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  • Ghosts of Elections Past Won’t Help Predict This One

    For generations, political operatives have revisited past presidential elections to try to predict the outcome of their present-day campaigns.

  • What Romney Can Learn From Geraldine Ferraro

    Campaigning was fun -- up to a point, wrote Geraldine Ferraro, the 1984 Democratic nominee for vice president: “Every time I faced the press, however, I was besieged with questions about our finances. It was brutal.”

  • Ed Rollins’s Brutal Honesty About His Fellow Republicans: The Ticker

    Ed Rollins has seen everything and done most of it. He directed the Reagan-Bush campaign in 1984, helped manage the Perot campaign in 1992 and most recently advised Michele Bachmann. Name the state and he can tell you how many media markets it has.

  • Women’s Fights Thrive in Politics: Margaret Carlson

    At a recent campaign rally, Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, who is seeking the Republican nomination for president, tried to quash a narrative that some people find too irresistible to drop. A woman at the rally asked the candidate about reported divisions between Bachmann and Sarah Palin. Bachmann brushed it off.

  • Rollins Stepping Down as Republican Bachmann’s Campaign Manager

    Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann lost two top campaign aides today as she strives to remain in the top tier of the party’s field following her victory last month at the Iowa straw poll.

  • Huckabee to Announce Presidential Candidacy Plans

    Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee , whom polls have shown would be a top contender for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, will announce whether he will take the first steps to enter the race on his program on the Fox News cable television channel today.

  • Huckabee Won’t Seek Republican Nomination

    Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee , a Baptist pastor turned cable news star, said he won’t run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.

  • Explaining Obama's Approval Rating Drop: The Ticker

    What explains President Barack Obama's nine-point drop in voter approval in today's New York Times/CBS News poll? First, it's not a total aberration. While Gallup has the president doing better, a Washington Post/ABC News poll published this week also has bad news for the president, with 59 percent of voters rating Obama negatively on the economy and his overall approval rating dropping to 46 percent, from 50 percent in the last Post/ABC poll.

  • Republican Race Reshaped by Pawlenty Exit

    The Republican presidential nomination fight for 2012 has been reset after a hard-fought straw-poll win, the entrance of a new contestant and the withdrawal from the race by Tim Pawlenty.

  • Pro-Romney Group Uses Willie Horton Ad Maker to Attack Presidential Rivals

    A group supporting Mitt Romney has spent millions attacking Republican rivals Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich -- using media firms better known for ambushing Democratic presidential nominees Michael Dukakis and John Kerry.

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