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Rand Paul campaign touts ground game

Seated at long tables in a mostly empty office suite on a Monday evening, about 30 staffers and volunteers for Rand Paul’s presidential campaign paused from a phone bank session for a pep talk from the boss.

Christie on track to get bumped from main stage at next GOP debate

It’s looking like Chris Christie may not make the prime-time debate stage at next week’s Fox Business Network/Wall Street Journal debate.

While Fox Business will not officially announce the lineup until Thursday, a new Fox News poll released late Wednesday puts the New Jersey governor at 2 percent.

Key voters dubbed “Wal-Mart moms” have economic concerns that may transcend partisan lines in the 2016 election, and they’re highlighting potential problems for top Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump ahead of the first presidential nominating contests in Iowa and New Hampshire in February.

Iowa GOP expects record turnout

Top Republican strategists are almost universally predicting a record-setting turnout at the 2016 Iowa caucuses, but there’s widespread disagreement between them over just how big turnout will be – and whether it will be high enough to lift political outsiders like Donald Trump or Ben Carson to victory.

A new WBUR poll in New Hampshire shows establishment outsiders Donald Trump and Ben Carson are still leading in the Republican primary race there, but some of the other candidates are making new headway.

Poll: Trump and Carson lead nationally, Bush fades

Donald Trump and Ben Carson have healthy leads over the rest of the Republican presidential field, while Marco Rubio is on the rise and Jeb Bush is fading, according to a new national survey.

A Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday found Trump taking 24 percent support, followed by Carson at 23 percent.

Lawrence Lessig’s bid for the presidency is no more.

The Harvard Law professor and internet pioneer launched his campaign just after Labor Day, and from the start, it was clear that to call his bid quixotic was to sell Cervantes’ protagonist short.