GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich today announced campaign chairs and co-chairs for all of Florida’s 67 counties.
As if Rick Perry wasn’t taking enough flak from his fellow Republican candidates for president, he has to sit still for a rambling denunciation from none other than Sarah Palin who thinks it is just wrong to let undocumented immigrants pay in-state tuition at Texas colleges.
There is little doubt of the continued fluidity within the GOP field, and Iowa — as home to fiscal and social conservatives searching for an ideal candidate — remains one of the best places (if not the best) to ride the roller coaster of the 2012 Republican nomination and presidential More…
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who continues to toy with a possible 2012 presidential bid, believes that if she ultimately decides to pursue the GOP nomination it will come at a cost to her reputation as a political maverick.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is the latest confirmed speaker at next month’s Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., the Family Research Council, which is hosting the conservative policy summit through its policy arm, announced Wednesday.
Last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission granted corporations and unions the right to directly and expressly back political candidates, and triggered an enormous new wave of political spending. Now watchdog groups are trying to find ways to make sure voters can see who is More…
The 2012 presidential buzz is centered on whether or not former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is going to choose to formally enter the race, but locally it seems Palin still needs to decide whether or not she will appear at an Indianola tea party event scheduled for Saturday.
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A new Quinnipiac University poll out early Wednesday shows Texas Gov. Rick Perry climbing to a narrow lead in the GOP presidential nomination contest, but former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney running slightly better against President Barack Obama.
If there has been a single thread that has connected the previous 11 editions of The Iowa Independent’s Power Rankings, it has been an overall feeling of discontent among Republicans as activists in the state search for someone who represents their views and that they believe also stands a good More…
A look at polling numbers illustrates how muddled the GOP presidential contest presently is, compared to the outlook at this point in the 2000 White House campaign, when then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush was already the clear frontrunner.
Current Texas Gov. Rick Perry may see the crowded field as evidence More…
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