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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is taking heated criticisms from nearly all of his Republican opponents heading into Tuesday evening’s Iowa caucuses. (more)

Republican presidential candidate and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann is comparing herself to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. (more)

DES MOINES, Iowa — Michele Bachmann may be polling at the very bottom of the pack of Republican presidential candidates, but you wouldn’t know it by the crowd she attracted as she mingled with voters on the eve of the Iowa caucuses along Elm Street. (more)

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Michele Bachmann told a small group of supporters Tuesday night that she’s staying in the presidential race as the only true conservative who can defeat the sitting president, despite a bleak showing in the Iowa caucuses. (more)

According to a recent social media study, GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul has the highest “viral reach” among the current GOP presidential candidates on Facebook. (more)

Regardless of which candidate wins Tuesday’s Iowa caucuses, Mitt Romney has a seemingly insurmountable lead in New Hampshire while his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination struggle to find their footing. (more)

DES MOINES, Iowa — No matter what happens at the Iowa caucuses Tuesday, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann said Monday she will not drop out of the race for president. (more)

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa – Texas Gov. Rick Perry views the road beyond Iowa as one working more in his favor than in Michele Bachmann’s or Rick Santorum’s, saying the two rivals, who are competing for the same conservative evangelical votes, have no national organization to be viable in other primary states. (more)

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Desperate for a late lift in Iowa, Republican Michele Bachmann is increasingly stressing a distinction in the presidential field: She’s the only woman competing for the nomination. (more)

Having failed to meet Virginia’s onerous ballot requirements, the campaigns of Rep. Michele Bachmann, former Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Gov. Jon Huntsman, and former Sen. Rick Santorum are joining Gov. Rick Perry’s lawsuit against Virginia’s board of elections. (more)

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Months of televised debates and campaigning have left the party as splintered and ill-defined as when the primary season began. Final polls before Tuesday’s Iowa caucuses show a remarkably wide distribution of support among the six main candidates. There is no clear front-runner, and huge numbers of Iowa Republicans entered the weekend undecided. (more)

All Republicans running for president say they want to cut federal spending. (more)

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Organizers of a tea party convention scheduled to convene next month in Myrtle Beach are fending off accusations that they called for “armed guards” with concealed weapons permits to staff the event. A senior leader of one tea party group in the Palmetto State raised concern about heat-packing patriots amid a flurry of email backlash after supporters of Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann announced their intention to hold a straw poll at the event to promote their candidate. (more)

Politicians say absurd things sometimes. There might be an inconsequential gaffe here or there at a debate or campaign rally, but it’s much more amusing to watch presidential candidates say things like “I’ve got many fake books, since I’m a leprechaun farmer who’s a gambler,” as Ron Paul did in the latest Bad Lip Reading video. (more)

Talk about fairweather friends. Iowa state Sen. Kent Sorenson (R), who was Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann’s state campaign chairman, endorsed Texas Rep. Ron PaulWednesday night. (more)

Another year has gone by, and at America’s fastest-growing (and fairest) online news organization, we’ve brought you every amusing, aggravating and heart-thumping minute of it. (more)

Michele Bachmann’s Iowa campaign chairman suddenly threw his support behind Ron Paul at a rally Wednesday night, according to multiple reports. (more)

If polls prove accurate and Texas Rep. Ron Paul wins the Iowa caucuses on Jan. 3, political observers expect a free-for-all going into the Jan. 10 New Hampshire primary. (more)

From the dapper to the dowdy, 2011 brought out some of the best and worst in politicians’ sartorial choices. (more)

Texas Rep. Ron Paul has surpassed former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich to take the lead in Iowa, according to the latest polling from Public Policy Polling (PPP). (more)