Apr 20, 2015 – As the Concord Monitor's Allie Morris (via Chip Griffin's "The Notch") wrote: [Nearly 20] Republican Presidential candidates - declared … As the political spring training season moves along, more candidates have hired more staff and are better prepared for these early, … Why don't those numbers translate to Presidential results?…

Apr 18, 2015 – Rand Paul’s entry into the presidential race raises an interesting question: Just how many people consider themselves “libertarian … Just as a firm needs both capital and labor, so do political candidates. … supporters to add to their coalition; candidates that are labor-intensive will do the opposite.…

Apr 17, 2015 – Scott Walker over all other GOP candidates for president. 70,000—the number of pages in the federal tax code 2- the number of … Ben Carson will make a presidential announcement on May 4, and New Jersey Gov. … Unsurprisingly, Democrats are not pleased with the GOP crop of presidential candidates; Sen.…

Apr 17, 2015 – wanted to appear to meet "ordinary" Iowans, so your campaign staff cleared out a coffee house and stocked it with pre-approved Democratic … coverage to your highly scripted AstroTurf campaign for president in one week than they have to any of the declared Republican presidential … candidates.…

Apr 17, 2015 – So far, of the declared candidates for president, the only one who voted for the Iraq War is the Democrat. … If you had to pick a single position that allowed Barack Obama to pull ahead in the 2008 Democratic primaries, his opposition to the … Meanwhile, none of the potential GOP presidential hopefuls voted for the war in 2002.…

Apr 17, 2015 – The lesson from history is that winning candidates and successful presidents show they are in step with the times. … Democrats have won four of the last six presidential elections and won a popular-vote plurality in another. … The energy and enthusiasm in the Democratic Party today is clearly on the Left.…

Apr 17, 2015 – In the 1980 Presidential election, then Republican candidate Ronald Reagan respectfully disagreed with Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter … It is a percentage, usually for a given historical period, most often for a Presidential term or two. … economic, statistical and mathematical pros and cons, PBF (or some variant of) could very well take off this or next year for those candidates…

Apr 15, 2015 – She is no different than Obama or most Democratic leaders who support any abortion at any time for any reason. … There has been no focus by the networks on Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz proclaiming (in response to … As in every other modern presidential election, the Republicans will be pounded and pressed and caricatured by a hostile media.…

Apr 14, 2015 – Presidential primary season usually means that both Democratic and Republican bases start evaluating their candidates against a wish … How many of the U.S. presidential candidates actually understand these critical issues? … Meanwhile, the presidential candidates are busy playing "Hungry Hungry Hippos."…

Apr 14, 2015 – Having opposed the deal as a bad one for labor rights back when she was a presidential candidate in 2008, she now promoted it, calling … The change of heart by Clinton and other Democratic leaders enabled congressional passage of a Colombia trade deal that experts say … Yet, after the 2008 election, both candidates had changed their position on the deal.…

Apr 14, 2015 – In case you missed it last evening, Florida Senator Marco Rubio of Florida officially entered the 2016 Republican presidential race … the third GOP aspirant to formally do so, joining fellow first-term Senators Ted Cruz and Rand Paul among the ranks of declared candidates … His speech was optimistic and future-oriented, previewing exactly how he'd frame a head-to-head contest with the presumptive Democratic…

Apr 14, 2015 – Please forgive me, but I'm singularly unimpressed with Hillary Clinton in general, but especially as a Democratic presidential candidate … Not only has he failed to have coattails for other Democratic candidates but also he's been an affirmative liability, as the congressional … --On top of all this, the Democratic base doesn't even like this woman.…

Apr 14, 2015 – The weirdest thing about the onrushing 2016 presidential cycle is the scarcity of a GOP economic growth theme. … It is baffling that other candidates have not taken it up. … There Roff commented on the kickoff of the presidential race by Sen.…

Apr 12, 2015 – As Guy said, Hillary's hat in the ring marks the "commencement and conclusion" of the Democratic Primary. … In a sit down interview with CNN's Dana Bash Saturday, 2016 GOP presidential candidate Rand Paul called Benghazi a "3 am pohone call … “Republicans have a strong and diverse set of candidates who will engage in a productive debate on how to move our country forward.…

Apr 12, 2015 – Is it a good thing or a bad thing that a presidential candidate demonstrates an ability to raise enough money to effectively reach … Does the Washington press corps, or society as an abstracted whole, really have an interest in silencing certain candidates and their … But according to standard democratic theory and practice, it is the voters who make those decisions.…

Apr 30, 2015 – After Hillary Rodham Clinton, the next two candidates in line for her party's presidential nomination are 72-year-old Vice President … Does anyone know how the Democratic Party fell into such a heap? … I say the Democratic left nominate an alternative to Hillary. How about Joe Biden, ha-ha?…

Apr 30, 2015 – This 15-year change might explain why Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton rolled out her campaign talking about everyday … This recent poll highlights both a challenge and an opportunity for Republican presidential primary candidates.…

Apr 29, 2015 – Bernie Sander’s (I-VT) self-described “democratic socialism and think it won’t resonate with the electorate, let’s not forget the Reason-Rupe … He continued: "They also understand that my kind of democratic socialism has nothing to do with authoritarian communism. … Yet, Sanders’ democratic socialism isn’t the issue.…

Apr 27, 2015 – Huckabee offer next year that the multitude of other Republican presidential hopefuls don't? … Yes, there have been permanent presidential candidates whose candidacies served a serious purpose. … But for the most part, perennial presidential candidates remain only that, and why Mike Huckabee would want to join their ranks mystifies…

Apr 24, 2015 – What does have me concerned is the degree of extremism inhabiting the Democratic Party that makes it necessary and even acceptable … Sadly, Republicans are not going to lay a hand on Democratic candidates by pointing out their hypocrisy, so maybe they should consider … For whether or not Hillary's the nominee, the eventual Democratic presidential candidate will mouth the same platitudes and manufactured…

Apr 24, 2015 – That's consistent with the platform adopted at the 2012 Democratic National Convention. … The Democratic National chairman and the Democratic national platform say that abortions are permissible beyond that time. … Including, certainly, the likely Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton.…

Apr 23, 2015 – Presidential candidate Rand Paul made headlines last week by turning the rhetorical tables on Progressives on the issue of abortion … Democratic candidates for office need to be made to answer for their ideological position on this issue – made to answer whether or … This philosophy has yielded a society in which pro-choice candidates are given a free pass on the abortion question and proponents…

Apr 23, 2015 – It's official, the 2016 presidential race is underway. … against dozens of Republican candidates. … Ohio and Nevada have voted Democratic in three of the last five presidential races, with Colorado voting Democratic only twice.…

Apr 22, 2015 – the Senate Democratic Caucus. … Now, to satiate the feminists, the Democrats seem to be stuck with Hillary as their presidential nominee. … Everyone senses the enormous vacuum in the Democrats' presidential field, but no one is allowed to mention it.…

Apr 21, 2015 – Sole Democratic candidate for President Hillary Clinton just doesn't understand why "all of these Republicans" are talking about her … In her first real interview with the press since announcing her presidential campaign more than a week ago, the former Secretary of … candidates talking about her.…