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Rubio affiliates now working for Gingrich indicates shift of support for the new front-runner

By | 12.13.11 | 10:08 am | More from The Florida Independent

GOP 2012 presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has hired people close to Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., to head his campaign in Florida.

Florida governor’s former campaign manager joins Romney team

By | 12.12.11 | 11:39 am | More from The Florida Independent

Jacksonville’s Susie Wiles, the former campaign manager for Gov. Rick Scott, has joined the team of would-be GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. Wiles was working closely with Romney opponent Jon Huntsman until July, when she left her position as campaign manager.

Poll: Obama likely to beat Gingrich in Colorado

By | 12.07.11 | 4:39 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

President Obama is not a popular politician in Colorado, but, according to a recent Public Policy Polling survey, Obama would defeat in a landslide Republican Newt Gingrich, whose star has risen of late but who boasts laughable negative numbers with voters here and is despised by the state’s enormous More…

Gingrich leads in polls despite ‘humane’ immigration-enforcement proposal

By | 12.07.11 | 2:10 pm | More from The Florida Independent

GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s recent call for a “humane” path to immigration enforcement for undocumented immigrants does not seem to have hurt his poling numbers.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports today: ”A month before voting starts, Gingrich has established double-digit leads in some polls in the early voting states More…

In Colorado polls Gingrich soaring, Perry fading

By | 12.06.11 | 4:25 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

A poll released today by Public Policy Polling shows Newt Gingrich with a commanding lead over Mitt Romney in Colorado. The poll shows Gingrich up 37-18 over Romney in Colorado. Michele Bachmann is third with 9 percent and Ron Paul comes in at 6 percent. It wasn’t that long ago More…

Huntsman, Gingrich to face off in Lincoln-Douglas debate

By | 12.06.11 | 12:27 pm | More from The Florida Independent

Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman will meet former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich at a Lincoln-Douglas-style debate next Monday, focusing on foreign policy and national security.

Gingrich clarifies stance on abortion, believes life begins at implantation, not fertilization

By | 12.05.11 | 1:55 pm | More from The Florida Independent

Would-be Republican presidential nominee Newt Gingrich has come under fire for floating the idea of a national “fetal personhood” measure similar to the one recently defeated in Mississippi.

Report: Two-thirds of undocumented immigrants have been living in U.S. for at least a decade

By | 12.05.11 | 11:30 am | More from The Florida Independent

About two thirds of the 10.2 million unauthorized adult immigrants who currently live in the U.S. have lived here for at least 10 years, according to a report released early this month by the Pew Hispanic Center.

Florida attorney general to co-host presidential forum on Fox News

By | 11.29.11 | 12:44 pm | More from The Florida Independent

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is slated to co-host a Republican presidential candidate forum on Fox News’ Huckabee this Saturday, exactly one month before the Iowa caucuses. Bondi will interview candidates alongside Oklahoma Attorney General E. Scott Pruitt, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.

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GOP, presidential candidates attempt to soften immigration rhetoric for 2012

By | 11.29.11 | 10:28 am | More from The Florida Independent

GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s recent call for a humane path to immigration enforcement makes him the most recent conservative voice calling for solutions that encompass something more than the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants.

Color Lines, a daily news site “in service to racial justice,” writes today that Gingrich’s”remarks More…