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Poll: Romney Tops Weak Obama in N.H.

By Alexander Burns Mitt Romney is the only Republican candidate leading President Obama in New Hampshire, according to a new poll from Dartmouth University’s Nelson A. Rockefeller Center. In the center’s fourth “State of the State” survey, Romney tops Obama in a general election match-up by 8 points, 47 percent to 39 percent. No other [...]

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Romney to RJC and Las Vegas

  By KASIE HUNT Mitt Romney will speak at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s winter meeting in Las Vegas. Romney, who visited Israel earlier this year, will join John Thune and House Minority Leader Eric Cantor at the conference, according to an e-mail sent to RJC members. Continue Reading The event runs March 31-April 3. Thune [...]

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33% of GOP Voters Hope Palin Isn’t 2012 Nominee

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin remains a top favorite of Republican voters, but she’s also the front-runner they least want to see get the GOP’s 2012 presidential nomination. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 81% of Likely GOP Primary Voters have a favorable opinion of Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts and [...]

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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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2012 campaign picks up the pace

Now that 2011 is under way, 2012 is unmistakably in the air. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney just completed a weeklong trip to Afghanistan and the Middle East. A handful of prospective GOP presidential candidates voiced their opposition to raising the federal debt limit, staking out the conservative base’s preferred position. More and more names [...]

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Insiders: Romney Is Top GOP 2012 Contender, Daniels Second

Rank the top 5 candidates, 1 through 5, in terms of whom you think is most likely to capture the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. Republicans (107 votes) Jan. 2011 Insiders Index Score Change from Jan. 2010 Mitt Romney 78 -3 pts Mitch Daniels 37 +12 pts Tim Pawlenty 33 -13 pts John Thune 32 -6 [...]

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Republican strategist: Michael Steele has ‘obviously been a disaster’

THE WASHINGTON POST By: Felicia Sonmez A top Republican Party strategist had some harsh words for beleaguered Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele on Sunday. Ed Rollins, who served as national campaign director for Ronald Reagan‘s 1984 bid and as a former chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said that Steele has “obviously been [...]

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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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Wanted: short, fat white man to succeed Barack Obama

I wanted to repost this article from the British paper The Telegraph.Co.Uk because I thought it was an interesting take on our political situation from a European point of view. I am most assuredly not endorsing the opinion that our next American President be white, short, bald or any other physical characteristic. Competent? Oh, yes. [...]

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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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