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.
With the Iowa caucuses only a few days away and Republican candidates are attempting to grab as many headlines as they can leading into the final weekend - Newt is crying in front of moms, Mitt's son Matt is making bad jokes about Obama's report cards and Ron Paul is taking the weekend off.
Voters see Obama as the most ideologically extreme 2012 candidate -- only Michele Bachmann thought of as almost as far away from Americans' own ideology as Obama. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Ron Paul hasn't been able to move past the story of the racist stuff written under his name in the 1990s so a pro-Paul PAC is taking the logical next step: having a black person testify that Paul isn't racist.
Is there time to squeeze in one more Not Mitt Romney candidate surge in the few days before the Iowa caucus?
Ron Paul's army of college kids went through boot camp outside Des Moines where they were drilled on how not not scare Iowans either IRL or on Twitter.
Ron Paul's fans are passing around an illustrated list of 22 reasons Ron Paul isn't racist, as Politico's Ben Smith points out.
When his campaign fell apart this summer, the only thing that gave Newt Gingrich hope was the cartoon elephant in his wife's kids' book Sweet Land of Liberty.
Newt Gingrich's campaign theme song should be the Lady Sovereign song that goes "love me or hate me, it's still an obsession." He is both the sixth-most admired man in America and the most polarizing Republican presidential candidate. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Ron Paul is the Charlie Brown of the Republican presidential primary.
Every single day Mitt Romney is thrust into a small talk nightmare in which he must chat with strangers and -- more horror -- every time he says something stupid it's caught on tape with the guarantee that people all over America will laugh at him
President Obama's job approval rating is inching upwards -- and while he loses to a generic Republican, voters are still skeptical of the current Republican lineup. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Ron Paul famously attracts supporters from all kinds of fringe causes -- the crunchy raw milk people, the scary white pride people -- but he has a history of hiring odd ducks to his staff, too.
Newt Gingrich is making his spokesman, R.C. Hammond, work really hard for his salary.
There's reason to suspect that Ron Paul could overcome meager poll numbers to compete in the Granite State, especially if he wins in Iowa.
The campaigns of two of the highest-profile alternatives to Mitt Romney failed to submit enough signatures to make the Republican primary ballot in Virginia.
What has Sarah Palin been doing while no one was watching?
New Hampshire voters don't seem to like being asked to settle for Mitt Romney, asking him slightly-hostile questions at town halls that can be summed up as, What makes you think you're so awesome?
Ron Paul's fans finally got what they wanted -- the media has stopped ignoring Ron Paul -- but it hasn't been as fun as they hoped.
Newt Gingrich's campaign is going to launch a site called "Pets With Newt," which will show his longtime love of animals (and his softer, non-bomb-throwing side). Let's help him get started.
It's not considered very nice to be mean to people just for being fat anymore, but there's a lot of pent-up desire to call fat people fatties that gets unleashed when a fat person like Jim Sensenbrenner really has it coming.
Newt Gingrich has had his hand in just about every single issue being debated in the 2012 presidential race -- health care and the the housing crisis, most obviously, but also in this week's payroll tax fight.
Ron Paul's position on the newsletters with racist statements that were published under his name 20 years ago has changed quite a since then -- in a 1995 interview with CSPAN, for instance, he was pretty proud of them.
Ron Paul furrowed his eyebrows before storming off completely during a CNN interview addressing allegations that he made money and won fame with the help of a sometimes racist series of newsletters back in the 1990s.
Today we have three ads featuring three candidates' wives, and it's impossible not to notice they're all blondes. As a member of this misunderstood community, it's sad to say the blonder the wife, the less effective she is at selling her husband.
Newt Gingrich appears to have a split personality -- one half is a coolly rational, calculating pragmatist and the other is a maniac with a political messiah who is the only one who can oversee the radical transformations Western Civilization must undertake to survive.
Type in NewtGingrich.com and you'll be surprised with the results. Gingrich's campaign will be too!
Polls now show Romney tied with anti-Romney candidate Newt Gingrich -- and that Gingrich's fans are starting to think Romney's not so bad after all.
Rick Tyler, who quit Newt Gingrich's campaign when it was in the doldrums only to watch his old boss soar in the polls, is rejoining the Gingrich effort just as the candidate's lead in polls disappears.
Mitt Romney said voters ought to kick President Obama out of the White House because he's got too much experience in Washington now -- but way way back in the ancient history of four years ago, Romney was warning Americans of the dangers of not electing a lifelong politician.
Every other candidate who rose to challenge Mitt Romney as frontrunner of the Republican primary race has lost that spot by saying something stupid except poor Newt Gingrich, who was largely taken down by YouTube.
Sarah Palin hinted she could get in the presidential race Monday, telling Fox Business, "It's not too late for folks to jump in... Who knows what will happen in the future."
Ron Paul won just 3 percent of the votes in the Tea Party Patriots' "tele-forum and straw poll" Sunday, a pretty poor showing for a guy routinely called "the godfather of the Tea Party."
Celebrities always die in threes, and today we have Vaclav Havel, Kim Jong Il, and the presidential aspirations of Newt Gingrich.
What had been a calm day for Rick Perry filled with church services and friendly audiences ended on a sour note as the governor found himself in two confrontations in his last town hall of the day over controversial natural gas extraction techniques and gays serving openly in the military.
The Republican presidential candidate "doubled down" Sunday on his insistence that Congress should be permitted to subpoena judges who issues rulings with which it disagrees.
It seems like a hundred polls are released every day now that the Iowa caucuses are less than a month away. Here's our guide to which ones matter and why.
Mitt Romney is still second in many polls, but he looks like he's pretty confident that the Republican presidential nomination is his as Republicans work to make the general election a little more easy for him.
It's not just what Newt Gingrich said, but how he said it -- a trap so many men before him have fallen into, but they are usually lucky enough to say it the privacy of their own homes, instead of national TV.
In last debate before the Iowa caucuses, Gingrich and Bachmann fight over abortion while Ron Paul does his best to anger every single foreign policy hawk in America.
It seems like a hundred polls are released every day now that the Iowa caucuses are less than a month away. Here's our guide to which ones matter and why.
To win the Republican nomination, both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich must atone for the same sin -- embodying the excesses of a decade past. But which one will win out? The 1980s or the 1990s?
It seems like a hundred polls are released every day now that the Iowa caucuses are less than a month away. Here's our guide to which ones matter and why.
He’s got the best campaign organization in Iowa, hands down, and running second or third in the polls. But Ron Paul is rarely, if ever, described as a first-string Republican contender on par with Gingrich or Mitt Romney.
Newt Gingrich fired his Iowa political director for saying, "A lot of the evangelicals believe God would give us four more years of Obama just for the opportunity to expose the cult of Mormon" in a focus group a day before Gingrich hired him last week.
In the battle for control of the Republican Party, the Imperial establishment scored a couple blows against the rebel Tea Partiers Tuesday.
It seems like a hundred polls are released every day now that the Iowa caucuses are less than a month away. Here's our guide to which ones matter and why.
There's a group of Republicans eager to nominate a Not Romney candidate but having trouble embracing Newt Gingrich: conservative women who don't like his history of adultery.
We don't want to wait three whole weeks to find out who's going to win the Iowa caucus — or the Republican nomination, for that matter — so historical analogies of primaries past are becoming a political pundit fad.
What candidate is witty and smart and experienced enough to expose as a lie the narrative that President Obama is an eloquent orator?
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