Michele Bachmann didn’t help her cause today. The Minnesota congresswoman and Tea Party Caucus leader provocatively suggested that the recent earthquake and Hurricane came about because of God’s wrath over the federal deficit. The Bachmann campaign quickly walked the comment back as “jest.” “I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of […]
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] “If you love this country, you serve this country.” With that sentence spoken on CNN today, former Utah governor John Huntsman effectively takes himself out the 2012 Presidential Primary and puts himself on the market as a Vice Presidential running mate. First he blanches at the thought of running alongside Mitt Romney, presumably because they are both Mormon, […]
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Politico is reporting that Texas Governor Rick Perry will all but announce his candidacy for President in South Carolina on Saturday. The fact that he’s planning to run isn’t exactly a secret, but lots of candidates get right to the edge of the pool and never jump in. This suggests he’s already in mid-air. The interesting thing to watch over the next […]
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Starkly different reactions out of the Romney and Pawlenty camps on Michele Bachmann’s reported migraine attacks reflect not so much the opinions or character of those two candidates, but their very different position in the polls. Pawlenty has said it is an issue — although he’s now half- walking it back — and Romney has […]
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Are migraines prohibitive for presidential candidates? We are about to find out.
Read the rest of this entry »Ames Straw Poll Ads Begin
http://youtu.be/3Cc5q8PKk8c Michele Bachmann went up on the air today in Iowa with an ad aimed at August Ames Straw Poll voters. The message is that Bachmann is Iowan through and through — and that she won’t compromise on the debt ceiling. It will be interesting to see if Mitt Romney goes up with ads in Iowa, too. He is not competing […]
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