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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!If Sarah Palin is seriously considering a run for president in 2012, the latest poll on her standing among Republican candidates contains the same kind of bad news that could be found in earlier surveys.
Even Huckabee's and Bachmann's top scores weren't very high, according to Gallup who made the calculation. The poll shows that the potential candidates with high name recognition still need to translate that into voter intensity.
Here are the lyrics from every parody performed this weekend at the Gridiron dinner by nearly 100 journalists and a handful of vocally-blessed ringers with truly great voices.
Staying out of the race (in an official sense) keeps Romney out of the line of fire. It also allows him to maintain his distance from Republican looniness.
In every presidential election until now, there was a clear front-runner at this stage of the campaign and that front-runner, in most but not all cases, won the nomination.
Nearly half of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say they watch Fox News two or more times a week, making it a prime audience for GOP presidential hopefuls to show their stuff.
The Republican hopeful also fares well in a match-up against President Obama. But can he beat the rest of the GOP field?
'Newt's like Palin,' said one GOP insider. 'Everybody loves listening to him. But they won't vote for him.'
The Mississippi governor laid down political and policy markers this week while potential presidential primary rivals dithered, misspoke or held private meetings.
Polls show Americans favor compromise on issues ranging from federal spending to gay marriage. But as the 2012 election heats up, expect hard-line partisans to drown out the voices of their more reasonable neighbors.
The former Arkansas governor said the news media chose to sensationalize his 'simple slip of the tongue.' He meant to say Obama grew up in Indonesia, Huckabee explained Wednesday.
Questioned by a conservative talk-show host, Huckabee said he would "love to know more" about the president's background, but "what I know is troubling enough."
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