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Rick Perry is not running for yet another term as Texas governor; speculation is that he's in for another presidential run. Is he a v...

Rick Perry drops out and endorses Newt Gingrich . Reminder: he endorsed Rudy Giuliani last time around. Presidential nomination politics i...

I've been meaning to get to this for a while now...it seems to have become rather long and meandering. I guess that makes it appropriate...

The news this morning is that Rick Perry, after going back to Texas to reassess his candidacy, is...staying in? That's what's appare...

Just a quick reality check. There have been six Iowa polls released this week, five of them based only on surveys begun after Christmas. Ric...

I'm back to regular blogging...but far behind on lots of things, including some of the news of the last few days. My solution: it's ...

WaPo/ABC  Iowa: Newt 33, Romney and Paul 18, Perry 11. NYT/CBS Iowa: Newt 31, Romney 17, Paul 16, Perry 11. Yes, I'm focusing on the...

I've been saying at various places that I don't think Romney is done for, and I still don't think that Newt is a plausible candi...

Rick Perry wants an amateur Congress . Jamelle Bouie is on it: Here’s what you would get by adopting Perry’s “reforms.” Already, congresspe...

Argghhhh .... But we do expect them to really believe in the things they propose — to have the requisite conviction to know and recite with...

So has Mitt Romney wrapped up the nomination? I've been saying forever that Romney and Rick Perry are the only viable candidates, but ...

Steve Benen watches Rick Perry's first ad airing in Iowa, and discovers that Perry is promising...2.5M new jobs in his first term. Whic...

Ross Douthat got a lot of things really right in his NYT column yesterday. There's a lot of truth in this : Everyone has an incentive t...

David Frum is just brutal on Rick Perry's "jobs" plan. Best part: Suppose we just continue on the present policy path. What ...

Josh Putnam tweeted : There will be anti-Romney. Perry still best positioned. I don't think that's quite right, or at least I don...

I took a fair amount of grief, or at least puzzlement, in comments (and on twitter) for saying earlier today that Republicans could do a lo...

I know I'm asking a lot of Perry/Romney questions these days, but, well, it does seem like the thing to do. So... Do you think that as...

Do you have a good sense of the differences, if any, between what Rick Perry and Mitt Romney would do as president on foreign policy?

Ross Douthat has a fun post today comparing Rick Perry to Howard Dean in his 2004 campaign. Best point: "One interesting quality that...

This one is, I'd say, quite a bit lower profile than last week's Reagan Library debate. That one had Rick Perry for the first time, ...