"It is, and I don't think it can be explained by anything that the president has done in a positive way," syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer said about President Obama's rising approving ratings. "I think it's explicable by two things. The first is the ridiculous way that the Republicans have conducted themselves in the Congress, particularly

Rep. Michele Bachmann on how she can defy her low Iowa poll numbers and end up winning the Iowa caucus. "All I can tell you is what I'm seeing on the ground is remarkable and I think that I will be that nominee because the country needs a strong woman, just like in 1980, we needed Ronald Reagan. Britain needed a Margaret Thatcher. I intend to be

Politico columnist Roger Simon says undecided voters will reduce the turnout at next week's caucuses in Iowa. Simon says a low turnout will help Ron Paul, while a high turnout would help Romney or Gingrich. Simon was also enlightened and surprised that Iowans read and carefully consider which candidate they will support. "They (Candidates)

"I don't know why he's so angry," Romney said on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer." "Look, this is a campaign about things we believe in," Romney said. "I believe the country's being led in a very unfortunate and destructive way by a president that doesn't really understand our economy and understand America. I can get America working

"My concern is that Ron Paul would walk in there, day one, pull our troops back and leave an enormous void around the world. He can do that day one without congressional approval. He can, as commander in chief, move our troops anywhere in the world, disengage from every place from Europe to the Middle East, China, abandon the Strait of Hormuz, pull

"We need you, Callista and I need you to be with us for the next eight years," said Gingrich in Mason City, Iowa today. "We need you to remind Congress what we're trying to get done and remind Governors and state legislatures, the city council and county commission and the school board. In addition, we need your help. If we do all the things we

From a radio advertisement airing in Iowa: "Are you unhappy with the current GOP field? Let me tell you something, you are not alone. Join thousands of Iowans as we vote rogue. It's the caucus for Sarah Palin on January 3. Let Iowa and the entire country know we want real leadership and real reform in DC. So come on Iowa, vote rogue on January 3!"

Gov. Rick Perry on his new attack ad that slams his fellow 2012 candidates as DC insiders. "We know how to create jobs. And you keep the taxes low you have a regulatory climate that is fair and predictable, a legal system that doesn't allow for oversuing. Listen, if want to trade a Democratic insider for a Republican insider people know that's n

Mitt Romney defends the health care plan he signed into law as Massachusetts governor."What we did was right for the people of Massachusetts," he said on "Fox and Friends" Wednesday morning. "It is fundamentally a conservative principle to insist that people take personal responsibility as opposed to turning to government for giving out f

"If you hear that high unemployment is our new normal, just say baloney," Newt Gingrich says in this new ad. "We can create millions of jobs right now."The ad also touts an endorsement from economist Arthur Laffer, calling him "the architect of Reagan's economic plan."

"Anyone that wants to know how Gov. Romney would govern, they need to look no further than his record in Massachusetts," Romney Press Secretary Andrea Saul said in an interview on FOX News. "Everything he did was as a conservative."

Newt Gingrich slams Ron Paul in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer."As people get to know more about Ron Paul, who disowns 10 years of his own newsletter, says he didn't really realize what was in it, had no idea what he was making money on, had no idea that it was racist, anti-Semitic, called for the destruction of Israel, talked about

"The Washington machine is strangling our economy," the narrator says in this new ad from Ron Paul's campaign. "Politicians who supported bailouts and mandates, serial hypocrites and flip-floppers can't clean up the mess. One man stands alone. A real plan to cut $1 trillion year one, balance the budget in three. Consistent, incorruptible, guided

This ad from Newt Gingrich's campaign, which is running in Iowa, features highlights from the former speaker's debate performances.When discussing his jobs plan, Gingrich says, "It starts very simple: lower taxes, less regulation, an American energy plan and actually be positive about people who create jobs -- the opposite of the Obama pl

Tens of thousands of North Koreans turned out for Kim Jong Il's funeral procession.

This video from The Revolution PAC, which supports Ron Paul's presidential candidacy, asks viewers to "imagine for a moment that somewhere in the middle of Texas there was a large foreign military base. Say Chinese or Russian.""The reality is that our military presence on foreign soil is as offensive to the people that live there as armed

Erin McPike of RealClearPolitics and Steve Kornacki of Salon discuss Rick Santorum and Ron Paul's presidential campaigns on MSNBC's "Hardball."

Ed Schultz criticizes Senator Ben Nelson for his voting recording on taxes, Iraq, health care and a host of other issues.

Chris Matthews, Howard Fineman and Jeff Zeleny discuss the struggles of Newt Gingrich's Iowa campaign.

The panel discusses the latest economic statistics and what it means for President Obama's re-election campaign. Charles Krauthammer believes that the economy and unemployment rate will be unchanged come Election Day.

Rachel Maddow says that "the Murdoch primary has been as volatile as the Iowa polls this year, maybe even more so. Maybe even more so because it should be said actually that Fox News has never really seemed to like Newt Gingrich all that much. And they really, really, really seem to hate the current Iowa front-runner, Ron Paul.""Rightly o