Florida Primary Results: Mitt Romney Routs Field, Back in Control of …
The Hollywoo
Get the latest breaking Florida Primary results and news right here. We'll be updating this page with highlights of all of POLITICO's Florida Primary coverage. Check out the live blog below for the latest developments out of Florida. Mitt Romney rolled to victory in the Florida Republican primary Tuesday, establishing himself as a clear frontrunner [...]
Read MoreAllen West Tells Obama, Democrats 'Get The Hell Out of the United States' [Video]
Long Island
California attorney Orly Taitz, matriarch of the birther movement, is hoping to bring aboard a congressional ally to her cause to prove the frequently rejected theory that President Barack Obama was not born in the United Allen West who just so happens to be up for re-election in what Luntz suggested would be a tough [...]
Read MoreWoodstock gets set for Groundhog Day events (with schedule)
Northwest He
Relations between city's leader and its premier prognosticator have been cordial but wary since a notorious 2009 encounter — in which each played a bit part. The first day of February on Wednesday is expected to be more of the same with a high of 42 and more sun than clouds, Olson said. Groundhog Day [...]
Read MoreAmerican Securitization Forum 2012: Groundhog Day Year 3
Business Ins
The event marks Dover Township Groundhog Day on which Dover Doug, actually a person in a beaver costume, will appear to deliver his prognostication — his poem about issues and events from 2011 — and give his winter-to-spring season predictions. The event marks Dover Township Groundhog Day on which Dover Doug, actually a person in [...]
Read MoreIn Florida primary, Romney and Gingrich's temperaments likely to be deciding …
Washington P
Today, Univision/ABC/Latino Decisions released a national survey of Latinos, with a larger sample of Florida Latinos. But the poll has a clear flaw in how primary voters are defined. In what was being billed as "the first major Hispanic event in the 2012 election," Univision anchor Jorge Ramos held separate one-on-one discussions Wednesday with Newt [...]
Read MoreRomney, Gingrich eye Hispanic voters in Florida's primary
Toronto Star
The battle for the Republican nomination has moved to Florida this week, which also happens to be a key battleground in an entirely different fight: the $15bn federally-waged war on drugs. Passed in July of last year, a controversial law requires the Republicans focused on House and Senate races are growing anxious that former Speaker [...]
Read MoreRepublican debate: How to beat Newt Gingrich
Washington P
Meanwhile, Gingrich and his roiling campaign seem about to do something that no consultant, TV ad or speech has been able to do until now: make Mitt Romney look like a reassuring, or at least acceptable, Republican standard-bearer. The hits keep coming from the contentious race for the 2012 Republican nomination but, tonight, the candidates [...]
Read MoreRepublican debate: Three keys to watch
CBS News
By Pat Cunningham It's a safe bet that one or more, perhaps all, of the four remaining candidates for the Republican presidential nomination will invoke the name of Ronald Reagan at tonight's first debate in Florida. In the 16 major GOP debates so far, Re-Re-Translate Of The Republican Debate. January 23, 2012. Posted by Geoff [...]
Read MoreGabrielle Giffords will resign to focus on her recovery
CNN
Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) announced in a video message that she is stepping down from Congress this week. (Jan. 22) (/Courtesy of the office of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords) Correction: Clarification: SuperFan badge holders consistently post WASHINGTON — A little more than a year after a gunman opened fire at a market where Rep. Gabby Giffords was [...]
Read MoreHow Newt Gingrich can win the GOP nomination
CBS News
ORANGEBURG, SC – – Newt Gingrich trundles into the meeting hall – – a former X-rated movie theater – – to rapturous applause. He is not the best-looking guy in Republican race or the best-funded or the most ideologically pure. By THOMAS BEAUMONT AP Columbia, SC » To say Newt Gingrich capped an extraordinary comeback [...]
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