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Utah poll: Romney tops Huntsman

By JENNIFER EPSTEIN In a match-up of Mormon presidential hopefuls, Mitt Romney would best Jon Huntsman by a 2-to-1 margin in Utah, a new poll suggests. Fifty-six percent of Utahns surveyed for the Deseret News and KSL-TV said they would pick Romney in a GOP presidential primary, while 26 percent said they would back Huntsman. [...]

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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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Huckabee Leads in Iowa, Romney Up in New Hampshire

TAEGAN GODDARD’S POLITICAL WIRE GOP political consulting firm Strategic National commissioned two polls of the Republican presidential race in Iowa and New Hampshire. Iowa: Mike Huckabee at 28%, Mitt Romney at 19%, Sarah Palin at 12%, Newt Gingrich at 12%, Tim Pawlenty at 4% and Michele Bachmann at 4%. New Hampshire: Mitt Romney at 34%, [...]

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Possible primary rivals hit pause

  By:  GARRY RAYNO New Hampshire Union Leader Staff MANCHESTER – With the New Hampshire Presidential Primary only a year away, there’s been more political “shadow boxing” but less brawling than seen in 2008. That’s how some political observers see it. But they say it’s unfair to compare the two cycles because 2008 was an [...]

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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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If Giuliani Is Back, It Won’t Be By Popular Demand

By NATE SILVER Let’s not indulge in any equivocation: Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s 2008 presidential campaign was a flop. Though he was an early front-runner in national surveys of potential Republican primary voters, Mr. Giuliani placed a distant sixth in the Iowa caucus, fourth in the New Hampshire primary, sixth again in both Michigan and South [...]

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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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11 faith-based predictions for 2011

  [Editor's Note:  I am not endorsing the opinions in this article, but merely posting it to help inform our readers of what others are thinking as we head into the New Year.]  ~~John Cronin~~ By Dan Gilgoff, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor To open 2011, CNN’s Belief Blog asked 10 religious leaders and experts – [...]

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Huckabee’s Strength

[Editor's Note:  I would take any news stories about Huckabee's alleged strength with a sizable grain of salt.....This candidate showed his true colors in the 2008 primary season with his bitter, ad hominem attacks on Gov. Romney.  Rather than staying focused on the issues, he brought in religious affiliations as part of the debate and [...]

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