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Palin was responding to a Web video fundraising for Obama that uses recent footage of Palin criticizing the president.

The Los Angeles County Coroner said Friday that he could not issue a cause of death determination for conservative activist and writer Andrew Breitbart, who collapsed and died Thursday while walking in his neighborhood.

According to the coroner's office, the final cause of death has been "deferred" while waiting for the results of toxicological and microscopic tests.

Those tests could take between six and eight weeks. It's not known what killed the 43-year-old website editor, although family and friends have noted that Breitbart had heart issues in the past.
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CREW executive director Melanie Sloan said Gingrich "has a long history of playing fast and loose with ethics rules."

GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman had a private sit-down with Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) on Wednesday.

Huntsman sat down with the conservative favorite while he was in Richmond for a fundraiser, according to the former Utah governor's campaign. Huntsman campaign staffers were mum on what was discussed, only saying that  it was a private discussion.

McDonnell's name has never strayed far from 2012 presidential talk. He has been floated both as a potential presidential candidate and, more often, as a prominent part of several candidates' short lists for vice president.

Unlike other potential vice presidential candidates, McDonnell, a popular Republican governor in a key swing state, has not completely shot down the possibility of accepting an offer to be on a ticket. In August in an interview with Fox News he indicated that he would be interested although he isn't "looking for it or expecting it."

Mitt Romney hit Newt Gingrich for making "self-aggrandizing statements" about the likelihood of his winning the GOP race. 

Mark Block said the campaign accepts a former staffer's claim that he did not leak the allegations of sexual harassment.

Huntsman criticized Romney for flip-flopping, echoing charges made by conservatives and Obama operatives.

GOP White House hopeful Jon Huntsman will try to energize his struggling campaign with an energy policy speech next week in New Hampshire, the early primary state where he has staked his future on performing well.

The former Utah governor is slated to give a “major” energy speech on Tuesday at the University of New Hampshire, according to the school.

Huntsman has sought to portray himself as a centrist voice in the GOP field, notably breaking with several key rivals by accepting the scientific consensus on climate change.

But he has also lambasted what he calls the Environmental Protection Agency’s “regulatory reign of terror.” Huntsman, according to his campaign website, wants to see a substantial expansion of oil-and-gas development, and end “regulatory roadblocks” to natural gas and other fuels.

Romney ripped Obama for fundraising with a former Solyndra backer, even as a former Solyndra lobbyist raised funds for Romney.

Herman Cain attempted to further clarify his stance on abortion Friday during an interview on Fox News, saying both that he does "not believe abortion should be legal in this country" but that "you don't know what [a typical family] might do in the heat of the moment."

Cain has been grappling to explain comments he made about abortion in a Wednesday interview on CNN, when he said that "it's not the government's role or anybody else's role to make that decision."

Cain said in the CNN interview that it "ultimately gets down to a choice that that family or that mother has to make, not me as president, not some politician, not a bureaucrat. It gets down to that family."