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The 2012 Republican Presidential field is still yet to be known. Speculation over candidates pours into the media every day. The truth is, though, that many Republican hopefuls are not taking the fight straight to Obama. Most Republican hopefuls have either setup exploratory committees, or are still deciding whether or not to throw their hat into the ring. However, it seems columnists and those in the media like to write off certain Republican candidates as not running for the Oval office. Unfortunately, we do not know the truth until they announce their decision. So, instead of speculating whose running and...

2012 Republican Presidential Candidates Latest Polls Gallup PPP CNN NBC/WSJ Donald Trump 16% 26% 19% 17% Mike Huckabee 16% 17% 19% 17% Mitt Romney 13% 15% 11% 21% Sarah Palin 10% 8% 12% 10% Newt Gingrich 6% 11% 11% 11% Ron Paul 6% 5% 7% Michele Bachmann 4% 5% 5% Tim Pawlenty 3% 4% 2% 6% Mitch Daniels 3% 3% Rick Santorum 2% 2% 3% Haley Barbour 2% 1% Jon Hunstman 1% Herman Cain Chris Christie Gary Johnson

As Democrats frantically tried to cobble together votes to pass their sweeping health care reform legislation Saturday, House Republicans began a victory lap of sorts. First, in a meeting of the House Republican Conference, the GOP’s leadership rallied the troops with flourishing rhetoric about regaining the majority in the fall. “I don’t know, quite frankly, whether victory will come on the third Sunday in March or on the first Tuesday in November, but victory will come,” House Republican Conference leader Mike Pence of Indiana told Republicans Saturday afternoon. And when they emerged from the room to speak to the media...

MANISTEE, Mich./WACO, Texas/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Some Tea Partiers say they can pinpoint the precise moment when they made it clear to the Republican Party they had no intention of being its lapdog. On a bright, brisk afternoon in mid-February, with snow still thick on the ground from storms that had battered Washington the week before, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele met with more than 50 members of the Tea Party, the Twitter Age conservative movement that is reshaping the U.S. political landscape. Steele, RNC chairman since January 2009, had invited them to the plush Capitol Hill Club, built as...