Top Iowa Mormon shuns Romney to stump with Santorum
ORANGE CITY, Iowa — As GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum spent Sunday stumping in northwestern Iowa, it was he — and not rival Mitt Romney — who had Mormon Secretary of State Matt Schultz at his...
View ArticleSantorum vows end to blaming Obama once in White House
Rick Santorum said Monday that if he wins the presidency he will not blame his predecessor but will take responsibility for the country from the first day - contrasting himself with President Obama,...
View ArticleObama, Congress begin 2012 in oil pipeline dispute
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and Congress are starting the election year locked in a tussle over a proposed 1,700-mile oil pipeline from Canada to Texas that will force the White House to make a...
View ArticleHURT: Romney just another latter-day John Kerry
ANALYSIS/OPINION: DES MOINES, Iowa — The bumper sticker in 2004 read: "Dated Dean, Married Kerry." It was a cocky slogan Democrats eagerly slapped on their Subarus, confident in their knowledge that...
View ArticlePaul sticking to his principles despite newfound attention
DES MOINES, Iowa — While Ron Paul is now running among the big dogs after placing fifth in the last Iowa caucuses, he's delivering stump speeches virtually identical to those he gave four years ago....
View ArticleBachmann defies poll forecasts
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — If Michele Bachmann's campaign is running on fumes, as the polls seem to suggest, you'd never know it from the crowd of supporters and journalists that filled four shops in West...
View ArticleA plea to ease challenges of EPA orders
Mike Sackett remembers what he thought when he saw the eye-popping fines of more than $30,000 a day that the Environmental Protection Agency was threatening to impose on him over a piece of Idaho...
View ArticleSports figures choose sides in '12 vote
The New York Giants and New York Jets share an NFL stadium, but their owners don't share political views. Woody Johnson of the Jets is a top fundraiser for Republican presidential candidate Mitt...
View ArticleAs Iowans prepare to vote, doubts linger about Republican field
Doubts persist among Republican Party professionals about the quality of this year's presidential field and the ability of the leading candidates to defeat an unpopular Democratic president struggling...
View ArticleIn Iowa, 40 years at starting line of presidential race
CLIVE, Iowa — Iowa is whiter, more rural and older than much of the rest of the U.S., but the small, middle-America state has gone to extraordinary lengths to keep a firm hold on its special claim as...
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WHITE HOUSE Obama ends vacation, prepares to campaign HONOLULU — With an eye on his re-election campaign, President Obama wrapped up a low-key Hawaiian vacation and planned to get back in front of...
View ArticleGOP candidates vie for voters' trust in fluid Iowa
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — In the kickoff contest of the 2012 presidential race, Republican candidates argued up to Tuesday's finish line in Iowa over which candidate is a conservative that voters can...
View ArticleGOP candidates try to impress Des Moines teens
DES MOINES, Iowa — A Des Moines high school was alive with presidential-campaign energy Tuesday morning, when Republican hopefuls Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul and four of Mitt Romney's...
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CAMPAIGN Club targets Republican congressional candidates Club for Growth's political arms on Tuesday launched a media attack against three moderate Republican congressional candidates in battleground...
View ArticleInside the Beltway
ELECTION DREAD The arrival of Election Year 2012 has triggered a Pavlovian response of drooling and whining among journalists. Faced with another 10 months of shrill news coverage and campaign...
View ArticleCuccinelli attests he can defend ballot law he wanted changed
The office of Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II insisted Tuesday that the Virginia attorney general does not have a conflict of interest in a high-profile lawsuit over the state's ballot-access law despite his...
View ArticleGingrich: Romney lies by denying role in attack ads
MANCHESTER, N.H. — After being pummeled by GOP rivals on the airwaves in Iowa, Newt Gingrich ditched his "high road" campaign Tuesday, calling Mitt Romney a liar as the presidential contest shifted to...
View ArticleIndiana House speaker to push for ban on union dues
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana's House speaker Tuesday promised swift action to make his state the first in more than a decade to ban labor contracts that require employees to pay union fees. Speaker Brian...
View ArticleObama appeals to Iowa Democrats on caucus night
Inserting his voice into a big night for Republicans, President Obama was appealing to Iowa Democrats during the first balloting in the GOP presidential campaign, seeking to counter months of withering...
View ArticleDrug dog case nips at justices' heels
MIAMI - The super-sensitive nose of Franky the drug dog is at the heart of a question that has now reached the doorstep of the U.S. Supreme Court: Does a police K-9's sniff outside a house give...
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