Barack Obama
Michele Bachmann
Herman Cain
Newt Gingrich
Jon Huntsman
Ron Paul
Rick Perry
Mitt Romney
Rick Santorum
After weeks of debate and fluctuating polls, we finally have some actual results from a GOP primary. Mitt Romney won the Iowa Caucasus with 24.6 percent, edging out surprise second-place finisher Rick Santorum by only eight votes. Read More »
After a disappointing 6th-place finish in Iowa last night, Michele Bachmann just dropped out of the presidential primary, promising to "continue fighting to defeat the president's agenda of socialism." Here's a look back at some of her more outlandish foreign-policy pronouncements. Read More »
To understand what's going on in U.S. politics, the international observer really needs some kind of translation device, a U.S. politics to English dictionary, that will help reveal the real meaning obscured by the words. Read More »
With the latest polls showing him neck-and-neck with Mitt Romney in Iowa leading up to next week's caucuses, Ron Paul hasn't been toning down his non-traditional foreign policy rhetoric. Paul described sanctions against Iran as an "act of war" in front of a crowd in Iowa, and said Iran would be justified in blocking the Straits of Hormuz if they had no other recourse to respond. Read More »
Much has been written about how American exceptionalism -- and President Obama's alleged lack of faith in it -- has become a rallying cry for this year's batch of Republican presidential candidates, even as the American public grow less convinced of the country's superiority. As Mitt Romney declared during a debate earlier this month, "Our president thinks America's in decline. It is if he's president. It's not if I'm president. This is going to be an American century." Read More »
Bachmann currently serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
The Tea Party favorite is great at delivering applause lines on standing with Israel and countering radical Islamism, and her membership on the House Intelligence Committee gives her a bit more credibility on international issues than candidates Rick Perry or Herman Cain. But from Hezbollah missile sites in Cuba to al Qaeda's new toehold in Libya, her rhetoric has at times bordered on conspiracy theory and could be a turnoff to voters outside her base.
Unclear as of yet.
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