PHILIP ELLIOTT

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Cain backs Gingrich's presidential bid

Former presidential hopeful Herman Cain threw his support behind Newt Gingrich Saturday night, providing the former House speaker with a late boost just days before Florida's primary.

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Tired and trailing, Santorum goes home to do taxes

Rick Santorum is tired, trailing — and going home.

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Santorum mixes academia into campaign trail pitch

Rick Santorum is running for president but his campaign speeches sometimes sound like he's working toward tenure.

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Jon Huntsman to quit GOP presidential race

Jon Huntsman will withdraw Monday from the race for the Republican presidential nomination, his campaign manager told The Associated Press on Sunday.

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Campaign officials: Huntsman to quit GOP race

Jon Huntsman will withdraw Monday from the race for the Republican presidential nomination, campaign officials told The Associated Press on Sunday.

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Santorum's NH experience different from Iowa

The young girl asked Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum his biggest mistake in politics.

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Santorum aims to be GOP race's 'true conservative'

Dealt a disappointing loss, Republican Rick Santorum pledged "we are going to go on to South Carolina," where he hoped to establish himself as the conservative alternative to front-runner Mitt Romney.

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Perry sharpens dig on Romney business past

Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry is likening front-runner Mitt Romney's former private equity firm to "vultures" that ruin workers' lives.

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Presidential race contested, one mailbox at a time

The attacks on Newt Gingrich have been as under-the-radar as they have been in-your-face.

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Watch out: Political attacks turn nasty in Iowa

So much for Iowa Nice. It's more like Iowa Nasty.

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Perry shifts views on abortion, opposes exceptions

Republican Rick Perry is shifting his opposition to abortion, saying he opposes it even after rape or incest.

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Perry encourages supporters to stick with him

Facing a likely defeat in Tuesday's caucuses, Rick Perry encouraged supporters to keep the faith as his advisers cast the coming contest in South Carolina as the first real test of his presidential campaign.

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Will retail campaigning help 'the others' rise?

Rick Perry drew standing-room-only crowds. Michele Bachmann lost her voice. Rick Santorum made a duel pitch _for votes and cash.

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Bachmann starts Iowa bus tour, hopes for comeback

Republican presidential contender Michele Bachmann said she did not want "to trash anyone" on Friday and then called her leading rivals ideologically unfit to win the nomination as she began a bus tour she hopes will yield a caucus comeback.

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Perry: Wall Street bailout biggest theft in US

Seeking a late surge, Texas Gov. Rick Perry sought Monday to tar GOP presidential rivals Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney for supporting the $700 billion Wall Street bailout and said the billions loaned to banks and other financial institutions at the height of the 2008 financial crisis amounted to "the single biggest act of theft in American history."

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As he campaigns, Gingrich also works for profit

Newt Gingrich loves selling himself — both as a presidential hopeful and as a for-profit author.

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SC primary up for grabs, Gingrich making big play

For three decades, the Republican who won South Carolina's presidential primary has also won the GOP nomination.

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FACT CHECK: GOP field flubs, big and small

Newt Gingrich didn't know when he would take office if he wins the presidency. Rick Perry got the voting age and the date of Election Day wrong. Herman Cain didn't realize the president does not sign amendments to the Constitution.

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Gingrich says he never lobbied, didn't need money

Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich says he didn't need to be a lobbyist after his congressional career because he was paid so handsomely merely to give speeches.

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Gingrich praises Cain for optimism, big ideas

Newt Gingrich is praising GOP presidential rival Herman Cain for bringing optimism and big ideas to the 2012 campaign.

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Romney campaign hits back after Dem 'flip' charges

Mitt Romney confronted double-barreled allegations Monday that he has flip-flopped on key issues, the first time the 2012 presidential campaign has focused squarely on what many see as the Republican contender's biggest political liability.

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Gingrich wins NH backing as Romney plugs along

Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich landed the endorsement of New Hampshire's largest newspaper on Sunday while rival Mitt Romney earned a dismissive wave, potentially resetting the race in the state with the first-in-the-nation primary.

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Gingrich coup: Endorsement from NH's largest paper

New Hampshire's largest newspaper on Sunday endorsed former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in the 2012 GOP presidential race, signaling that rival Mitt Romney isn't the universal favorite and potentially resetting the contest before the state's lead-off primary Jan. 10.

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Romney wins endorsement from Thune

Presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Wednesday announced the endorsement of South Dakota Sen. John Thune, a rising star in the Republican Party who had weighed a White House bid of his own.

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Don't slash military budget, GOP contenders say

Republican presidential hopefuls warned in near unanimity against deep cuts in the nation's defense budget Tuesday night, assailing President Barack Obama in campaign debate but disagreeing over the extent of reductions the Pentagon should absorb to reduce deficits and repair the frail U.S. economy.

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