As Mitt Romney inched closer to the Republican nomination, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich considered fusing their campaigns, according to new revelations from a Santorum advisor. The plan never came to be — but it doesn't matter. It wouldn't have worked.
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.
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?
For all the GOP's muscular talk on Iran and its pledges to increase military spending, there's one place those calls aren't quite resonating: Within the military.
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.
In the lull just before a new round of polls close this Super Tuesday, bored reporters start talking about what the Republican presidential candidates' parties are like. In general, the consensus appears to be they're all dorky.
Mother Jones reporters Tim Murphy and Andy Kroll have dredged up some interesting tidbits from the files of a 1990s-era Rick Santorum. Not surprisingly, Santorum has not always been a charming, pro-woman-type guy in adorable sweater vests.
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:
In a campaign speech Monday, Rick Santorum took advantage of a newly rediscovered op-ed from Mitt Romney to finally give him a harder time on his Massachusetts health care law. But Santorum probably would have benefited from making the case earlier.
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.
Yes, we once called for a stop to this whole Mitt Romney-strapped-a-dog-atop-his-car story, but we can't help getting giddy over how The New Yorker got Rick Santorum to stand in for Seamus on the cover of its latest issue.
The ten states holding primary votes tomorrow won't decide the presidential race in any satisfying way, but the results might be the signal that the Republican party is on a course to Mitt Romney that can no longer be altered.
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.
With all eyes on Super Tuesday, Rick Santorum gets philosophical over a Subway sandwich.
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?
Friday, Rick Santorum admitted that his comment that President Obama is a "snob" for encouraging every American to go to college may not have been "not the smartest thing" to say, marking the second well-publicized gaffe he's walked back this week.
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.
After their unsuccessful campaign to get enough Democrats to vote for Rick Santorum and prolong the Republican nominating contest, mischievous liberal voters now can't decide which losing GOP candidate to "support."
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.
It took a whole month of meetings and voting, but while everyone was sleeping/obsessing over Michigan, Mitt Romney quietly won the Wyoming caucus.
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.
Cartoonist Nick Anderson points out a similarity between the two.
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."
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's last-ditch campaign strategy for the Michigan primary has him united with an unlikely constituency: prankster Democrats.
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?
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.
By visiting a NASCAR race Sunday, Romney was trying to play the part of a racecar-loving average Joe, but instead by saying "I have some great friends who are NASCAR team owners," he yet again manages to out himself as a clueless rich guy.
Say goodbye to glitter-bombing. Sources have revealed to the AP that Rick Santorum will receive Secret Service Protection on Tuesday.
Recent references made by Mitt Romney to limiting deductions for the "top one percent" offer Rick Santorum an unlikely new area of attack.
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.
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.
Even as Rick Santorum was defending himself at last night's Republican primary debate for saying birth control was bad -- "it's a license to do things in the sexual realm"-- he tried to look a little less strident, promising, "just because I'm talking about it doesn't mean I want a government program to fix it."
It's the very last Republican primary debate, and this time, and if you read all the solicited and unsolicited advice to the candidates, the message is: be as aggro as possible.
The 2012 Republican presidential candidates -- what's left of them -- will debate for the very last time Wednesday night and we're sure going to miss them.
With less than a week to go before the Michigan primary, Rick Santorum is polling just ahead of Mitt Romney, but Romney is crushing him with people who've already voted absentee. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush? Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Mitt Romney once treated Donald Trump like he was the girl he was too embarrassed to tell his friends he was hooking up with, but the candidate has finally upgraded their relationship status.
Cartoonist Nick Anderson riffs on "women in combat."
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