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Mitt Romney Forms Exploratory Committee, Will Run for Presidency in 2012

 Romney Forms 
 Exploratory 
 Committee 
ELECTION 2012
Apr 11, 2011 3:43 PM CDT

Romney Forms Exploratory Committee

Surprise! Mitt's running for president

(Newser) - It might seem like he never stopped running for president, but Mitt Romney today became the second Republican to all but throw his hat in the 2012 ring, reports Politico. The former Massachusetts governor has formed an exploratory committee, saying that President Obama's "policies have failed." "This...

Donald Trump Ties for 2nd in Poll of Republican Primary Voters
 Trump Ties for 2nd in GOP Poll 
Apr 7, 2011 1:40 AM CDT

Trump Ties for 2nd in GOP Poll

Mitt Romney grabs first place among 2012 possibilities

(Newser) - Donald Trump has been putting himself out there over the last few weeks, and Republican voters are liking what they see. The Donald is tied with Mike Huckabee for second place in a field of nine possible contenders in a new Wall Street Journal /NBC poll of Republican primary voters....

Michele Bachmann Outraises Mitt Romney

She pulls in $2.2M in first quarter, more than Mitt's $1.9M

(Newser) - Who's the front-runner, again? Michele Bachmann raised $2.2 million in the first quarter of 2011, easily trumping Mitt Romney's $1.9 million, reports Fox News . Bachmann pulled in $500,000 through her political action committee (MichelePAC) and $1.7 million through her congressional re-election fund. The latter money could...

Don't Underestimate the Republican Field

If the economy's weak, it might not matter who the nominee is

(Newser) - The conventional wisdom seems to be that the GOP presidential field is hopelessly flawed and probably doomed. But don’t write these guys off just yet, warns Steve Kornacki on Salon . Remember, in late 1991 and early 1992, everybody thought the Democratic field was a pack of losers, too, and...

Trump: 'A Little Doubt' on Obama Citizenship

The Donald says he'd bankroll his own campaign

(Newser) - Donald Trump raised “just a little” doubt as to President Obama’s citizenship in an ABC interview, saying it was “very strange” that Obama “grew up and nobody knew him,” Mediaite reports. “Nobody knows who he his until later in his life,” Trump said....

Sarah Palin Popularity Dropping in GOP

Still, she remains among the top Republican 2012 candidates

(Newser) - While Sarah Palin remains among the top potential GOP candidates for president in 2012, her popularity continues to take a serious hit, according to a new poll. Some 37% of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents hold a negative view of her, which is a record high for Palin, according to the...

Mitt Romney: Today's Job Fairs Are Like the Hoovervilles of the Great Depression
 
 Obama Has  
 His Very Own 
 'Hoovervilles'
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Mar 8, 2011 12:27 PM CST

Obama Has His Very Own 'Hoovervilles'

Mitt Romney: Today's job fairs call to mind Depression-era misery

(Newser) - Mitt Romney welcomes Obama to Boston today with an op-ed in the Herald that blames the president's economic policies for bringing back scenes reminiscent of the Great Depression. Romney rehashes what he's been calling the Obama Misery Index : Unlike Jimmy Carter's misery index of the '70s, which combined unemployment and...

Obama Takes on Romney, Huntsman, Etc., With Love
Obama Trying to Kill
Romney & Co. With Love
Election 2012
Mar 8, 2011 8:41 AM CST

Obama Trying to Kill Romney & Co. With Love

Administration praising Huntsman's China service, Romney's health care work

(Newser) - President Obama has a funny way of taking down his potential 2012 challengers: he’s praising them every chance he gets. The president has been furiously lauding Mitt Romney’s health care work in Massachusetts, and Jon Huntsman’s work for the administration in China, Politico observes, in what looks...

Mitt Romney Slams Obama's 'Misery Index'

And calls for a new president, at a speech to be given in New Hampshire

(Newser) - Mitt Romney isn't pussyfooting around: At what Politico is calling his "unofficial kickoff of his Granite State campaign," the Republican plans to lay into Obama. Romney, who will keynote the Carroll County Republican Lincoln-Reagan Day Dinner tonight, has this to say, according to his prepared remarks: "Senator...

GOP Candidates Too Loud or Too Boring

Party needs someone who's both a fighter, fixer: Jonah Goldberg

(Newser) - Tim Pawlenty took a daring step towards explosive rhetoric recently: he declared the country’s mounting debt a “pile of poo.” Try not to look too offended. “Clearly, the guy running the bleep button for the GOP primary debates isn’t worried about Tim Pawlenty,” quips...

Romney Beats Obama in NH Poll

Of course, 78% of potential GOP voters haven't entirely made up their mind

(Newser) - The 2012 presidential race is already heating up: A new poll shows that Mitt Romney is the frontrunner in New Hampshire, beating President Obama in a hypothetical race by 49% to 41%. Romney, not surprisingly, is also the leading Republican, coming out well ahead of other potential candidates. While a...

CPAC's Big Winners, Losers
 CPAC's Big Winners, Losers 
OPINION
Feb 14, 2011 7:50 AM CST

CPAC's Big Winners, Losers

Romney, Bachmann score while Paul, Santorum struggle

(Newser) - Ron Paul won the CPAC straw poll for the second year straight, but that doesn’t make him a CPAC winner. Chris Cillizza runs down his take on the winners and losers coming out of this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference for the Washington Post , and there are a...

Ron Paul Wins CPAC Straw Poll, Again

He's No. 1 for second straight year

(Newser) - Ron Paul remains the darling of CPAC. The GOP congressman won the annual straw poll at the conservative convention for the second year in a row with 30% of the vote, reports Human Events . Mitt Romney finished second at 23%, and nobody else cracked 6%. Chris Christie and former New...

Pawlenty: Nation Must Move Toward God

 Pawlenty: 
 Nation 
 Must Move 
 Toward God
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Feb 11, 2011 6:08 PM CST

Pawlenty: Nation Must Move Toward God

He also accuses Obama of appeasing the Muslim Brotherhood

(Newser) - Tim Pawlenty and Mitt Romney made their pitches to the CPAC convention, even though a Sarah Palin impersonator stole a bit of their thunder. Some highlights:
  • Pawlenty reminded the audience that the nation's motto is In God We Trust, "and we should stand on that foundation as our founders
...

GOP's Got Nobody for 2012

 GOP's Got 
 Nobody 
 for 2012 
opinion
Jan 31, 2011 11:04 AM CST

GOP's Got Nobody for 2012

Not one of the slate of hopefuls is electable, writes Chris Cillizza

(Newser) - The GOP's presidential 2012 field isn't pretty. "All—that's A-L-L—of the Republicans considering runs carry at least one major flaw," writes Chris Cillizza in the Washington Post . Mitt Romney signed a health care bill similar to President Obama’s. Mississippi governor Haley Barbour “virtually invented lobbying....

Trouble for Romney? '08 Backers Keep Quiet

Former governor has little support in Iowa, South Carolina

(Newser) - Mitt Romney may be “the nearest thing the GOP has to a frontrunner,” but the path ahead of him is looking thorny: many of the key supporters of his 2008 campaign haven’t committed to supporting him in 2012, writes Jonathan Martin in Politico . In fact, some former...

Romney Tops NH Straw Poll; Tea Partier Wins GOP Chair

Ron Paul finishes second to Romney; then Pawlenty, Palin

(Newser) - We're still nearly two years from the 2012 election, no better time to have a straw poll of a few hundred people in New Hampshire steal the political headlines. And the winner is: Mitt Romney, of course. He was supposed to win on his home turf, the only question being...

Romney Keeps His Distance From Tea Party

Analysis: He's being Mr. Mainstream, but it's a risky strategy

(Newser) - Unlike the other big-name Republicans in the conversation for 2012, Mitt Romney is keeping a careful distance from the Tea Party, writes Matt Viser in the Boston Globe . There's still plenty of time for things to change, of course, but for now he's essentially freezing out representatives of the movement...

Obama's Ambassador Eyes 2012 Run Against Him

Jon Huntsman's DC home purchase may signal potential White House run

(Newser) - Who's the moderate conservative, Mormon ex-governor making ripples in the 2012 presidential pool? Not Mitt Romney—meet Jon Huntsman, the former governor of Utah who President Obama appointed ambassador to China in 2009. The move, seen as an effort to neutralize the only potential rival who made Team Obama "...

GOP Voters Sour on Palin, Warm Up to Huckabee

Poll also shows that President Obama has no worries on the left

(Newser) - A new CNN poll shows President Obama and Sarah Palin trending in opposite directions ahead of 2012, and Mike Huckabee sitting pretty:
  • The percentage of GOP voters who'd support a Palin run for the nomination dropped to 49, down 18 points from two years ago.
  • Two-thirds say they'd back Huckabee,
...

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