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    Mitt Romney

    Published: 02/4/10

    Republican Cash Flow Provides Clues for 2012 Presidential Field

    By  David Sessions

    The race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination began quietly last year, Politico reports, with political committees for most of the presumed hopefuls spending thousands of dollars on policy advice and strategy planning. Sarah Palin's committee spent nearly $50,000 in the second half of ...

     29 
    Published: 01/21/10

    Obama Again in 2012? Mixed Results

    By  Bruce Drake

    Polls about who voters would choose if the 2012 presidential elections were held today may be fun to read for political enthusiasts, but they really don't tell us much because they are mostly a reflection about how people feel about President Obama right now, and many of these surveys test him ...

     464 
    Published: 12/30/09

    The Top 15 Winners and Losers of 2009

    By  Carl M. Cannon
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    WINNERS LOSERS 1. Barack Obama: Inaugurated as the first African- American president in U.S. history, he inherited two wars, the Great Recession, a Democratic Congress with a pent-up agenda, a liberal base with a litany of unrealistic demands, and a hostile Republican Party ...

     282 
    Published: 12/13/09

    Officials Say Jobs Will Grow Next Year, but It Will Be a Long Road Back

    By  Bruce Drake

    Top Obama administration economic officials, as well as former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, expressed confidence today that job growth will resume next year, but they cautioned that it will take time until the unemployment rate returns to its pre-recession levels. ...

     117 
    Published: 11/30/09

    Republicans United Against Obama but Unsure About Their Own Leaders

    By  Bruce Drake

    While Republicans are strongly united -- and many of them angry -- in opposition to President Obama's policies, their view of their own party is far from strong, with just 49 percent believing GOP leaders are taking it in the right direction while 42 percent say they are not, according to a ...

     20 
    Published: 11/22/09

    The Book Tour May Be the New Campaign Trail

    By  Bruce Drake

    The Chicago Tribune takes a look at a new variation on the campaign trail - transforming the traditional author's book tour into a vehicle for laying the foundations of a campaign for the White House. ...

     27 
    Published: 11/20/09

    Obama Still Leads Potential GOP Challengers for 2012

    By  Bruce Drake

    His job approval numbers may be facing a rocky stretch, but President Obama still leads all the possible Republican challengers for 2012 that Public Policy Polling tested in a survey conducted Nov. 13-15. ...

     24 
    Published: 11/16/09

    How Palin Could Win the 2012 GOP Nomination

    By  Walter Shapiro
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    Undoubtedly at this very moment, two saffron-robed monks in a monastery north of Katmandu are earnestly discussing Sarah Palin's presidential prospects. In the favelas of Rio, the normally fierce arguments about the World Cup and the 2016 Olympics are surely taking a back seat to high-decibel ...

     446 
    Published: 11/5/09

    Handicapping the Race for the 2012 GOP Presidential Nomination

    By  Bruce Drake

    Mike Huckabee leads the GOP pack for the party's presidential nomination in 2012 when Republicans were asked who they would "seriously consider," with 71 percent, according to a USA Today/Gallup poll conducted Oct. 31-Nov. 1. ...

     13 
    Published: 10/28/09

    7 in 10 Say Palin Not Qualified to Be President

    By  Bruce Drake

    Fifty-six percent of Americans thinks Sarah Palin cares about people like them, something which many Republican presidential candidates have not shared, but 71 percent don't think she's qualified to sit in the Oval Office, according to a CNN/Opinion Research poll conducted Oct. 16-18. Republicans ...

     319 

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