Why won’t Mitt Romney let me like him? Every time I start to make peace with the idea of a Romney nomination, he goes and says something like this: “You know, it’s very easy to excite the base with incendiary comments. We’ve seen throughout the campaign if you’re willing to...

Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee John Kerry has an op-ed in today’s Washington Post entitled Romney’s wrong-headed assertions about Iran. The piece is so… Amazing, one hardly knows where to begin.

Well, you didn’t have to guess who was the frontrunner subject to attacks in the Fox News Sioux City debate tonight: Newt Gingrich. Michele Bachmann lambasted him on his $1.6 million relationship with Freddie Mac, relentlessly, repeatedly, and making the point that the government-sponsored enterprises—Freddie Mac and its larger twin Fannie Mae—were at the epicenter of the financial crisis of 2008.

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.

The presidential nomination process remains the weakest part of our political system. It's too lengthy, its rules are too capricious and giving eternal first dibs to Iowa and New Hampshire is intellectually indefensible.

Last week’s election indicates that the GOP marriage with the white working class is on the rocks. That’s bad news, since the epic Republican landslide in 2010 was fueled by record-high margins among these voters.

Sandinista and U.S. nemesis Daniel Ortega is the frontrunner going into Nicaragua's presidential election this Sunday. What would his victory mean for U.S.-Nicaragua relations?

As fundraising heats up for the 2008 presidential election, who will come out on top in the next quarter?