In the 2008 Michigan Republican primary Mitt Romney beat John McCain, the eventual nominee, by 9% points (39% to 30%.) Yesterday Romney beat Rick Santorum, a laughably terrible candidate, by just 3% points (41% to 38%) even after spending $4.3 million in the state (far more than Santorum.) While this slim win is obviously better [...]

Mitt Romney said this today: “It’s very easy to excite the base with incendiary comments. We’ve seen throughout the campaign if you’re willing to say really outrageous things that are accusative, attacking of President Obama, that you’re going to jump up in the polls. I’m not willing to light my hair on fire to try [...]

According this recent national poll it doesn’t matter too much whether Mitt Romney or Rick Santorum wins today’s Republican primaries because both of them would be beaten badly by President Obama this November. Politico/GWU Poll Obama 53% Romney 43% (+10) Obama 53% Santorum 42% (+11)

The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart questioning how Mitt Romney could be having so much trouble defeating Rick Santorum:

The way Republicans are currently trying to blame President Obama for high gas prices (or ludicrously promising $2/gallon gas when they are President) one would think that they believe the President sets the nation’s gas prices. But they didn’t seem to think that when the President was a Republican. I don’t think there was a [...]

This new AP poll has President Obama ahead of all four of the Republicans who remain in the race in prospective general election match-ups: Obama 51% Mitt Romney 43% (+8) Obama 52% Rick Santorum 43% (+9) Obama 53% Ron Paul 44% (+9) Obama 52% Newt Gingrich 42% (+10) In additional positive polling news for the [...]

New polling shows that an overwhelming majority of Americans disagree with Republican Sen. Roy Blunt’s amendment which would allow any employer to deny full health care coverage to their employees based on their so called “moral beliefs” (like it’s somehow “moral” to deny health care coverage to their employees?) 67% of Americans disagree with this [...]

Mitt Romney has been hitting Rick Santorum hard for not being a “fiscal conservative” but according to FactCheck.org Romney’s attacks are not based in truth (also known as lies.) Three fiscally conservative groups (National Taxpayers Union, Citizens Against Government Waste, and Club for Growth) all rated Santorum as more fiscally conservative than the average Republican [...]

Today the Dow Jones Industrial Average passed the 13,000 mark for the first time since May of 2008. Remarkably the 13,000 mark means that the Dow has doubled during President Obama’s Presidency. At the low point of the Bush Recession the Dow bottomed out at 6509. This low point was on March 9, 2009 before [...]

Rick Santorum’s lead over Mitt Romney in the Gallup daily national tracking poll of Republican voters continues to grow and today it hit the double digits for the first time. Rick Santorum 36% Mitt Romney 26% (-2%) Newt Gingrich 13% Ron Paul 11% Romney needs to stop Santorum’s momentum before the primaries in Michigan & [...]