New Hampshire primary: Jon Huntsman needs a Santorum-style surge, or he's a...
The former senator from Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum, went into the Iowa caucuses last week with an average final poll rating of 16.3%. The highest share he had seen in any poll was 18%. Yet on the...
View ArticleHow energy campaigners lost their brief time in the sun
At St Breock’s church, just outside Wadebridge, lie the bones of Cornwall’s Faust. Jan Tregeagle, a pauper-persecuting 17th-century lawyer, is said to have sold his soul to the Devil and was eternally...
View ArticlePrimary profiles: Huntsman placing second in New Hampshire might redefine the...
The candidate to watch today is Jon Huntsman. Romney’s numbers are falling in New Hampshire – five times in a row according to one pollster. And disaffected Romney voters are more likely to gravitate...
View ArticleThe New Hampshire primary is Anybody But Obama vs Anybody But Romney
There are two primaries in New Hampshire today. Romney has already won the first. Every poll shows the former governor of Massachusetts with a commanding lead – Rasmussen and Suffolk are giving him 37...
View ArticleAfter placing second in New Hampshire, Ron Paul proves just how 'dangerous'...
Mitt Romney won Tuesday night’s New Hampshire primary, but you wouldn’t believe it from the reaction at the Executive Court, Manchester. The Ron Paul people celebrated second place like it was a...
View ArticleMitt Romney looks formidable, but he could still stumble in South Carolina
Mitt Romney made history yesterday. He is the first Republican (other than an incumbent president) to win both Iowa and New Hampshire. He has Mittmentum. South Carolina votes on the 21st, and its...
View ArticleNew Hampshire: where electability defeated ideology
The former governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, cruised to victory in New Hampshire, the first proper primary of the 2012 election cycle, overnight because voters rated his perceived ability to beat...
View ArticleMitt Romney and David Cameron: conservatives who won't defend conservatism
Is any of the GOP presidential candidates actually capable of standing up for small government, liberty and free market capitalism? You'd have thought that celebrating these values would be an...
View ArticleAfter Jon Huntsman's exit, Mitt Romney is set to clinch the Republican...
The news overnight that President Obama's former ambassador in Beijing, Jon Huntsman, is pulling out of the race for the Republican nomination is more good news for the ex-governor of Massachusetts,...
View ArticleJon Huntsman's failure proves that there's no constituency for liberal...
Jon Huntsman will quit the Republican presidential race today and endorse Mitt Romney. One of his aides told Fox News, “Governor Huntsman was encouraged [by his third place in] New Hampshire, but does...
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