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  • Pawlenty turns to faith appeal in Iowa Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 8:57PMThe candidate says faith "influences all that I do."
  • Down in polls and low on cash, Pawlenty bets big on Iowa straw poll to right struggling bid Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 5:31PMRepublican presidential candidate, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty speaks during a town hall meeting, Wednesday, July 6, 2011, at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa.
  • Bachmann’s Wacky Porn Pledge Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 4:36PMMichele Bachmann is the first GOP candidate to sign a pledge committing her to fighting pornography.
  • Rep. Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan Joins GOP Race Saturday, July 2, 2011 @ 5:43PMThaddeus McCotter, U.S. Representative from Michigan, is the latest to join a wide-open Republican presidential field. McCotter will officially announce his candidacy Saturday evening at a music festival.
  • AP-GfK Poll: Bachmann, Pawlenty make gains as Republicans get better acquainted with field Friday, June 24, 2011 @ 12:21AMWASHINGTON - Two lesser-known Republican candidates are rising in popularity as voters start paying more attention to candidates who hope to take on President Barack Obama next year, a new Associated Press-GfK poll shows.
  • Six GOP campaigns land spots for Ames Straw Poll Thursday, June 23, 2011 @ 10:37PMWashington (CNN) - Six Republican presidential campaigns secured spots Thursday to participate in the high stakes Ames Straw Poll in...
  • FiveThirtyEight: Handicapping the G.O.P. Field: Part I, the Top Tier Thursday, June 23, 2011 @ 9:22PMA look at the front-runner and the other three top candidates in the first of three parts reviewing the Republican field.
  • Russell Simmons: Sean Hannity Is Right! Thursday, June 23, 2011 @ 8:17PMFox News has always been the enemy to many on the left. The place where "fair and balanced news" is often tilted like a broken...
  • Poll: Romney leads GOP race in Florida, but not if Jeb runs Thursday, June 23, 2011 @ 6:14PMA new poll by Public Policy Polling shows Mitt Romney ahead of the current and potential GOP candidates for president as the candidate Republicans would "most like to see."
  • Beltway Briefing Thursday, June 23, 2011 @ 3:07PMThe top five stories from US politics today. 1. President Barack Obama announced a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. He said 10,000 US troops would pull out this year, with another 23,000 leaving by the end of September 2012 -- just before the presidential election.
  • Dunklin to chair AGFC Thursday, June 23, 2011 @ 3:03PMArkansas County native George Dunklin was elected chairman of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission by his fellow commissioners at the group’s meeting last Thursday.
  • Connelly: Michele Bachmann for president -- off, but running Monday, June 20, 2011 @ 6:53AMRep. Michele Bachmann is hoping the Tea Party movement will propel her to the Republican presidential nomination.  Will 2012 be the year when "royalist" Republicans reject their tradition of nominating the next-in-line, and opt for the powerful tonsils of the "gentlelady from Minnesota?"
  • Romney revels in silence of lambs Monday, June 20, 2011 @ 6:06AMHow many doomed liberal experiments might Mitt go along with as president until learning better? Or so Pawlenty might have asked.
  • Pawlenty Announces GOP Presidential Bid: Too Nice to Win? Friday, June 17, 2011 @ 3:43PMFormer Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty is a conservative without the snarl. Will restless Republican voters ever notice him?
  • Why CNN Is Wrong to Exclude Gary Johnson From Its Debate Saturday, June 4, 2011 @ 11:26PMThe cable network is substituting opinion polls for judgment, and preventing voters from getting to know a the former two-term governor
  • What Bachmann is thinking about as she considers a run for president | Derek Wallbank Thursday, May 19, 2011 @ 3:02PMREUTERS/Lucas Jackson Michele Bachmann at the 2011 Time 100 Gala ceremony in April. WASHINGTON — As she mulls over a run for the White House, Rep. Michele Bachmann says she is spending time reading books about presidential campaigns — particularly ones that explore the darker side of campaigns. Bachmann is expected to announce sometime in the next month that she’ll form an exploratory committee ...
  • Mike Huckabee Exit An Opportunity for Those Unlike Him Thursday, May 19, 2011 @ 2:35PMDES MOINES, Iowa - No single candidate stands ready to fill the gap that Mike Huckabee leaves in the 2012 Republican field for president, and those who do benefit may bear little resemblance to the former Arkansas governor and one-time Baptist minister who was favored by evangelical conservatives.
  • Media Matters Urges Advertiser Boycott of Fox News Thursday, May 19, 2011 @ 2:01PM*Media Matters has put Fox News Channel on the top of its hit list. The progressive watchdog group on Monday launched the website DropFox.com with the specific aim of getting all advertisers on the cable network to pull their spots – beginning with Orbitz Worldwide. Next to the Orbitz logo on DropFox.com was a photo [...]
  • Unhappy conservatives turn their lonely eyes to Texas Gov. Rick Perry Thursday, May 19, 2011 @ 1:59PMTexas Gov. Rick Perry says he has "the best job in the world," but his name continues to reverberate among GOP conservative activists dissatisfied with the presidential field so far.
  • More Videos Tuesday, May 17, 2011 @ 1:04AMAfter 43 years missing in Vietnam, the recently identified remains of an elite, army Green Beret soldier finally made it home. Steve Hartman reports on the woman who kept his story alive.
  • Jon Huntsman scores key endorsement in South Carolina Monday, May 16, 2011 @ 7:42PMPotential 2012 presidential candidate Jon Huntsman scored a key endorsement in the early-voting state of South Carolina Monday. Mike Campbell, the son of former governor and political heavyweight Carroll Campbell, has announced his support for the former ambassador to China.
  • 2012: Big-speech day for Romney Thursday, May 12, 2011 @ 1:34PMThe Hill: “Republicans have done a ‘lousy job’ of promoting their outreach efforts to Hispanic voters, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Wednesday.
  • Gingrich jumps into 2012 presidential race Thursday, May 12, 2011 @ 1:55AMFormer Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich formally announced today on Twitter his intention to seek the 2012 Republican nomination for President.
  • Fox News holds first GOP debate Sunday, May 8, 2011 @ 4:06AMFox News and the South Carolina Republican Party co-sponsored the first GOP debate of the 2012 presidential race last night, and there were several conspicuous absences. Namely, just about anyone who has a chance at winning the party’s nomination. We heard from big name also-rans like Ron Paul and Rick Santorum and a few no names like Herman Cain, the former owner of the Godfather Pizza Chain ...
  • IN MY OPINION: Ron Paul can triumph in 2012 Sunday, May 8, 2011 @ 3:35AMIf Ron Paul can somehow win the presidential nomination of the Republican Party, he will have an excellent chance of beating President Barack Obama in November 2012. He will, of course, face great obstacles in the Republican primaries, but i...
  • GOP Debate: Will Pawlenty Be a Giant or a Pygmy? Thursday, May 5, 2011 @ 9:12PMTonight in South Carolina, Fox News will televise something that purports to be a 2012 Republican presidential primary debate
  • Leubsdorf: How bin Laden impacts ’12 election Thursday, May 5, 2011 @ 9:01PMPRESIDENT Barack Obama’s stunning announcement that U.S. forces had killed Osama bin Laden is first and foremost an enormous American victory that eliminates a vicious adversary who both masterminded anti-Western terrorism and symbolized the dark side of Islamic fundamentalism.
  • GOP Debate Preview: Will Pawlenty Be a Giant–or a Pygmy? Thursday, May 5, 2011 @ 8:47PMTonight in South Carolina, Fox News will televise something that purports to be a 2012 Republican presidential primary debate. In truth it will be an almost entirely meaningless event. After all, most of the big-name candidates who either intend to run or are thinking about it–Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Mitch Daniels, Mike Huckabee [...]
  • S.C. debate could be a turning point for Pawlenty Thursday, May 5, 2011 @ 10:08AMWith several of the big-name likely candidates sitting it out, analysts say the forum could be a good opportunity for Pawlenty to boost his national profile and his standing in the South.
  • Pawlenty prepares for his moment Thursday, May 5, 2011 @ 9:08AMHe will try to show Republican voters that he’s prepared to cast the first stone against Obama.
  • GOP presidential candidates not eager to kick off campaign Thursday, May 5, 2011 @ 9:00AMWhat if they fired the starting gun and no horses came out of the gate?
  • With White House speculation building, Mitch Daniels comes to Washington Wednesday, May 4, 2011 @ 3:00PMIndiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is set to deliver a high-profile speech in Washington on Wednesday as his self-imposed deadline to decide on a presidential race looms and polls continue to show ambivalence about the GOP field.
  • Front-runners Skipping GOP 2012 Presidential Debate Wednesday, May 4, 2011 @ 2:27PMRepublicans will raise the curtain on the 2012 presidential campaign at a Greenville debate Thursday without many of the expected leading actors on the stage.
  • Superman turns caped back on US Wednesday, May 4, 2011 @ 2:06PMThe ultimate American hero has infuriated right-wingers.
  • Both sides praise Obama and take some credit for themselves Monday, May 2, 2011 @ 11:37PMBoth conservatives and liberals praised Obama for getting bin Laden, but they also tried to score political points. Read more...
  • Supporters say Huckabee inching toward 2012 run Saturday, April 30, 2011 @ 5:33AMThis March 28, 2011, file photo shows potential GOP presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee gesturing as he addresses students at the business school at Mississippi College in Clinton, Miss. Huckabee’s top advisers from his 2008 bid say he seems increasingly encouraged by...
  • Gas-tax pasts may haunt 2012 hopefuls Saturday, April 30, 2011 @ 4:32AMRepublican presidential hopefuls pointing the finger at President Barack Obama over rising gas prices could ultimately stumble in a political tar pit themselves: their own records of hiking gas costs back home.
  • Has Donald Trump Already Peaked? Friday, April 29, 2011 @ 6:58PMNow that the birther issue has been laid to rest for all but the most committed conspiracy theorists, has Donald Trump, who used the idea that President Barack Obama is not actually an American to his advantage, peaked in the polls?
  • Newt Gingrich would rather keep making money than participate in Fox debate Friday, April 29, 2011 @ 1:10AMWith Mitt Romney still waffling, the first debate of the campaign may end up a sideshow
  • S.C. political briefs Friday, April 29, 2011 @ 12:39AMState senators have signed off on a bill to allow 11 days of early voting before Election Day in South Carolina.
  • Trump takes credit for Obama birth information Thursday, April 28, 2011 @ 2:01AMDOVER, N.H. -- After weeks of suggesting Barack Obama was born in Africa, Donald Trump hastened to boast that he had forced the Democratic president to release a detailed Hawaii birth certificate disproving that claim, painting an apparent setback as a victory within minutes of arriving in the first-in-the-nation primary ...
  • Trump’s presidential hopes tarnished by African-American comment Friday, April 15, 2011 @ 9:22PM— His troubles with “the blondes” are well-documented, but now Donald Trump is in hot water with “the blacks” — the cringeworthy term he used this week to describe African-Americans, a segment of the population once warm to his potential run for U.S. president.
  • Trump in 2012? Saturday, April 9, 2011 @ 10:17PMIn an indication of how lacking the Republican field of presidential nominees for 2012 is, blow-dry, flip-top Donald Trump recently placed second (tied with former Governor Mike Huckabee) behind Mitt Romney in a poll conducted by the Wall Street Journal.
  • Spring signifies new beginnings for baseball, politics Saturday, April 9, 2011 @ 10:01PMCOLUMBUS — Spring has arrived, so it’s time to return to baseball and a sport that never seems to have an off season: presidential politics.From Cleveland to Cincinnati, hope abounds for an Interstate 71 World Series. With six games in the books and 156 games to play, both the Reds and Indians were in first place.
  • Donald Trump Rises in the Polls, Could Be True Presidential Contender Saturday, April 9, 2011 @ 9:52PMAs odd as it might sound, businessman and reality show star Donald Trump could be a real contender for the Republican nomination for a 2012 presidential bid. Or say a couple of recent polls... Contributor: Saul Relative Published: Apr 09, 2011
  • Would Donald Trump have passed a budget? Friday, April 8, 2011 @ 12:22AMIn political terms, who has the most to lose from this appalling brinkmanship over a federal government shutdown? House Speaker John Boehner? President Obama? Senate Democrats? Tea Party Republicans?
  • Douthat: How will the GOP fill its empty stage? Friday, April 8, 2011 @ 12:22AMDouthat: How will the GOP fill its empty stage?
  • Hatch on 2012 favorite: Romney is the man Tuesday, April 5, 2011 @ 8:18PMHatch on 2012 favorite: Romney is the man
  • Huckabee in Strongest GOP Position as Obama Announces Tuesday, April 5, 2011 @ 7:36PMMike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, and Newt Gingrich currently have the highest name recognition and Positive Intensity Scores among a field of potential GOP presidential contenders, with Huckabee in the strongest position overall.
  • Poll: Christie Would Give Obama Tough Fight In 2012 Presidential Election Friday, April 1, 2011 @ 3:30AMThe Fairleigh Dickinson-PublicMind Poll out Thursday pits several potential GOP candidates against Mr. Obama in head-to-head matchups.