New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is not going to the Conservative Political Action Conference, but he is going to implement the expansion of Medicaid called for under Obamacare.
It's got to be Kerry, right? Well, yes, probably. But speculation also puts some other options in front of the president between now and whenever Hillary Clinton steps down — including, but not limited to, her husband.
In a rumor receiving a lot of push back, Breitbart.com's Mike Flynn claims that former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. has accepted a speaking slot at next month's Democratic convention, citing an anonymous "high-ranking Republican official."
Failed presidential candidate Jon Huntsman hasn't exactly burned his Republican membership card, but the way he's talking about his own party lately, he might not be welcome in the clubhouse much longer.
Courtney Love weighs in with an unlikely seeming accusation about Dave Grohl, Lindsay Lohan may not have been watching Homeland and not fighting last week, and Jon Huntsman isn't cutting enough checks.
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.
The hunt for a third-party candidate to heal the nation's partisan-ravaged woes broke wide open Tuesday with Olympia Snowe's surprise departure from the Senate, followed by her veiled promise to work toward change "outside the United States Senate."
Jon Huntsman's daughters had another silly viral web video ready to go, Steven Soderbergh's new leading lady knew nothing of his work, and Jay-Z enjoys some alone time in a crowded room.
Today: Alexander Payne protected his ears with pink earplugs at Fox's Golden Globes afterparty, Russell Brand and Katy Perry reportedly had a "sit-down," and Jon Huntsman's family was apparently worried about the former presidential candidate's campaign being compared to Stephen Colbert's.
Come up with a sentence or two that summarizes Jon Huntsman’s candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. Bet you can’t.
Jon Huntsman just announced he's dropping out of the Republican primary and says he wants the Republican party to "unite around the candidate best equipped to beat Barack Obama," who he believes is Mitt Romney.
Campaign aides for Jon Huntsman are saying that the former governor of Utah will withdraw from the Republican primary race on Monday and endorse Mitt Romney for president.
Encouraged by his hypothetical lead in South Carolina over third-place New Hampshire finisher Jon Huntsman and Mitt Romney-spurred Republican ennui, Stephen Colbert might just announce his bid for presidency tonight.
Romney is the first Republican candidate who's not a sitting president to win both Iowa and New Hampshire; still, all his rivals promise to keep campaigning.
While Mitt Romney has been way ahead of the other candidates in the Republican primary for months, voters can change their minds very quickly, which is why a Romney aide told The New York Times' Jeff Zeleny reported Saturday, "I'd like to vote tomorrow."
If you needed any more confirmation that Jon Huntsman doesn't stand a chance in South Carolina, the latest Public Policy Polling numbers show him trailing Stephen Colbert.
Conservatives are shocked that several of their top presidential candidates are sounding like Occupy Wall Street protesters, attacking Mitt Romney for his experience as a millionaire investor who sometimes had to fire people -- you know, a job creator.
Jon Huntsman jumps out to an early lead in the New Hampshire primary (2 votes!), but got more bad news when his application for the Arizona ballot was rejected.
With Mitt Romney way ahead in New Hampshire, the more interesting fight, NBC News' First Read says, is for second place -- Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are fighting for conservatives, while Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman are going for independents.
Here are the people who think no one will stop Mitt Romney: his own campaign (of course), some in rival campaigns, the media, evangelical leaders who'd like to stop him, many voters.
Last-minute polls show Jon Huntsman finally starting to make an impact on the New Hampshire primary, but is it too little too late?
The guys trailing Mitt Romney were expected to finally unleash their harshest attacks on him last night, and they didn't. Now that they've slept on it a few hours, maybe the Not Romneys will figure out this is their last chance to make the case for their candidacy before Tuesday.
In New Hampshire, Mitt Romney is looking like Gozer the Destructor, while his scrappy rivals for the Republican nomination are merely trying to make their looming losses a little more comfortable.
Political wisdom holds that Jon Huntsman's candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination cannot go on if he doesn't do well in the New Hampshire primary next week -- which means neither can his daughters' campaign for stardom.
If Mitt Romney is going to be the Republican nominee, he needs the rest of the candidates to drop out -- just not yet.
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.
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.
For the new class warriors of the Republican primary, the politics of resentment comes not so much from resentment of other people's wealth as much as resentment of other people's poll rankings.
The editors of the National Review have some good news -- conservatives are unified in what policies they want enacted, and the White House is winnable -- but there's also some bad news: Republican voters are on the verge of nominating a guy who will fail at one or both those things.
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.
Newt Gingrich has picked up the support of Hollywood's noted crazy guy Gary Busey and racial-slur ex-MLB pitcher John Rocker, while Barack Obama picked up the support of Muammar Qaddafi (before ordering the attacks that lead to his death), while Ron Paul has the random drunk guy vote locked down.
The friendly presidential debate between Jon Huntsman and Newt Gingrich was so friendly -- and therefore free of sparks -- that a reporter was "visibly" asleep in the first 20 minutes, Politico's Ben Smith noticed, and Huntsman himself said he caught his own daughter snoozing about an hour in. But despite the tone, Gingrich managed to throw a few of his signature bombs.
A prominent New Hampshire backer of Jon Huntsman has "severed all bonds" with his campaign over "a ‘lack of integrity and honesty of the parties within the campaign’ regarding financial matters,” NBC News' Jo Ling Kent reports.
If the Republican presidential candidate is to beat President Obama, he or she can't just win over Americans with the power of words or some bipartisan proposals -- there has to be a connection made on a deeper, gut level, even a hormonal level.
Today we review a new Reagan-based ad from Jon Huntsman.
As the Republican presidential race heats up, that can only mean more ads. In the inaugural Ad Watch, here are today's newest campaign appeals.
So far, the Republican presidential field has been slow to jump on Donald Trump's latest bandwagon.
Donald Trump's efforts to squeeze himself back into the news cycle seem to be paying off. Now he's caught people's attention by berating an MSNBC host about all the people calling his office.
After declining invitations to the Donald Trump-moderated reality television show Newsmax debate, Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman got speared by Trump on the Today show.
Rick Perry doesn't like raising money, Tim Pawlenty only wanted to watch hockey, and Sarah Palin thought Mitt Romney had the primary schedule "rigged."
With 36 days left until the GOP's Iowa Caucus and 57 days remaining until the 2011 Oscar nominations are announced, the candidates and Best Picture hopefuls have begun to run together in our thoughts. Naturally, Ron Paul is Moneyball.
His fellow Republican presidential candidates were reluctant to comment on accusations that Herman Cain sexually harassed several women in the 1990s, but now that a woman is claiming they had a long-term consensual affair, they're ready to speak out.
The draw of all these Republican debates is the chance to see how the candidates act unscripted, and Tuesday night we learned that under pressure, some forget their name while others spill state secrets.
The Republican presidential primary debates have shaped the race a lot this year, but mostly in one way: making candidates not named Mitt Romney look bad. Tonight they take on foreign policy.
Jon Huntsman won't ask his billionaire father to dump millions into a political action committee to save his campaign, and his father won't donate unless he's asked, The New York Times' Jim Rutenberg and Nicholas Confessore report.
They may seem all but forgotten, but there are still seven other presidential candidates trying to get voters to pay attention to them while Herman Cain does inexplicable things on television. These are there stories.
If Jon Huntsman's moment in the Republican primary limelight arrives, he will have 46 words and a media-trained woman accusing the nominal frontrunner of groping her to thank.
Mitt Romney's ability to remain above the daily fray of campaigning has worked for him so far -- but now, with a new web ad and site, Jon Huntsman hopes that he can turn that strength into a weakness.
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