The former senator from Pennsylvania gives the presumptive GOP nominee a run for his money.
Bob Moser
Bob Moser is a contributing editor for the Prospect and The New Republic, and the author of Blue Dixie: Awakening the South’s Democratic Majority.
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Shiny Happy Romney
Today’s Ringside Seat: Ron raps, Santorum surges, and Romney just about breaks into song.
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Third-Place Race
Today’s Ringside Seat: Things get feisty in Iowa, and pundits hate on the first caucus of the election cycle.
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Santormentum
Today’s Ringside Seat: Santorum takes his turn in the spotlight, even though he’s most likely just keeping the seat warm for Romney.
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Ringside Seat: Lucky Mitt
Will the operatic sturm und drang of the Republican presidential race end with a whimper of anti-climatic predictability? With one week to go before the Iowa caucuses, Newt Gingrich is flailing (see below) and Ron Paul is mishandling the controversy over his racist newsletters (ditto), while Rick Santorum and Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann are […]
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Santa Comes Early
House Republicans get coal in their stocking, and Newt tries to capture the non-human vote.
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Payroll Politics
Today’s Ringside Seat: tackling the new attacks on Ron Paul and the payroll tax cut.
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The Santorum Surge
Santorum is the latest in a long line of Republican candidates rising in the polls.
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Good Ol’ Iowa
Ever since Jimmy Carter door-to-doored his way to an eye-opening Iowa victory in 1976-he actually finished second to “uncommitted,” but he beat the other candidates-the first-in-the-nation caucuses have played a supersized role in both parties’ nomination processes. In spite of quadrennial grumblings about Iowa becoming “less relevant,” it never happens. The charm of Iowa isn’t […]
