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Right now, not much. "Thinking about" running for president contains multitudes, as someone "thinking about" running for president probably misquoted Walt Whitman once.

Polling numbers and political maneuverings are increasingly confirming what I first reported months ago.

That was the question Tuesday's Jeopardy contestants failed to deliver when given this clue about the 2012 GOP presidential candidate: Cain, the former CEO of Godfather's Pizza, was one of the many Republicans who sought the presidential nomination in 2012, eventually dropping out in December 2011 amid allegations of past sexual harassment.

IN TOKYO, OBAMA DREAMS OF SUSHI: President Obama stepped off Air Force One in Japan today, apparently with an appetite for sushi, ABC's DEVIN DWYER reports.

Federal prosecutors are recommending a 30-month prison sentence for a young Republican activist who stalked and extorted women after finding nude photos of them online.

Today's polarized Congress provides none of the bipartisan opportunities enjoyed by such past presidents as Clinton, Reagan, and LBJ.

In this week's Republican address, Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee criticizes Democratic approaches to government, saying that Dems in Washington want to mandate what Americans can and cannot do.

Conservatives are increasingly - and not so quietly - showing the early signs of a speakership revolt.

Anointment of the 2016 Republican presidential nominee is far off, but one thing already seems clear: Sheldon Adelson will have the victor's full attention.

Former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is weighing in on a South Carolina education race - backing the widow of race-baiting GOP strategist Lee Atwater in her bid for S.C. Superintendent of Education.

BRADENTON, Fla., Jan. 9, 2011 -- On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, Mitt Romney stuck his foot in his mouth so deep that the sole may have irritated his lower intestine.

The general political attitudes taken by the left and right in the US are, sadly, divided on the issue of fuel efficient vehicles.

I think we should all remember that on January 20, 2009 GOP House Leaders & GOP Senators plotted to sabotage the US Economy with Newt Gingrich and GOP Propaganda Minister Frank Luntz.

Does anyone really believe Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, or Chris Christie can contend against Hillary Clinton? At least Jeb, the establishment's establishmentarian, would put up a fight.

BRADENTON, Fla., Feb. 22, 2012 Updated 7:30pm ET -- The stage is set tonight in Mesa, Ariz., for mistakes that make political history.

BRADENTON, Fla., March 6, 202012 -- If you could really scrape below the surface of objective reality and peer into the unconscious minds of Republicans who will vote today in 10 states for their choice of presidential nominees, which of the key issues in the campaigns of Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich and Rick Sanctorum would really be ... (more)

For the most part, incumbent representatives, senators and governors who seek renomination get it.

My father, Newt Gingrich, ran for congress in rural, west, middle Georgia in 1974.

Each one resides in the delegate-rich and up-for-grabs 2nd Congressional District in eastern Connecticut, which is also home to Boughton's running mate, Heather Bond Somers, the former Groton mayor and a town councilor.

Three years before Matt Drudge changed the world and how news would be consumed, President Bill Clinton's White House feared that the Internet was allowing average citizens, especially conservatives, to bypass legacy gatekeepers and access information that had previously been denied to them by the mainstream press.