A couple of things to set the proper context for tonight's opening to debate season: 1) Tom Holbrook, indispensable as always, on the ...

Newt's staffing up in Iowa . Sorry Roy Moore . You're getting the Buddy Roemer treatment (No separate 2012 Candidates post). For th...

Charlie Cook asks "next in line" or " no one's in line " for the GOP nomination. Chris Cillizza has his own take on ...

I must admit that in getting back in the swing of things with posting in 2011, I've gotten quite bogged down in the minutiae of the 2012...

1. John Thune has your gubernatorial presidential aspirations right here. ...in the Senate. The South Dakota senator is still FHQ's 20...

1. Remember the Idaho Republican Party's complaint ? Well, they are moving forward with their court case to close their primaries : By ...

FHQ hasn't done a "The Links" post in quite a while, but there are few interesting things floating around in my neck of the vi...

Over the short course of the week that has been, there have been some nice sources of data released. Pew has a great data set out now on th...

There has been no shortage of blog posts by political scientists using the newly released American National Election Study since the latest ...

If you're like me, you've been waiting on the next big thing in this presidential campaign: the debates. Well, we're a little o...

Who is Sarah Palin? The race is on to find out. Chris Cillizza at The Fix weighs in as do the folks over at The Caucus . The Caucus also ...

Hey, political scientists like to have their egos stroked too. Below, Karl Rove weighs in on Hillary Clinton's convention speech and di...

Earlier in the week I posted a link to Thomas Holbrook's impressions of national convention bounces. He now has a projection up for ho...

Three cheers for Nevada! At least the Democrats in the Silver state were able to hold a state convention over the weekend and count all the...

I have mentioned some of these links before, but they are worth bringing back to the top. 1) Superdelegates : Why do 796 individual Google ...

The consensus emerging today (and even last night as I came to the realization when MSNBC's online feed of the debate forced me to cal...