Rand Paul is getting things rolling early in Iowa, whose 2016 presidential nominating caucuses are still nearly four years away. The Kentucky Republican will be the keynoter at the Republican Party of Iowa’s annual Lincoln Day dinner on May 10...
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Senator Rand Paul arrives to address the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on March 14, 2013 in National Harbor, Maryland.
‘Paul for President Outpost?’ – Iowa
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Rick Santorum at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Tampa, Florida, on Aug. 28, 2012.
Friess Checkbook Ready for Santorum
Investor Foster Friess’s $2 million in contributions to the super-political committee backing Rick Santorum was crucial to allowing the former Pennsylvania senator to continue his candidacy for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. If Santorum runs in 2016, Friess says, he’ll...
Read more »Worst Ads of the 2012 Campaign
Throughout this election campaign, some enterprising journalists at Storyful.com have been tracking the TV ads, Web videos and home-baked YouTube statements of a raucous 2012 election campaign, the tweets and other social media messages of a wired voting public. At...
Read more »Romney’s Revised Abortion Stance
In Iowa, where an adherence to “right to life” principles has helped candidates from Mike Huckabee to Rick Santorum gain a following in the Republican Party’s presidential caucuses, Mitt Romney said that his agenda includes no abortion legislation — softening...
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Rick Santorum salutes while speaking at the Republican National Convention.
Santorum’s Right to Life: Baby Bella
This is a party that has attempted to leave its debate over social issues behind in its divisive primaries. It’s a party whose platform clearly declares no tolerance for abortion. As a reminder of those primaries, and the platform, one...
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After the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the health care reform law's individual mandate in an opinion authored by Chief Justice John Roberts.
Intrade Bettors Lost on Health Care
Bloomberg Government’s David Ellis has a line on something here: “Turns out that crowds might not be so wise after all,” Ellis writes today. His story: The BGOV Barometer shows how subscribers at Intrade.com placed increasing wagers that the U.S....
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