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Huckabee’s avoidance of 2012 presidential race could split GOP voters

By | 05.17.11 | 9:17 am | More from The Iowa Independent

Image by Matt MahurinAnother potential presidential candidate has confirmed what his role will be in the 2012 election — uninvolved, at least personally.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Saturday he intends to sit out the 2012 presidential election.

Catholics for Choice: Obama hasn’t done enough for abortion rights

By | 05.09.11 | 1:44 pm | More from The Florida Independent

The newest issue of the Catholic pro-choice magazine Conscience raises several questions about the current administration’s stance on abortion-rights issues.

The recently published issue, which is a project of Catholics for Choice, is meant as a “comprehensive analysis of President Barack Obama’s prochoice record,” and the current “administration’s abysmal failure to take More…

Poll: Most Americans don’t want bin Laden photos released

By | 05.09.11 | 11:08 am

A new NBC poll indicates that an overwhelming majority of Americans agree with the Obama administration’s decision not to release the photos of Osama bin Laden’s corpse.

MSNBC reports:

Fifty-two percent said they strongly believe the Obama administration should not release the photos, and an additional 12 percent agreed,

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Ron Paul raises more than $1 million around GOP presidential debate

By | 05.06.11 | 12:38 pm

The big winner Thursday night might have been U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Clute) — but not because of anything he said or didn’t say during Fox News’ GOP presidential debate in South Carolina. Paul’s committee made hay while the TV camera lights shone, raising more than $1 million in More…

Fox GOP presidential debate to show snapshot of a struggling party

By | 05.05.11 | 4:11 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

Image by Matt MahurinRepublicans won an historic number of Congressional seats in the midterm election just six months ago. Tonight Fox News is hosting the first 2012 GOP presidential primary election debate and it will feature something like the weakest early lineup of candidates in modern memory. Serious Republican strategists will be watching More…

Poll shows bad signs for Trump, Palin, other potential 2012 GOP candidates

By | 05.04.11 | 11:22 am

Last week, a Rasmussen poll showed that Donald Trump was riding the birther conspiracy theory wave in becoming the Republican Party’s unlikely frontrunner for the 2012 presidential nomination. But a new survey seems to indicate that the 19-percent support Trump has among likely Republican primary voters is just about More…

Palin tells pregnant women in crises to ‘hang in there’ at Heroic Media fundraiser

By | 05.01.11 | 11:21 am

Photo: Flickr Creative Commons/AnyaLogic

UPDATE: May 3, 10:47 a.m. EST: This article was amended with a clarification, noted below.

Anti-abortion rights marketing group Heroic Media is expanding domestically and internationally, officials said Saturday during an “inaugural District of Columbia benefit dinner,” held in Bethesda, Md. – part of an effort to raise More…

Mother of girl on anti-abortion billboards suing over use of her daughter’s picture

By | 04.28.11 | 5:30 pm | More from The Florida Independent

Image by Matt MahurinLife Always, the anti-abortion group responsible for erecting billboards all over the country accusing Planned Parenthood of having racially motivated aims, is being sued by the mother of the young girl featured on the controversial billboards.

Palin goes to Colorado to honor troops with Christian military crusader

By | 04.26.11 | 6:06 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

Image by Matt MahurinThe Centennial Institute conservative think tank at Colorado Christian University is hosting a “Tribute to the Troops” Monday, where the featured speakers will be Sarah Palin and General William “Jerry” Boykin. Although both figures in the past have been associated with an aggressive Christian politics known as More…

Iowa 2012 GOP Presidential Power Rankings: The Hawkeye State is still wide open

By | 04.25.11 | 12:21 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

Image by Matt MahurinIn 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…