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Fox News
| over 1 year ago
Despite a hard-charging speech over the weekend that suggested dissatisfaction with the Republican presidential primary frontrunner, Sarah Palin said Sunday that Mitt Romney "is a great candidate." But the 2008 vice presidential candidate and Tea...
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United Press International
| over 1 year ago
Political experts said Sunday U.S. presidential hopeful Mitt Romney 's lacking conservatism is helping Rick Santorum in the race for the Republican nod. Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee who is now a Tea Party...
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Austin America-Statesman/Texas Longhorns
| over 1 year ago
Maine Rick Santorum is pursuing an aggressive strategy to challenge Mitt Romney in the state where the GOP presidential front-runner grew up. Santorum said Sunday he could do "exceptionally well" in Michigan, the next state to host a presidential...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
Articles For the first time in the GOP presidential race, Romney's national acceptability is less than that of Rick Santorum, according to the most recent polls. Santorum, riding on the wave of momentum from his victories in Minnesota, Colorado and...
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The Daily Herald
| over 1 year ago
He has been forthright, consistent and even eloquent in pressing home his campaigns central theme: Mitt Romney desperately wants to be president...Romney is passionate about the need, as he sees it, to defeat President Obama but vague or self-...
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in Maine on Saturday. Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has got his campaign back on track by winning the Maine caucuses, holding off a strong challenge from...
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Washington Post
| over 1 year ago
Mitt Romney has won the Maine caucuses, turning aside a valiant effort from Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and getting back on the winning side of the ledger after a tough week. Results of the week-long caucuses released Saturday evening by the Maine...
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National Public Radio
| over 1 year ago
February 11, 2012 Mitt Romney eked out a narrow win in Maine's Republican caucuses, state party officials announced Saturday, providing his campaign for the party's presidential nomination a much-needed boost after three straight losses earlier this...
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Belleville News-Democrat
| over 1 year ago
Mitt Romney has added to his lead in the race for delegates with a narrow victory in the Maine Republican presidential caucuses. The former Massachusetts governor won at least eight delegates, with six delegates left to be allocated, according to an...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| over 1 year ago
Ron Paul received 36 per cent, Rick Santorum won 18 per cent and Newt Gingrich took six per cent of the votes in the ongoing battles for the Republican Party presidential nomination. Romney has already won state primaries in New Hampshire, Florida...
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Fox News
| over 1 year ago
Mitt Romney is the winner of the Maine Republican presidential caucuses. The state party announced Saturday evening that Romney received 39 percent of the vote in the state's nonbinding contest. Ron Paul came in second. The two were the only...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
Santorum followed with 31 percent, Newt Gingrich placed third at 15 percent and Rep. Ron Paul garnered 12 percent of the vote...There were some boos from the audience as Fabrizio announced the numbers. Santorum, fresh from a triple win in Minnesota,...
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Fox News
| over 1 year ago
Mitt Romney won the presidential straw poll Saturday at the Conservative Political Action Conference , an unofficial endorsement from party activists that nevertheless helps the former Massachusetts governor burnish his conservative image. The...
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Washington Post
| over 1 year ago
Mitt Romney won the Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll on Saturday, taking 38 percent of the vote at the annual gathering of party activists in Washington, D.C...With more than 3,400 ballots cast, the final results showed Romney...
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Washington Post
| over 1 year ago
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney faces a tough race against Rep. Ron Paul in Maine's caucuses. (Darren McCollester Getty Images) I think it's going well, Sununu responded...The former New Hampshire governor and top Mitt Romney surrogate was...
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KSAZ
| over 1 year ago
Rick Santorum has taken his first national lead in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, according to a new poll that put him ahead of Mitt Romney by a double-digit margin. A Public Policy Polling (PPP) survey released Saturday showed...
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Gawker
| over 1 year ago
Ron Paul Aims to Keep Screwing With Romney Can we always call him "feisty Ron Paul" the way Steve Peoples of the Associated Press does? Paul reflects on his chances in Maine, which he believes are good. Romney can probably stand to lose another one...
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Voice of America
| over 1 year ago
Republicans in the northeastern U.S. state of Maine wrap up voting Saturday for the candidate they hope to see take on President Barack Obama in November. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is hoping for a strong showing in the Maine caucuses...
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Boston Globe
| over 1 year ago
In this Jan. 7, 2012 file photo, Merav Yaakov of Manchester, N.H., hold signs in support of Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, outside a scheduled event for Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt...
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign stop in Portland, Maine. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is desperately seeking a convincing win against Ron Paul in the conclusion of...
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Canada.com
| over 1 year ago
White House hopeful Mitt Romney has promised to unite Republicans and defeat President Barack Obama in the "battle for the soul of America" as officials in Maine prepared to unveil the results of party caucuses on Saturday. Friday. "I am convinced...
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Star Tribune
| over 1 year ago
The one-time GOP front-runner is looking to avoid a fourth consecutive defeat on Saturday...He's locked in a two-man race with Texas congressman Ron Paul. Neither Newt Gingrich nor Rick Santorum are actively competing in the state. Romney hopes to...
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Miami Herald
| over 1 year ago
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, Feb. 7, 2012 This is some Republican contest for the right to challenge the incumbent Democratic president from Chicago's South Side. This race to the Republican nomination certainly isn't about the...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
Results of a non-binding straw poll to be released in race between front-runner Mitt Romney and libertarian Ron Paul. Maine's Republican presidential caucuses look like a two-man race between Mitt Romney, the party's current front-runner, and...
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Los Angeles Times
| over 1 year ago
Mitt Romney , reeling from a triple loss to Rick Santorum in voter contests this week, made his most explicit appeal yet to the Republican right. Romney described himself as a "severely conservative Republican governor" in a half-hour speech to the...
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
Mitt Romney suffered a trio of defeats this week at the hands of Rick Santorum. Photograph: Ron Sachs/CNP/Corbis Mitt Romney attempted to get his presidential campaign back on track Friday with a speech aimed at winning over conservatives at their...
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USA Today
| over 1 year ago
Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum , former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and former speaker Newt Gingrich each addressed the annual three-day gathering, which culminates with the release of the presidential straw poll results on Saturday...
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Associated Press
| over 1 year ago
Mitt Romney and Ron Paul rarely even acknowledge each other in the Republican presidential race, focusing their attention and attacks on rivals Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum instead. That curious detente is being tested in Maine's caucuses this...
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MarketWatch
| over 1 year ago
Conservative activists gathered here for a high-profile annual conference said on Friday that they still have misgivings about Mitt Romney after a speech by the Republican presidential hopeful, indicating that the former Massachusetts governor still...
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The Tribune
| over 1 year ago
Santorum casts self as true conservative Rick Santorum is telling conservatives he's the only Republican presidential candidate who shares their values and implicitly attacking rival Mitt Romney as a moderate. Romney favored, Santorum lurking as 3...
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CNN
| over 1 year ago
Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich were all scheduled to address the influential gathering in Washington...Romney also plans to travel to Maine on Friday afternoon for a town hall meeting on the eve of the announcement of the winner of that...
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Fox News
| over 1 year ago
Rick Santorum has surged nationally in the race for the 2012 Republican nomination after his three-state sweep this week, while Mitt Romney has lost ground among GOP primary voters. In addition, most GOP voters say the nomination race isn't over --...
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Fox News
| over 1 year ago
Barack Obama bests each of the Republican presidential candidates in hypothetical matchups. In addition, the president's job approval rating hits its highest point in over six months -- despite a decline in optimism on the economy. A Fox News poll...
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USA Today
| over 1 year ago
Santorum's lament has already been sung with encores by former House speaker Newt Gingrich , who has twice been on the receiving end of millions of dollars of attack advertising from Romney and his supporters. Now, however, it's not just Romney's...
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The Washington Times
| over 1 year ago
Former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania is the GOP 's latest presidential flavor of the month, propelled in large part by his party's large bloc of evangelical and socially conservative voters. Michele Bachmann , Rick Perry and Herman Cain , who...
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Washington Post
| over 1 year ago
But there appeared to be broad agreement on who should not get the nod: former Massachusetts governor (and current GOP presidential front-runner) Mitt Romney. Interviews with attendees on the first day of the annual summit of conservatives in...
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Kansas City Star
| over 1 year ago
If Mitt Romney needs some good news in an otherwise lousy week, he might find it in an improbable place: the packed hallways of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington.Interviews with nearly two dozen attendees Thursday found...
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MarketWatch
| over 1 year ago
The improving U.S. labor market is a threat to the Republican Party's drive to take back the White House, former presidential candidate Herman Cain acknowledged Thursday. But Cain said it's only a threat if Republicans don't expose what he called the...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
Articles In the Colorado caucus too, he lost to Santorum after leading in the trial polls by 10 points. According to forecasts, Romney is still leading in many of the Feb and March polling states and also tops the Republican polls nationally. But the...
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Daily News & Analysis
| over 1 year ago
Many US Republicans may have growing concerns about their presidential front-runner Mitt Romney, but no one is pushing the panic button yet. That could change quickly, however, if Romney does not reverse Tuesday's three-state losing streak to Rick...
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Taiwan News
| over 1 year ago
A resurgent Rick Santorum won Republican presidential caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado on Tuesday night, a stunning sweep that raised fresh questions about front-runner Mitt Romney's ability to appeal to the ardent conservatives at the core of the...
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Chicago Tribune
| over 1 year ago
Despite the sluggish economy, most Illinois voters approve of Barack Obama 's handling of the presidency and the president appears poised for a general election victory in his home state this fall, a new Tribune/WGN-TV poll shows. Though the...
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USA Today
| over 1 year ago
Consider the procession of contenders who have surged to the top of the Republican field and then plunged as partisans search for the strongest candidate to take on a vulnerable Democratic incumbent. (Remember Rick Perry? How about Herman Cain?)...
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
A sign welcomes Mitt Romney for a campaign rally at RV America in Loveland, Colorado. Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images Rick Santorum was the big winner in Tuesday night's contests in Colorado, Minnesota, and Missouri. One of the big...
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USA Today
| over 1 year ago
Despite Santorum's wins, Obama camp keeps focus on Romney Updated Rick Santorum scored a hat trick on Tuesday, but the Obama campaign remains squarely focused on Mitt Romney. The campaign distributed a memo to reporters Wednesday evening titled, "...
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Epoch Times
| over 1 year ago
February 8, 2012 Rick Santorum has turned the tide in his favor upsetting GOP front runner Mitt Romney and conservative hopeful Newt Gingrich by gaining a three-state victory in the mid-West. Santorum won Missouri, Minnesota, and Colorado caucuses...
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Russia Today
| over 1 year ago
On Tuesday night, things for the Republican Party got out of control. Newt Gingrich, the self-assured candidate that earlier had guaranteed to grab the nomination, dropped off the charts; Romney, the frontrunner, lost in all three states; and Ron...
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Los Angeles Times
| over 1 year ago
Reporting from Atlanta A day after his defeats in Colorado, Missouri and Minnesota, Mitt Romney pounded Republican presidential rivals Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich on Wesnesday as big-spending Washington insiders whose careers show scant evidence...
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Austin America-Statesman/Texas Longhorns
| over 1 year ago
Resurgent Rick Santorum said his sweep of three GOP contests earned his shoestring campaign $250,000 overnight, cash he needs to take his upstart bid for the Republican presidential nomination to Mitt Romney's turf. Santorum's stunning victories...
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Idaho Mountain Express and Guide
| over 1 year ago
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 Putting the party in political party Blaine County GOP prepares for first caucus Blaine County Republicans will host the county's first-ever GOP caucus in March, taking the place of a state-run primary vote that would have...
