A national poll taken by ORC International and CNN reveals -- as have so many recent polls -- that Gov. Rick Perry of Texas has vaulted ahead of the rest of the Republican presidential candidates.
Whos the most conservative member of the Florida congressional delegation? According to one group, its U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, followed by fellow Republican U.S. Rep. Connie Mack.
Heritage Action, a group affiliated with the iconic conservative organization the Heritage Foundation, released its congressional rankings last week on a host of issues including expanding school choice, energy exploration and defunding the federal health-care law backed by President Barack Obama.
Two more polls have found that Gov. Rick Perry of Texas has moved past both U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts to lead the Republican presidential pack in Iowa, site of the first caucus battle.
A poll of likely Republican caucus voters, taken by Magellan Strategies and released on Thursday, found that Perry topped the field with 24 percent with Bachmann, who won the Iowa Republican straw poll held in Ames two weeks ago, in second with 22 percent. Romney remained in the mix in third place with 19 percent.
This week, Florida Republican Congressman Vern Buchanan wrote to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to demand the extradition of convicted terrorist Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who led the bombing of Pan Am 103 in 1988. The airplane bombing took270 lives.
The former head of security for a Libyan airlines company and three Scottish judges in a special court held in the Netherlands convicted Megrahi of the Pan Am bombing, which occurred over Lockerbie, Scotland, right before Christmas 1988.
According to three polls released this week, there is a new front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination -- Gov. Rick Perry of Texas.
A poll taken by YouGov for the Economist found Perry taking 23 percent of those surveyed.Former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, who had been the lead candidate in the race until the Texas governor jumped in earlier in the month, was second with 15 percent. U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas took third with 11 percent.
While he has only been in the Republican presidential race for less than two weeks, a new poll finds Gov. Rick Perry of Texas is now the front-runner for the GOPs nomination.
The national poll of Republicans from Public Policy Polling (PPP), which has ties to many prominent Democrats, found Perry leading the pack with 33 percent of the vote. Former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts placed second with 20 percent, followed by U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, who led a PPP national poll last month before Perry entered the race.
Rising conservative star Marco Rubio paid homage to President Ronald Reagan Tuesday when the Florida Republican senator spoke at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library as he continued a swing through California, raising his national profile and speculation that he is angling for the vice presidential spot on the 2012 Republican ticket.
Before giving the speech there was a little drama: Rubio came in with former first lady Nancy Reagan,now 90, who had a fall, and Floridas junior senator helped her recover.
