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They traded attacks and insults, argued about war funding, and disparaged the man in the White House whose job they want.The two-hour, eight-candidate Republican presidential debate Thursday in Iowa, coming just days before the state party's presidential straw poll and in the midst of a national

As the Republican presidential hopefuls converge on Iowa this week for Thursday night's debate and Saturday's influential straw poll, we caught up with Republican strategist Marc Lampkin, deputy campaign manager for George W. Bush's 2000 presidential bid and a former staffer to Rep.

As Wall Street and the world look to Washington to bring stability back to economic markets, Congressional leaders announced their appointments Wednesday to the so-called "supercommittee."

Even as Republicans have made their presence felt this summer in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail, some party leaders have begun to feel their own control of Republican activism slipping away.They sense that independent groups within the party and the broader conservative movement are