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Mitt Romney grasping a confused looking baby. Rick Perry cradling a tommy gun. A giant toy elephant and Newt Gingrich. This — and more — is the 2012 Republican primaries in pictures.

With five primaries and caucuses done, with party favourite Mitt Romney leading, and with the next four contests before Super Tuesday favouring him, the 2012 race for the Republican nomination is beginning to slip quietly away from the top of the news agenda.

Why is Texas Governor Rick Perry still in the Republican race? A campaign stop in South Carolina demonstrated why even the man himself doesn’t seem to think he can win.

There is something about Rick Santorum that gets under my skin, and it has nothing to do with his positions on sexuality.

Mitt Romney “won” the New Hampshire primary yesterday. But his now almost inevitable run to the Republican nomination has never looked less convincing, writes Guy Rundle from Columbia, South Carolina.

Republican Mitt Romney tried to be casual, relaxed and engaging in New Hampshire. It didn’t work. Crikey’s Guy Rundle begins his US roadshow in the bellwether state to report on this week’s crucial primary.

Somehow Republicans have to pick from this motley crew to challenge Barack Obama for the White House in November. With domestic politics still on its Summer slumber, the GOP race, if not the candidates, is captivating.

The Republican presidential campaign has already provided plenty of drama and entertainment, but things are about to get even more interesting.

Well it has been a helluva ride for the Republican Party, as its right-wing base searches for anyone but the passionless and, by American standards, centrist mainstream candidate Mitt Romney.

Rick Perry has a knack for making comments that cause large swathes of the electorate to wince.

During a campaign speech in New Hampshire Republican presidential nominee Rick Perry raised the possibility of a bold new strategy to combat Mexican drug cartels: US military intervention, reports BBC News.

It’s been fascinating to watch climate change emerge again as a political issue in the US, writes Giles Parkinson, of Climate Spectator.

For many people, the most revealing moment in last week’s debate among Republican presidential candidates came when Rick Perry was asked about his record on capital punishment in Texas.

The spat between Republican front runners Mitt Romney and Rick Perry during the latest GOP debate consumed most of the headlines but pales in comparison to an off air confrontation between Perry and Ron Paul, writes Stephen Dinan.

Where do the top Republican presidential hopefuls stand on evolution? Huff Po reveals the opinions of Rick Perry, Ron Paul and the rest of the gang.

With any luck, the question of another stimulus package will never arise. But if it does, it’ll be the ideological equivalent of lifting up a rock to find out what crawls beneath.

Crikey readers have their say.

Now, for perhaps the first time since George Wallace in 1968, a true son of the Confederacy is in the running for the presidency.

Even as recently as 2004, Ames barely rated a mention. Now, bizarrely, the American political cycle has become so permanent that this state-fair schlockfest has become a vital part in the decision as to who will control the world’s largest economy and nuclear arsenal.

In the wake of the first major GOP presidential campaign causality (Tim Pawlenty) Reuters lists the front-running GOP hopefuls to take on Obama in 2012, including Mitt Romney, Michelle Bachmann and Rick Perry.

Barack Obama’s Puerto Rico visit is widely seen as a bid for votes on the mainlandand for Hispanic votes more generally. That poses a particular problem for the Republican Party.