Emergency responders call for help after a stage collapsed at the Indiana State Fair in August.
Marco Rubio. Chris Christie. Mitch Daniels. Paul Ryan. Say those names, and Republican hearts beat faster.
About that knight in shining armor -- the Republican candidate with the quick-witted, pugnacious style of Newt Gingrich; the blue-collar conservative values of Rick Santorum; the cool business acumen of Mitt Romney; and the passionate supporters of Ron Paul.
A close up look at some of the best moments from the 2012 GOP race.
Suppose they held an election, and the economy got better. Just last month, the jobless rate fell to its lowest level in almost three years.
Republicans said Tuesday night that President Barack Obama's "trickle-down government" has held back, rather than speeded up, economic recovery.
Herman Cain called President Obama's State of the Union Address a "hodgepodge of little ideas"
In a rebuttal to the State of the Union address, Republicans gave the late Steve Jobs credit for creating more jobs than the stimulus bill Tuesday.
Republicans focused on the Obama administration's job record during their rebuttal to Tuesday night's State of the Union address.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is to give the Republican Party response to the State of the Union speech on Tuesday night. Below is a transcript of the speech.
Is it buyer's remorse time already?
Indiana's state government has discovered $320 million in funds it didn't know it had, money that officials stumbled across while enacting statewide belt-tightening measures.
As usual, Professor Paul Krugman's piece in the Monday morning New York Times is causing a great deal of chatter among the political types. Krugman points out just how inept the Republican field is. In some cases he takes a scalpel (and in others a machete) to surely the weakest field of presidential aspirants any party has offered in modern American history (see my earlier CNN column comparing this field to 1980). I believe I can explain why this field is so inept. In order to proffer this explanation I am going to utilize Professor Krugman's field of economics.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels discusses GOP presidential candidates and talks about President Obama's re-election campaign.
While the events of the past weekend raised new questions about Texas Gov. Rick Perry and his campaign for the Republican nomination, several consultants and attendees at a key GOP conference here said they think the race is still moving toward a two-man showdown.
Indiana's governor leads a memorial service for victims of stage collapse at a Sugarland concert.
Family and friends of the people killed when a concert stage collapsed paused to remember their loved ones Monday, as officials began tackling the question on many people's minds: Was anyone at fault?
Gov. Mitch Daniels tells CNN's Gloria Borger Paul Ryan's budget has positive elements but wishes it had gone further.
After months of criss-crossing the country and trying to woo potential supporters in early voting states, seven Republicans hoping to capture their party's presidential nomination will meet this month for the first New Hampshire debate of the 2012 election.
The Obama administration is attempting to block Indiana from enforcing a new law that would keep low-income women from using federal Medicaid benefits to receive any kind of reproductive medical care from Planned Parenthood.
With Mitch Daniels' decision to opt out of the 2012 presidential race, Jon Huntsman is the lone standard-bearer of the center-right in a crowded GOP field.
Great expectations await Jon Huntsman in New Hampshire. CNN's Jim Acosta reports.
In the wake of Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels' decision not to run for the Republican presidential nomination, there is debate among Republican activists about whether the universe of interested candidates will grow or whether it is pretty well set.
The GOP is looking for a new presidential recruit after Mitch Daniels said he won't run. CNN's Candy Crowley has that.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, a former top aide to President George W. Bush, ended his very public flirtation with running for president early Sunday with an e-mail to supporters that narrowed the field of plausible 2012 Republican challengers to President Barack Obama.
Why are so many potential GOP presidential candidates turning down 2012?
John King and panel discuss Donald Trump's presidential campaign and decision to withdraw from the 2012 race.
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels still hasn't decided whether he's running for president, but he knows time is running out. "I have to make a decision within a few weeks," he said in an exclusive interview with Fortune.
A controversial new Indiana law limiting access to abortion services remains in effect after a federal judge Wednesday denied a request for a restraining order from Planned Parenthood.
It might be a stretch to call him the big man on campus. But Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is getting some presidential buzz at colleges across the country.
CNN's Jim Acosta reports on a couple of college students at Yale trying to swing the 2012 presidential election.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels says he'll have an answer on running for president after his state's Legislature wraps up its business at the end of the month. The Republican's message on the national debt has earned him a following on college campuses across the country.
There was no "truce" in Iowa on Monday night.
Indiana House Republicans have adopted a $250-a-day fine against missing Democratic lawmakers who left the state in protest over a controversial education and labor bill, lawmakers from both parties said Thursday.
Well, we said we wanted budget cutters, so that's what we have.
Sen. Richard Lugar makes an appeal to Obama to bring Democrats and Republicans together over the budget battle.
Conan talks about the unrest in Libya, Donald Trump running for president, and George Clooney.
Politics is serious business -- but not all the time.
Not every state that took a body blow from the recession is staring into the abyss of a budget crisis.
Roughly 11,000 GOP activists from across the country met in the nation's capital Thursday for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference -- a gathering of potentially critical importance for the prospective field of 2012 Republican presidential candidates.
Rep. Michele Bachmann calls on CPAC delegates to make President Obama a one-term leader.
Thousands of conservative activists are descending on the nation's capital this week for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, a three-day political carnival of speeches, strategy sessions and after-hours networking.
GOP candidates are taking their time getting into the 2012 race. CNN's Jessica Yellin reports.
Would you like a 6% raise in your next paycheck? Some economists want to give you one -- in the form of a payroll tax holiday -- to stimulate the struggling economy.
Conservative pundits are in love with a candidate for 2012, and it is not Sarah Palin. If you ask many top Republicans their favorite pick for the presidential campaign, they will answer Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels.
Elephants are put back into their trailers after they broke loose during a storm in Wakeeney, Kansas.
"This is the greatest single financial coup in the history of Chicago." That's how alderman Edward Burke, chairman of the city council's finance committee, described the 99-year lease of the Chicago Skyway, a 7.8-mile toll road, to a private operator for the stunning sum of $1.8 billion - almost $1 billion more than the next-highest bid. The deal, struck in late 2004, was the first privatization of a toll road in the U.S.
Someone call Lou Dobbs: America's highways are are up for sale. States are auctioning off the rights to manage their roads - often to overseas firms. What's driving the trend?
All residents of a Vanderburgh County mobile home park were accounted for Tuesday, two days after a tornado made a 43-mile run from Kentucky across the southern Indiana countryside, killing 22 people.
Searchers pulled a body Monday from a lake adjacent to an Indiana mobile home park ravaged by a tornado, bringing the total dead from the Sunday morning twister to 22.
"The only Grover they know in Indiana is the fuzzy creature on Sesame Street," cracked Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels after anti-tax activist Grover Norquist attacked his proposed tax increase.
New governors will take the helm in six states, with voting reflecting a party shift in four of them -- two for Democrats and two for Republicans.
Republican challenger Mitch Daniels will unseat Democrat Joe Kernan to become Indiana's governor, according to a CNN projection.
In one of the hottest gubernatorial races of the day, CNN projects that former Bush administration official Mitch Daniels trounced Indiana Gov. Joe Kernan.
The most surprising and divisive part of President Bush's tax plan is his proposal to end the double taxation of dividends. Academics have liked the idea for decades, but Bush, who's no scholar, ne...
President Bush's Management Agenda--an ambitious plan to trim bureaucratic fat and make government work better--hasn't drawn much attention yet. Partly that's because so much else has been going on...
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