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The 2010 GOP gubernatorial primary is shaping up to be a spirited affair, with candidates already actively campaigning and taking shots at their fellow Republicans more than seven months before Election Day.
But Civic Skinny, the anonymous gossip columnist for Des Moines’ Cityview, says the contest is as much about revenge and staking a claim on [...]

Tuesday’s election results should be greeted with happiness for Republicans but they should not be seen as a public repudiation of President Obama, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said Wednesday morning.
“I don’t think it’s a referendum on Obama,” the Republican lawmaker said in a conference call with reporters. “I think it’s a — it’s a referendum [...]

U.S. Rep. Steve King has no plans to run for president, but since he never had intentions to run for Congress, he refuses to rule out the possibility of a 2012 campaign.
The Kiron Republican told Des Moines NBC affiliate WHO-TV that he wants to be a part of the national debate over how to “refurbish [...]

Republican Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said at a news conference today that he will not seek his party’s nomination for president in 2012, the Associated Press reported today.
Jindal was asked if he would be was interested in being president, to which he simply replied “No.”
He elaborated that he intends to run for re-election as Louisiana’s [...]

Iowa has already been visited by two potential candidates for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, and the Boston Globe is reporting that another could be laying the groundwork across the country for a White House run.

Events have vindicated him after being savaged during his presidential campaign by the “so-called intellectual journals of the conservative movement,” former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said during an hour-long radio interview on WHO 1040 Monday.

The former Arkansas governor who shocked the nation and shook up the race for president when he won January’s Iowa Caucuses was back in Iowa Thursday promoting his newest book.

The fierce battle between former Republican governors Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney, which dominated the final months of the 2008 Iowa Caucuses, is once again in the headlines, thanks to Huckabee’s latest book.
And with the quest for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination seemingly already under way (another potential candidate, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, visits Iowa [...]

With former Arkansas governor and Republican caucus victor Mike Huckabee visiting Iowa Nov. 20 and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal visiting Nov. 22, it’s beginning to seem like the race for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination is already underway.
With that in mind, the Sioux City Journal asked 11 Republican county chairs in the conservative stronghold of [...]

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a rising star in the national Republican Party, will keynote a fundraising dinner for the Iowa Family Policy Center’s “Celebrating the Family” banquet, fueling speculation of a potential run for president in 2012.
The governor’s spokeswoman, Melissa Sellers, told The Associated Press that Jindal will attend the Nov. 22 event and also [...]