A new poll out today from Public Policy Polling shows Donald Trump maintaing an edge over his potential rivals for the G.O.P. nomination.
The survey gave Trump a slightly larger lead than previous polls, with a 26 percent to 17 percent advantage over his nearest rival, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee. Mitt Romney and Newt Read More
Mike Huckabee endorsed Myers Mermel for lieutenant governor, and explained--as if we needed a reminder--that the job is kind of a big deal.Huckabee: "He's governor ready. Now, let me explain what that means. I was a lieutenant governor and became governor because the governor had to, somehow, get out of office. You know what? Read More
On Tuesday morning, members of CNN's political A-team sat on a stage in the Time Warner Center for the network's annual upfront-like presentation and debated the findings of a new CNN poll.
At one point, Anderson Cooper, who was emceeing, asked about the GOP's presumed presidential candidates for 2012. The poll had found Mike Huckabee in Read More
Sarah Palin, should she decide to run for president in 2012, is on course to become the next Pat Buchanan or Jesse Jackson.
That's the takeaway message from a Rasmussen poll this week, which found the former Alaska governor lagging far behind co-G.O.P. front-runners Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee in head-to-head trial heats.
Against Read More
I miss the old Mike Huckabee. No, not the circa-1998 porker who could have given John Madden a run for his money in a turducken eating contest; I mean the Mike Huckabee of 2007—the charming, warm-hearted country preacher who, it seemed, genuinely wanted to give a good account of his religion and Read More
One by one, Democratic congressmen have watched this summer as their local town hall meetings have been overwhelmed and shut down by irate conservative activists who oppose health care reform.
The top-down nature of these protests has been noted. Nonetheless, they’re a potentially effective tool, because the pictures and video Read More
When South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint declared last month that he and his fellow Republicans could “break” President Obama by derailing health care reform, this was the moment he had in mind.
With the House now on its summer recess and the Senate soon to follow, a carefully orchestrated campaign to ambush Read More
On Tuesday, the nation’s first black president announced that he would like to place the first-ever Hispanic (and only the third-ever woman) on the Supreme Court. By Wednesday, virtually the entire Republican establishment—including the party’s most likely 2012 presidential candidates—had united in denouncing the move.
A “Latina woman racist,” is how Newt Gingrich Read More
It’s Triple Crown season, and time (or just an excuse, maybe) for an early handicapping of the 2012 Republican presidential field.
As with horse racing, where the fastest horse out of the gate often fades in the stretch (like Big Drama in last Saturday’s Preakness), early speed in a presidential race can Read More
It’s Triple Crown season, and time (or just an excuse, maybe) for an early handicapping of the 2012 Republican presidential field.
Sarah Palin probably should have known better: Whenever a sitting governor strikes it big on the national stage and then tries to return to his or her State House, trouble—sometimes politically lethal trouble—invariably follows.
In a Thursday story, The New York Times reported on Palin's return to Juneau, Alaska, where her first gubernatorial term Read More
Even Fox News panned it, but at least a handful of Republicans had to be delighted by the Mister Rogers/Kenneth the Page impersonation that Bobby Jindal performed on national television the other night: his fellow 2012 aspirants.
A rising star in the national Republican Party since his near-miss Louisiana gubernatorial bid in Read More
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee has announced on his Web site that his weekend variety show "Huckabee," will be airing for the first time on Fox News this Saturday and Sunday night.
From Mr. Huckabee's post:
All of us have been talking about the show I will be doing for Fox News. I wanted Read More
“I wasn’t sure it could be done,” he said, drawing happy laughter from the crowd.
There were "boos" directed at the press stand last night, and a few more attacks before it was time to file. The media were sitting Read More
