The Republican presidential ticket is complete and the official nomination just a day away, yet it remains unclear which candidate will have the edge in this election. If the 2008 campaign showed...

Not long after Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) joined the Romney ticket, charged and often hyperbolic campaign ads hit the airwaves, commencing the next dog-eat-dog political campaign. What remains in question,...

With only two months to go until the 2012 election, President Obama has an average lead in the polls of only a few percentage points, according to realclearpolitics.com. In essence, the race is tied. With...

Two diametric narratives apply to the way in which the presidential campaign has unfolded this summer. The first is the conventional wisdom: A grinding summer has produced a bland and vitriolic stalemate...

Republican presidential candidate and former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich stressed his desire to return the country to its religious values and reform Social Security Wednesday. Gingrich’s...

I am more convinced than ever that America needs a moderate, centrist version of the Tea Party. Recent political events have pushed our country down a dangerously fractious and acrimonious path. Senator...

Mitt Romney's primary wins in Arizona and Michigan Tuesday were hardly a surprise. In Arizona, his Mormon and Western roots gave him a leg up. In Michigan, the facts that he was born and raised in the...

Journalists and pundits covering the Republican presidential primaries have recently been stuck on the question of whether Mitt Romney will secure the nomination, and how he will do so. Unfortunately,...

The 2012 Republican presidential primary is all but over. With Mitt Romney's decisive win last week, he became the first non-incumbent Republican candidate to win both the Iowa caucuses as well as the...