Daniels, the governor of Indiana and former budget director for Georgw W. Bush, is a close friend of Barbour's and is seen as one of the Republican Party's leading voices on debt and deficits.

The conservative establishment’s hopeless infatuation with Mitch Daniels. Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour’s surprise announcement that he is not, after all, running for president in 2012 is ...

Mississippi governor Haley Barbour issued a statement this afternoon announcing that he will not seek the 2012 Republican presidential nomination: A candidate for president today is embracing a ...

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) said Tuesday that he was surprised when Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels both decided against running for the Republican nomination for ...

In the parlance of physics, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour's announcement that he isn't running for president in 2012 might have an equal and opposite reaction in Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels.