AMES — Longtime political consultant and activist Fred Karger, the first official Republican 2012 presidential candidate, admits he’s a long shot. But as Gov. Haley Barbour (R-Miss) bows out of the race because he “doesn’t have the fire in his belly,” Karger insists he does.
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour announced Monday he will not seek the Republican nomination for president, keeping a promise to Iowa Republicans that he would have a decision by the end of April.
“I will not be a candidate for president next year,” Barbour said in a statement. “This More…
In this fourth edition of The Iowa Independent’s 2012 Presidential Power Rankings, the panelists give nods to their widest field of potential candidates thus far, spreading their predictions between 13 individuals. Most also see 2012 shaping up as an outsiders-versus-establishment gambit, with the establishment winning if the grassroots are fractured. More…
A new CBS News/New York Times poll (PDF) shows that 56 percent of Republican voters do not feel enthusiastic about any of the official or prospective GOP candidates running for president in 2012.
The highest percent of enthusiasm for a single candidate (without offering those polled a list to More…
Conservative celebrity Sarah Palin and right-wing blogger Erick Erickson are just two of the high profile far-right leaders disparaging Speaker of the House John Boehner for the budget deal he hammered out with President Obama and Democratic Senate leaders last week. Colorado “liberty movement” talk radio hosts are unhappy.
Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty thinks he has what it takes to steal the youth vote away from President Barack Obama, but Democrats are hitting back.
Pawlenty told the Vanderbilt Hustler, a college newspaper, young voters feel “duped” for having voted for Obama in 2008.
TIFFIN — Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour isn’t quite ready to announce whether or not he will seek the Republican nomination for president in 2012. But, if he does, Iowans can expect to hear more of what he describes as “plain-spoken common sense and truth-telling.”
At this point during the 2008 presidential contests, many Iowans had already formed their first impressions about a mostly solidified field of candidates. For the 2012 caucuses, which are now less than one year away, the lack of commitment being expressed by Republican politicians has rubbed off on supporters.
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Mississippi is the newest state to update its sex-education policy. Last week Gov. Haley Barbour signed into law a bill that, beginning June 30, 2012, requires all school districts to adopt a state-approved sex-education curriculum.
Districts will be required to choose between abstinence-only instruction or sex education that More…
Among the many Republican-backed provisions to cut federal spending is the proposal to transform Medicaid into block grants.
Republicans have posited the initiative as a reform on Medicaid, claiming the transformation will save $180 billion within the next 10 years, according to Kaiser Health News. The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates
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