The president’s budget deficit speech offered a vague framework for saving $2,000 billion and taxing an extra $1,000 billion by 2023, but also his blueprint for campaign-trail criticism of Republican candidates in the 2012 election. (more)
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels spoke to Indianapolis Star reporters yesterday and gave strong indications that he might step into the race, while simultaneously noting his concerns. (more)
Former N.M. Gov. Gary Johnson will formally launch his presidential campaign next month in New Hampshire, Fox News and Politico are reporting. (more)
Three guys named Joe are teaming up to try and help defeat one guy named Barack. (more)
Sharron Angle announced Wednesday that she will again try for elected office and will run for Congress to represent Nevada’s 2nd District. The seat is currently held by Republican Dean Heller, who has announced that he will make a bid for retiring Senator John Ensign’s seat. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mike Huckabee isn’t tamping down speculation of another presidential run. But he isn’t doing much to prepare for what on Thursday he called the “sausage grinder of a campaign.” (more)
New York State Assemblywoman Jane Corwin says she is willing to devote the necessary monetary resources to a likely expensive campaign to replace Rep. Chris Lee, who resigned Wednesday when his flirtations with a woman on Craigslist were revealed. (more)
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has started airing advertisements for the 2012 election cycle, targeting 19 House Republicans in typically left-leaning districts. The Democrats will need most, if not all, of those seats to reclaim a majority in the House in the next Congress. (more)
Rep. Michele Bachmann did not rule out the possibility of a 2012 presidential run on Wednesday, but called discussions of candidacy premature at this point. (more)
Sarah Palin has dropped another hint of her intention to run for the White House in 2012, dispatching aides to scope out office space in Iowa, the first stop in the presidential race. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is passing up an election eve chance to weigh in on campaign finance disclosure rules for groups that raise and spend money independently of candidates. (more)
Democrat Tim Spear’s campaign has apologized after inadvertently sending voters a leaflet showing actors in World War II-era German uniforms. (more)
A book was apparently hurled at the head of U.S. President Barack Obama during a campaign rally in Philadelphia. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — To hear top strategists from both parties tell it, Democratic candidates are clawing their way back from an electoral abyss, making small but measurable gains that might enable them to keep their congressional majorities this fall. (more)
Christine O’Donnell, Delaware’s GOP Senate nominee, continues her “I’m you” campaign in this, her second television ad. O’Donnell presently trails opponent Chris Coons (D) by 16 points in the latest RCP average. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce this week is airing more than $10 million in advertising in some of the most competitive House and Senate races, a massive infusion by the business lobby against Democratic candidates in about 30 contests. (more)
ABC’s Michael Falcone reports: (more)
Rahm Emanuel, the just-departed White House chief of staff, is now all but officially campaigning for mayor of Chicago. And he has the website to prove it. (more)
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) is planning to wage a television campaign against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) and other Democratic colleagues. (more)
With Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee all making moves indicating they may run for president, their common employer is facing a question that hasn’t been asked before: How does a news organization cover White House hopefuls when so many are on the payroll? (more)
