Sure-Fire Ways to Rile Up the Republican Base This Year
A series of rotating Republican frontrunners has made clear which issues make their party's base squeal like tweens at a Justin Bieber concert.
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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.
A series of rotating Republican frontrunners has made clear which issues make their party's base squeal like tweens at a Justin Bieber concert.
Things are easier for Newt Gingrich now that he's not the only Republican presidential candidate in the race to make money.
Herman Cain says people like him because of his "plain talk," but the plainest of language still cannot make sense of some of the more interesting stuff Cain says.
After what must have been a riveting presentation by Donald Trump, Rick Perry hints he's no longer sure President Obama was born in the United States.
"Boomlet," with its implicit sense of inevitable decline, has been a favorite word for Cain even when he polled in the single digits.
Mitt Romney wants to be the John Kerry of this year's Iowa caucuses, while President Obama wants to be the George W. Bush of the general election.
Would more House Republicans rather have John Boehner's job or Sean Hannity's? How many Republican presidential candidates would rather be in a Fox News studio than the White House?
There would have been few consequences if Herman Cain had said he couldn't be bothered to learn the name of the leader of "Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan" while he was just a talk radio host, but now that he's a candidate for commander-in-chief, he's now got the Afghan president mocking him.
The complaint among commentators that there have been too many Republican debates seems to have evaporated after Las Vegas.
Tuesday night is the eighth Republican primary debate of the 2012 election cycle, and while many pundits agree that this time the debates have mattered a lot more this cycle, will they run out of things to say about them?
When her campaign was doing well this summer, Michele Bachmann rubbed colleagues the wrong way, but now that her support has cratered, she's starting to speak a little more softly and admit mistakes.
Herman Cain's presidential campaign paid Cain's motivational speaking company $36,511 for copies of Cain's books, Bloomberg's Jonathan D. Salant and Joshua Green report.
A core Perry supporter says he must juxtapose "traditional Christianity to the false God of Mormonism"
The magazine finds Romney and Bachmann ridiculous, but Cain is "a rich illustration of the American Dream"
He seems to have skipped out on a decade's worth of controversial debate over the Iraq war
But Perry is not persuading them that he's the best alternative
Despite Western roots and Mormon heritage, he's being crushed by Romney in the state
There's a bit of condescension in remarks about his "intellectual heft"
There must be some passionate Romney supporters out there
The popular video game beat Cain to the punch on his tax plan.
The state issued an ultimatum to Nevada: wait for us or we'll vote even earlier
Romney is back to running on inevitably; Cain is back to auditioning for a Fox deal
The Texas governor slips up while talking at a Dartmouth fraternity
The Republicans think really want to know the details of Cain's 9-9-9 plan
The college is taking measures to avoid any unpleasant outbursts
Former campaign aides explain how she just wouldn't listen to their excellent advice
Serious showings in polls means he'll have to answer serious questions
Says Perry is the best pick to be president because he's "born-again follower of Jesus Christ"
There had been threats of holding the vote on December 26
His big speech today will criticize Obama's supposed 'Apology Tour'
There's still a future for their girl: VP, a third party candidacy, something
He's going to need them after Rick Perry's huge haul
Despite his sharp rise in polls, Cain is not a serious candidate
According to two reports
"Is this your wife? Mind if I put my arm around her?"
The second-choice frontrunner is trying to make the most of Chris Christie's exit
Her lawyers checked: Oct. 28 is the last day she can get on the New Hampshire ballot
Six staffers out in less than a month -- but the campaign says everything is just fine
But the scandal does worry the Republican establishment about his electability
Also points out that she's a member of the House Intelligence Committee
He's feeling a bit underappreciated on the campaign trail
Is Michele Bachmann's campaign so broke, she can't write her own jokes?
It's not clear whether he's running for president, but it's very obvious he's a husky boy
His strategy is based on the GOP settling down after they finish flirting with more exciting alternatives
At evangelical Liberty University
A painting of Bachmann with a serial killer, a Gingrich paper doll, a hideous Palin pot
Texans lost a bit of their home-state pride in the process
After falling in the polls, she's showing a little schadenfreude at Perry's problems
Cartoonist Lisa Benson on the latest Republican debate
Wall Street executives are taking Obama's criticism pretty personally
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