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Gingrich, Santorum, Pawlenty: Presidential Campaign Season Kicks Off in Iowa
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyWAUKEE, Iowa -- Who needs declared candidates? The race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination unofficially launched at a church here Monday night when 2,000 fired-up conservatives got their first side-by-side look at five White House prospects. The potential contenders ranged from former House speaker Newt Gingrich, once behind only the vice president in the line of the succession for the presidency, to Herman Cain, an Atlanta entrepreneur and radio host who has never held office. Gov. Terry Branstad was onstage, as was conservative Christian strategist Ralph Reed. The roster ...
Is This Man Tim Pawlenty's 'Willie Horton'?
By Carla Baranauckas - Politics DailyNot long ago, Gov. Tim Pawlenty told the Christian Broadcasting Network, one of his teenage daughters asked him, "Dad are you gonna run for president?" His answer: "I don't know, Honey. I'm not sure." While he's making up his mind though, the Republican Minnesota chief executive is showing all the usual signs of presidential aspirations, including spending lots of time and money in Iowa and New Hampshire. He is also coming under the kind of scrutiny that all candidates face. Just last week, one of his actions as chairman of Minnesota's Board of Pardons had City Pages, a Twin Cities weekly ...
AOL Poll: Half Would Consider GOP Prez in 2012
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Nov. 3) -- Half of the American electorate would at least consider voting a Republican into the White House in 2012, while four in 10 say they won't and the rest are undecided, according to an AOL poll conducted as Republicans seized control of the House of Representatives. The poll also found that 50 percent of independent voters would consider voting for a Republican presidential candidate in the next U.S. election. So would nearly two in 10 -- 18.5 percent -- of registered Democrats. AOL surveyed 1,065 registered voters on Nov. 1, the day before Americans went to the polls and voted a ...
Gov. Tim Pawlenty to Accept Medicaid Money, but not Funds for 'Obamacare'
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe same week Tim Pawlenty signed an executive order preventing Minnesota from accepting grant money available under the new health care law, the governor said he would accept $263 million in federal funding for state's Medicaid program. Despite earlier describing the Medicaid money as a "bailout" of the states, Pawlenty said Wednesday that he would take the funds because it is "not Obamacare" and won't "further some stupid policy agenda," ThinkProgress reported. In an interview with the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, the governor said, "We're going to take the money for those things that we ...
Mitt Romney vs. Tim Pawlenty on Healthcare: 2012 Campaign Begins?
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyMitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty are both publicly criticizing the healthcare reforms from President Obama and the Democrats currently being debated in Congress. At the same time, the two Republicans are jabbing at each other on an alternate approach to healthcare issues, seemingly establishing their differences in advance of 2012 campaigns for the White House. ...
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