I have been watching presidential campaigns since 1952. At six years old, I was thrilled and hooked on the televised proceedings. I vividly recall the black-and-white speeches of Ike, Stevenson, Taft, Nixon, MacArthur and the others. I enjoyed the bluster of state delegations casting their nominating votes and the flurry of people, balloons and confetti [...]
Former Texas solicitor general Ted Cruz greets supporters at a voting precinct in Houston on Tuesday. (Pat Sullivan – AP) Former state solicitor general Ted Cruz, a tea party-aligned conservative once regarded as a long-shot candidate, has won the Republican runoff in Texas, where he will be the GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate in [...]
NEW YORK, July 31, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — Presidential elections are always heated times of patriotism, mud-slinging and party identification, but this year voters are not as confident as they have been in previous campaigns. In fact, according to a recent article from Fox News, many Americans are weighing their decision on how well a [...]
Obama invokes W, Geoff Davis is resigning, someone told Harry Reid something about Mitt Romney and Steve LaTourette is tired of the partisanship. Make sure to sign up to get “Afternoon Fix” in your e-mail inbox every day by 5 (ish) p.m! EARLIER ON THE FIX: Mitt Romney’s inner circle: Who are these guys? Ted [...]
The White House Office of the Press Secretary James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 12:46 P.M. EDT MR. CARNEY: Here we go. Here we go. Q How’s camp? MR. CARNEY: I really can’t talk about it. (Laughter.) Q About what? MR. CARNEY: I was asked about — I took my son to his first overnight [...]
Other places around the country, including the Mississippi Delta, Detroit and suburban Phoenix, face similar problems. The Association of American Medical Colleges estimates that in 2015 the country will have 62,900 fewer doctors than needed. And that number will more than double by 2025, as the expansion of insurance coverage and the aging of baby [...]
By Cameron Joseph, The Hill Election up for grabs with 100 days to go With 100 days until the 2012 election, President Obama has a tenuous lead, but the struggling economy hurts his bid for a second term. Obama leads Mitt Romney by a narrow margin in most national polls, and has a slightly wider lead [...]
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney’s recently-concluded foreign trip brought heavy criticism onto his candidacy from some within his party and once again shone a light on his senior campaign staff. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, left, sits with campaign manager Matt Rhoades and adviser Beth Myers, at his vacation home on Lake Winnipesaukee in Wolfeboro, [...]
The 2012 election is shaping up to be a tighter race than the last one. Should the first-time Obama voters from ’08 stay home or defect to the Republican camp, Mr. Obama may be hard-pressed to win a second term, the poll suggests. “Their relative disengagement represents a real threat to President Obama’s re-election campaign,” [...]
NEW YORK, July 31, 2012 — /PRNewswire-iReach/ — July 31st 2012 – iShapePolicy, an industry leading political technology service provider, extends its proprietary voting tool capability to serve the state gubernatorial elections. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120731/CG43998) Following the company’s latest release of the iElectTM political matching engine, iShapePolicy has expanded its data, search and match functionality to include [...]
