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In an unexpected turn of events Rick Santorum, the socially conservative former Congressman from Pennsylvania, won all three of last night’s contests in the Republican Presidential Nomination race. Until voting began in January, he consistently polled around 1% and despite his triumph in the first caucus in Iowa, he has failed to finish in first or second place in any state [...]
With 50% of the vote and a clear-cut victory in Nevada on Saturday night, Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, looks set to become the 2012 Republican Presidential Nominee and face Barack Obama in the general election in November. The Massachusetts Moderate, as he has been dubbed by his nemesis, self-styled conservative Newt Gingrich, has now won 3 out [...]
Just like a bad penny the Republicans can’t get rid of Mitt Romney no matter how many candidates they try to replace him with. A succession of front-runners have briefly topped him in the polls and beaten him in the voting in Iowa and South Carolina but he and his Super PACs just keep hanging on [...]
Republican Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich yesterday promised the American people a permanent moon base by the end of his second term if elected president. Speaking to a crowd in Cocoa, Florida he also said that when 13,000 Americans had established a colony on the moon they could apply to become the 51st state. In addition, he envisions a rocket capable [...]
It’s one of the advantages of an incumbent US president: in an election year you give The State of the Union address in January and can promote yourself and your party with the whole of the country’s press listening in and no one to interrupt. The tiny chamber of the House of Representatives is for [...]
With 40 percent of the votes in yesterday’s Republican Presidential Nomination primary, Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of The House of Representatives, easily beat off the favourite, Mitt Romney, who finished in second place with 28 percent. This was despite the fact that Newt’s second wife had publicly trashed him on TV two days earlier. Marianne Gingrich revealed [...]
Aides of moderate Jon Huntsman announced today that the Republican Presidential Candidate is to withdraw from the nomination race after disappointing results in the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary. He intended to contest South Carolina but when poor polling figures continued here – underlined by the fact that spoof candidate, comedian Stephen Colbert, garnered higher polling figures – [...]
As widely predicted, Mitt Romney won the Republican Presidential Nomination primary in the comparatively moderate New Hampshire yesterday. Gaining almost 40% of the vote there, he moves on to South Carolina with two wins under his belt and now looking like the front-runner nationally. Joining him in the ultra-conservative state will be Ron Paul,who came a good [...]
With the current deluge of US political TV debates, it struck me recently that the Republicans aren’t searching for a presidential nominee to challenge Barack Obama but are piloting a new reality sitcom: The Eight Republican Characters of Comedy. For the uninitiated, The Eight Characters of Comedy is a book by Scott Sedita which suggests that successful sitcoms [...]
