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2:07 PM, Mar 21, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER

As Mike Warren noted earlier today, an aide to Mitt Romney compared the general election campaign to an Etch-a-Sketch. "Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign," Eric Fehrnstrom said on CNN this morning. "Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch-a-Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all over again."

obama walks alone

10:41 PM, Mar 16, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER

At a posh fundraiser in Atlanta, where 40 guests each paid $35,800 to attend, President Obama talked about . . . the weather. As today's White House pool reporter notes:

Potus talked about how he had been in Chicago and Atlanta and how the weather was so warm. “It gets you a little nervous about what is happening to global temperatures. When it is 75 degrees in Chicago in the beginning of March, you start thinking. On the other hand, I really have enjoyed nice weather.”

tws-F-obama frown.08

7:49 AM, Mar 16, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER

Matt Continetti, writing at the Washington Free Beacon:

Romney-01

10:35 PM, Jan 10, 2012 • By FRED BARNES

Mitt Romney’s victory in New Hampshire was every bit as significant as it appeared. History is now on Romney’s side: Every candidate who has won the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary has captured his party’s presidential nomination.

3:56 PM, Oct 12, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARREN

A new web video from the Massachusetts Republican Party says Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren is "too divisive" and "too radical." Watch below:

Team of Rivals

Could the governors of Texas and Virginia end up on a national ticket together?

Sep 26, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 02 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

Richmond, Virginia

whitehouse

3:06 PM, Sep 1, 2011 • By WILLIAM KRISTOL

A reader with federal government experience emails:

From the Midwest to the West Wing

The formula for a winning GOP candidate.

Jun 6, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 36 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSON

7:00 PM, Apr 7, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

Prosser pulls it out?

Still no budget deal.

"Nancy Pelosi’s absurd math on senior citizens losing their meals"

The Odds on Obama II

Don’t put money on a second term.

Nov 15, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 09 • By JONATHAN V. LAST

Like baseball players taking comfort in rituals, in times of uncertainty politicians look to historical trends. For Barack Obama this week, those trends are a mixed bag.

Paradise Lost

America was great, once (in November 2008).

Nov 1, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 07 • By JONATHAN V. LAST

The American people are in for it. When Republicans lose elections, they blame each other: Talk radio blames the RINOs; the squishes blame the pro-lifers; the social conservatives blame the Big Business types, and so on. Each faction maintains that their party will never find acceptance with voters until the rest of the movement looks just like them.

As Ohio Goes . . .

Souring on Obama.

10:20 AM, Aug 18, 2010 • By STEPHEN F. HAYES

Holland, Ohio

Early in the afternoon of a warm, midsummer Saturday, Norman Roundell sat in a lawn chair in his front yard. He sipped from a coffee mug half-full of Old Milwaukee, with a second unopened can at his feet, next to his pack of Pyramid cigarettes. His wife, Nora, sat 20 feet away on a small deck attached to their modest rambler.

Their topic of discussion: Barack Obama and the economy.

As Ohio Goes . . .

Souring on Obama.

Aug 2, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 43 • By STEPHEN F. HAYES

Holland, Ohio

Capito Will Not Run in West Virginia

1:27 PM, Jul 21, 2010 • By DANIEL HALPER

Via Robert Costa, Republican Rep. Shelley Moore Capito won't run for the West Virginia Senate seat recently held by Robert Byrd. Here's Capito's statement:

PA Senate Race Update: 'Israel Proxy Fight'

5:20 PM, Jul 20, 2010 • By DANIEL HALPER

JTA's Ron Kampeas reports on the brouhaha developing in Pennsylvania between Democratic Senate candidate Joe Sestak and the Emergency Committee for Israel:

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