Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is still unsure about running as a Republican candidate in the 2012 presidential election, but he clearly has decided his early strategy will exclude bashing Sen. John McCain and other potential hopefuls.
Washington Times
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Fanfare, flags and a marching band greeted the team selecting the site for the 2012 Republican National Convention during a tour of Tampa hot spots Monday.
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A majority of voters are betting the President Obama will lose a bid for re-election in 2012, according to a CNN/Opinion Research poll conducted March 19-21.
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Gingrich: “My prediction is you’re going to get a Republican Congress in 2010 in the election. They’re going to come in and they’re going to refuse to fund any of these new offices. And they’re just kind — they won’t pass the appropriations.
Then in 2012, you get a new president. And I think probably in February of 2013, they repeal the entire bill.”
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In the run-up to Sunday night’s House passage of President Barack Obama‘s health care bill, the chief executive repeatedly urged Members of Congress to focus on the long term legacy of the vote not the short term politics. “I don’t know about the politics,” Obama said in a speech March 10 in St. Charles, Missouri. “But I know it is the right thing to do, and that’s why I’m fighting so hard to get it.”
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Senate Democrats are no doubt bracing for sizeable losses in the fall elections, but an early look at 2012 map shows a rebound for the party could be difficult next cycle, when President Barack Obama will be at the top of the ticket.
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I’ve argued before that I don’t think Sarah Palin really wants to be president, regardless of the desires of her most ardent supporters. She doesn’t appear to enjoy the actual process of governing.
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When the freshman Senate class of 2004 was sworn in, its most up-and-coming stars were two basketball aficionados born in 1961. One was Barack Obama. The other was South Dakota’s John Thune, who became that year’s political giant by narrowly defeating Tom Daschle, the Senate’s Democratic leader.
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leads his Republican rivals for the party’s 2012 presidential nomination, according a survey by Public Policy Polling.
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