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We now know who’s in and who’s out of the Fox News debate and forum, based on the network’s calculations drawn from an exaltation of polls defining the Republican field of candidates. Quibble with the details if you will, the upside for Fox News in using this method is that it is data-driven. It’s hard to argue with numbers, and the polls used by Fox show remarkable consistency.

N.H. GOP forum highlights: Perry credited for humor

When the big medley of GOP candidates makes remembering each of their stances a jumble — and it’s hard to see much daylight between what they say anyway — style, personality and the projection of being presidential come more into focus, said Iowa Republicans who watched Monday night’s New Hampshire forum via television.

One by one, they crossed the stage to sit for a round of what amounted to presidential speed dating.

Another poll, another huge — and growing — Trump lead

It seems like only this morning that we were updating our “state of the debate” graphic and talking about how John Kasich was pretty secure in his position and how the center of gravity in the 2016 Republican race was Donald Trump in about every sense of the phrase. It seems like it was only this morning, because it was only this morning.

New polls suggest Rick Perry out of debate

It appears increasingly unlikely that Rick Perry will get a chance to atone for his disastrous 2012 debate performance — or attack his 2016 nemesis, Donald Trump — when Republicans spar for the first time Thursday in Cleveland.

State of the race 6 months before Iowa caucuses

To size up how Iowa-centric the candidates’ schedules are, the Republicans and Democrats are ranked in order of days spent in Iowa since the day after the 2012 election through Saturday.

Jeb Bush retakes the top spot for the GOP nomination once again in our August rankings, but not because he’s the candidate who has dominated the conversation since we last ranked the field in early June.