• NICHOLAS CONFESSORE, MICHAEL LUO and MIKE MCINTIRE
In June, Harold C. Simmons, a wealthy Texas businessman, sent a $100,000 check to Americans for Rick Perry, a super PAC preparing for Perry's entry into the presidential race. In December, Simmons wrote another check, this one for $500,000, to Winnin
Christine Paulsen said she attended Friday’s rally in the Student Union Building ballroom to support Ron Paul and the youth of America.
“I think it’s great so many young people (are) here today,” Paulsen said. “It gives me — as a baby boomer — hope
"Dreamers" — or undocumented immigrant youth who came to the U.S. illegally when they were young — have grown up in public schools and many of them want to go to college to become lawyers and scientists.
Santorum added that, "I think we should send a very clear message that if you are a scientist from Russia, North Korea, or from Iran and you are going to work on a nuclear program to develop a bomb for Iran, you are not safe."
In Boston, hundreds of Paul’s supporters marched to Faneuil Hall. Paul himself appeared in Freeport, Texas, where organizers had prepared barrels for him to dump into the Brazos River. One barrel read “United Nations”; another read “I.R.S.”
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul drew cheers from supporters in North Dakota Monday while making a pitch for free market economics to be applied to farmers, allowing them to grow alternative crops such as hemp.
Every media outlet seems to have a different delegate count. But almost invariably we're told Ron Paul is in last place and far behind the leader Mitt Romney.
An unmistakable dynamic is playing out in the money game among Republican presidential candidates: New "super" political action committees are growing more powerful than the campaigns they support.
Sheldon Adelson plays as stubbornly in politics as he does in business. So the criticisms that he’s trying to personally buy the presidential election for Newt Gingrich are met with a roll of the eyes.
On February 15, 2012 I attended the Congressional District 14 caucus vote for presidential delegates in accordance with Republican Party of Florida delegate selection rules and as affected by rules of the National Republican Committee. &
Rick Santorum says President Obama has “a world view that elevates the Earth above man." Theology-tinged rhetoric may appeal to part of the Republican base, but it could hurt him in a general election.
Arizona gets another ego boost this week when it hosts a debate that will help decide who carries the Republican banner into the 2012 presidential election.
Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul took a four-city tour through the state of Washington with stops in Vancouver, Seattle, Spokane and Richland.
A numerical analysis of accumulating vote totals for all candidates in the SC GOP Primary shows almost certain evidence of vote fraud. See the report, link to the data, and check it yourself.
When Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign disclosed in October that it planned to pay the candidate $70,000, the transfer was unusual for a campaign committee.
Here's the state of our national politics: The frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination says that that President Barack Obama embraces a 'phony theology'; that large-scale public education is an outdated idea, and that contraception is
Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu, facing explosive allegations of a relationship with a male Mexican immigrant, is stepping down from his role as Arizona co-chair of the Mitt Romney for President campaign. Romney spokesperson Andrea Saul gave TPM the follo
Jonathan Karl reports that a 'prominent Republican senator' told him that the Party will not stand for a Mitt Romney loss in Michigan, and that he expects a result like that to lead the Senator to 'publicly call for the party to find a new candidate,