Category Archives: Mike Pence

House votes to defund Planned Parenthood

Mike Pence’s amendment to defund Planned Parenthood passed 240-185 in the House. By DAVID NATHER & KATE NOCERA The House just approved Rep. Mike Pence’s amendment to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood, checking off a hot-button social issue even as it set up a bigger showdown over defunding the health care law. The vote [...]

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Romney Wins New Hampshire Republican Party Committee Straw Poll

ABC News Political Director Amy Walter reports: In the first ever “straw poll” of New Hampshire Republican party committee members sponsored by ABC News and WMUR and sanctioned by the state Republican party, ex-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney took 35 percent of the 276 valid ballots cast. This is just 3 percent more than Romney took [...]

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Pence for President?

By:  Katrina Trinko NRO No one has gone straight from the House to the White House since James Garfield. Mike Pence might be the one. He hasn’t held executive office. He isn’t a paid Fox News contributor. He hasn’t written a best-seller or starred in a reality show. So is there any reason Rep. Mike [...]

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Pence Wins Straw Poll

Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) won a surprise victory in the Family Research Council’s Values Voter presidential straw poll, narrowly edging out runner-up Mike Huckabee by 11 votes. Pence, the GOP’s Conference Chairman, won 24 percent of the vote, Huckabee 22 percent and Mitt Romney came in a more distant third, taking 13 percent of the [...]

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At Least 17 Republicans in 2012 Presidential Election Field

USNEWS.COM By Paul Bedard When Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour told us this week that the 2012 GOP presidential field will be “wide open,” we had no idea just how many Republicans might be marching to Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada for the opening caucuses and primaries. Including Barbour, who will decide after the [...]

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Romney Outraises Potential 2012 Rivals

From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby Washington (CNN) – Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney raised $1.8 million during the second fundraising quarter of this year, far outpacing the other Republicans he may face in the next presidential race. Romney has also devoted considerable money to building an extensive national political network, doling out more than [...]

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A Winning Slogan for a Winning Agenda

Repeal, and then real reform. BY:  Jeffrey H. Anderson Now that Rasmussen shows that, yes, Americans really do want Obamacare to be repealed, one hopes that Republicans will shelve their pessimism and advance this crucial and winning agenda with confidence. But now is also the time for the GOP to make sure that its slogan [...]

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Southern Republican Leadership Conference kicks off 2012 race

The eyes of the Republican political world will turn to New Orleans today as a cavalcade of GOP leaders, wanna-be leaders and national reporters will be in the Big Easy for the Southern Republican Leadership Conference. The event is widely being cast as the first “cattle call” of the 2012 Republican presidential primary fight although [...]

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Conservatives wrap up meeting, eye midterm elections

Washington (CNN) – Conservatives wrapped up a three-day meeting in the nation’s capital on Saturday and headed back home looking ahead to midterm elections they hope will be a springboard to take back the White House in 2012. More than 10,000 people attended the American Conservative Union’s Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual gathering that [...]

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CPAC: Romney Rallies The Volunteers

Well, Mr. Ambinder, you are in rare form this morning. It would be hard to top the world-class smarminess you have on display in your article. However, all condesencion aside, the bottom line is that there are 10,000 dedicated activists in attendence at CPAC and they are, to use a military expression, the tip of [...]

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