Apr 6, 2012
As a conservative woman, it pains me to admit: The gender gap is real. As the Pew Research Center recently pointed out, Democrats have enjoyed more support from women than men for 30 years, and the majority of women have voted for Democratic Presidents since 1992.
Feb 2, 2012
The 11 days between the South Carolina primary, where Newt Gingrich blew a steady and confident Mitt Romney out of the water, and the Florida primary, where Romney beat Gingrich on Tuesday night by a decisive 14 percent (with 98 percent of precincts reporting), was perhaps...
Jan 5, 2012
It was a photo finish on Tuesday night in Iowa, with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney barely beating out Rick Santorum in a statistical tie for first place, each winning 24.5 percent of the caucus vote, with Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, finishing just a few percentage...
Dec 16, 2011
As 2011 wraps up and we look back on the campaign preseason, the ups and downs of what s been a colorful GOP presidential primary have given us plenty of hilarious, bizarre, cringeworthy, and stomach-churning moments, some deserving of the worst (or maybe I mean best?)...
Nov 23, 2011
I was only 15 in 1994, when Newt Gingrich experienced his last great moment. (Well, before this one, where he s surging in the polls, with his campaign having figured out how to run for president.) So I don t really remember Newt s glory days.
I have interviewed him on...
Nov 17, 2011
As partisans on the left and right try to co-opt and compare the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street movements, both sides ignore that they aren t really that different at all. Both, in fact, hew to the same conventions as all mass movements. And as the 2012 presidential...
Oct 19, 2011
Any political historian will tell you that in many ways, campaign politics is the art of the deal. It's salesmanship and branding, and when it comes to presidential campaigns, Madison Avenue is every bit as important as Pennsylvania Avenue. Just ask President Obama's...
Oct 3, 2011
It's called deer fever an affliction that affects millions of hunters all over the country, as we awaken from soggy, lazy, waders-clad summers spent obsessing over fly hatches and remember with feverish anticipation that deer season is upon us. The hunting catalogues...