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. […]

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. […]

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 […]

Texas Governor Perry has declared that in July 2013 he will “make an announcement about my future political plans.” Considering the date, those “future plans” will likely be whether or not he runs for reelection in 2014. Perry, who ran and lost in the 2012 Republican presidential primaries, has said in the past that he is leaning towards […]

Asked by the Weekly Standard about a potential second presidential run in 2016, former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum’s reaction was similar to that of most other potential 2016 candidates: “I’m open to it, yeah,” Santorum replied. “I think there’s a fight right now as to what the soul of the Republican party’s going to be and […]

From Eric Staats at the Naple News this morning: Newt and Callista Gingrich’s book-signing tour swung through Naples on Sunday and might one day again morph into another turn down the campaign trail. The former Republican presidential candidate and House Speaker said he has not ruled out running for president in 2016 — but first the GOP must take […]

Speaking to the U.K.’s Daily Mail, a former senior adviser to Mitt Romney specifically named Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich as “craven hypocrites” for bashing Mitt Romney only days after praising the former Republican nominee and lobbying for cabinet positions in a Romney administration. “There were one or two well-known […]

The New York Times is reporting that former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is beginning the process of considering a presidential run in the 2016 election. Mr. Bush is said by friends to be weighing financial and family considerations — between so many years in office and the recession his wealth took a dip, they said, and […]

In an interview with Politico‘s Mike Allen, Jim Messina, the 2012 Obama campaign’s manager, revealed that his team believed that former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, who also served as President Obama’s Ambassador to China, would likely have been a tougher general election opponent than Mitt Romney. “Um, hmm, that’s a good question,” Messina said when Allen […]

by Trevor Antley and Calvin Roberts. [Update: The election has been called, and the winner of Ohio was President Barack Obama. Our forecast, as we noted was very possible, turned out to be incorrect. While the problem with the model can't be verified until after full election results come in, it is most likely that […]