Maraniss book details Obama’s pot-smoking crew; Trump goes birther (again); Democratic poll shows Walker up 3; Giffords featured in special election mailer.
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The Elizabeth Warren controversy is becoming the controversy that won’t die.
The Boston Globe this morning reported that Harvard University listed the Democratic Massachusetts Senate candidate as a Native American for six years in its federal diversity statistics — the latest example of Warren having been labeled a minority by the school.
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If there’s one lasting lesson of the Cory Booker saga over the weekend, it’s that nothing in politics is as clear cut as it seems.
Democrats have been trying all election cycle to make the coming race about the rich paying their fair share, reining in fat cat bankers and helping the 99 percent, with Mitt Romney serving as the foil.
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Mitt Romney, President Obama and a whole bunch of super PACs and party committees filed their April financial reports on Sunday.
And we know you guys don’t want to have to comb through them all (the FEC Web site? — fuggedaboutit!). Which is where we come in.
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is not returning calls from the Ricketts family and is “livid” over a New York Times report that Joe Ricketts commissioned a proposal for a multimillion-dollar ad campaign linking President Obama to the president’s former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, according to an Emanuel aide.
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Six in 10 Americans say President Obama’s embrace of gay marriage will have no impact on their vote this year, according to a new Gallup poll. But of the rest, twice as many say it makes them less likely to support the president.
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For the past five election cycles, the battleground districts in the battle for the House have stayed very consistent — more or less.
One party wins control of the House by winning certain competitive seats, and the other party wins it back by regaining, in large part, those same seats.
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Chris Christie is really, really popular — by New Jersey standards.
Christie’s 56 percent approval rating in a Fairleigh Dickinson University poll this week may not seem all that remarkable, but when it comes to New Jersey, it is.
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Mitt Romney won all three primaries on Tuesday and is closing in on the number of delegates he needs to officially secure the Republican Party’s presidential nomination.
108 delegates were available Tuesday, and Romney is likely to win all 27 up for grabs in Indiana, the vast majority of the 52 available in North Carolina and most or all of the 28 in West Virginia.
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Forget Mormonism; the real story in the Republican Party right now is the rise of the Catholics.
Republicans, who according to Smart Politics have put a Catholic on the ticket just once before (vice presidential candidate William Miller in 1964), seem to be experiencing something of a Catholic renaissance.
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Bill Clinton is the best surrogate in the country.
When it comes to primaries, especially, the man just wins.
On Tuesday in Pennsylvania, Clinton’s endorsement helped guide Rep. Mark Critz and attorney general candidate Kathleen Kane both to come-from-behind victories in their respective primaries.
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The Adelson family gave a super PAC supporting Newt Gingrich another $5 million in March, bringing the family’s total investment in the lagging GOP presidential candidate’s campaign to more than $20 million.
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We live in a hyper-nationalized political environment these days, in which a Senate candidate’s prospects in a presidential election year depend heavily on how their party’s presidential nominee performs.
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The ad war in the Montana governor’s race is officially on, with a group affiliated with the Democratic Governors Association going up with an ad responding to Republican attacks.
A state GOP ad earlier this week, partially funded by the Republican Governors Association, hit state Attorney General and presumptive Democratic nominee Steve Bullock for not joining on to a lawsuit, filed by other state attorneys general, that seeks to overturn President Obama’s health care law.
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Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D) is causing a bit of a stir with his comment that Mitt Romney’s family came from a “polygamy commune.”
In an interview with the Daily Beast on Thursday, the outspoken governor suggested Romney could identify with Latinos better if he talked about his family’s roots in Mexico.
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Rubio with an apparent Freudian slip on the veepstakes; youth sour on Obama; $200,000 goes missing from Jon Huntsman’s political action committee; and North Carolina’s Democratic Party chairman isn’t stepping down.
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The map on which the battle for the House will be fought this fall came into better focus this week with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announcing that it is reserving $32 million worth of ad time in media markets spanning nearly three dozen competitive districts.
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Call it loyalty or call it payback: The 2008 Democratic presidential primary lives on in Bill Clinton’s 2012 endorsements.
Clinton has now endorsed in at least six Democratic primaries this year, according to our count. In all six of them, the candidate he’s backing supported or was tied to his wife, Hillary Clinton, in the Democratic primary four years ago, and their opponents supported President Obama in that race.
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Former President George W. Bush reflected on his presidency in a rare public appearance Tuesday, poking fun at his low approval ratings and saying he didn’t miss being the leader of the free world.
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The national Republican Party this week sets out on a quest to label President Obama a “hypocrite,” seeking to contrast his 2008 message of hope and results with his 2012 campaign’s already more combative and negative tone.
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Former Obama administration official Elizabeth Warren raised $6.9 million in the first quarter of 2012 in support of her challenge to Massachusetts Republican Sen. Scott Brown, a massive sum that doubled what the incumbent collected over the same period.
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The tea party may have won Republicans the House of Representatives in 2010.
In 2012, it’s looking like it could help Democrats retain the White House.
The tea party movement, now nearly three years old, has fallen out of favor with Americans. And Democrats are prepared to use it against Republicans in the 2012 election.
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President Obama signed the so-called STOCK Act on Wednesday surrounded by a veritable who’s who of endangered incumbents.
There was Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.), of course, who has the unenviable task of winning reelection as a Republican in Massachusetts. (Brown has been front-and-center on the bill from day one.)
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The battle over women voters in the 2012 presidential campaign reached a fever pitch early Thursday, with Democrats crying foul over Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus’ comments using an insect — a caterpillar, to be exact — to call into question Democratic tactics.
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We’ve been writing for a while now on this blog that the GOP presidential race, barring some ground-breaking shift, is effectively over. Mitt Romney is already on pace to win a majority of the delegates to the party’s national convention, and the second half of the nominating calendar plays to his strengths in a major way.
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For the first time in a competitive primary, Mitt Romney won some elusive demographics.
Exit polls from the Wisconsin primary Tuesday showed Romney expanding his appeal to groups that have consistently voted against him this year, including evangelical Christians, voters who describe themselves as “very conservative,” strong supporters of the tea party movement and voters making less than $50,000 per year.
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Even in the most anti-incumbent primary season of the past few decades, less than 5 percent of members of Congress lost their primaries.
Such is the case under a political system that weighs things heavily in favor of incumbents.
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Rick Santorum’s win in the Louisiana primary told us a lot of things we already knew about Mitt Romney’s problems — in very stark terms.
But it might be the last time that happens.
Early exit polls Saturday night showed Romney losing by near-double digits overall. But it also showed him losing basically every demographic group in the state, with one notable exception: voters making more than $200,000 per year.
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Reports of the GOP’s turnout problems appear to have been slightly premature.
A Fix review of turnout in the Republican presidential nominating process shows that it has rebounded in recent weeks, and GOP voters are now turning out in consistently higher numbers than they did in 2008.
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Brad Coker, the president of Mason-Dixon polling, offered a thoughtful counterpoint to our piece this morning on why Louisiana may be more hospitable to former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney than other Southern states.
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New York will again be one of the most competitive states in the country when it comes to congressional races.
Under a map approved by a three-judge panel Monday, upwards of a dozen of the state’s 27 House seats will be ripe for competition in 2012, including some previously safe seats.
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The Democrats’ ability to hold their Senate majority may rest on three candidates who haven’t run for office in more than a decade.
The decisions by former Maine governor Angus King (I) and former Nebraska senator Bob Kerrey (D) to run this year bring a decidedly old-school flavor to the 2012 Senate map.
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Osama plotted to kill Obama; Romney returning to Illinois; behind the scenes at a freshman GOP fundraiser; and a new contraception controversy in Arizona.
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The Democrats’ ability to hold their Senate majority may rest on three candidates who haven’t run for office in more than a decade.
The decisions by former Maine governor Angus King (I) and former Nebraska senator Bob Kerrey (D) to run for Senate this year bring a decidedly old-school flavor to the 2012 Senate map.
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Mitt Romney’s campaign is up with a new ad in the Illinois primary labeling Rick Santorum an “economic lightweight” and comparing him — surprise! — to President Obama.
The ad picks up on bad reviews of Santorum’s economic plan from several sources, one of which labels it the worst plan in the GOP field.
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Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.) announced Thursday that he will not seek reelection this year.
“I’ve been truly privileged to have had the opportunity to fight for the beliefs of my neighbors in both the state capital and in the halls of Congress,” Ackerman said in a statement. “During my years in Congress, it has been my pleasure to address the needs of thousands of individual constituents and to influence domestic and global policy while serving on the Financial and Foreign Affairs Committees in the House. I am most thankful for the opportunity I’ve had to serve my country and my community.”
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Santorum leads in Texas Democrats are still without a candidate in Maine as Baldacci passes; Mitt Romney gets some pointers; and Scott Brown latches on to the Red Sox. .
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Former Democratic National Committee chairman Tim Kaine’s Senate campaign is getting its very own super PAC.
The New Virginia PAC is being launched by two former aides to Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) — Steve Bouchard and Harmony Knutson — and media consultant Mark Longabaugh, for the sole purpose of electing Kaine to the state’s other Senate seat.
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No House incumbents lost their primaries on Tuesday. But that doesn’t mean their colleagues should rest easy.
In fact, the results of Tuesday’s primaries suggest that incumbents face an environment even tougher than they did in 2010, when four House members lost their primaries and three senators lost re-nomination.
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There’s no relief in sight for Mitt Romney, with a new poll showing a tight race in the Illinois primary later this month.
The new Chicago Tribune/WGN-TV poll shows Romney at 35 percent in the March 20 primary, but Rick Santorum is within the margin of error at 31 percent. Newt Gingrich follows in third place at 12 percent, while Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) is at 7 percent.
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Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) announced Saturday that he is resigning from Congress to focus on his gubernatorial campaign.
The Democrat announced his decision at a news conference in Seattle, the Associated Press reported. Inslee is in his eighth term representing a Seattle-area district in the House.
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If you didn’t know by now, The Fix is skeptical that political endorsements matter much. If they matter at all. But if there’s one that has mattered in the 2012 presidential race to date, it might be that of Rob Portman.
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We thought we knew just how many seats Republicans needed to win in order to regain a Senate majority in 2012.
Then came Angus King.
The independent former governor of Maine entered that state’s open Senate race Monday night as the prohibitive early favorite, throwing a wrench in Democrats’ plans to win the seat from Republicans.
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The fight for the GOP presidential nomination will hit a fever pitch on Super Tuesday but the pivotal election day also will mark the official beginning of the battle for control of Congress.
Ohio will hold the nation’s first congressional primaries Tuesday, giving Republicans a chance to begin reaping the benefits of their big wins in the 2010 midterm elections. Because of those victories, Republicans control both the legislature and the governor’s mansion in so many states that they were able to redraw four times as many congressional districts as Democrats.
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The fight for the GOP presidential nomination will hit a fever pitch on Super Tuesday but the pivotal election day also will mark the official beginning of the battle for control of Congress.
Ohio will hold the nation’s first congressional primaries Tuesday, giving Republicans a chance to begin reaping the benefits of their big wins in the 2010 midterm elections. Because of those victories, Republicans control both the legislature and the governor’s mansion in so many states that they were able to redraw four times as many congressional districts as Democrats.
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The fight for the GOP presidential nomination will hit a fever pitch on Super Tuesday but the pivotal election day also will mark the official beginning of the battle for control of Congress.
Ohio will hold the nation’s first congressional primaries Tuesday, giving Republicans a chance to begin reaping the benefits of their big wins in the 2010 midterm elections. Because of those victories, Republicans control both the legislature and the governor’s mansion in so many states that they were able to redraw four times as many congressional districts as Democrats.
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There may not be any debates on the schedule for the GOP presidential candidates, but tonight three of them will take part tn Mike Huckabee’s forum in Wilmington, Ohio.
While you’re watching the forum on Fox News, make sure to stop over at our live blog, where we’ll be summarizing the greatest hits and providing analysis.
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As the GOP presidential contest hits a fever pitch on Super Tuesday, the nation’s other 2012 races officially kick off as well, with Ohio holding the nation’s first congressional primaries.
That means Tuesday is the day that Republicans will start reaping the benefits of the once-in-a-decade redistricting process. Because of their big gains in the 2010 elections, Republicans control the legislature and governor’s mansion in so many states that they got to redraw four times as many congressional districts as Democrats.
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We may finally have a Texas congressional map for the 2012 election.
After a series of fits and starts thanks to a long, drawn-out legal process, a three-judge panel in San Antonio on Tuesday released an interim plan for the coming election.
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Watching the Michigan primary results tonight? Not sure how to keep track of the results?
We’ve got you covered.
Below is The Fix’s Michigan primary scorecard, which shows you how each candidate performed in each county in 2008, and provides our best guess as to how well Mitt Romney needs to do in each county to pull out the victory tonight.
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Mitt Romney’s campaign is still justifiably worried about winning Michigan in today’s primary, as it should be.
But the bad news is that, even if his team can pull it out tonight, next week’s marquee contest in Michigan’s neighbor-to-the-south is looking like an uphill battle.
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Through the first four contests in the GOP presidential race, there were more than 20 debates. For the next 14 contests (at least), there will be only one debate.
That debate was held Wednesday night in Arizona, and its impact on the GOP presidential race will become clear in the days ahead.
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Through the first four contests in the GOP presidential race, there were more than 20 debates. For the next 14 contests (at least), there will be only one debate.
That debate was held Wednesday night in Arizona, and its impact on the GOP presidential race will become clear in the days ahead.
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Rick Santorum’s front-runner status in the GOP presidential race is predicated on the idea that he is the consistent conservative alternative in the field.
And that image had some serious holes poked in it at Wednesday’s debate in Arizona.
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Former Sarah Palin staff are lashing out at a new HBO movie depicting the 2008 campaign, going so far as to accuse the media of metaphorically beating her.
“Look with your own eyes at what she and her family have endured...” said former Palin spokeswoman Meg Stapleton. “Any lesser man would have hanged himself by now.”
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Operation Chaos in Michigan? Again?
The Michigan Democratic Party sent an e-mail to supporters Wednesday encouraging them to take part in the state’s Republican presidential primary on Tuesday.
The e-mail points to a YouTube video of two Republican state senators encouraging Democrats to vote and notes that voters can still return to voting in the Democratic caucuses two months from now.
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Mitt Romney’s problems with conservatives and evangelical voters are well-established, but he’s also got a significant — if less readily apparent — issue with less-affluent voters.
And it’s a problem that could matter quite a bit in the next few weeks.
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A woman claiming to be the star of a controversial Super Bowl ad run by former congressman Pete Hoekstra’s (R-Mich.) Senate campaign has apologized for playing a role that some have said preys on Asian stereotypes.
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Newt Gingrich hasn’t just fallen in the GOP presidential race; he may be the most unpopular person in American politics right now.
Two new polls out this week show the former House speaker with an absolutely atrocious favorability rating.
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Rick Santorum’s campaign is up with a new ad in Michigan going negative on Mitt Romney and accusing him of “firing mud at” Santorum.
The ad, titled “Rombo,” features a Romney lookalike roving around an empty building wielding a gun that fires mud-filled paint balls. It accuses Romney and his supporters of running a multimillion-dollar negative campaign.
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Rep. Ron Paul’s (R-Texas) campaign may have blown its best chance at winning a state in the Republican presidential contest last week in Maine.
But there will be other opportunities in the weeks ahead.
The final results from Maine showed Paul losing to Mitt Romney by fewer than 200 votes. His campaign is crying foul over one county having postponed its caucus, but the result seems set in stone.
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President Obama released a $3.8 trillion budget this morning that includes tax increases, continued infrastructure spending aimed at getting the country out of the economic crisis, and less debt reduction than Obama had previously promised.
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The Republican presidential race enters a new phase today: A distinctly national one.
While the first month-plus of the GOP contest has been handled mostly one state at a time and has been dominated by some of the smaller states in the union, the next phase brings the race into bigger states holding their contests on the same day as one another.
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Mitt Romney has won the Maine caucuses, turning aside a valiant effort from Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and getting back on the winning side of the ledger after a tough week.
Results of the week-long caucuses released Saturday evening by the Maine Republican Party showed Romney with 39 percent of the vote, Paul with 36 percent, Rick Santorum with 18 percent and Newt Gingrich with 6 percent.
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Romney plays up conservatism at CPAC; Obama lays out contraception compromise; McIntyre won’t run for governor in North Carolina; and Rep. Spencer Bachus faces an insider-trading probe.
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It’s a new race in North Carolina following Gov. Bev Perdue’s (D) decision not to run for reelection.
But is it any more competitive?
For an entire year, now, North Carolina has topped The Fix’s governor’s line, meaning it is the 2012 governor’s seat seen as most likely to switch parties.
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Rick Santorum may have committed one of the relatively few gaffes of his GOP presidential campaign by suggesting Thursday that women shouldn’t serve in combat roles because of “other types of emotions that are involved.”
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President Obama may be getting a little bump from some improved economic numbers.
Congress? Not so much. It’s still setting records for how unpopular it is.
A new Gallup poll shows Congress’s approval rating has actually hit a new low of 10 percent, despite some positive signs for the economy recently.
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President Obama may be getting a little bump from some improved economic numbers.
Congress? Not so much. It’s still setting records for how unpopular it is.
A new Gallup poll shows Congress’s approval rating has actually hit a new low of 10 percent, despite some positive signs for the economy recently.
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Rick Santorum’s trio of victories in Tuesday’s contests in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri virtually assures that the Republican presidential race will, on some level, be a delegate race.
And if that delegate race drags on for a while, it could very well pit different regions of the country against one another.
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A supposedly less-important Election Day on Tuesday got pretty interesting by the time it was all said and done.
We’ve combed through all the results so we can lay it all out for you — as usual — in the form of winners and losers.
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Tuesday was an embarrassing night for Mitt Romney, and nowhere was that more true than in Minnesota.
This was a state where the former Massachusetts governor had nearly everything going for him:
* He won the state in the 2008 presidential race by 18 points.
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Democrats have been saying for a long time that the House could be in play in 2012, and now some Republicans are starting to join them.
“For Democrats to take 25 seats, they will need a wave,” former congressman Tom Davis wrote in an op-ed in The Hill recently. “Continued polarization and obstruction could create such a wave.”
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Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are fighting for the right to be the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney.
But they both lost that battle in Nevada — to Ron Paul.
Entrance polls from Saturday’s Nevada caucuses show Romney racking up huge wins among the vast majority of demographics, which isn’t surprising given that he took about 50 percent of the vote.
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Newt Gingrich predicted during a press conference following Saturday’s Nevada caucuses that he would emerge as the GOP front-runner again by the Texas primary.
The one problem with that: We have no idea when Texas will hold its primary. A spat over redistricting is likely to push it beyond its scheduled date, April 3.
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Mitt Romney confirmed his status as the prohibitive front-runner in the GOP presidential race Saturday with a win in the Nevada caucuses.
But Romney’s apparently large margin of victory may say more about his opponents than his own candidacy.
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We are now just a few hours away from getting the first results in the 2012 Nevada caucuses.
So besides listening to The Fix’s Nevada playlist, what else can you do to get ready for the big night?
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Presidential contests are inherently an expectations game, and because of that, the expectation is that Saturday’s contest in Nevada doesn’t mean much.
Rightly or wrongly, when a state isn’t competitive, we generally discount its broader impact on the presidential race.
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If you want to know why Newt Gingrich is raising a ruckus about how Florida allocates its delegates, just take a look at the chart below.
Florida, by awarding its 50 delegates on a winner-take-all basis, provided one of the biggest delegate swings you’ll see in the presidential race, outside of Super Tuesday.
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Mitt Romney’s opponents really never had much of a chance in Nevada.
And it’s largely because of Romney’s Mormon religion.
While Romney’s faith has rightly been described as a liability in previous states — most notably Iowa and South Carolina, where evangelical Christians have balked at supporting Romney — it’s hard to call it anything but a trump card in Nevada (so to speak).
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Mitt Romney said in an interview set to air Thursday evening that he “misspoke” when he said that he was “not concerned about the very poor.”
In an interview with Nevada’s “Face to Face with Jon Ralston,” the former Massachusetts governor and GOP presidential front-runner said he merely flubbed a line that he has said before.
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The Fix doesn’t like to just toss around the term “guru” — except when referring to our spiritual advisers, that is.
But when it comes to Nevada politics, there’s really no other word for Jon Ralston.
So with his home state’s caucuses two days away, The Fix is using Ralston as a guinea pig for a new Fix feature (with apologies to Craig Kilborn) called “Five questions.”
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Our long national nightmare is officially over, as Donald Trump has picked a candidate in the 2012 presidential race, thereby ending his long, long flirtation with his own presidential bid (one would assume).
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Once thought to have a potential liability in appealing to Hispanics, Mitt Romney appears to have overcome his doubters.
One of Romney’s more remarkable turnarounds in the Florida primary between 2008 and 2012 was among the state’s many Hispanic voters. While he increased his vote share overall by 12 points, from 31 percent to 43 percent, he increased his performance among Hispanics by 40, from 14 percent in 2008 to 54 percent on Tuesday, according to exit polls.
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We’re digging into the just-filed fourth quarter fundraising reports over here at The Fix.
And as usual, that means winners and losers time.
Here’s our initial take on who won and lost for the period spanning October through December. (And let us know what we missed in the comments section):
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Mitt Romney insisted in his victory speech Tuesday in Florida that a prolonged Republican presidential race wouldn’t hurt his party.
But the longer the former Massachusetts governor has to campaign, the more ammunition he’s giving Democrats, at least when it comes to potential footage that could be used to paint him as an out-of-touch rich guy in the general election.
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Updated at 6:52 p.m. with news that Hasner will run in West’s district
Tea party firebrand Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) announced Tuesday that he will switch districts and run for reelection in Florida’s new 18th district.
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Sixty people and couples have raised at least a half-million dollars for President Obama’s reelection.
Obama’s campaign and an affiliated committee run with the Democratic National Committee both filed their fourth quarter financial reports Tuesday, showing a highly effective bundling operation in full gear.
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Newt Gingrich’s campaign announced in a tweet Tuesday that he raised $10 million in the fourth quarter of 2011 and has pulled in another $5 million in January.
The newly disclosed fundraising numbers represent a big uptick for the former House speaker, who raised less than $1 million in the third quarter and was deeply in debt. The campaign had previously said it raised $9 million in the fourth quarter but is adjusting that up slightly.
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Mitt Romney is on course for victory in the Florida primary, but the campaigns of Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum say they aren’t leaving the race anytime soon.
Gingrich’s campaign says it aims to win enough delegates in the coming months to force a brokered convention, and Santorum’s campaign has turned its focus to the contests in early February and then to Super Tuesday in early March.
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Mitt Romney enters the final full day of campaigning in the Florida Republican primary with a 14-point lead, according to a new poll from Quinnipiac University.
The poll shows Romney expanding on his lead from midweek last week by five points and suggests he’s a strong favorite to win on Tuesday.
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Mitt Romney has regained his frontrunner status in the Florida primary, according to a new poll from Quinnipiac University.
The poll shows that, even before Thursday’s debate in which Romney appeared to get the better of Newt Gingrich, the former Massachusetts governor had opened up a substantial lead in the state’s primary Tuesday.
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Tonight marks the 19th debate in the Republican presidential contest, the second Florida debate before Tuesday’s primary, and the last debate for nearly a month.
The stakes could hardly be higher, with both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich arguably needing a win in Florida. So tonight’s debate is about as big as they come.
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Newt Gingrich’s momentum in the GOP presidential race may have hit a roadblock.
A new CNN/Time/Opinion Reseach poll in Florida shows Mitt Romney claiming a small lead in Tuesday’s primary, and the latest Gallup tracking poll, which has showed Gingrich surging for more than a week now, finally shows him leveling off.
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Mitt Romney is rich; this much we know.
But would he be the richest president ever?
In terms of raw dollars, yes. If you adjust for inflation, though, the answer is no.
In fact, the wealthiest president appears to have been one of the nation’s most beloved Commanders in Chief and the nation’s first president, George Washington.
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President Obama’s most memorable line in Tuesday’s State of the Union address came when he uttered these three words: “America is back.”
But really, what he was saying is: ‘I’m back.’
The swagger which Obama rode into office with was back in his address Tuesday. The president, emboldened by some positive jobs numbers and an improving (if still not good) personal approval rating, sounded every bit the part of a president with political capital to spend.
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As the Republican presidential race spirals into a heated battle between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, viewers of Tuesday’s State of the Union address will be reminded of what could have been.
Namely, Mitch Daniels.
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The Massachusetts Senate race between Republican Sen. Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren has a shot at becoming the most expensive contest in the history of Congress this year.
Brown and Warren have set a torrid fundraising pace thus far, including bringing in about $9 million combined in te final three months of 2011. If they increase that pace just slightly this year — not at all an unreasonable possibility – the Massachusetts Senate race could wind up as the most expensive Senate race ever.
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said Sunday that he would consider being Mitt Romney’s vice presidential running mate if Romney asked him, but said he remained skeptical that he would ever be on the ticket.
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The South Carolina Republican Party’s mantra is: “We pick presidents.”
Voters in Saturday’s primary felt the same way, but their idea of who was most electable differed starkly from their predecessors in the 2012 GOP presidential race.
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