On the Trail: Nov. 22
Gingrich tops new poll; Romney tests faith in Iowa.
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Michele Bachmann - Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann’s new book, Core of My Conviction, rolled off the presses and into bookstores on Nov. 21, giving her a fresh, new way to reintroduce herself to fickle Republican voters and perhaps gain new supporters. According to a review on MinnPost.com, the memoir is “made up of equal parts personal introduction, political platform and Democrat-bashing.”(Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
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Herman Cain - Recording Cain: What’s he afraid of asks a Nov. 21 editorial in the Union Leader, New Hampshire’s largest newspaper, after Herman Cain cancelled an interview with its editorial board because he objected to its being recorded after last week’s gaffe on Libya that went viral, USA Today reports. Cain has now agreed to the sit-down, leading the publisher to tweet: “Who says Herman Cain doesn't do interviews? He's coming to Union Leader next week for an hour. C-SPAN to tape.”(Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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Jon Huntsman - Last weekend Jon Huntsman joked about placing all his bets on New Hampshire and low national poll numbers in a surprise appearance on NBC’s Saturday Night Live. He joked about how moving from barely registering at margin of error to “any digit at all is a pretty big deal." (Photo: Dana Edelson/NBC)
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Ron Paul - Texas Rep. Ron Paul blamed American policy makers for the 9/11 attacks, arguing that an American presence in Saudi Arabia motivated the terrorists. In an interview on CBS’s Face the Nation, he said that as president he’d remove troops from overseas and that submarines and long-range missiles would work equally well as deterrents. “The people are with me on that, those troops overseas aggravate our enemies," Paul said.(Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Rick Perry - Eager to regain the momentum and support among Iowa’s evangelical voters that he’s lost in recent weeks. Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed the Family Leader’s anti-gay marriage pledge last weekend, the Des Moines Register reports. It is the same controversial pledge signed by Rep. Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum that initially included language suggesting that African-American families fared better during slavery than they do now.(Photo: Rob Kim/Getty Images)
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