Herman Cain really endorsed Mitt Romney Tuesday, though not without saying a number of embarrassing things, like "What Governor Romney did in Massachusetts, I does not care." It made us kinda miss the guy.
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.
A candidate for about one second, Tim Pawlenty is almost done paying back his outstanding campaign debts.
Now that we've had a couple hours to mourn the fact that the most boring Republican candidate will likely be the presidential nominee, it's time to hold all those pundits who tricked us into thinking there'd be someone more fun to write about accountable for their mistakes.
You can't win the Republican presidential nomination without talking to the Fox News chief
Both give Romney and Perry something they sorely needed
T-Paw gave his full support to Mitt during a Fox News interview
He replaces Tim Pawlenty as the guy destined to lose
T-Paw wanted to jazz up his campaign: "I thought about shooting sparks out my butt."
A wee bit of evidence two more fantasy Republican candidates could still jump in
Republicans had hoped to recruit him after he dropped out of the presidential race
Cartoonist Nick Anderson on the Republican road to 2012
As Pawlenty dropped out, Bachmann appeared on five different shows
After placing a distant third at Ames, the former Minnesota Governor drops out
Pawlenty disappoints, but will he stay in the race?
Debbie Wasserman Schultz gets booed at the Iowa State Fair
Expect the claws to come out in Iowa
Meanwhile, Bachmann will have to live up to the high expectations from June
The more we hear from the candidate, the more we need barnyard epithets
Romney, Bachmann, Pawlenty have a chance to change perceptions
Despite the talk in Washington about budgets, in Iowa it's all about religion
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