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GOP candidates making final Iowa push, Gingrich tears up
With just four days to go until caucus day, Mitt Romney is looking at Iowa with optimism while Newt Gingrich gets choked up recalling his late mother's struggle with depression and mental illness.
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Inside Washington, Jan. 1, 2012
This week on Inside Washington: Newt Gingrich is losing support in national polls as well as Iowa, where the caucuses are fast approaching. Who is benefiting from Gingrich’s misfortune?
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Romney making push in Iowa
Mitt Ronney on Thursday announced an aggressive schedule of campaign events for the days leading up to next week's caucuses.
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Republican Donner drops out of Virginia US Senate race
One of five Republican candidates for Virginia's open U.S. Senate seat is dropping out of the contest.
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GOP race in Iowa looking like a circular firing squad
Some are comparing the GOP presidential nomination race to a circular firing squad with Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich attacking each other, and Romney, Gingrich, and Rick Perry attacking Ron Paul.
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A federal case: Perry sues to get on Virginia ballot
Republican Rick Perry's presidential campaign filed a lawsuit Tuesday in federal court in Virginia in an attempt to get his name on Virginia's March 6 primary ballot.
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GOP contenders wage war of words one week before Iowa caucuses
Mitt Romney carried himself Tuesday like a man with the party nomination in hand, while most of his GOP rivals rumbled through Iowa's small towns by bus in a final, frenzied dash of retail politicking before the Iowa caucuses in exactly one week.
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Sen. Ben Nelson to retire
Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) is set to announce he will not seek reelection.
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Gingrich attacks Va. for keeping him off ballot
Newt Gingrich's campaign attacked Virginia's GOP primary election system for keeping him off the March 6 ballot. Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, and Jon Huntsman also failed to qualify for the ballot.
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Reston attorney sues over Gingrich ballot snub
A Virginia attorney and tea party activist is seeking to have Newt Gingrich's name placed on the state's Super Tuesday primary ballot.
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Round one in Virginia ballot battle goes against Perry
Texas Gov. Rick Perry lost the first round Thursday in his bid to have his name added to Virginia's Republican presidential primary ballot as a judge scheduled a hearing on the challenge after the ballot is printed.
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Uncertainty prevails in Iowa
With still no clear front-runner in the race to become the 2012 GOP candidate for president, the candidates are stumping throughout Iowa as the pivotal Jan. 3 caucuses await.
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How do the Iowa caucuses work, anyway?
The caucuses — essentially community meetings — have served as a launching pad to the nomination, and often to the White House, for the past 40 year. They've been around since the 1840s.
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Bartlett, 85, to run for re-election in Md.'s redrawn 6th
U.S. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett says he's stepping up fundraising for a re-election bid now that a court has dismissed a challenge to the redistricting map that made Maryland's 6th Congressional District more competitive.
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Perry shifts views on abortion, opposes any exceptions
One week before the Iowa caucuses, Rick Perry on Tuesday said he had strengthened his opposition to abortion and now opposes the procedure even in the case of rape, incest or when the woman's life would be at risk.
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Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) to retire, boosting GOP chances
Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska told his supporters Tuesday he plans to retire rather than seek a third term, a significant setback for Democratic efforts to maintain control of the chamber next year.
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GOP campaign for Iowa caucus enters final week
An Iowa caucus campaign that has cycled through several Republican presidential front-runners entered its final week Monday, as unpredictable as the day conservatives began competing to emerge as Mitt Romney's chief rival.
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Gingrich, Perry fail to qualify for Va. GOP ballot
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Texas Gov. Rick Perry have both failed to qualify for Virginia's March 6 Republican primary, a development that complicates their bids to win the GOP presidential nomination.
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