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Texas Governor Rick Perry says he has decided to drop out of the shrinking crowd of GOP Presidential wannabes, and he will throw his support behind former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

When asked which former president they would like to run the country today, 36 percent of Americans picked Ronald Reagan.

Republican pundits have been clamoring for new blood in the GOP presidential primary race since Texas Governor Rick Perry’s debate performance last Thursday. But so far it looks like their first choice Chris Christie is no longer an option.

'Celebrity Apprentice' host Donald Trump announced Monday that, despite previous intentions, he will not be running for President in 2012. "I maintain the strong conviction that if I were to run, I would be able to win the primary and ultimately, the general election," Trump said in a statement, according to ABC News. "I have spent the past several months unofficially campaigning an

President Barack Obama's approval rating has hit its highest point in two years – 60 percent – and more than half of Americans now say he deserves to be re-elected, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll taken after U.S. forces killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. In worrisome signs for Republicans, the president's standing improved not just on foreign policy but also on the economy, and ind

President Obama's 2011 State of the Union (titled "Winning the Future") focused heavily on all political parties working together -- Republican and Democrat congress members even watched in a mixed seating arrangement, rather than occupying separate sections of the House. Obama also announced his administration would move forward with health care reform, work on immigration law, build in

Although doctors diagnosed former President Reagan with Alzheimer's disease five years after he was in office, Reagan's youngest son, Ron Jr., begs to differ about his father's memory-losing condition. In his new book, My Father at 100, the political consultant claims that his father may have shown signs of the disease three years into his first term.