This GOP race puts the swing in swing voters

Republican hopefuls take their turns surging in the polls

Published: Tuesday, Dec. 6 2011 12:31 a.m. MST

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In mid July, Michelle Bachmann's poll numbers reached their peak. By August, Rick Perry surged to the front of the pack of Republican presidential candidates. Herman Cain dominated October. Today, Newt Gingrich is the latest GOP flavor of the month.

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NeilT

Clearfield, UT

Help me understand. The party of family values favors three time divorced Gingrich over Romney. The Republican have a messiah complex. They are looking for an ideological purist that will appeal to enough voters to defeat Obama. If Republicans More..

6:29 a.m. Dec. 6, 2011
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MAYHEM MIKE

Salt Lake City, UT

Imagine the shock to the tea party zealots when, after their strictly conservative ideologue perchance gets elected, they learn that to get anything accomplished in politics, their candidate will have to (what's that forbidden word?) compromise with More..

7:41 a.m. Dec. 6, 2011
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Yorkshire

City, Ut

article-"It is hard to imagine a single person could support four such divergent candidates in the course of less than six months.Yet this is precisely what Washington Post journalist Dan Balz discovered when he traveled to Iowa to talk to More..

5:48 a.m. Dec. 6, 2011
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