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Nancy Merrill endorses John Kasich

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.

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

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.

New Hampshire Voters First Forum: 5 takeaways

The candidate forum that drew 14 Republican presidential candidates to New Hampshire Monday night served as a practice round ahead of the first official GOP primary debate in Cleveland — and a chance for the candidates unlikely to qualify for Thursday’s prime-time event to stand on equal footing with the front-runners.

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.