A national poll released by Quinnipiac University on Thursday finds that Americans are feeling better about the economy, but that shift in thinking is doing little to improve President Barack Obamas chances for a second term in November.
The gloves have come off as former U.S. Sen. George LeMieux, now running in the Republican primary to challenge Democrat incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, took aim at GOP rival U.S. Rep. Connie Mack on Wednesday, attacking the congressmans character and his handling of personal finances -- even comparing Mack to Charlie Sheen.
Mack's camp fired back, attacking LeMieux as an "insiders insider and a truly extraordinary political hack."
LeMieux called Mack the Charlie Sheen of Florida politics before adding that may be disrespectful to Charlie Sheen.
Former Gov. Charles Buddy Roemer of Louisiana said on Wednesday that he will drop out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination but will continue his bid for the American Elects nomination. He also said he will seek the nomination of the Reform Party.
With Michigan and Arizona holding primaries on Tuesday, polls unveiled on Wednesday find Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is leading the pack of candidates in both states.
An NBC News/Marist poll released on Wednesday finds Romney with a small lead over Rick Santorum in the Michigan Republican presidential primary. While Santorum led in polls of the Great Lakes State last week, polls unveiled this week have found the race much closer and some have had Romney ahead.
Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum leads the GOP pack in a national poll unveiled on Wednesday.
Santorum tops a national poll fromQuinnipiac University with 35 percent, followed by Mitt Romney with 26 percent. Newt Gingrich stands in third with 14 percent, followed by Ron Paul with 11 percent. When pitted head-to-head, Santorum takes 50 percent and Romney garners 37 percent.
The battle between Republican presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum to win the Michigan Feb. 28 primary is tightening -- and getting nastier.
Two polls released Tuesday show different winners. Last week, Santorum led Romney --who won the Michigan Republican primary back in 2008 and whose father was governor of the state during the 1960s --in a series of polls of the Great Lakes State.
Many liberals fall into the odd trap of arguing that politics and government can change everything, while insisting that individual leaders cannot make much of a difference.
Go West, young man, go West, wrote famed American politician and journalist Horace Greeley to veterans looking for opportunities after the Civil War. While Greeley should have followed his own advice -- he was buried out west (and the rest of the nation) when he ran against Ulysses S. Grant in the 1872 presidential election -- Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich is looking west to salvage his campaign.
Two polls released this week find Mitt Romney leading the pack of Republican presidential candidates heading into the Feb. 28 Arizona primary.
A We Ask America poll of likely primary voters unveiled Tuesday shows Romney with a solid lead in the Grand Canyon State, taking 37 percent of those surveyed, while Rick Santorum places second with 27 percent. Newt Gingrich takes third with 15 percent while Ron Paul trails in single digits with 8 percent. Thirteen percent of those surveyed remain undecided.
With a week to go until Republicans hit the polls in primaries in Arizona and Michigan, the two leading candidates for the GOPs presidential nomination -- former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts and former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania focused Monday on the Great Lakes State.
While his father served as governor of Michigan during the 1960s and he beat John McCain to win the primary in 2008, Romney currently trails Santorum there, according to most polls, but there are signs that he is regaining his footing.
