Ready for Hillary, the super PAC for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential run, is working with 270 Strategies, which ran Barack Obama’s 2012 grassroots campaigns. Jeremy Bird, Obama’s 2012 national field director, and Mitch Stewart, who ran the efforts in battleground
In response to Sarah Palin Weighs in on Yacht-gate: The 2012 election proved to me that we reached a tipping point. Why SHOULD the Regime respect a citizenry that would reelect this corrupt, scandal plagued collectivist, with his reverse Midas
(AP) Texas Gov. Perry won’t seek re-election in 2014By WILL WEISSERTAssociated PressSAN ANTONIORick Perry, the longest-serving governor in Texas history who famously muttered “oops” after forgetting during a 2011 presidential debate the third of three federal departments he’d pledged to
Not only did Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) receive no bump whatsoever with Hispanic voters over what Mitt Romney had last election as a result of his stewardship of the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill, he burned bridges in the conservative
A new poll from Latino Decisions finds Democrat Hillary Clinton easily besting Sen. Marco Rubio in a potential presidential match-up among Hispanic voters. Clinton draws 66% of Hispanic voters, while Rubio garners just 28%. Against Vice President Joe Biden, Rubio
The decision by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to bring civil charges late last week against former MF Global head and Obama campaign bundler Jon Corzine raises the question of why New York’s own energetic Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, stayed out of
Speaking at Aspen Ideas Festival on Thursday, Republican commentator Karl Rove said Mitt Romney’s campaign lost the 2012 election to President Barack Obama because of tactical failures. For all of Romney’s negatives, Rove said Romney may have had a better
Conservatives have drawn a bull’s eye on the immigration bill passed by the US Senate, insisting the landmark measure will fail as is and vowing political retribution against Republicans who voted for it. The bipartisan immigration reform bill passed 68-32
Karl Rove was at the Aspen Ideas Festival Thursday and described the two big tactical mistakes Romney made that, in Rove’s view, cost him the election. The Atlantic‘s Garance Franke-Ruta has a piece recounting the conversation between Rove and Atlantic
The Tampa Bay Times’ political editor Adam C. Smith called Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) a flip-flopper on immigration reform on Thursday. “This clip from the 2010 CNN/St. Pete Times U.S. Senate debate shows how Marco Rubio was crystal clear back
(CNN) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Friday continued to defend his appearance with President Barack Obama last year when the president came to survey the damage from Superstorm Sandy, just days before the presidential election. Critics decried the
The mainstream media in the United States have ignored comments made by President Barack Obama during his a speech in Northern Ireland this week in which he described religious education as a source of conflict. The president’s comments have sparked
NBC’s “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” Friday night monologue. Jay hits the feds from all sides: the NSA surveillance scandal; the IRS targeting scandal and the agency’s extravagant, million-dollar conferences; and the exploding national debt. Notice the difference in
On Thursday, The New York Times officially fell off the Obama bandwagon. That doesn’t mean the Obama worship will stop. But the newest revelation that the Obama administration has been seizing millions of phone records leaves the Times with little
Philip Klein of the Washington Examiner observes that although the administration mocked Mitt Romney less than a year ago for suggesting that President Barack Obama undertook an “apology tour” to the Middle East in 2009, Obama’s nominee to replace Susan
Traditionally, losing presidential candidates stay out of party affairs, the practical reason being that their party has moved on and sees the loser as radioactive or having something contagious. It may not be fair, but it is the way of
In response to National Organization for Marriage Representative: We Have Smoking Gun Proof the IRS Leaked our Confidential Donor Information to our Chief Political Rival, the Pro-Gay Marriage Human Rights Watch: Professor John Eastman, who testified before the House Ways
The imminent release of a new “autopsy” into the Republican Party’s poor showing in the 2012 election–this time focusing on young voters–repeats the theme that the GOP is having trouble attracting Hispanic voters. Though there is growing evidence that Hispanic
President Barack Obama reportedly made a deal to endorse Hillary Clinton in 2016 in exchange for Bill Clinton’s enthusiastic support during the 2012 campaign. According to Ed Klein, the author of The Amateur, Bill Clinton actually wanted Hillary to primary Obama,
With the news that former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney plans to return to the national debate, it is worth looking back on his rather mixed contributions during the 2012 election cycle. The media focused obsessively on Romney’s so-called “gaffes”
NC Democrat Sen. Kay Hagen, who rode the Obama wave in 2008 to election, has drawn her first top-tier opponent for 2014. NC House Speaker Thom Tillis, who orchestrated the GOP take over of the chamber in 2010, announced on
Arkansas Democrat Mark Pryor has launched the first ad of his reelection campaign for 2014. His opening message to voters defends his vote against Obama’s gun control legislation, stressing that the proposals would have done nothing to prevent recent tragedies.
Failed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he plans to “help shape national priorities” by helping fellow conservatives in their mid-term election campaigns next year. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal published Thursday, Romney said he is considering
Director Joss Whedon has a message for the 2013 graduating class–don’t listen to that hateful talk radio and feel sorry for those who do. Whedon, who wrote and directed the 2012 smash The Avengers, had the honor of delivering the
Idaho-based businessman Frank VanderSloot, who gave $1 million to Mitt Romney’s Super PAC in the last election, told Breitbart News he was audited three times last year and investigated a fourth. VanderSloot was personally audited by the IRS, as was
