Romney: Yeah, um, no kthxbye.
NEWT PREDICTED TO WIN AL, MS
Gingrich is 64.4 percent likely to win in Alabama tonight and 55.7 percent likely to win in Mississippi, according to The Signal’s prediction bloggers.
They expect Gingrich’s lead in Louisiana to widen if this prediction bears out.
On a side note: “Ron Paul, despite consistent and vocal support, is only about 20 percent likely to win a single” nominating contest.
My explainer on where the presidential candidates stand on housing policy went up today at The Ticket. This image of foreclosure rates shows why this issue is now being inserted into the presidential race.
I didn’t get into this in the piece, but none of the candidates have offered a detailed plan to solve the housing crisis. You can read the entire piece over at The Ticket.
-Rachel Rose Hartman
Michele Bachmann stars in ATTACK OF THE KILLER COFFEE!! (Taken in Council Bluffs, Iowa by Eric Gay/AP)
Mitt Romney in Davenport IA (Taken with instagram)
Getty’s Chip Somodevilla captures what will probably go down as the cutest photo you’ll see in the run-up to the Iowa caucuses: Gunner, a 6-year-old retriever, cozying up to Rick Santorum, left, at a Doc’s Hunt Club in Adel, Iowa. (I can personally attest that this dog was SUPER cute and quite solicitous of ear rubs.)
President Bush’s top fundraisers are favoring Mitt Romney over Rick Perry, but many remain on the sidelines:
About 80 former top Bush fundraisers have donated the maximum $2,500 allowed by law to Mr. Romney’s 2012 campaign, according to the Wall Street Journal. About 40 former Bush “bundlers” have contributed to Perry.
But most of donors who were a part of Bush’s legendary political fundraising machine are still on the fence in 2012. Of the 550 people who raised at least $100,000 apiece for Bush’s re-election campaign in 2004, around 400 haven’t contributed to any of the Republicans running for president this election.
Past sexual harassment claims aren’t the only reason Herman Cain is on the defense today. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports a Wisconsin nonprofit with links to Cain’s top political advisers may have paid for some of 2012 hopeful’s campaign expenses—a violation of campaign finance law.
Chris Moody corners Jon Huntsman on a very important question:
“What product do you use for your hair?” I asked.
“I’ve been wondering this as well!” one of his aides blurted before he could respond.
“I wish I could tell you,” Huntsman said, explaining that his wife buys all the hair products from the local Aveda Institute, and that he obediently follows her instructions. “She has these little squirt bottles.”
“But no dye,” he added. “And not much in the way of artificiality.”
There’s just one problem: Bruce Willis’s character, whom the former speaker appears to be referring to, isn’t resurrected in the film. He actually is dead—and presumably that was not the message Gingrich intended to convey about the state of his own struggling presidential bid.
