GOP Presidential Candidates

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Next up, South Carolina. And it's shaping up to be a dogfight.

The Republican presidential race turns to this state Wednesday as Mitt Romney's rivals set their sights on trying to tear down the GOP front-runner

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DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. (AP) — Voters in the tiny New Hampshire village famed for casting the first ballots in the nation's first presidential primary found themselves in a tie Tuesday between Republicans Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman

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SALEM, N.H. (AP) — Mitt Romney is a timid Massachusetts moderate, a flip-flopper on abortion and gun rights. As governor, he raised taxes and even tried to hike fees on the blind. Also, Romney is a liar full of "pious baloney" — according to Newt Gingrich

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CONWAY, S.C. (AP) — Looking beyond an expected win in New Hampshire, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney reached out to South Carolina voters Friday with a two-track argument that President Barack Obama has mishandled the economy and devised an "inexcusable, unthinkable" plan to shrink the U

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says he's confident GOP conservatives will "gradually coalesce" around a candidate who can deny the party's nomination to Mitt Romney.

Gingrich calls himself "a Regan conservative" and says that's the kind of nominee the GOP needs to defeat President Barack Obama

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SALEM, N.H. (AP) — Each trying to sound every bit the nominee, Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum looked past each other to run down President Barack Obama's economic policies Thursday as they jockeyed for support in New Hampshire and reached out to voters in conservative bellwether South Carolina

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — She'd been among the candidates trying to establish themselves as the true conservative in the race -- and now that Michele Bachmann is ending her campaign for the GOP presidential nomination, her supporters are up for grabs

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) —

The polls show him making some solid gains in Iowa in recent days, and Rick Santorum says he feels "very good" about how he's doing.

He told ABC this morning that he'll do 'very well" in tonight's caucuses

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DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa race remarkably fluid, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney faces a suddenly surging Rick Santorum, an unpredictable Ron Paul factor and the challenge of winning over undecided conservatives in a state that spurned him four years ago

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