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Belleville News-Democrat
| 1 year ago
More than 325 people are waiting for Mitt Romney to appear at a "town hall meeting" in the Gateway Center. Romney, the Republican presidential front-runner, was schedueld to make a campaign stop at 6:10 p.m...Romney is blitzing Illinois in the...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
As Santorum closed out his rally Friday night, he sounded as if he were looking for a political miracle...Why is a state like Illinois so potentially difficult for Santorum? He once led the polls in both Michigan and Ohio, two other Midwestern...
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The New York Times
| 1 year ago
Rick Santorum lost his Senate seat in a landslide in 2006, but the positions he held during that race have helped rebrand him as the face of conservatism in 2012. There is not much evidence that gas prices deserve an outsize reputation for holding...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Rick Santorum would not get a big boost if Newt Gingrich were to depart from the U.S...Gallup said Friday voters who support Gingrich are as likely to say they support Mitt Romney as Santorum, as a second choice for the Republican nomination.
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The Hutchinson News
| 1 year ago
Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, and Paul signs outside the Shepard residence show it. Paul's central theme is that government has grown too large and too powerful. Hutchinson city codes say those signs have to go, and city staff planned Friday to send...
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KION
| 1 year ago
Ron Paul is likely to be the last name to appear on the Republican Presidential Primary ballot in California. That's based on the California Secretary of State's randomized alphabet drawing. Some political consultants claim the higher your name...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
Enough to taunt them about Tuesday's GOP primary. "You might have noticed that we have some guests in Illinois this week," Obama said during a fundraiser today in Chicago. "Apparently, they haven't quite wrapped up things on the other side," the...
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Kuwait Times
| 1 year ago
Republican White House hopefuls will yesterday set their sights on President Barack Obama's home state of Illinois, hoping to gain momentum and become the party's standard bearer in the general election. Former senator Rick Santorum is aiming to win...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
If past is prologue, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney should win the Illinois presidential primary on Tuesday...Romney has outspent Santorum in every single caucus and primary. And money hasn't equaled certain success for Romney in lots of...
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Arab News
| 1 year ago
Vice President Joe Biden has made an aggressive entry into the 2012 election campaign, labeling Republican candidates seeking the White House as protectors of the privileged and casting President Barack Obama as an advocate for the middle class.
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Star Tribune
| 1 year ago
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says there's probably no circumstance that would lead him to pull out of the Republican presidential sweepstakes before the party's August nominating convention. "I'll be with you in Tampa," Gingrich tells CBS's "...
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The Statesman Journal
| 1 year ago
Republican presidential candidates will not appear together in Portland for a nationally broadcast debate, which had been scheduled for Monday and would have been a first in Oregon for decades. Allen Alley, the Oregon Republican Party chairman, said...
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Truthdig
| 1 year ago
Sorry to inflict a flurry of numbers, but here goes: To win the nomination, a candidate needs the support of 1,144 convention delegates. According to projections from The Associated Press, at this point Romney has 481 delegates; Santorum has 252;...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
GOP presidential rival Ron Paul have discussed a deal for Romney to get support from Paul convention delegates. Amid reports that the two campaigns have talked about Paul releasing his delegates to Romney in exchange for considerations -- possibly...
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The Washington Times
| 1 year ago
Before the votes were counted in Mississippi and Alabama on Tuesday, the former House speaker had come up with a whole new rationale for his candidacy. The candidate who after South Carolina suggested that Rick Santorum needed to get out because he...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
With all the focus in the Republican presidential race on former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney 's struggles with conservatives, we got to wondering about the other end of the ideological spectrum within the Republican party. Put simply: How many...
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Virginian-Pilot Online
| 1 year ago
Republican candidate Ron Paul refused Thursday to commit to backing Mitt Romney if Romney becomes the party's nominee for president. An anti-war candidate, Paul said he'd need more information about Romney's foreign policy to make that decision. "I'd...
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Miami Herald
| 1 year ago
Republican candidate Ron Paul refused Thursday to commit to backing Mitt Romney if Romney becomes the party's nominee for president...Sen. Richard Lugar can't vote at the Indianapolis home he sold in 1977 but can register elsewhere in the county.
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Arizona Republic
| 1 year ago
Republican candidate Ron Paul says he's noncommittal about backing Mitt Romney if Romney becomes the party's presidential nominee. The Texas congressman says Romney is a friend but that they'd have to talk about the kind of foreign policy Romney...
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FameBall.com
| 1 year ago
Ronald Ernest Paul, M.D. (born August 20, 1935 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American physician and Republican Congressman for the state of Texas. Paul is a member of the Liberty Caucus of Republican congressmen which aims to limit the size and...
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Kuwait Times
| 1 year ago
Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, speaks to an audience at a town hall meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico Wednesday. Republican front-runner Mitt Romney has repeatedly failed to win over the party's conservative...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
But in the 2012 Republican presidential primary, it's the most important state on the calendar. Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign stop at William Jewell College on Tuesday, in Liberty,...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 1 year ago
He hasn't won a single state primary or caucus, yet Ron Paul soldiers on in the GOP presidential race. He is quietly amassing delegates to the GOP national convention, but his real aim is to infuse the party with his brand of Republicanism...Paul,...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
I understand he's going back for two more days of fundraising on Wall Street, which is in part at least a sign that Santorum and I have drained most of his current treasury. -- Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich campaigning in Rosemont, Ill. The...
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CNN
| 1 year ago
The polls and the campaign dialogue aren't much help in assessing the Mormon factor in the Alabama and Mississippi primaries. The distinct feeling on the ground was that it had an impact, leading many evangelical Christians to reject pragmatic...
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Parsippany LIfe
| 1 year ago
CNN interview Tuesday that Rick Santorum was at the "desperate end of his campaign." A few hours later, Santorum won Republican primaries in Alabama and Mississippi and Romney finished third. We don't really know and Romney probably doesn't know...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 1 year ago
Wednesday, Mar. 14, 2012 A day after a series of primaries failed to significantly change the Republican presidential race, North Carolina appeared poised to play a meaningful role in the contest for the first time since 1976. Tuesdays mixed results...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
This is a Republican city in Republican Livingston County, where Barack Obama won just 40% of the vote in 2008, despite carrying his adopted home state with 62% overall. In advance of Tuesday's Illinois primary, some voters here are skeptical of...
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The Birmingham News
| 1 year ago
AL/38312/75663/en/summary.html The numbers I'm talking about are here. There is a coordinated effort to deny Ron Paul any chance at victory. Major election fraud in Iowa (the Iowa GOP chair went as far as to say that he would not allow a Paul victory)...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
Newt Gingrich was under renewed pressure to drop out of the race for Republican nomination yesterday [Wednesday] and back Rick Santorum after the former Pennsylvania senator claimed a double victory in the Deep South. The former House Speaker was...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney released a statement rather than make a speech after losing to Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich in the Alabama and Mississippi GOP primaries. Romney aides told The New York Times the former Massachusetts governor was now unlikely to reach...
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CNN
| 1 year ago
If Newt Gingrich can't win Alabama and Mississippi, where can he win? The former House speaker fell short in the heart of Dixie on Tuesday, and it's not clear where he goes from here. Approaching the halfway mark of the primary season, Gingrich has...
