As is clear, Romney's GOP opponents are engaging in a pile-on using Romney's time at Bain Capital to attack him for Bain's raiding companies and sometimes leaving them worse off than before. They are previewing the sorts of attacks that the Democrats pla

Former British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher arrives home on March 8, 2008 after spending the night in St Thomas' hospital in central London undergoing tests after falling ill. The girl is gone. Michele Bachmann’s exit from the race for the G

By Scott Farris On Nov. 6, America's presidential election will produce a winner and a loser. But it may take decades to know who was which. The Iowa caucuses on Tuesday are the first formal step in winnowing the GOP field for that general-election m

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Geraldine Ferraro death: multiple myeloma. Geraldine Ferraro, who broke new ground as Walter Mondale's running mate in the 1984 U.S. presidential election, died of multiple myeloma. She was 75. Ferraro's family announced she lost a decade-long battle w

It's the last podcast before the Iowa caucuses, and we take one more look at what's been a wide-open GOP field. If history repeats, Iowa's winner won't triumph in New Hampshire. We also look back at some of those in the political world we lost in 2011, i