Newt Gingrich will "debate" Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday, his second big appearance on an NBC political show in less than a week.
President Obama's reelection team was quick to conjure the horror of a Mitt Romney victory in November in an email to supporters Tuesday, but maybe they jumped the gun. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
It was unfair to ignore him before voting had begun. But now it has, and Paul is losing. And so the reporters are assigned to cover his campaign are dwindling.
Obama adviser David Axelrod not-so-gently teased Mitt Romney after his disappointing Southern Super Tuesday, tweeting, "You know what they say: as America Samoa goes, so goes the nation!"
What hurts Newt Gingrich the most about his second-place finish in Alabama and Mississippi Tuesday? That his southern brethren didn't back him? That conservative leaders are now screaming for him to pull out of the Republican presidential race?
This is it, you guys: the very last chance all primary -- maybe all election -- to try out your jazziest Dixieland cliches.
Newt Gingrich sure looked bored while he read his own campaign website on the Rick & Bubba radio show in Alabama Tuesday.
Rick Santorum isn't having a great day, from an embarrassing typo to a retracted endorsement and admitting he didn't do all that well on Super Tuesday.
There's a chance -- just a chance -- that the Republican primary will finally end tonight if Mississippi and Alabama pick Mitt Romney.
Newsflash: Some of Mitt Romney's good friends own football teams. That's in addition to his great friends who own NASCAR teams.
Obama strategist David Axelrod tweeted a not-quite-decipherable message Monday that included a link to a story about Mormon women being erroneously barred from some official ceremonies because they were menstruating. Then he deleted the tweet.
President Obama opened a wide lead over Mitt Romney in the last few weeks, but three polls show Romney now beating Obama in the 2012 election. But if you write about that on Facebook, it could cost you friends. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Rick Santorum can appeal to those those blue-collar workers that brittle rich guy Mitt Romney can't reach because… wait, why exactly?
The Republican candidates are finishing up their last minute pitches to voters who usually don't get that much attention -- those in Alabama and Mississippi.
Newt Gingrich's spokesman on Sunday dismissed speculation about a potential Gingrich-Rick Perry ticket being announced before the Republican National Convention in August, saying the two camps have not discussed the idea "at any level."
Is the time right for Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum to get out of the Republican primary? We looked back at the media coverage of the last three weeks of several doomed campaigns and found Three Signs of Campaign End Times.
There are two ways to look at campaign playlists. The first is that it's just a bunch of songs that have a lively enough beat to keep the crowd energetic and happy. The second is that every single artist and tune is selected to subtly communicate messages about the candidate and his policies.
We all know that if Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich want to be the Republican presidential nominee, they have to win more states. But they also have to win by large margins.
The Romney campaign's new effort to woo reporters -- sometimes with booze -- might be coming a bit too late. On Friday The New York Times explores the striking similarity between Mitt Romney and George H. W. Bush, while Politico notes how much Romney has in common with Bob Dole.
Super Tuesday wasn't a great day for any of the candidates, but it wasn't so bad that any of them will drop out. What's next for each of them?
There's a bit of a debate over whether Mitt Romney lost by winning six states on Super Tuesday, but there's no disputing that Ron Paul had a bad night by winning zero.
The crowd loved Rick Santorum's victory speech in Steubenville, Ohio on Super Tuesday night, but if you look at Santorum's face, it sure looks like he didn't.
Here are the results from the 10 states that held Republican presidential primaries March 6.
Newt Gingrich looked the happiest he's been in many Tuesdays during his victory speech in Atlanta on Super Tuesday. Gingrich easily won his homestate, Georgia, and then gave a speech that seemed to take a very bloggy format: the roundup.
Mitt Romney is feeling so good about the 10 states voting today that he and his wife are flying home to Boston. We'll be liveblogging the returns as soon as results start coming in.
Ten states vote in the Republican presidential primary Tuesday, and a couple interesting things could happen -- like that Ron Paul might actually win something.
As Rick Santorum's slipped a little in Ohio, he's slipped a lot nationally. And while he and Mitt Romney continue to tear each other down, they're not hurting President Obama -- he's polling even with an unnamed Republican candidate in Georgia. Here's our guide to today's polls and which ones matter:
Some Republican officials are worried about how the presidential primary has damaged the party's brand -- the top two candidates are viewed negatively by a plurality of Americans -- and they're hoping Super Tuesday will be the grand finale.
Mitt Romney makes it five for five with a win in Washington State, while his closest competitor is forced to backtrack on his "snob" comments about the president. But Ohio is still anyone's game.
There's a word that's starting to pop up with some frequency in the coverage of the 2012 Republican presidential primary -- "suicidal." Why is that?
The states voting in the next few days are supposed to be less friendly turf for Mitt Romney, but polls show he's doing not too bad. Meanwhile Newt Gingrich, who's been aiming to own the South on Super Tuesday, has a long way to climb and not much time to do it.
Mitt Romney has been attacking Rick Santorum for growing the government for weeks, but in 2002, back when Santorum was in Congress making those earmarks, Romney was bragging how good he was at securing them.
Mitt Romney finally found an army of real die-hard fans -- something we've searched for for months -- not in his home state, but in Idaho.
President Obama hasn't been cool on college campuses for months, so you could hardly expect young people to be excited to vote for the so-four-years-ago president. Poll numbers showing a 28 percentage point drop in enthusiasm among Democrats under 30 should alarm Obama's reelection campaign.
Could Newt Gingrich, of all people, think he's got an opportunity with Republican women?
It's not just journalists and political nerds fantasizing about a brokered convention for Republicans in August. Now, even Sarah Palin is talking about it.
You'd think Mitt Romney had a good night last night if you just looked at the numbers. But you're probably not just reading the numbers.
Mitt Romney came from behind to beat Rick Santorum in Michigan Tuesday night, avoiding a loss that would have been a "disaster," maybe his "Chernobyl."
While Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney are fighting over Michigan, Newt Gingrich is on a roadtrip through the South, the last place his poll numbers remain decent.
Mitt Romney annoyed a couple conservatives Tuesday by saying, "It's very easy to excite the base with incendiary comments" at a press conference in Michigan.
Tuesday's votes in the Republican presidential primaries in Michigan and Arizona are the biggest tests Mitt Romney's faced since all the other big tests he's faced, but no matter the outcome, the narratives of what happens next have already been written.
RIck Santorum and Mitt Romney are polling so close in Michigan that some are predicting a Bush vs. Gore situation, with one winning the popular vote and the other winning the most delegates.
President Obama's plans to help homeowners have so far come up short time and again. But how about the Republican presidential candidates: What do they say should be done about the foreclosure crisis?
Mitt Romney seems like a smart and careful guy, so why does he keep saying ridiculous things -- like Sunday's comment, "I have some great friends who are NASCAR team owners" -- that only worsen the perception that he's a wealthy buffoon who doesn't understand the rest of us? We have four theories.
The Republican presidential primary in Michigan Tuesday is reportedly going to be a "game changer," and yet, no matter what happens, no one expects the game to be changed enough that it actually stops.
Mitt Romney is tearing into Rick Santorum for voting with Republican President George W. Bush on spending increases and new government programs, while Santorum is trying to prove he was mostly independent from Bush. But there was a time, not too long ago, when both Romney and Santorum were absolutely delighted to be seen with Bush.
While Newt Gingrich must be a pretty smart guy with his Ph.D. and everything, the presidential candidate -- or, more likely, his campaign staff -- blundered some figures in his latest very, very long YouTube video.
The Republican presidential candidates have had a lot of chances to hurt each other's feelings over the last year with all the debates and ads and speeches, but it seems Ron Paul is hung up on one insult in particular: "disgusting."
Mitt Romney is attacking Rick Santorum for supporting George W. Bush's spending increases even as Romney relies on Bush economic adviser who are telling him to spend more money.
Democrats see Rick Santorum as a joke -- a guy who'd lose by a landslide in a general election because his positions on social issues would alienate women -- but a new poll shows Republican women like Santorum better than they did a month ago.
Mitt Romney's argument for why he'd be a better president than Barack Obama is that he'd be a better manager of the economy, but a new poll finds that a majority of Americans think at least one Obama economic policy worked.
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