Oct 8, 2012 – Biden, who lost presidential primaries in 1988 and 2008, was depicted in the campaign as the epitome of working-class values and a … Politico reported the quote was made at a closed-door meeting with the Democratic caucus. … See the remaining six candidates who made our list by ordering the October issue of Townhall Magazine.  …

Oct 7, 2012 – Jim Lehrer was effective in one area as the moderator of the first Presidential Debate of 2012.  … While he was not very effective in controlling the candidates, Lehrer’s style seemed to work out well in facilitating his primary goal … Even staunch Barack Obama disciples evaluate the first presidential debate as a solid win for Mitt Romney. …

Jan 10, 2012 – The former House speaker said he expected to finish in the top three or four among the field of six serious candidates, but predicted … The Democratic National Committee immediately sent out a video showing the comment and Romney's GOP rivals jumped on it. "Gov. … Under the law, they cannot coordinate their activities with the candidates they support.…

Jan 10, 2012 – Democratic hopes for 2012 hence hinge on that party's ability to portray the Republican alternative as unacceptable if not intolerable … The GOP field of candidates suddenly seems headed to a finale that will call to mind the last scene of Hamlet, the dead and dying everywhere … The Republican candidates have gone beyond challenging each other's records and positions to impugning their character.…

Jan 10, 2012 – We've been dealing with liberal media bias for years, but George Stephanopoulos' performance in the Republican presidential debate … particularly egregious.In many of these MSM-moderated debates, liberal moderators have tried to stir up personal fights between candidates … This kind of baiting would never happen in a Democratic debate, even if Fox News furnished the moderators.…

Jan 10, 2012 – Gingrich as a vice presidential nominee? Why not? … Very presidential. … Even without Newton Leroy, the GOP presidential quest, with its mostly B-list roster of candidates, would have been less than inspirational…

Jan 9, 2012 – In January of that year, just 47% of Democratic voters felt the field of candidates was excellent or good; as many (47%) said the candidates … In the current survey, conservative Republicans and GOP-leaning independents express more positive opinions of the presidential field … These don't seem to be good numbers for Republican candidates.…

Jan 9, 2012 – Redefining marriage to include gay couples has negative consequences that rarely are discussed in the news media, Republican presidential … candidates Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney say. … After several minutes of watching the back-and-forth between the ABC News moderators and the candidates, Gingrich pushed back.…

Jan 9, 2012 – soil, still trying out the catch phrases that presidential candidates use as a substitute for thought. … Guess which of the Republican presidential candidates is playing the all too familiar role of Old Man in Dark Shop this year. … But to those seeing their first presidential campaign and rodeo, the old man's oddments of cloth are raiments of glory.…

Jan 7, 2012 – The real action tonight is taking place inside Saint Anselm College's Sullivan Arena, where the remaining six Republican presidential … candidates will square off in a primetime, blockbuster debate -- roughly 60 hours before the Granite State's primary polls open.  … blunting Barack Obama's seemingly unstoppable momentum coming out of Iowa, and setting up a bruising six month clash over the Democratic…

Jan 19, 2012 – This is why primaries help prepare GOP candidates prepare for the general election, by flushing out most or all the issues that MSM … Just like we will never get a former senior staffer in the Bush White House asking would-be Democratic presidents about whatever is … January 31rst in Florida (or indeed today in Florida where hundreds of absentee ballots are being cast): Which of the three GOP candidates…

Jan 19, 2012 – But it wasn't nearly as feisty as the crowd that forced the shutdown of the 1860 Democratic National Convention in Charleston before … it could choose a nominee, after which the party split into two conventions elsewhere and nominated Northern and Southern candidates … Nixon and other Republicans won five of the next six presidential elections.…

Jan 18, 2012 – Huckabee, affable host at this weekend’s Republican debate in South Carolina, occasionally (and effortlessly) upstaged the five presidential … candidates who participated. … these questions deserves serious attention as a means to clear away confusion concerning the past, present and future state of presidential…

Jan 13, 2012 – The Wall Street Journal editorial board may have said it best: Perhaps the only positive element of certain Republican presidential … candidates' scurrilous, Left-wing attacks on Mitt Romney's tenure at Bain Capital is that they are forcing Team Romney to address … They say the theme will be revisited with a vengeance in the general election:   [Democratic strategists] acknowledge that…

Jan 12, 2012 – candidates by ABC and NBC correspondents looked like a play designed by the left wing of the Democratic Party. … To the mainstream media, Republicans are pigheaded and unwilling to compromise with a Democratic president (or a Democratic Congress … If the "Miss America" contest could invite Limbaugh as a judge in 2010, why can't the Republican presidential candidates invite him…

Jan 12, 2012 – To win just under 40 percent of the vote in a primary with five active candidates is pretty impressive, even for a candidate like … Polling indicated that Romney voters were more firm in their support than backers for other candidates. … No nonincumbent Republican presidential candidate has won both the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary before.…

Mar 20, 2013 – You would think Akin would stand in history to teach Republicans to stop giving away winnable seats by running ridiculous candidates … Democrats don't reward candidates who hurt them. Where's John Edwards' comeback campaign? … There are no benefits to damaging the Democratic Party.…

Mar 18, 2013 – Democratic consultant Pat Caddell got the ball rolling with his remarks at a CPAC session titled “Should We Shoot All the Consultants … said 2008 vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. … But in the long run, winning candidates win and losers lose, regardless of who the consultant is.…

Mar 27, 2013 – than just to conservatives.In the words of the "Growth and Opportunity Project," the problem is that conservative Republican candidates … Romney was as mushy a moderate as Senator John McCain was before him -- and as many other Republican losers in presidential elections … Republican candidates "need to do a better job talking in normal, people-oriented terms."Absolutely.…

Mar 26, 2013 – .’" -- Jesse Jackson’s description of New York City while on the 1984 presidential campaign trail. 4) "A few years ago, (Barack … Nader 6) "(Harry Reid) was wowed by Obama's oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential … He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation." -- Former Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd (D.,…

Mar 22, 2013 – Republicans now have a comprehensive "autopsy" report detailing some of the perceived and some of the real shortcomings of the 2012 presidential … Alas, the "perception that the GOP does not care about people is doing great harm to the Party and its candidates," states the report … But rest assured, politically speaking, the GOP will never out-"care" the Democratic Party. It will never out-empathize it.…

Jul 28, 2013 – Imagine if unions gave money to GOP candidates, who then went and signed fat benefit contracts on behalf of the people who gave them … He has many advantages that other candidates won’t have.  And twice he eked out a victory.  … As long as that is the case, the Catholics will be treated like dirt by the Democratic Party. In his article, Mr.…

Jul 25, 2013 – No doubt other presidential candidates will attack him from the Right, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see him tout his “Gang of Eight … Clinton continues to dominate the Democratic race, although her 40 point lead this month is down a bit from 50 and 46 points on our … This isn’t to say that another dark horse candidate (or one of these obviously second-tier candidates) couldn’t emerge and sweep the…

Aug 8, 2013 – If the shows air, he threatens not to allow those networks to provide questioners for the 2016 GOP presidential candidates' debates … A better strategy would be to demand the right of Republicans to choose one panel member to question Democratic presidential candidates … ticket, especially if Clinton is the Democratic nominee), but there seems to be agreement to first get the policies right, talking…

Jul 30, 2013 – It's been rumored for months that former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin might run for the U.S. … A new Public Policy Poll shows Palin is a top choice for the Republican primary and is leading other potential candidates by 10 points … She's still down with voters outside of the Republican primary in a match up with Democratic Senator Mark Begich.…