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Mitt-Mania In Des Moines

Gwen Ifill and Charlie Cook talk to each other while David Weigel talks to Iowa Republicans at Wednesday’s Polk County GOP fundraiser. NEWTON, Iowa One of the things that gets lost in all the horse-race coverage of a political campaign — who’s up? who’s down? — is the sense of what a campaign actually looks […]

Mitt Romney Comes to Des Moines, Attracts Massive Media Coverage

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at a fundraiser for the Polk County Republican Party. DES MOINES, Iowa Wow — what a crowd! I just got through covering Mitt Romney’s speech to a fundraiser for the Polk County GOP, and it was kind of eye-opening to see how much more media coverage the national front-runner […]

Iowa Notebook: Romney Coming to Town; Pawlenty and the ‘Plausible Chance’ Trick

DES MOINES, Iowa Mitt Romney will be the featured guest at a “Road to the White House Republican House Party” in Des Moines this evening. That starts at 5 p.m. and then at 7 p.m. Tim Pawlenty has a rally in Ames. It’s a 45-minute drive from Des Moines to Ames, so as long as […]

Renee Ellmers, GOP ‘Rock Star’

It was June 14, 2010, and the notorious video of Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-N.C.) manhandling a videographer had just hit the ‘Net when I wrote: A “macaca” moment for the Democrat. His Republican challenger is Renee Ellmers. That was the first time Etheridge’s Tea Party-backed GOP challenger was mentioned on the blog. We frequently mentioned Ellmers […]

‘F*** JOHN McCAIN!’

That was the complete text of a Twitter message — except I spelled out the first word — I sent when I heard about this: Mr. McCain mocked Tea Party-allied Republicans in the House for believing — wrongly, he said — that President Obama and Democrats will get the blame for a default if Republicans […]

Herman Cain: He’s In It To Win It

Late Tuesday night, I had about 45 minutes of frustrated confusion when California writer Jim Henson sent a couple of Twitter messages to Shane Vander Hart and me: My reaction to that — knowing that such a rumor could have no basis in fact — was something like, “WTF?” To which Henson replied: Well, you can’t just […]

VIDEO: Herman Cain Talks Mosques, Sharia and the Muslim Brotherhood

EXCLUSIVE — Must credit TheOtherMcCain.com During a private event Sunday with supporters in Bethesda, Maryland, Republican presidential candidate spoke frankly about his opposition to a proposed mosque in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Cain said that one Tennessee attorney representing opponents of the mosque told him that the controversial project is being supported by the Muslim Brotherhood. Cain’s […]

Obama Wants ‘Largest Deal Possible’

The president is obviously trying to turn the debt-ceiling negotiations into an opportunity to claim victory: “I think there’s still time to get something big done,” [White House budget director Jack] Lew said. . . . Lew said on NBC’s “Meet The Press” that the president “made clear he wants the largest deal possible.”“He wants […]

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