Romney Says He’s Taxed At 15 Percent Rate
He has probably paid an effective federal income tax rate of about 15 percent in recent years, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney told reporters in South Carolina a short time ago. Dogged by questions from his GOP opponents about his personal finances and when he will release his income tax returns, the former Massachusetts governor [...]
5 Takeaways From The GOP’s South Carolina Debate
For the five remaining Republican presidential candidates, the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday was just another workday as they tried to improve their chances for an impressive showing in Saturday’s critical South Carolina primary. A decisive win by front-runner Mitt Romney would probably spell the end of the race for at least one and maybe [...]
The Huntsman Saga: Another Media Favorite Takes The Fall
There could not have been more apt an epitaph. The once-promising campaign of former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman came to an end within hours of his being endorsed by The Columbia State, South Carolina’s largest and most influential newspaper, within days of that state’s Republican primary. The woman who wrote the State’s endorsing editorial said [...]
Wis. Elections Board To Validate Recall Petitions
Opponents of Wis. Gov. Scott Walker will deliver a truckload of petitions to the state’s elections board Tuesday in an effort to force a recall election. Thousands of volunteers have spent the past two months canvassing the state collecting signatures. Organizers are confident Walker will need to face an election this year in order to [...]
Newt’s ‘Food Stamp President’: Racial Or Just Politics?
All of the Republican presidential hopefuls take on President Obama in their stump speeches; attacking his health care plan, his jobs record and more. But the shorthand former House Speaker Newt Gingrich uses, calling the nation’s first black president the “food stamp President,” is raising questions. It’s a theme Newt Gingrich has used since Iowa [...]
Will The Real Ronald Reagan Please Stand Up
It’s no secret who the most popular Republican is in this year’s GOP presidential race. In just one single debate last year, GOP candidates mentioned the former President Ronald Reagan 24 times. Right now, each candidate is vying for the mantle of Reagan conservatism. But some historians, and even some of the folks who worked [...]
Aiming To Show Strength, Evangelicals May Achieve Opposite
The gathering of more than 100 evangelical Christian leaders and activists in rural Texas this weekend was an 11th-hour effort to unite “movement conservatives” behind a rival to Mitt Romney and demonstrate their own power within the Republican Party. Instead, it may well be a revelation of their weakness as a force within the GOP. [...]
Gingrich Asks SuperPAC To Correct Or Pull ‘King Of Bain’ Romney Movie, Ads
Barely a day has gone by without Newt Gingrich complaining about the inaccuracy of ads run against him by a superPAC supporting Mitt Romney. So now that an anti-Mitt Romney film purchased by a superPAC supporting Gingrich has been criticized for numerous inaccuracies, Gingrich has asked that the film’s creators and the funders paying for [...]
John Edwards Has Life-Threatening Condition, Doctor Says
A cardiologist says former Democratic presidential candidate and senator John Edwards has a life-threatening condition that will require surgery next month, a judge in Greensboro, N.C., announced today. According to The Associated Press, the judge says she has two letters from the doctor about Edwards’ condition. They were revealed, the wire service adds, “during a [...]
It’s All Politics, Jan. 12, 2012
Mitt Romney has won New Hampshire after also coming out on top in Iowa. The real story is two-fold: Ron Paul is doing better than anyone anticipated and is not going away anytime soon, whether or not he has a real chance at the nomination. And Jon Huntsman, who went all out in N.H., failed [...]
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