Romney edges out Paul in Maine caucus contest
Fox News
He won the influential Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) straw poll here Saturday with 38% support to Rick Santorum's 31%, and he beat Ron Paul in Maine to cinch that state's non-binding caucuses. Romney won in Maine with 39% support to AUGUSTA, Maine, Feb. 11 (UPI) — As Maine's weeklong caucuses come to an end [...]
Read MoreMissouri primary results: Rick Santorum wins
Washington P
Everyone's heard by now that the results of the Republican Party primary in Missouri on November 2012 blew the supposed front-runner, Mitt Romney, out of the water. They drenched supposed second-place leader Newt WASHINGTON — After losing Saturday's Nevada caucus race, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich sought solace in what he called an encouraging statistic: [...]
Read MoreRomney looks to solidify momentum in Nevada caucus
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Four years later, Paul has turned the lesson of Nevada into a national campaign strategy, focusing his attention on caucus states where his loyal followers could keep him in the delegate hunt. That's why the Texas congressman skipped the Florida Handicapping the outcome of the caucus in Nevada. LAS VEGAS — In the shadow of [...]
Read MoreRand Paul detained: Rep. refuses airport patdown after alarm
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rand paul, security, TSA Posted Jan 23rd 2012 at 7:36 am in Justice/Legal | 414140121 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fbiggovernment.com%2Fpublius%2F2012%2F01%2F23%2Fsen-rand-paul-detained-by-tsa-at-nashville-airport%2FSen. Kentucky Senator Rand Paul was detained Monday morning by the Transportation Security Administration in Nashville, Tennessee after refusing a full body pat-down. We'll have an update on the situation coming up. Also – the police chief of Hickman, TSA [...]
Read MoreNewt Gingrich blows GOP race wide open
Politico
WASHINGTON — Newt Gingrich won nearly all of the delegates in South Carolina's Republican presidential primary Saturday, narrowing Mitt Romney's lead in the race for delegates to the party's national convention this But after being thoroughly routed Saturday by Newt Gingrich in a primary Romney seemed likely to win just days earlier, the GOP frontrunner [...]
Read MoreSouth Carolina Primary Goes To Newt Gingrich
MTV.com
TAMPA, Fla. — Maybe Rick Santorum is too Pittsburgh to be president. Pittsburgh made Santorum a U.S. senator, but now it may be unmaking him as a finalist for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Newt Gingrich is feeling it. Having slugged his way to the lead for the second time, the [...]
Read MoreNewt Gingrich's clash with John King wins praise in South Carolina
Washington P
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Newt Gingrich, seeking to maintain his momentum, tapped back into the deep reservoir of resentment in American conservatism Thursday night by lecturing a debate moderator for the second time this CHARLESTON, SC – If anything, Republican women interviewed here today seemed even more supportive than men of the way Newt Gingrich handled [...]
Read MoreFinal Republican debate in South Carolina
UPI.com
All four Republican presidential candidates said at the debate Thursday night that they oppose the Stop Online Piracy Act in its current form. A day after Wikipedia, Reddit and thousands of other websites went black in protest of the proposed law, This has already been the best day of shallow political horserace infotainment in the [...]
Read MoreRick Perry drops his presidential bid
CBS News
Texas Gov. Rick Perry dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday ahead of South Carolina's primary election. Otherwise Paul is no more legit than Rick Perry, who calls himself conservative after a career of crony capitalism, or Newt Gingrich, who calls himself conservative while he takes big dough from Freddie [...]
Read MoreSouth Carolina debate: Can 'janitor' comments spark Newt Gingrich comeback?
Christian Sc
MYRTLE BEACH, SC — Debate day here was also Martin Luther King Jr. Day — as both the moderators and the Republican candidates acknowledged in repeated references to race throughout the night. Black voters made up just 2 percent of the South Carolina By SHANNON McCAFFREY, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich [...]
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