Cartoonist Lisa Benson on the president's reelection strategy.
Some good news and some bad news for Newt Gingrich today. The good: There are people who still think he has clout despite suspending his run for president. The bad: It's President Obama's team, and they're using Gingrich to go after Mitt Romney.
At a campaign stop in Columbus, Ohio, today, Rick Santorum derided President Obama's "agenda," saying it was based on "some phony theology." The Obama campaign, meanwhile, has begun to take him seriously as a contender.
The White House has announced that as a part of its compromise with religious groups who disagree with a new health care mandate around contraceptives, it will now shift the costs of contraceptives to insurance companies, instead of religious employers as it had initially planned.
It would take an act of God for Mitt Romney to lose today's Nevada caucuses, but Ron Paul has his eyes set on another race: Maine.
Cartoonist Tom Toles isn't so hopeful on the Republican hopefuls.
Rick Santorum's young daughter is hospitalized due to complications arising from a life-threatening genetic condition. The stars of TLC's 19 Kids and Counting will fill in for him on campaign stops.
Former pizza executive Herman Cain used sausage metaphors to endorse Newt Gingrich. Moments later, Gingrich defended his dream of colonizing the moon. Welcome to Decision 2012.
Cartoonist Steve Breen weighs in on Obama's GOP pick.
Sure he's talking about private health care, but this video is just waiting to be turned into an attack ad.
Cartoonist Lisa Benson sees some rough patches in Obama's 2012 campaign.
President Obama's presidential campaign effort unveiled a new strategy last night--asking his supporters (those subscribed to the President's mailing list) to submit the email addresses of their Republican acquaintances.
Cartoonist Tony Auth demystifies Newt Gingrich.
Cartoonist Tom Toles on Mitt Romney and his holiday wishes.
"In a conference call this morning, Herman Cain told his senior staff that he is 'reassessing' whether to remain in the race," reports National Review's Robert Costa.
After watching Rick Perry fumble, Buddy Roemer, the former Louisiana governor and congressman who is running for president but hasn't qualified in the polls for the televised debates, was dumbfounded: "Oh, how I wish I could be at just one of these debates."
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