A successful last-minute Republican candidate. Or, of course, that perennial media fantasy, the brokered convention. The big problem with Silver's analysis is that it just uses polling data to tell us what we already know: Romney isn't very popular among the Republican base, and there...
2012 Republican Primary
You know, part of me is tempted to feel a little sorry for little Ricky. While Republican frontrunner status has fluctuated between the barely literate and people on book tours.
Herman Cain still not running for president. Some upcoming stops on his book tour will apparently be cancelled. ...Jamelle has the slightly longer version.
OK, I'm pretty much convinced that Pawlenty was hopeless no matter what.
Again, I can't really blame the campaign journalists for pretending that the GOP nomination race is still a going concern, but for anyone tempted to think that the Union Leader's.
I understand horse-race reporters need something to talk about and there does seem to be a surge in the polls, but to say that it's now a Romney/Gingrich race is.
If I were a teabagger, I wouldn't be eager to accept that Romney is inevitable either. But he is inevitable, small groups of dead-enders notwithstanding. Perry was already dead before his latest embarrassment and he was the last chance. You can't beat something with people...
Cain being accused not so much of sexual harassment as sexual assault. I think we can all agree that Journolist must be guilty of something.
There are two forms of tribalism at work in the immediate Republican defenses of Herman Cain. The first is a desire to protect their vanity candidate, with some shots at.
I think this is correct. In a field that has no logical winner, it seems pretty obvious that the closest thing to an orthodox conservative capable of speaking in complete sentences should have stayed in. (Both McCain and Kerry, after all, didn't look like they...
I remember the first time I tried barleywine. I was really unusually expressive that night...
I'm not going to say, exactly, that this story affects Cain's chances of getting the nomination. I think this changes them from zero to zero. But it certainly doesn't help.