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Time Baracketology It's tipoff time in the 2012 campaign Choose the Republican you think has the best chance of defeating Barack Øbama.

If Mitt “Peacetime” Romney Can Only Get to 23% Post-Announcement, He’s Not Going To End Up Breaking 30% in A Multi-Candidate Field Posted on June 13 2011 - 7:56 AM - Posted by: Ian Lazaran Here is what the race looks like when you average the six polls (the polls are from the Washington Post/ABC News, Quinnipiac, Reuters/Ipsos, Fox News, and the two polls released this morning from CNN and Gallup) that have been conducted after Mitt “peacetime” Romney formally announced that he was running for the presidency. Romney 23% Palin 17% Cain 8% Gingrich 7% Paul 7% Bachmann 5%...

Don’t break out the potassium iodide tablets and Geiger counters quite yet. Though nine-out-of-10 likely U.S. voters are tracking the news of Japan’s ongoing nuclear disaster, the majority — 56 percent — say they are not concerned about radioactive fallout drifting to these shores. This is amazing, considering the often alarmist and inaccurate coverage from some news organizations

Just saw on FoxNews' special report, Brit Hume reporting today on a poll of Americans' attitude towards the political groups (were the elections held today...): Favoring GOP = 46% Favoring Dem = 45% Favoring TeaParty = 37%The interesting part is that the TeaParty candidates would enjoy in a very near percentage as the 2 main blocs.

If there is a special election that comes about from the corruption scandal with Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, a visit by Governor Palin maybe in order. Like any political storm, elements of corruption have to be in the mix of elements. In New Orleans, we saw the fall of Rep. Jefferson and an Asian Republican get elected. In this case, the competition would not be against an incumbent who was indicted, but instead, it would be for an empty seat held by president elect Barack Obama. How the corruption element is mixed in is; Barack is deeply rooted politically with...