On the Trail: Nov. 22

Gingrich tops new poll; Romney tests faith in Iowa.

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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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)

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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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)

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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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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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)

Rick Perry - Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s rise to the top of the GOP nominating race was almost as meteoric as his fall. Now, days before the key Iowa caucuses, the Texas lawmaker is scrambling to help voters forget his poor debate performances, including the “Oops” heard ‘round the world when he forgot the name of one of the three federal agencies he would eliminate, and other brain freezes. (Photo: Rob Kim/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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Mitt Romney - Mitt Romney has long had low expectations of his chances to win Iowa’s presidential caucuses in Iowa where its largely evangelical voters have not warmed to him because he is a Mormon. He was “spooked,” The New York Times reports, after spending $10 million there and coming in second in 2008. Now, in a change of course, he says he’s in it to win it and planning to escalate his efforts there in the weeks leading up to the caucuses.(Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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Mitt Romney - Mitt Romney has long had low expectations of his chances to win Iowa’s presidential caucuses in Iowa where its largely evangelical voters have not warmed to him because he is a Mormon. He was “spooked,” The New York Times reports, after spending $10 million there and coming in second in 2008. Now, in a change of course, he says he’s in it to win it and planning to escalate his efforts there in the weeks leading up to the caucuses.(Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Are Blacks Getting the Bulk of Government Entitlements? - After Rick Santorum told Iowa voters at a campaign stop recently that he didn’t want to "make Black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money,” the presidential candidate has backtracked, denying that he actually singled out Blacks for being participants of public assistance programs such as welfare and Medicaid. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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Rick Santorum - Rick Santorum at a campaign stop in Iowa Nov. 21 said that health care savings accounts are the future and that health insurance should be reserved for major illnesses. “One of the big problems in health care is you’ve been insulated from the cost of health care,” he told a small crowd at a Waterloo coffee shop, adding that people would make better health care decisions if they knew the true cost.(Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)