On Monday, voters in Minnesota's sixth congressional district were looking forward to a 2014 rematch of 2012's Michele Bachmann against hotel magnate Jim Graves. As of today, the match-up looks different: nobody versus nobody.
The more interesting contest in Iowa Tuesday night will not be for first place but for fourth. The guys who land in the top three will declare victory. But the poor souls in fifth place and lower might have to go home. Here's our analysis of who's likely to give up first.
Mitt Romney sucks up to Iowa, Michele Bachmann dubs herself the Iron Lady, and normal people love Ron Paul.
While the Ron Paul campaign warned that his rivals are trigger-happy chickenhawks Monday, Newt Gingrich is still obsessed with his own world historical narrative, declaring victory by not quitting even though Mitt Romney backers aired so many mean ads about him.
A state senator who was at one time the chairman of Michele Bachmann's Iowa campaign, switched his allegience to Ron Paul on Wednesday, just hours after attending a rally for Bachmann.
Appearing on The Tonight Show, the Texas congressman also says his fellow Republican presidential candidate wants "to go get 'em."
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.
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.
Donald Trump has fallen so far that on Friday Rush Limbaugh discussed the idea, brought by a caller, that the reality star and momentary Republican kingmaker is actually President Obama's "Trojan horse."
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.
It's going to be a two-man show in Des Moines on Dec. 27 as Michele Bachmann has decided to skip the Donald Trump-hosted Republican debate, leaving just Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich slated for the stage.
It's funny how the only two Republican presidential hopefuls who consented to be photographed with Donald Trump are Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin.
So far, the Republican presidential field has been slow to jump on Donald Trump's latest bandwagon.
Three hundred Herman Cain fans released a collective disappointed "awww" when their guy announced he was suspending his campaign, and now the race is on to see who can make those sad people smile again.
Newt Gingrich has the lead in Iowa, and has taken a big chunk of support from Mitt Romney in New Hampshire, new polls say.
Michele Bachmann, who's been lagging in the polls recently, got some people's attention late yesterday by naming potential running mates should she win the GOP nomination.
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.
We don't have to imagine what it'd be like for Newt Gingrich to be the on the Republican presidential ticket -- he already was once, if unofficially and against his will.
Conservatives aren't quite sure how to respond to sexism, even when it's really obvious, and even when it's against a woman on their side.
In news that you could kind of see hurtling at you from miles away, Michele Bachmann has already accepted an apology from Jimmy Fallon and she now wants an apology from NBC for her "Lyin' Ass Bitch" intro music.
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.
After a CBS editor accidentally let it slip that GOP candidates doing better in the race would, naturally, be given more of a chance to speak during televised debates, we've charted candidate speaking time against their airtime in Saturday's CBS/National Journal debate.
The Republican presidential field briefly flirted with attacking Obama for waging too much war before deciding he's not waging quite enough.
The more meat you order on your pizza, the more manly you are, Herman Cain says.
Rep. Michele Bachmann doubled down on her claim that the ACLU dictates CIA policy on Sunday morning talk show appearances. Commentators would beg to differ.
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.
Plus: Dana Carvey is a leading candidate to replace Regis Philbin, Lindsay Lohan's out of jail after 282 minutes
There are other candidates in the Republican presidential race besides Herman Cain, and they are doing things other than denying they had anything to do with leaking his sexual harassment story.
Today in publishing: Chris Matthews writes his own books, HarperCollins has many, many soccer memoirs, and Michele Bachmann hawks her book to help her campaign.
President Obama is toast in 2012 if the economy is stagnant and the Republican nominee is good, according to an analysis by New York Times statistician Nate Silver; with a better economy and Rick Perry as the nominee, he Silver forecasts talk of Obama winning states like Georgia and Arizona.
No one seems more eager to put an end to Michele Bachmann's presidential run than her former campaign manager, Ed Rollins, who continues to undermine the candidate's struggling organization.
Rep. Michele Bachmann owes much of the support that fuelled her presidential campaign to her ties to the Tea Party, but she is now finding out that the fiercely decentralized movement can be a double-edged sword.
A series of rotating Republican frontrunners has made clear which issues make their party's base squeal like tweens at a Justin Bieber concert.
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.
Eight years into a grueling, dispiriting conflict that has torn a nation asunder, with countrymen attacking countrymen as traitors, the end seems almost incomprehensible.
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.
The magazine finds Romney and Bachmann ridiculous, but Cain is "a rich illustration of the American Dream"
Despite Western roots and Mormon heritage, he's being crushed by Romney in the state
Official fundraising number for many GOP candidates are out today
Romney is back to running on inevitably; Cain is back to auditioning for a Fox deal
The Republicans think really want to know the details of Cain's 9-9-9 plan
Former campaign aides explain how she just wouldn't listen to their excellent advice
The Congresswoman is tacking right, trying to shore up a flagging campaign
Republicans are boycotting a Univision primary debate on behalf of Marco Rubio
Six staffers out in less than a month -- but the campaign says everything is just fine
Florida's decision to set its primary on January 31 is reshuffling the GOP calendar
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