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Michele Bachmann makes her mark
The Tea Party’s latest standard-bearer – Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann – comes under fire after her personal response to President Obama’s State of the Union Address, reports Sarah Smith.
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Huge victory for US gay rights after landmark court ruling
In two historic rulings, the US Supreme Court strikes down the law defining marriage as strictly between men and women and allows gay marriages in California to go ahead.
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Romney heads for victory – again?
Mitt Romney didn’t win convincingly in Iowa and just one of his rivals has bowed out. But he’s got cash, he’s got organisation: the Republican nomination is still his to lose, writes Felicity Spector.
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Republican campaign moves on as Romney edges Iowa
Mitt Romney has won Iowa with the narrowest of margins. But as Felicity Spector reports, there is no rest for a would-be president, as candidates head for the next step on the campaign trail.
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US prepares for first presidential contest
In the run up to 2012’s first presidential contest in Iowa, Channel 4 News looks at the Republican party nominees in what has been a volatile election race.
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New setback for Gingrich
The former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has suffered another blow to his Presidential hopes: he’s failed to get on the ballot for the Republican primary in his own state, writes Felicity Spector.
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New book goes rogue on Sarah Palin
A much hyped new book by a journalist who moved in next door to Sarah Palin has made a series of salacious allegations, from extra marital affairs to drug use.
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Perry takes the heat at the Republican debate
It’s lonely out there in front, as Rick Perry found out during last night’s Republican presidential debate, when he became everyone’s political target.
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Obama tells Congress: let’s get America back to work
President Obama sends his American Jobs Act to Congress, along with plans for budget cuts to pay for it all. And he warns his Republican rivals: the only thing stopping the plan is politics.
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Mitts off as US Republicans go head to head in first debate
Channel 4 News’s US politics commentator Felicity Spector gives her reaction to the first major debate between the Republican presidential contenders.
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Obama can't laugh off birth rumours
Our Washington Correspondent, Sarah Smith, reports on President Obama’s attempts to lay to rest Republican rumours that he was born outside the USA. And Republican fears that the row could rebound on them.
