GOP Madness, Sour 16, Match 7
Seriously, how could you guys vote down "oops"? That may have been the single most upsetting moment of this entire competition. "Oops" was finalist material! Heck, I was rooting for it to go all the way! How often do you get to see a frontrunner campai...
GOP Madness, Sour 16, Match 6
We are in the second half of the second round. On Friday we got our first quarterfinal matchup: the GOP debate audience booing the gay soldier versus Herman Cain's sexual harassment defense ("there are thousands of women I didn't molest!"). The bracket...
The Ron Paul insurgency lives on
Convention clash.
Based on the results of the February 7 caucuses, Minnesota's 40 delegates should've gone mostly to Rick Santorum—he won the night with 44.8 percent of the vote, compared to 27.2 percent of Ron Paul and 16.9 percent for Mitt...
GOP Madness, Sour 16, match 5
We are in the second half of the second round, which means we'll now start choosing the quarterfinal matchups. The bracket is here. Today's winner will face off against the GOP debate audience booing the gay soldier.
1. FOR EVERY WOMAN CAIN HARASSED, T...
GOP Madness, Sour 16, match 4
Today we're hitting the halfway mark of the second round. The bracket is here.
1. RICK PERRY'S NIGGERHEAD RANCH (with Cain bonus!)
In the early years of his political career, Rick Perry began hosting fellow lawmakers, friends and supporters at his fam...
GOP Madness, Sour 16, match 3
We are in the second round. The bracket is here. So far, our first two second-round matches haven't been very close. Will today present more of a challenge?
1. MITT ROMNEY WIELDS AN ETCH-A-SKETCH
John Fugelsang: Good morning, sir. It's fair to say tha...
GOP Madness, Sour 16, match 2
We are in the second round. The bracket is here.
1. MITT ROMNEY'S FORD FIELD FIASCO
Original write up here.
The Detroit Economic Club expects 1,200 people to attend Mitt Romney event, so they book a venue that seats up to 80,000, and the Romney camp...
GOP Madness, Sour 16, match 1
We are finally on to the second round, where I expect far closer contests than we (mostly) had on the first round. The bracket is here. I won't do full writeups of these contestants this round. You can go back and read them if you need the broader con...
Mitt Romney seeks ‘incredibly boring white guy’ for vice president
Aw, gee whiz, where will I ever find an incredibly boring white guy in the Republican Party? (Jim Young/Reuters)
Remember how the whole world laughed and laughed (and laughed and then laughed some more) at just how bad John McCain's pick for v...
GOP Madness, first round roundup
The GOP Madness Sweet 16 will launch on Monday, so I thought I'd do a quick update on how the first round shook out. You can see the bracket here or click the image above.
We began the competition pitting the booing of the gay soldier at one of the GO...
Mitt Romney, childhood actions and character
Dick.
With Mitt Romney under attack for being a textbook bully, the predictable right-wing response is to wail that childhood actions aren't relevant to a presidential campaign.
This is a choice argument coming from the crowd that spent the last week...
