So what’s the deal with Romney’s tax returns? Or more specifically, what’s the deal with Mitt Romney letting himself get more and more nippy press by refusing to release his tax returns when virtually every serious presidential candidate of the last 40 years has done it? Allow me to explain. Read More
Fittingly perhaps, challengers Rick Perry and Rick Santorum are closing out the Iowa campaign with an argument about sodomy.
We have your winners! Golden Dukes Awards announced right now. Click here to see who won.
In a final weekend push, Rick Santorum goes on the radio with an ad touting praise from Sarah Palin.
A number of times over recent months I’ve noted the importance of the ‘Murdoch Primary‘, the battle for the support of the far-flung News Corp/Murdoch media-political empire. The most visible face of it today is Fox News, the dominating national conservative cable news outlet. But that’s only one tentacle. There’s also the New York Post, an important news vector and particularly significant in the New York media world where a big chunk of the political media lives. Then there’s the higher-brow and deeply influential Wall Street Journal editorial page, owned by Murdoch as of about four years ago. And don’t forget all the British Murdoch papers that help seed political stories into the US press while only having nominal levels of US audience in themselves. Read More
Today’s the day. Like every year for the last 5 years, today we’re announcing the winners of this year’s Golden Duke Awards. The Dukes are our annual awards program honoring great feats in public corruption, scandal and all betrayals of the public trust. You nominated the nominees for this year’s Dukes. And our judges (Jack Abramoff, Gene Weingarten, Hendrik Hertzberg, Dahlia Lithwick, Susie Bright and Twitter phenom @PourMeCoffee) have been toiling away for the last week separating from merely scandalous from the truly scrumptiously awful to bring you this year’s winners.
So who won this year for Best Scandal — General Interest? or Meritorious Achievement in the Crazy? The announcement is only hours away? Come back later this afternoon to hear the ugly truth!
The candidate performing best among evangelicals in the Iowa polls is not who you think it is.
Mitt’s son starts pushing for Obama’s ‘birth certificate’ and grades to be released.
Evan McMorris-Santoro’s latest dispatch from Iowa, where Mitt Romney was rallying supporters outside a Hy-Vee grocery store