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And doing it the right way means that all those who are currently working in the United States illegally and who wish to apply for the worker visa program must return to their home country and apply. Application for the worker visa program should not be permitted in the United States under any circumstances.Anything less than requiring people who are working here illegally to return home to apply for a worker visa is amnesty. There are several reasons why amnesty would be a disaster for the United States and migrants and why those who are working here illegally but who...

Results from Democratic firm Public Policy Polling poll of Florida GOP primary voters: Newt Gingrich (47 percent), Mitt Romney (17 percent), Herman Cain (15 percent), Ron Paul (5 percent), Michele Bachmann (4 percent), Jon Huntsman (3 percent), Rick Perry (2 percent), and Rick Santorum (1 percent).

Fresh Rasmussen (national) poll now has Newt ahead of not just Mittens but Obama in a a 2012 matchup... so can we put-to-bed the tiresome Romney-the-Electable speil for good now? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Newt Gingrich surge has moved him to the top of the polls in Iowa, big gains in New Hampshire and now a two-point edge over President Obama in a hypothetical general election match-up. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Voters finds Gingrich attracting 45% of the vote while President Obama earns support from 43%. Six percent (6%) prefer some other candidate, and six percent...

There is a new front runner in the Republican nomination for president, one who has frankly not been recognized as a front runner, given the nature of the media and the reporting on the contrast. That front runner is Newt Gingrich, who in the new Iowa Insider Advantage poll has a 15% lead over Mitt Romney. That lead, which is well beyond the margin of error, suggests that he is now in a commanding position in Iowa, which could well lead to a victory of the size and scope that Mike Huckabee won four years ago. But beyond that, Gingrich...

As Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has climbed to the top of the polls, the former House speaker has repeatedly stated that the money he earned doing business with the health care industry and controversial clients like Freddie Mac never came from lobbying. But an in-depth look at Gingrich's business practices from the New York Times illustrates how Washington insiders can use their clout to exert influence on behalf of corporate interests, even if they're not officially a "lobbyist."

Mr. Speaker, Well done! You have risen beyond relevancy to serious competiveness by your grip, erudition and intelligence. You have come back from the political equivalent of Hospice care to become a serious contender for the Republican nomination for president. You’re obviously extremely bright, knowledgeable, experienced on the issues and fully able to go toe-to-toe with the formidable campaigner President Obama has amply demonstrated that he is. By the way, your idea of a series of Lincoln-Douglas style debates between you and the president if you are the nominee is a great idea. Those debates would do much to clarify...

Newt Gingrich leads Mitt Romney by more than 20 points in the important early-voting state of Florida, according to a new Insider Advantage poll. Gingrich has 41 percent support while Romney has 17 percent. Businessman Herman Cain, who is fading in the wake of allegations of sexual harassment and infidelity, sits in third place with 13 percent. Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry has 7 percent, Texas Rep. Ron Paul has 4 percent, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann has 3 percent, and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum rounds out the field with 1 percent....

Newt Gingrich is the current favorite in Florida’s Jan. 31 Republican presidential primary, picking up supporters who fled Herman Cain to claim 41 percent in a poll conducted Tuesday night for the Florida Times-Union. Gingrich has as much support as the next four candidates combined in the telephone survey of 513 registered voters who say they’re likely to cast ballots in the primary. The poll, conducted by InsiderAdvantage/Majority Opinion Research, has a margin of error of 4 percent.

He is the king of flip-flops, the emperor of hypocrisy, the czar of opinions a mile wide and an inch deep. Mitt Romney? Not by a long shot -- because when it comes to core values, conservative or otherwise, Romney tips the top of the belief-o-meter compared with Newt Gingrich. And it is a lesson conservatives should learn now, before the actual primary voting begins. For the Tea Party, for evangelicals, for the ordinary Joe and Jane who believe in American exceptionalism and hard work and God, for the like-minded concerned with the path of the Republic -- no Newt...

Charleston, S.C. — Newt Gingrich wowed hundreds of conservative voters in this sleepy coastal town on Monday, all of whom braved the rain to attend a town-hall meeting with the latest Republican frontrunner. “We will be back, we will rebuild the country we love,” Gingrich said near the end of his hour-long presentation. “You ain’t seen nothing yet.” Gingrich’s visit to Sottile Theatre at the College of Charleston kicked off the former House speaker’s three-day campaign swing through the Palmetto State, a key GOP battleground. It was also his first public appearance since the Manchester Union-Leader, a leading Granite State...

There are, for example, gaping holes in Gingrich's conservative credentials. As the American Spectator's David Catron pointed out Monday, Gingrich has long been a fan of Dr. Donald Berwick. Berwick just resigned as President Obama's director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which oversees Obamacare. Obama put Berwick there because of his professed love for Britain's socialized medicine. Berwick's views are so radical that not even a Democratic Senate would confirm him, yet Gingrich wrote this in a Washington Post op-ed published in 2000: "Don Berwick at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement has worked for years to spread...

PRINCETON, NJ -- Newt Gingrich's most recent Positive Intensity Score of 20 in Gallup tracking conducted Nov. 14-27 is the highest of any Republican candidate, while Mitt Romney's current score of 9 is his lowest of the year by one percentage point. Gingrich and Romney are essentially tied as the front-runners on Gallup's latest trial-heat ballot measure, but their Positive Intensity Scores this year have followed substantially different patterns. Romney's highest Positive Intensity Score this year is 20, measured in March, but he has been at or below 16 since late July. Romney's score of 9 for the two-week period...

Two New Hampshire state representatives who were backing Herman Cain for president have decided to pull their support from Cain in the wake of claims that he was involved in an extended extramarital affair. As WMUR first reported, state Reps. William Panek and Sam Cataldo will now back Newt Gingrich for president. Panek told CBS News he had been on the fence concerning his support for Cain for the last couple weeks because of Cain's political rhetoric, and that the allegations of the longtime affair was the last straw. CBS News could not immediately reach Cataldo, but the Gingrich campaign...

Newt Gingrich empathized with opponent Herman Cain, telling CBS News' Nancy Cordes in South Carolina Tuesday allegations of sexual harassment and an extra-marital affair do not disqualify him as a candidate. See more of this interview on the "CBS Evening News." CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE VIDEO Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7389949n#ixzz1f8HNkJAg

When I post things like this, folks here seem to think I'm a sell out, fake conservative, etc. Fine, I can't add enough words to convince...I admit I like to predict stuff, like to get others' opinions, quite frankley, because we all need some comfort in such times as I would hope we're mostly all friends here. Having said that, this is a friendly chat. I am trying to sort things out in both the primary and the G.E. My take is: Cain is out; his fault or not, he's out. If he did do the things accused of, then...

It seems to be a particularly good day for Newt today pollwise. An Insider Advantage poll conducted Monday shows a 15 point lead for the former Speaker in Iowa. Newt gets 28%, Ron Paul is #2 with a little over 13% and Romney is in 3rd place with only 11.5%! This is also Romney's lowest poll number in Iowa since this race began. In the last Insider Advantage poll, conducted November 8th, Romney was at his usual 19%, so in 3 weeks he has lost about 40% of his support. I guess being dubbed "electable" by Ann Coulter just isn't...

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich touched on a local issue when speaking at a packed town hall meeting in Charleston, South Carolina Monday night. The GOP hopeful had harsh words for President Obama for allowing the U.S. Department of Justice to sue the state of South Carolina over its immigration law. “Clearly the Obama administration has been comfortable allowing foreign governments to enter a lawsuit against an American state. So here’s a simple way to think of it: President Obama sided with Mexico, I would side with South Carolina,” Gingrich said. South Carolina’s law imposes proof of U.S. citizenship for...

The latest Rasmussen poll of likely GOP primary voters in New Hampshire has Mitt Romney at 34 percent and Newt Gingrich at 24 percent. The poll was conducted after the Union Leader endorsed Gingrich.

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Newt Gingrich responded to the controversy over his stance on illegal immigration by going deeper. At a town hall here Monday evening hosted by tea party favorite Rep. Tim Scott, Gingrich outlined a seven-part plan and called for withholding federal funds from “sanctuary cities,” that don’t enforce federal immigration laws. Gingrich also pitched a “World War II selective service model” for long-term illegal immigrants that would allow them to receive support from their communities — and remain in the country. While they wouldn’t be deported, Gingrich said they would also not receive citizenship or be allowed to...

While the nation was digesting its turkey dinner, Rep. Michele Bachmann was seizing an opportunity to score points at Newt Gingrich’s expense. Suggesting that his position on illegal immigration amounts to “amnesty,” Bachmann predicted that the GOP electorate would “come home” to the person who has been the most “consistent conservative.” That would be, she offers, Mrs. Bachmann. The voters may not agree with her solution, but many in the GOP do seem to be looking for a — forgive the expression — “thrill up the leg” candidate to take on President Obama in the general election. Thus the seismic...