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GOP gears up for long primary grind

The Republican National Committee changed its presidential nominating process to make it more clean and decisive, to avoid the rotating gang of front-runners many believe damaged the party’s prospects in 2012. But many candidates are preparing for a messy, fractious crawl to the 2016 nomination anyway — and they’re stockpiling the cash to do it.

2016 Predictions Require Caution

With the field for the 2016 nomination nearly filled out, political pundits and prognosticators of all stripes are making their assessments about who is a viable candidate and who is not, which “lane” a given candidate is competing in and who they might be blocking, and how the overall campaign is likely to play out. One prominent forecaster, Sean Trende of RealClearPolitics.com, takes to Politico Magazine this morning to urge a little caution about how much stock to put in ... Read More >>

Rick Perry Makes Appeal to Black Voters

Two weeks after a mass shooting at an African-American church in Charleston, S.C., sparked an urgent discussion about racism in America, Rick Perry opened a speech Thursday with a graphic description of a 1916 lynching in Waco, Texas.

One month from today, ten Republican candidates for President will walk out onto the stage in Cleveland, Ohio for a debate. Left off of that stage will likely be six additional candidates. And that’s causing problems for some, according to Bloomberg Politics:

The Republican Debate Selection Process Is a New Wild Card in Presidential Politics

A month from now, 10 Republican presidential candidates will walk out onto a primetime debate stage in Cleveland and confront each other face to face for the first ... Read More >>

One of the key challenges for candidates who are polling near the bottom of the pack is finding a way to draw attention to their message and record. With fourteen candidates (and counting) on the GOP side, former Texas Governor Rick Perry has found one innovative and original way to break through the clutter – a cartoon explaining economic freedom and Texas. The Washington Examiner reports:

Watch Rick Perry use animation to explain economic freedom

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry released an ... Read More >>

Jeb Bush, Donald Trump lead GOP candidates, still trail behind Hillary Clinton: poll

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and real estate mogul Donald Trump lead the GOP presidential candidates in a new CNN/ORC poll released Wednesday, but the poll shows they both still lag behind former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, a Democrat.

When the Second Time Isn’t the Charm

feel bad for Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee and Rick Perry. They are presidential retreads at a moment when anything that is more than an hour or two old is passé.