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FILE - In a June 16, 2011 file photo former Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference in New York, to say he's weighing a run for New York City mayor. Wiener and former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford are running on redemption. Based on the comebacks attempted by plenty of other politicians, athletes and celebrities felled by scandal, the strategy just may work. To a certain degree, it already has: Both men are back in the national political spotlight just a few short years after their dalliances led many observers to declare their careers over. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Column: Rebounds typically follow sex scandals

The philandering Mark Sanford and the sexting Anthony Weiner are running on redemption. Based on the comebacks attempted by plenty of other politicians, athletes and celebrities felled by scandal, the strategy just may work. To a certain degree, it already has: Both men are back in the national political spotlight ...

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows: ABC's "This Week" — Investor Warren Buffett; Jim DeMint, president of the Heritage Foundation; former Gov. Bill Richardson, D-N.M. ___ NBC's "Meet the Press" — Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.; Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.; former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani; former Rep. Jane ...

Newt Gingrich's Farewell

The Newt Gingrich campaign finally came to an end on Wednesday just outside of Washington, D.C., as the former Speaker of the House gave a backhanded endorsement to GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney and vowed not to shrink from the political scene in the future. "I am suspending my campaign," Gingrich ...

Gingrich to Bow Out

It took a week, but former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich is finally making it official Wednesday afternoon, that he is getting out of the race for the Republican nomination for President. In a video message to supporters issued on Tuesday, Gingrich did not mention Mitt Romney's name, but did ...

Romney's Tuesday Test

While Mitt Romney has been deemed the Republican frontrunner in the wake of Rick Santorum's decision to drop out of the GOP race for the White House, Tuesday is the first chance for Romney to prove that in five different primaries. In other words, if Romney sweeps Pennsylvania, New York, ...

Gingrich Keeps Campaigning

Even as he acknowledged that Mitt Romney is in charge of the Republican race for the White House, Newt Gingrich emerges from the Easter weekend ready to continue his campaign for the White House, still refusing to get out of the GOP nomination fight. Interviewed on Fox News Sunday, Gingrich ...

Gingrich Campaigns in Maryland

From Frederick, Maryland -  Stumping for votes in Maryland, Newt Gingrich on Monday again rejected talk that he get out of the Republican race for the White House, emphasizing that in his opinion, Mitt Romney has not yet ended this nomination fight. "Governor Romney doesn't have it locked up," Gingrich ...

Newt's "Day Trip"

After shedding staff and what some described as "campaign infrastructure" last week, Newt Gingrich will be doing another 'day trip' on the campaign trail today, as the former House Speaker still says he isn't getting out of the GOP race. Why do I use "day trip" to describe it? Because ...

Gingrich Keeps Going

Even after being shutout for delegates in Louisiana - where Newt Gingrich spent over seven days campaigning - there was no hint from Newt Gingrich that he is looking to get out of the Republican race for the White House. Gingrich's schedule for the next week featured multiple days of ...

Romney Takes Charge

It was a different Mitt Romney on Wednesday afternoon in the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland, a day after an easy victory in the Illinois Primary, as the GOP frontrunner seemed to be connecting with his audience and actually took questions from the crowd. Romney had several reasons to be happy ...

Tale of the Campaign Schedules

With one full day of campaigning left before Republican voters in Illinois go to the polls in the Land of Lincoln, the relative strength and weaknesses of the four remaining major GOP candidates are clearly defined by what they are doing today. Mitt Romney is the favorite in Illinois and ...

Gingrich Takes the Weekend Off

While Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum dueled for advantage before Tuesday's primary in Illinois, Newt Gingrich decided to take the weekend off from the GOP campaign trail. "No schedule Sat. or Sun.," read an email from Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond, confirming that the former House Speaker would not be barnstorming ...

White House Campaign Mode

While I have been running around the country chasing Republican candidates for the White House, President Obama's own campaign has been quietly prepping for this election year. On Thursday, the first real salvos were fired by the Obama-Biden team. At the same time, President Obama used an energy speech outside ...

The GOP Road Ahead

As much as anything else, the schedule for the Republicans running for the White House will drive their race for the GOP nomination, so let's take a look at what's on tap in coming weeks. MISSOURI - The Show Me State holds caucuses this Saturday, but the 49 delegates up ...

Santorum's Daily Double

If there was a late surge for Santorum in Alabama and Mississippi, I didn't feel it the last few days on the ground there.  But maybe we got a taste of it on Tuesday when the Governor of Alabama said he had voted for Rick Santorum - he evidently wasn't ...

Newt's Next Move

If there was someone who was supposed to win Alabama and Mississippi, it was Newt Gingrich. Instead, Gingrich finished second behind Rick Santorum, raising new questions about the next step for his Presidential campaign. Gingrich on Wednesday starts two days of election events in Illinois which votes next Tuesday - ...

Gingrich Team: Halftime

Newt Gingrich's campaign issued a memo to reporters on Tuesday as the polls were open in Mississippi and Alabama, arguing that the GOP race for the White House is only approaching "halftime."  Gingrich himself earlier in the day used that same football terminology, arguing that Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney would ...

Santorum's Southern Shot

From Montgomery, Alabama - Arriving for his fifth and final stop of Monday just down the street from the Alabama State Capitol, Rick Santorum deviated from his normal hour-long stump speech for a simple reason - he had to be on TV with Sean Hannity. "I can only talk for ...

Gingrich Goes For Broke

From Birmingham, Alabama - One week ago, Newt Gingrich's campaign put out a post-Super Tuesday schedule which included two days of election events in Kansas. But the day after his win in Georgia, Gingrich scrapped that trip in order to focus on Alabama and Mississippi. That made me wonder just ...

Republicans Hit the Deep South

From Mobile, Alabama - The southern states of Alabama and Mississippi have unexpectedly become a big battleground in the Republican race for the White House, as Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum elbow their way for advantage in two primaries that were afterthoughts just a few weeks ago. After ...

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