A new poll shows that Herman Cain, the former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza who made a surprisingly strong attempt at the 2012 Republican nomination, would crush current-George Senator Saxby Chambliss if he ran against the fellow Republican in the 2014 midterm election. Cain would best Chambliss 50% to 36% in a one-on-one GOP primary, Public […]

If all goes well over the next two years, Florida Senator Marco Rubio intends to begin formally running for president not long after the midterm elections in November 2014, sources close to Rubio reportedly told Politico:  Rubio also plans new ideas on immigration, aimed not at broad citizenship but at creating a bigger Hispanic middle class. […]

Yeah, it’s a weird photo by itself. By the story was much more heart-warming: back in December 2010, President Obama chose to solute the Los Angeles Lakers’ championship victory in an unorthodox way: by joining the Lakers’ team and coaches at a Boys and Girls Club in Washington where they helped local kids with their […]

Philip Rucker at the Washington Post is out with this new piece, based on dozens of interviews with Romney’s friends and neighbors: Mitt Romney looks out the windows of his beach house here in La Jolla, a moneyed and pristine enclave of San Diego, at noisy construction workers fixing up his next-door neighbor’s home, sending regular updates […]

Gentleman’s Quarterly (GQ) produces a “25 least influential people” list for the year. And the man who occupied the nation’s attention for at least a large chunk of the year and received nearly half of the country’s vote as he aggressively challenged an incumbent president made the top of the list (and yeah, the top […]

President Obama’s approval ratings have gone up since he was reelected earlier this month, says Micah Cohen, who does polling analysis alongside Nate Silver at the New York Times‘ FiveThirtyEight blog. But compared to previous White House winners, Obama’s bounce has been a little lackluster. A comparison of the last Gallup poll conducted before each […]

It was supposed to be Bobby Jindal’s flagship achievement that, along with being the chairman of the Republican Governors Association, would give the nation’s first Indian-American governor the credentials and clout to sail through his final term on his way to the 2016 presidential election. But Jindal’s plan may have just hit a major snag. […]

#MittStalk2012 continues as Mitt & Ann stop to allow college students to take a picture of them as the almost-First Couple were leaving Limone Pizzeria in Salt Lake City, Utah. Apparently they looked like they enjoyed their meal and who can blame them. The same day a reviewer on UrbanSpoon gave the restaurant a great review: “Good […]

No, this isn’t from the Onion. Today North Korea’s Central News Agency reported that archaeologists from “the History Institute of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Academy of Social Sciences” have discovered a lair that belonged to a famous unicorn from the Middle Ages. The North Korean news reported that “a rectangular rock carved with words […]

I feel like this photo is symbolic in some way. And also, it was just a little bit before Romney had lunch with President Obama at the White House.