SIMI VALLEY-Meeting on the debate stage for the first time, Republicans Mitt Romney and Governor Rick Perry squared off. The rest of the Republican debaters at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley seemed relegated to the background.
Republicans in Iowa, according to the last Rasmussen Reports telephone poll, are beginning to line up behind Texas Governor Rick Perry. Their telephone survey shows Perry as the first place choice for president among Republicans in the state with 29%. The poll was conducted on 862 likely Republican voters.
It's not uncommon for me to get an email or phone call from someone punctuated with "Have I got a story for you!" December 2008 was no different. I was resting up after a particularly busy and historic election year. Sarah Palin had just come back from her unsuccessful national run.
Mike McCabe has never seen anything like it. He runs the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, a nonpartisan group tracking the flow of money in Badger State politics—though, presently, "torrent" may be the best way to describe the state's campaign finance environment. In the run-up to next week's recall elections targeting six Republican state senators, outside advocacy […]