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by Paul Conner on March 9, 2012 at 10:52 pm

Romney claims all nine nonbinding delegates in Guam caucuses

Mitt Romney followed up his six wins on Super Tuesday by claiming all nine nonbinding delegates in the Guam caucuses, despite having not campaigned there.

“I am grateful to have won all nine delegates in Guam, and I am pleased that my son Matt was able to visit the island on my behalf and be there for the caucuses,” the former Massachusetts governor said in a statement Friday evening. (RELATED: Full coverage of the Romney campaign)

Guam is a U.S. territory to the southwest of the Northern Marianas Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The Northern Marianas, Virgin Islands and the state of Kansas hold caucuses Saturday..

The Associated Press now shows Romney with 431 delegates, Rick Santorum with 131, Newt Gingrich with 107 and Ron Paul with 46. 1,144 delegates are needed to win the Republican nomination.

“The people of Guam have always stood bravely for America and the values we hold dear,” Romney remarked. “Today we stand together in our efforts to secure the future that this nation deserves. I am honored to have won the More »

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by Bedford on February 28, 2012 at 9:06 pm

Romney carries Arizona

Former  Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney handily won Arizona’s Republican primary contest on Tuesday night. The winner-takes-all primary means that Romney will gain 29 delegates.

At 10:32 p.m, with 52 percent of the votes counted, Romney held the lead with 48 percent of the vote, placing him 23 points ahead of the runner-up, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum.

In the lead up to the primary contest, polls indicated that Romney would win the state.

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by admin on February 27, 2012 at 3:15 pm

Consultant: Bob Kerrey reconsidering US Senate run

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey is reconsidering his decision not to run for Nebraska’s open U.S. Senate seat this year, a Democratic campaign consultant who has worked with Kerrey said Monday.

The news came weeks after Kerrey, a 1992 Democratic presidential candidate and former one-term Nebraska governor, initially rejected running after weeks of speculation. Paul Johnson, who served as campaign manager for Nelson and Kerrey, said Kerrey told him Monday morning that he was again considering running for the seat now held by outgoing Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson.

Kerrey’s decision to reconsider his options could put the seat back into play for Democrats who had considered him the party’s best hope of retaining the seat as Republicans work to net the four seats they need this November to take control of the Senate.

But Kerrey also has a history of considering campaigns that he never enters. He did so in 2000, when he considered another run for president, as well as in 2005, when he toyed with running for New York City mayor. In More »

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by Will Rahn on February 21, 2012 at 6:04 pm

Romney: Spending cuts alone would hurt growth

Echoing arguments made by Obama administration officials in recent weeks, former GOP front-runner Mitt Romney said Tuesday that cutting government spending would hurt the economy.

In response to a question about the Simpson-Bowles deficit plan, Romney said that simply cutting spending would actually wind up slowing economic growth unless it is paired with tax reform. (RELATED: Full coverage of the Romney campaign)

“If you just cut, if all you’re thinking about doing is cutting spending, as you cut spending you’ll slow down the economy,” he said at one point, according to NBC News. “So you have to, at the same time, create pro-growth tax policies.”

Fiscal conservatives were quick to jump on Romney’s comments and deride his knowledge of economics.

“It’s hogwash,” Club for Growth Vice President Andy Roth told NBC. “It confirms yet again that Romney is not a limited government conservative.”

“The idea that balancing the budget would not help the economy is crazy. If we balanced the budget tomorrow on spending cuts alone, it would be fantastic for the economy,” he continued.

Romney spokesman Ryan More »

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by Alexis Levinson on February 16, 2012 at 1:09 pm

Santorum has 18-point lead over Romney in Ohio

Rick Santorum is smoking Mitt Romney in a Rasmussen poll of Ohio Republican voters released on Thursday.

Santorum gets 42 percent in the swing state, a crucial one in the general election, while Romney sits 18 points behind at 24 percent. Newt Gingrich is in third at 13 percent and Ron Paul is at 10 percent.

If the field were to narrow to just Romney and Santorum, Santorum would flatten Romney 58 percent to 30 percent. (RELATED: With Santorum surging, Romney faces crucial test in Michigan primary)

Romney is not unpopular in the state, but Santorum is more popular, and his supporters feel more strongly toward him. Sixty-four percent of Ohio Republicans say they hold a favorable opinion of Romney, and just 33 percent say they have an unfavorable opinion. However, just 14 percent of those supporters feel very favorably toward them, and 50 percent just feel somewhat favorable. Santorum has a 75-19 favorability rating, but 38 percent of those who favor him feel strongly favorable.

Nonetheless, Romney is still the expected victor in the primary process, with More »

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by Alexis Levinson on February 15, 2012 at 4:38 pm

Romney leads Arizona, Santorum surges to close second

Rick Santorum is giving Mitt Romney a headache in the next two primary states, having taken the lead in Romney’s old hometown of Michigan, and closing in on him in a new Arizona poll released Wednesday.

The poll, conducted by American Research Group, found Romney leading in Arizona with 38 percent, and Santorum close behind at 31 percent. Newt Gingrich has fallen to a distant third with 15 percent, and Ron Paul has 11 percent. (RELATED: Full coverage of the 2012 elections)

The results are drastically different from a poll conducted just two weeks ago, at the end of January, when Romney was tied with Gingrich at 32 percent, and Santorum was at 10 percent, in fourth place behind Ron Paul.

Though Romney leads, Santorum appears to have the greater momentum coming out of his triple-win in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri last week. CNN reported that Santorum will begin running ads in Arizona Thursday.

In Michigan, Santorum leads in the polls, despite the fact that Romney’s father is a popular former More »

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by Steven Nelson on February 7, 2012 at 4:27 pm

Poll: Ron Paul surges to second place nationally, just eight points behind Romney

A surprising national poll released Tuesday found Texas Rep. Ron Paul surging to second place in the GOP presidential field, coming within eight percentage points of front-runner Mitt Romney.

The Reuters/Ipsos poll results show Paul at 21 percent nationally, with Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, at 29 percent.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich scored 19 percent support in the poll, conducted Feb. 2–6, while former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum took 18 percent.

Although national polls are largely insignificant in a primary season where individual states are of crucial importance, they do indicate trends in voter preferences.

Reuters/Ipsos found that despite big wins by Romney in Florida and Nevada, his popularity actually declined since early January. Meanwhile, Paul’s support grew by five percent.

Romney “still hasn’t really convinced all the Republicans across the country that he’s the guy to get behind,” said Ipsos research director Chris Jackson in a statement.

Gingrich’s support slipped slightly, while Santorum’s support also grew by five percentage points since early January. (RELATED: Full coverage of Ron Paul’s campaign)

Paul’s campaign seized on the poll results More »

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by Rosella Age on February 7, 2012 at 4:08 pm

Santorum gains ground among non-Romney GOP faithful

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum‘s presidential campaign is seeing a significant resurgence in the polls for the first time since his Iowa caucus win in early January.

Seeking a late rise in the race for the Republican nomination, Santorum has focused his efforts in Minnesota and Colorado during the past two weeks, and is polling above GOP front-runner Mitt Romney in two of the three presidential contests today. (RELATED: Full coverage of the Republican primary)

In Colorado, Santorum trails Romney by 10 points, but leads him 45–32 in Missouri and 33–24 in Minnesota.

PPP Polling analyst Tom Jensen told the New York Daily News that Santorum is becoming the primary alternative to Romney among right-leaning Republican voters.

Santorum’s key supporters are mainly tea partiers, evangelicals, and voters who consider themselves “very conservative,” according to Jensen.

“While Romney and Gingrich have hammered each other in recent weeks,” he explained, “Santorum’s been largely left alone and he’s benefiting from that now.”

GOP rival Newt Gingrich, whose name will not appear on the Missouri ballot, admits that Santorum will do well in More »

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by Alexis Levinson on February 6, 2012 at 1:36 pm

Santorum hits back against Pawlenty, Romney — revives ‘Obamneycare’ attack

After former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty bashed Rick Santorum’s record Monday on behalf of Mitt Romney, the Santorum campaign went after both men, reviving Pawlenty’s “Obamneycare” attack on Romney from July.

Pawlenty held a conference call on Monday to attack Santorum, saying he supported pork-barrel legislation and earmarking during his time in Congress.

The Romney campaign is going after the former Pennsylvania senator following a poll that shows him edging Romney in Minnesota, which holds its contest Tuesday. Santorum is also expected to be a contender in the non-binding Missouri primary that same day.

A Santorum press release following the call labeled Romney “Proud defender and author of ‘Obamneycare,’” a term coined by Pawlenty himself when he was a presidential contender and meant to suggest that Romneycare and Obamacare were one and the same.

“As Governor Tim Pawlenty so aptly said, RomneyCare should be called ObamneyCare,” wrote Hogan Gidley, national communications director for the Santorum campaign, in the press release. “Everyone knows that Governor Romney’s top-down, government-run, mandated health insurance plan was the basis of ObamaCare.”

“Oddly enough, the More »

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by Paul Conner on February 3, 2012 at 3:46 pm

Roemer eligible to receive federal campaign funds

Former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer became eligible Thursday to receive taxpayer money for his campaign, the Federal Election Commission announced Friday.

Roemer, a long-shot candidate seeking the Republican nomination, became the first of the 2012 field to qualify for federal matching funds by meeting a series of requirements set out by the FEC.

From the start of his campaign, the former governor vowed not to accept help from “super PAC” contributions, or from big-money donors. He believes the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision opened a flood-gate of improper influence of corporations and wealthy political activists.

“Both parties spend the majority of their time raising money — up to 70%. This is not the republic our framers intended,” he tweeted upon hearing the news from the FEC.

He became eligible by raising $5,000 in 20 states from donations of $250 or less from individuals, agreeing to spending limits, using taxpayer money for “legitimate campaign-related expenses,” keeping financial records and allowing the FEC to audit his campaign.

By qualifying, the Roemer campaign may receive matching funds from the U.S. Treasury More »

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