Poll results and reports of political events on the ground, suggest that opinion is shifting and that the caucus results could look a lot different from the pre-Christmas polls.

Three weeks out from the New Hampshire primary and voters in the Granite State don't seem to have settled firmly on one of the Republican presidential candidates.

The New Hampshire debate has serious ramifications for Iowa. Romney behaved like a frontrunner, one with confidence and sense of command and with adroitness to step aside from two major issue challenges. You could extrapolate from Pawlenty's performance that he is a serious candidate for the nomination. But you could extrapolate much from Bachmann’s performance that she is a serious competitor in the Ames straw poll.

In the lead-up to the first New Hampshire debate of the 2012 election season on Monday, June 13, the following American Enterprise Institute (AEI) political experts will be available to discuss the debate and its political implications.

The weakest part of our political system is the presidential nomination process. And it's not coincidental that it's the part of the federal system that finds least guidance in the Constitution.

Just as the political air is filled with talk of the inevitability of Barack Obama's re-election -- we are told that the kids at his Chicago headquarters are brimming with confidence -- in come some poll numbers showing him behind.

The presidential primaries are not building consensus about who the parties' nominees will be.