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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is keeping quiet on her plans for 2012, but recent polls and political analysis suggest it's too soon to count her out as a political heavyweight.

It has three chances of succeeding: slim, fat and none. And Slim and Fat just left town.

Despite being characterized by many as a divisive force in her party and the nation, former vice-presidential contender Sarah Palin gets a much higher positive rating than Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi -- and most think Palin has been treated unfairly by the press.

WASHINGTON - Sometimes staying out of a fight is the smartest path in politics. Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney, two 2008 Republican presidential primary foes who may go at it again in 2012, didn't jump into the GOP debacle in New York's 23rd District earlier this month.

Democrat Stephen Pagliuca said Thursday the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy would side with him and not political rivals Martha Coakley and Michael Capuano in the nation's health care debate.

Chris Christie and Bob McDonnell, the soon-to-be-governors of New Jersey and Virginia, both deflected questions Wednesday about why Sarah Palin did not appear with the two Republicans during their respective campaigns.

Sarah Palin in 2012? Some are chuckling, but they might want to rethink their take on the first woman on a GOP presidential ticket.

An attorney for Compuware Corp. testified Tuesday that ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick did not sign a promissory note on a $240,000 loan until IRS and federal agents asked to see the documents.

Perhaps you've long believed that extremist Islamic terrorism poses the greatest danger to America.

U.S. House Republican Whip Rep. Eric Cantor speaks during a conference call with former presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov.

It seemed like a given that Mario Rodas would go to college. The Guatemalan-born student certainly had the academic credentials, going from English as a second language classes to taking advanced placement exams for college credit his senior year at Chelsea High School.

White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod fired back at Mitt Romney Sunday for his criticism of the White House deliberations on Afghanistan.

By LIZ SIDOTI AP National Political Writer Updated: November 14, 2009, 12:15 PM / Sarah Palin is embarking on a book tour.

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney delivered a scathing criticism of President Obama's Afghanistan strategy Friday night, accusing the president of delivering rhetoric and not action in the war-torn country.

WASHINGTON -- Sometimes staying out of a fight is the smartest path in politics.

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I've already spent some time joyfully fisking the Seattle Times' "absurd" proposal to change the deadline on mail-in ballots from the current postmarked on election day, to the more restrictive received by election day, so there's no need to do a line-by-line takedown of Joel Connelly's own contribution to this peculiar genre of conventional ...

Democratic Senate candidate Stephen Pagliuca says the capital gains tax should be raised from 15 percent to 20 percent to help pay down the federal budget deficit and national debt.

Get ready, America. Like her or not, Sarah Palin is coming to a city near you. Last year's Republican vice presidential nominee is starting a book tour next week to promote her memoir, "Going Rogue: An American Life." Is it a thinly-veiled bid to test the waters for a possible 2012 Republican presidential bid, or simply an effort to make money and ...

Democratic Senate candidate Stephen Pagliuca said the capital gains tax should be raised from 15 percent to 20 percent to help pay down the federal budget deficit and national debt.