Now that the Puerto Rico primaries have given Romney all 23 of their delegates (not a surprising conclusion), we’ve more or less come upon the half way point of the primary cycle. At 516 delegates, Mitt Romney’s lead seems to be insurmountable, but you can bet that the other candidates are going to try their hardest to make sure he doesn’t get to 1,147 delegates by convention time.

The challenger now for candidates like Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum will be the ability to keep up the narrative that they’re the better choice for the nomination. It’s a problem because though Santorum specifically will have a pretty good week coming up  – I expect that he’ll win Louisiana and Missouri on Saturday, and get a healthy second place on Tuesday – April will very much not be his month.| MORE ›

It seems that President Obama once again is content to be completely irrelevant in this year’s budget negotiations, what with his plan to hose the rich to the tune of $1.5 trillion.  It’ll likely be the second year running where Obama submits a budget that doesn’t get adopted.| MORE ›

So Sarah Palin isn’t running and finally it seems that the Republican slate is locked in.  While I have said in the past that she may have a chance this time around, assuming that she brushed up on current events and formulated some positions, there are a two good reasons that not throwing her hat into the ring now is good:

Not Enough Time

The first primary is in January.| MORE ›

At last Thursday’s Ames debate, there was a particular word missing: jobs. Sure, the candidates touched on the economy a bit. But mostly it seemed the debate strayed into other (arguably less important) issues, such as whether Iran should have nukes.| MORE ›

Politico is reporting that Jon Huntsman will end his campaign tomorrow and throw his support behind Mitt Romney. Honestly, it’s not a big shock.

After a last place finish in Iowa, he rested his hopes on New Hampshire, but even there he couldn’t get second. And the next two states were not looking pretty at all, as the latest polls from South Carolina and Florida show:| MORE ›

Let’s face it. Monday night just wasn’t Rick Perry’s night. Faced with an inappropriate use of power that even he admits (but tried to justify, anyway) and a Texas version of the “DREAM Act,” he kind of crumbled. He was able to get in a few swings of his own, particularly against Romney, but Monday was mostly a partial step back to where we were before he was in.| MORE ›