games going into the Tuesday Two-Step is this: the Clinton field organizers don't know what...
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011
Before it ever happened, it's already over. That was the feeling last night at the small Obama rally in Houston less than twenty-four hours before th...
Politico | Posted 05.29.2012