Governors, 2012 Presidential Election | featured news

Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney enters the race to be the Republican presidential candidate for 2012, saying Barack Obama has "failed America".

Gov. Mitch Daniels, R-Ind., said Sunday he won't run for president because of family concerns, narrowing the field but making a wide-open race even hazier....

First Read has confirmed the news that former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) will officially launch his 2012 presidential bid on Monday in Iowa.

Candidate or not, the New Jersey governor is someone who political experts say could influence his party’s presidential nomination.

Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty may be running for president, but he's not ready to be official about it. Pawlenty moved quickly Tuesday to knock down a CNN story that appeared to show him officially entering the race.

Tim Pawlenty, the former governor of Minnesota, is set to declare Monday afternoon that he is opening a presidential exploratory committee, a step that formalizes a campaign for the Republican nomination that he has been pondering for more than a year.

Could Haley Barbour's comments on race doom his potential 2012 presidential run before it even starts? On Tuesday, the Mississippi governor sought to clarify his remarks to The Weekly Standard's Andrew Ferguson about growing up at the height of the civil rights movement in Mississippi.