Liveblogging the Values Voter Summit: Romney calls for tolerance; critic of...
★ ★ ★ Our Texas on the Potomac team will be liveblogging from the Values Voter Summit today and tomorrow. Five presidential candidates, including Rick Perry, will speak today. Mitt Romney and Ron...
View ArticleWhose Tax is the Flattest of them All?
In 'The First Word' this Thursday: Rick Perry says his next 'major pillar' will be a flat tax; could you feel the love between Perry and Mitt Romney; Nevada thinks about moving its caucuses back to...
View ArticleRepublicans woo Iowa conservatives at church
Several of the Republican presidential contenders at an event Saturday called for a larger role for religion in politics and warned that the country is becoming too secular.
View ArticleAnalysis: Grading the candidates at the values forum
By Joe Holley, Chronicle It was a glorious spring when Chaucer’s pilgrims set off on their trek to the shrine of the martyr (“Whan that Aprille” and so forth), a gray day in autumn when six...
View ArticleThe sound of indifference
So, was it “ummm-naah” or “mmmmm-naw”? However you spell it, the meaning of the sound I heard on the other end of the phone line was unmistakable; it was the sound of rejection, indifference, the sound...
View ArticleGOP candidates face off in final debate before the Iowa caucuses
It’s been pretty civilized so far, with 9 minutes going by before anyone aimed at zinger at the new frontrunner, Newt Gingrich. Rick Santorum noted that Gingrich sparked a conservative revolution...
View ArticlePerry hardens position: No abortions. No exceptions.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry changed his position on abortion during a town hall meeting with voters in Iowa late Tuesday evening, telling a questioner that he favors banning all abortion, including in the...
View ArticlePerry explains his new position opposing abortion in cases of rape, incest
Rick Perry says his new position on abortion isn’t the result of political calculation. It’s the result of deep contemplation. Taking a question or two as he worked a meet and greet at The Sports Page...
View ArticlePerry makes a last-ditch effort to woo Iowa’s far right
As Iowa’s Republican presidential caucuses near and polls show Rick Perry languishing in fifth place, the Texas governor is making a last-ditch attempt to win support from the state’s most conservative...
View ArticleSantorum gets support from reality TV’s Duggars
Rick Santorum’s supporters in Iowa today surged by 19 kids … and counting. Jim Bob Duggar, the dad on TLC’s popular big-family reality show, turned out with 12 of his children to back Santorum, an...
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