Kyle Bell

Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum accomplished two important wins in the Deep South on Tuesday – one in Alabama and the other in Mississippi – that denied front-runner Mitt Romney the opportunity to finish up the nasty GOP primary fight. While Romney’s aides publicly state that it would take an “act of God” for Santorum [...]

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New York Magazine‘s John Heilemann has a great piece this week on the GOP primary race thus far. He writes about the rightward drift of the Republican Party, the struggles that “front-runner” Mitt Romney has had to curry favor with the Tea Party base, and Santorum’s rise as his primary conservative challenger. In Heilemann’s own [...]

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Casual political observers are probably not aware, but the race for selecting a Republican nominee is in its final stages. While the Iowa caucuses are now only three weeks away, the candidates realistically have only about ten more days left to campaign. That’s because by December 24 – Christmas Eve – most Americans will tune [...]

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Ron Paul is unlikely to win the Republican nomination, but should he run as an independent in next fall’s election he would be the strongest independent candidate since Ross Perot in 1992. An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll pegs the Texas Congressman’s support at 18 percent in a three-way race between himself, President Obama and Mitt [...]

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American voters soundly defeated a series of extremist measures that looked to take away collective bargaining rights for public employees (including police officers, firemen and teachers) in Ohio, same-day voter registration in Maine, and legally defining personhood as beginning at conception in Mississippi. The Ohio and Maine laws were passed after Republicans took control of [...]

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The GOP Congress is doing what no other employer in America would ever allow: Republican leaders in the House of Representatives have unveiled a plan that would allow the GOP Congress to have one week off for every two weeks of work. While relatively common to have fewer workdays during an election year, the 2012 [...]

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A Tea Party candidate that wants to eliminate Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid is running in the great state of Michigan to take on Democratic incumbent Debbie Stabenow in next year’s Senate race. Stabenow has served since January 2003, when she defeated one-termer Spencer Abraham. Pete Konetchy, a businessman that identifies with the Tea Party, [...]

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The media darling of the minute is New Jersey governor Chris Christie. You can’t turn on a television news program without a “journalist” talk about whether or not Christie will get in the race, even with no new information. The man known for his grumpy demeanor is unlikely to win a lot of Republican votes [...]

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Republican politicians in Pennsylvania have floated around the idea of changing state election law to give their party’s nominee an advantage in next year’s election. The Democratic-leaning state has not supported a Republican for president since George Bush’s father in 1988 against Michael Dukakis. Barack Obama easily defeated John McCain here in 2008 by a [...]

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9:50 p.m.: That’s it. The debate is over. Not much new came out of it. I watched it so that you didn’t have to. The one surprise that I had was the amount of unanimity among the candidates. The only real disagreements were over Romney’s healthcare plan (basically everyone on stage agreed that Romney’s plan [...]

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