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• End of the line for Cain? Announcement Saturday (AP)
• Gingrich bets on unconventional primary strategy (AP)
• Perry's new campaign ad, "Faith" (AP)
• Trump to moderate GOP presidential debate in Iowa (AP)
• Huntsman plans NH town hall during Iowa debate (AP)
• Romney attacks Gingrich as Washington insider (AP)
• As nomination voting nears, TV ad wars get intense (AP)
• Republicans seek support for a payroll tax plan (AP)
• Gutierrez to illegals: Carry records (Politico)
• Flutie goes deep for Scott Brown (Politico)
• Gingrich's unpredictability raises concerns (AP)
• Romney faces 2 big rivals: Gingrich and Obama (AP)
• ACLU: FBI used outreach to collect info on Muslims (AP)
• Space agency ends attempt to contact Russian probe (AP)
• Canada's PM suggest politics behind pipeline delay (AP)
• Gingrich Confident of Nomination, Gets a 'Big Head' (ContributorNetwork)
• Carney: ‘Satisfactorily low’ unemployment rate proves elusive (Daily Caller)
• Boehner responds to Dems’ GOP portrayal as party of the wealthy [VIDEO] (Daily Caller)
• Occupy Richmond protesters back Tea Party against city (Reuters)
• Sarah Palin lavishes praise on Rick Santorum (Daily Caller)

End of the line for Cain? Announcement Saturday (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2011 02:37 PM PST AP - Rapidly becoming a mere footnote in the presidential race, Herman Cain sent mixed signals Friday on whether he would abandon his beleaguered White House bid on Saturday after a woman's allegation of an extramarital affair.

Gingrich bets on unconventional primary strategy (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2011 01:38 PM PST AP - Back from the political dead, Newt Gingrich has momentum on his side just a month before the first voting in the GOP nomination fight. But he has never fully rebuilt his organization after almost his entire team quit in June. And his fundraising is questionable at best.

Perry's new campaign ad, "Faith" (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2011 02:27 PM PST AP - TITLE: "Faith."

Trump to moderate GOP presidential debate in Iowa (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2011 01:41 PM PST AP - Real estate mogul Donald Trump will moderate a Republican presidential debate in Iowa a week before the state holds the first in the nation caucuses.

Huntsman plans NH town hall during Iowa debate (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2011 02:23 PM PST AP - Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman is planning to have a town hall meeting in New Hampshire next weekend while his rivals participate in a debate in Iowa that ABC is to televise nationally.

Romney attacks Gingrich as Washington insider (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2011 07:10 AM PST AP - Presidential candidate Mitt Romney stepped up attacks on rival Newt Gingrich Friday, labeling Gingrich as a Washington insider who is unlikely to win the Republican nomination.

As nomination voting nears, TV ad wars get intense (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2011 10:49 AM PST AP - The crush of presidential campaign ads is here.

Republicans seek support for a payroll tax plan (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2011 02:00 PM PST AP - Courting disaffected conservatives, House Republican leaders offered Friday to overturn a pair of Obama administration environmental policies and avert a deep cut in payments to doctors treating Medicare patients as part of legislation renewing a Social Security payroll tax cut through 2012.

Gutierrez to illegals: Carry records (Politico) Posted: 02 Dec 2011 02:00 PM PST Politico - He's advising they carry a "portfolio of documents."

Flutie goes deep for Scott Brown (Politico) Posted: 02 Dec 2011 11:57 AM PST Politico - The reelection-bound Massachusetts senator gets an endorsement from the former pro quarterback.

Gingrich's unpredictability raises concerns (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2011 04:53 AM PST AP - At last, Rep. Phil Gingrey thought as he watched the most recent presidential debate. His candidate, Newt Gingrich, had moved beyond scolding journalists to talking ideas and looking like a contender. But then Gingrich seemed to embrace a form of amnesty for illegal immigrants. And Gingrey, who opposes amnesty like most conservatives, froze.

Romney faces 2 big rivals: Gingrich and Obama (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2011 06:27 PM PST AP - Suddenly Mitt Romney is fighting a two-front political war.

ACLU: FBI used outreach to collect info on Muslims (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2011 10:58 AM PST AP - Heavily blacked-out internal FBI documents released Thursday indicate that the FBI, in some cases between 2007 and 2009, ran background checks on people they encountered at Muslim-related events and recorded personal information such as email addresses, phone numbers, physical descriptions and opinions in reports marked "routine."

Space agency ends attempt to contact Russian probe (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2011 11:10 AM PST AP - The European Space Agency said Friday it has abandoned efforts to contact a rogue Russian space probe, increasing the likelihood it will plunge to Earth.

Canada's PM suggest politics behind pipeline delay (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2011 03:10 PM PST AP - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper strongly suggested Friday that politics was behind the Obama administration's decision to delay a proposed oil pipeline from Canada — days before his planned visit to the White House.

Gingrich Confident of Nomination, Gets a 'Big Head' (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 02 Dec 2011 01:42 PM PST ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has got a "big head." "Big head," which is something one "gets" or "is getting," is a colloquial phrase (not used as commonly as it once was) that doesn't refer to the actual size of a person's head (although in Gingrich's case, comedian Stephen Colbert often makes an exception) but to an over-inflated ego brought on by fortuitous circumstances or seemingly undeserved arrogance. Gingrich has taken a double-digit lead in the national presidential preference polls and is now telling anyone who'll listen that he will be the next Republican presidential nominee and the race will come down "Newt and Not-Newt." With confidence born of a few poll wins, the so-called historian is flat-out ignoring recent history's constant repetition of elevating and discarding GOP candidates. Simply put: Gingrich appears to have acquired a "big head," although it could be argued that he has had one for years.

Carney: ‘Satisfactorily low’ unemployment rate proves elusive (Daily Caller) Posted: 02 Dec 2011 12:20 PM PST Daily Caller - White House press secretary Jay Carney today touted a few favorable numbers in the monthly jobs report, but downplayed the likelihood of major future gains.

Boehner responds to Dems’ GOP portrayal as party of the wealthy [VIDEO] (Daily Caller) Posted: 02 Dec 2011 11:16 AM PST Daily Caller - When asked about the messaging war between Republicans and Democrats over raising taxes on the wealthy, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio said Republicans favor lowering the tax burden on small businesses in an effort to "try to get this government off the backs of employers so that they can begin to hire people."

Occupy Richmond protesters back Tea Party against city (Reuters) Posted: 02 Dec 2011 08:54 AM PST Reuters - Despite political differences with the conservative Tea Party movement, anti-Wall Street protesters in Richmond, Virginia, have come out in support of the local Tea Party group against "unfair" treatment from the city.

Sarah Palin lavishes praise on Rick Santorum (Daily Caller) Posted: 02 Dec 2011 07:48 AM PST Daily Caller - Praise from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin could be just what Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum needs. And he got some of that Thursday night.

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