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• Newt Gingrich officially suspends presidential campaign

  Gingrich can now call himself a former presidential candidate.As expected, the former House speaker has bowed out of the Republican presidential contest just short of a year after he got into the race. He says it was "an amazing year" for him, his wife, Callista,   Read more »

• Gingrich all but concedes his campaign is over

  presidential candidate Newt Gingrich all but conceded Wednesday that his White House campaign is over.He said he expects Mitt Romney will be the nominee and called on the party to unite behind the former Massachusetts governor."You have to at some point be   Read more »

• Romney wins GOP primaries in Connecticut, RI

  209 delegates at stake in Tuesday's primaries. Romney started the day with 698 delegates, compared with 260 for Santorum, 137 for Newt Gingrich and 75 for Ron Paul .Romney needs 1,144 to formally gain the nomination this summer at the party's convention.   Read more »

• NY among 5 states to host GOP primaries

  -- Mitt Romney will be trying to all but cinch the Republican presidential nomination while Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul try to keep their campaigns alive Tuesday when New York and four other states hold GOP primaries.Polls will be open in Nassau and Suffolk   Read more »

• Primary stumbles warnings for Romney versus Obama

  primary. But, in a shock to his team, he ended up spending 10 days squaring off against a suddenly ascendant Newt Gingrich , who ultimately ended up winning the state.Romney then turned to Florida, where he successfully beat back a Gingrich challenge.But while   Read more »

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• Obama camp rolls out GOP primary attacks on Romney

  That didn't take long. One day after releasing a video of Massachusetts Democrats complaining about Mitt Romney's record as governor of Massachusetts -- and fielding some criticism for not listing their party affiliation -- the Obama campaign is out with 7:14 AM from The Politico Read more »

• Do Conservatives Care About Policy Or Political Combat?

  I’ve been aggressively disinterested in the presidential campaign for months now. Though I tack libertarian, I think Ron Paul would be a disaster as President. I don’t think Newt Gingrich was ever running for any other reason than to sell more books, and 2:05 AM from Say Anything Read more »

• America's Perpetual War

  When former Speaker of the House and 2012 presidential candidate Newt Gingrich spoke of the Palestinians as an "invented people," many were offended on behalf of the Palestinians. But former Massachusetts Governor and GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Ro 5/31/12 from LewRockwell.com Read more »

• Poll: Only 3 in 10 women see ‘war on women’

  A poll suggests the ‘war on women’ message isn’t gaining traction, Tom Barrett releases another internal poll, Newt doesn’t like super PACs and John Edwards says God isn’t done with him. Make sure to sign up to get “Afternoon Fix ” in your e-mail inbox e 5/31/12 from The Fix Read more »

• Deep in the heart of Texas

  FORT WORTH, Texas — Welcome to Texas, where the smiles are as broad as the accents, and where oil wells dot the skyline, their dinosaur heads bobbing delicately as they take sips of the state’s liquid gold. The rest of the country might be in recession, 5/31/12 from Global Post Read more »