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WASHINGTON ? Republican Rick Santorum is looking to capitalize on a string of stunning victories that snapped his four-state losing streak and raised new questions about front-runner Mitt Romney’s clout with conservatives. Romney shrugged off his poor showing, but his losses Tuesday in Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado laid bare his stubborn weakness just when it [...]
As Newt Gingrich Fades In Florida, February Once Again Looks Like Tough Sledding
By | January 30, 2012
TAMPA, Fla. — The conventional wisdom for much of the fall was that February would be a very difficult month for any of Mitt Romney’s challengers. That was until Newt Gingrich won South Carolina. Gingrich’s Palmetto State romp over Romney, followed by the initial polls in Florida showing the former House Speaker from Georgia surging [...]
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Newt Gingrich is feeling it. Having slugged his way to the lead for the second time, the former House speaker spies victory in South Carolina, a win he has said repeatedly will “make history” and, ultimately, hand him the Republican nomination for president. The former boast seemed as fanciful as Gingrich’s [...]
Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman) Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman) Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania [...]
Final Four: Rick Perry Ends Campaign Two Days Before S.C. Primary (ContributorNetwork)
By | January 22, 2012
Reuters reports Texas Gov. Rick Perry has dropped out of the 2012 GOP nominating race for president. Perry endorsed Newt Gingrich as the person who is the best choice to try to defeat President Barack Obama in November’s general election. The move comes after Perry finished fifth in the Iowa caucus and sixth in the [...]
COLUMBIA, S.C. ? Newt Gingrich veered off the traditional GOP primary campaign trail Saturday for an African-American church ? and a colloquy on race relations and urban policy that only seemed to strengthen the audience?s resolve to vote for Barack Obama. Far from where his rivals spent their time just a week before the make-or-break [...]
DAVENPORT, Iowa ? As he works to rev up his conservative base in Iowa with just two weeks to go until the state’s caucuses, Newt Gingrich is launching a full-throated assault on a reliable GOP target: judges. There is little love for the judicial branch among the Republicans seeking the White House. But Gingrich’s ridicule [...]
The Nation — One of Newt Gingrich?s many peculiar fixations stands out as especially troublesome: his hatred of the State Department. Gingrich has recently been attacking career civil servants there in hostile terms, complaining that they are ?Arabists? who advocate ?appeasement? of America?s enemies. At the Republican Jewish Coalition candidate forum on Wednesday in Washington, [...]