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American Samoa Live Blog (Democrats)
7:16 p.m. The Associated Press projects Hillary Clinton to be the winner in the Democratic caucuses in American Samoa. American Samoa will send 9 delegates to the Democratic convention, 3 tied to the caucuses….
Read MoreSuper Tuesday Live Blog Postgame
11:22 p.m. On the Republican side, nearly all networks, especially Fox News and MSNBC, are writing the political obituary for Mitt Romney’s 2008 campaign, echoing Mike Huckabee’s speech tonight that the GOP race is a “two-person race” with Huckabee in…
Read MoreSuper Tuesday Preview: The Republicans
Since his victory in Florida, John McCain has opened up large double-digit leads over Mitt Romney in nearly every national poll for the Republican nomination. With Romney’s decisive victory in the Maine caucuses this weekend (his fourth win so far),…
Read MoreSmart Politics Super Tuesday Live Blogging
Smart Politics will provide extensive live blogging coverage of the Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses tonight. Results, analysis, and media watchdog scrutiny will be documented and continuously updated in 24 separate blogs—one for each state holding contests on February 5th:…
Read MoreSuper Tuesday Preview: The Democrats
The Democratic showdown in more than 20 states on Super Tuesday could be one for the ages. A national shift to Barack Obama has definitely taken place during the past week. Obama is in the lead or tied with Hillary…
Read MoreThe Great Fall of the Rudy Giuliani Presidential Campaign
Because Rudy Giuliani’s presidential campaign has taken the (now much criticized tactic) of focusing most of its energy and resources on winning the state of Florida, he has fallen so much out of the national spotlight in recent weeks…
Read MoreMcCain, Huckabee, or Romney: Who Will Get Saturday’s Bounce?
After the two Republican contests on Saturday, a caucus in Nevada and a primary in South Carolina, will one GOP presidential hopeful emerge with more momentum to help separate him from the pack? ‘Momentum’ on one level, seems to be…
Read MoreThe Bhutto Assassination, Foreign Policy and the ’08 Campaign
The assassination today of ex-Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Rawalpindi provides a newfound emphasis (temporarily, at least) on the importance of foreign policy and the war on terrorism for the next U.S. president. The United States’ fragile relationship with…
Read MoreRichardson and Obama Unlikely to Bolster Support in Iowa After CNN Debate
CNN’s Thursday night Democratic debate from Las Vegas revealed some policy positions from Bill Richardson and Barack Obama that may not have been previously known to the average democratic voter. Presuming other candidates like Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, or Chris…
Read MoreNew ARG Iowa Poll Finds Rudy & Hillary On Top
Less than a week after the Des Moines Register’s Iowa Poll found the leads of John Edwards and Mitt Romney growing in their respective party presidential bids, the eighth in a series of monthly American Research Group (ARG) polls finds…
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