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Isaac Getting Better Organized as it Moves over Eastern Gulf

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE Tropical Storm Isaac is getting better organized as it moves over the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Maximum sustained winds are near 65 mph and some strengthening is forecast during the next 48 hours. Isaac will move over the eastern Gulf of Mexico on Monday and approach the northern Gulf Coast on Tuesday. [...]

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Mitt Romney clinches GOP presidential nod

  Mitt Romney’s long and arduous path to the Republican presidential nomination is officially over. By: Ginger Gibson With a victory in Texas on Tuesday night, Mitt Romney secured the necessary delegates to clinch the Republican nomination that will be awarded in Tampa this summer.   “This was a big day by the way – [...]

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Iowa Debate Round Up

Summary:  This was a really difficult debate to watch, and while some would say the questions asked were not softballs, the moderators were throwing gotchas, something which Newt Gingrich took issue with. Chris Wallace:  Tonight’s villain in the moderator stakes was Wallace, and at times it was hard to hard to tell if Chris used the [...]

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Gingrich’s Campaign Manager, Top Aides Resign

WASHINGTON (AP) — The entire top echelon of Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign resigned on Thursday, a stunning mass exodus that left his bid for the Republican nomination in tatters. Gingrich publicly shrugged off the defections, vowing defiantly to remain a candidate. “I am committed to running the substantive, solutions-oriented campaign I set out to run [...]

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The Mormon Primary: Romney vs. Huntsman

By MOLLY BALL & JONATHAN MARTIN Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman Jr. are both Mormons, both wealthy scions of old Utah families, both ex-governors with chiseled features and terrific hair. Both also want to be president. And neither has shown much regard for the other. Now their unspoken competition may soon come out in the [...]

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