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President Barack Obama and main Republican opponent Mitt Romney. 17 Feb 2012 17:29 Africa/Lagos President Obama Leads Mitt Romney by 9 points and Rick Santorum by 12 points Ron Paul does best against the President NEW YORK, Feb. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- With about ten days to go before the next primaries in the Republican race for the nomination, all four remaining Republicans are losing to President Obama by between 8 and 17 points. As the race narrows down to the final candidate, just half of Americans (51%) say they are satisfied with the choices available to them for President while more than two in five (44%) are not satisfied. Independents are the most dissatisfied with over half (55%) saying they are not satisfied with the choices while two-thirds of Democrats (68%) are satisfied. Republicans are more split as half are satisfied (52%) and 44% are not satisfied. But the Republican satisfaction is soft with just 13% very satisfied and 39% saying they are only somewhat satisfied. ...

Photo Credit: FOX News Senator Hillary Clinton has won more delegates than Senator Barack Obama in the Super Tuesday Democratic primaries and caucuses while Senator John McCain won most of the states and delegates of the Republican Super Tuesday primaries. DEMOCRATS Hillary Clinton: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee Barack Obama: Alaska, Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Utah REPUBLICANS John McCain: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma Mitt Romney: Alaska, Colorado, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Utah Mike Huckabee: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, West Virginia STATE BY STATE Alabama: Barack Obama, Mike Huckabee Alaska: Barack Obama, Mitt Romney Arizona: Hillary Clinton, John McCain Arkansas: Hillary Clinton, Mike Huckabee California: Hillary Clinton, John McCain Colorado: B...

Super Tuesday Primary Polls Delegates Democrats Clinton 230 Obama 152 Needed: 2025 Republicans McCain 97 Romney 74 Huckabee 29 Paul 6 Needed: 1191 Click here for the details of all the polls in all the states .

I asked an American why the National Rifle Association (NRA) is more influential than the former President Bill Clinton and President George W. Bush and he said the Second Amendment has made the NRA to be very powerful in America. The NRA is the most powerful lobbying organization in America. The NRA has the support of over 80 million gun owners in America and they can make or break the popularity and electability of any of the presidential candidates. “In each of the last four even-year general elections gun owners have had a massive impact. And the National Rifle Association has proven to everyone that if you want to win the presidency, earning the support of gun owners and Second Amendment defenders might be the deciding factor. The NRA is in a stronger position than ever to influence the 2008 elections.” ~ Kenneth Blackwell of the New York Sun. Many of the American presidential candidates have been courting the NRA for the endorsement of their candidacy, but Chris Cox, the Executi...

9 Dec 2007 19:50 Africa/Lagos NEWSWEEK COVER: Holy Huckabee! Presidential Hopeful Mike Huckabee Says Being Attacked 'Means You're Doing Better' Huckabee: His Many Sides and Record as Governor Are Good Indicators of How He Would be as President NEW YORK, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee tells Newsweek he is about more than religion. "When people think I am a one-dimensional person, I realize they haven't done their homework on me ... I've been a governor for 10 years, and to have the resume I've built over that time on education, health care, transportation, the environment and jobs ... all that stuff is important and says a lot about what kind of governor I was and what kind of president I would be." (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071209/NYSU002 ) In the December 17 Newsweek cover story "Holy Huckabee!" (on newsstands Monday, December 10), White House Correspondent Holly Bailey and I...

4 Dec 2007 00:06 Africa/Lagos Clinton, Thompson Win First Presidential 'Primary' Nation's Social Studies Teachers Flex Voting Muscles and Choose '08 Contenders Pearson Sponsors Presidential Primary at National Council for the Social Studies Annual Event SAN DIEGO, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and former U.S. Senator Fred Thompson of Tennessee are the top choices for the 2008 Democratic and Republican nominations for President of the United States, according to the nation's first Presidential "Primary" of voters at the National Council for the Social Studies annual conference in San Diego. Sponsored by Pearson, more than 700 of the nation's social studies teachers flexed their voting muscles and put the principles they teach about every day into action by casting their votes. Senator Clinton won her party's nod with 41.9% of the vote. Senator Thompson was the Republicans' top choice wit...