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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney shakes hands with suporters in Youngstown, Ohio. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images Last Wednesday the Federal Reserve announced the first quarterly rise in consumer borrowing since 2008 , bringing it close to...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
With the Mississippi and Alabama primaries now two days away, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich tussled on Sunday over which Republican presidential hopeful would adhere most faithfully to conservative orthodoxy on fiscal restraint, healthcare and oil...
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MarketWatch
| 1 year ago
Newt Gingrich vowed again Sunday to remain in the Republican presidential race despite lagging behind Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum in polls and nominating convention delegates. I am committed to going all the way to Tampa, he said on CBS' Face the...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Rick Santorum predicted Sunday that Mitt Romney would be vulnerable in a debate over healthcare reform if he became the Republican presidential nominee. Santorum pitched the idea that Romney's record on healthcare policy was too close to the "...
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KSAZ
| 1 year ago
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Sunday that he has no plans to get out of the presidential race and expects a good showing in the Alabama and Mississippi primaries on Tuesday. Speaking on CBS's "Face the Nation," Gingrich reiterated that he...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Mississippi on Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Sunday stepped up his criticism of Mitt Romney, arguing that his primary rival has not told the truth when it comes to his record on health care. In an interview on NBC'S "...
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The Fresno Bee
| 1 year ago
Evan Vucci Romney looks weak now but that could change come fall Romney looks weak now but that could change come fall Mitt Romney looks like the weakest front-runner for a party's presidential nomination in decades right now, one who could limp to...
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The New York Times
| 1 year ago
President Obama's campaign will use the debate over the new health care law to amplify an appeal that seems to be benefiting from clashes on birth control and abortion. Rick Santorum again demonstrated his strength with conservatives by taking Kansas,...
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The Courier-Mail
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney pulled ahead of former senator Rick Santorum to win the Wyoming caucuses today. Results showed Romney won seven of the 12 delegates to the Republican National Convention, Santorum three and Ron Paul one, the party's chairman, Tammy Hooper,...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
Newt Gingrich, who so far has won only two states, South Carolina and Georgia, however said would not withdraw from the race even if he loses the Tuesday's primary in Alabama and Mississippi; thus making the Republican presidential primary race more...
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Chicago Tribune
| 1 year ago
Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney 's campaign has long considered Illinois to be in its win column, but a new Chicago Tribune/WGN-TV poll shows the candidate has some work to do to make that a reality. The survey found Romney slightly...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 1 year ago
In the latest contest of the rollercoaster Republican presidential race, Christian conservative Mr Santorum won Kansas after Mr Romney took sweeping wins thousands of miles away in Pacific US territories Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. "I...
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The New York Times
| 1 year ago
Recent Posts March 10 Rick Santorum's win in Kansas reinforced a pattern: geography has been the most reliable way to predict results in the Republican primaries...March 09 On the Republican nominating calendar, Kansas is among the most favorable...
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Toronto Star
| 1 year ago
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum address a rally of supporters at Col...Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum won Kansas on Saturday in the arduous Republican presidential race, easily disposing of his rivals in a state where two of them...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Another day of presidential primary contests on Saturday yielded a familiar result: No definitive winner, and no end in sight for the bruising GOP nomination battle. Former senator Rick Santorum (Pa.) cruised to a victory in the Kansas caucuses with...
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The Independent
| 1 year ago
There's a theory in American politics that a protracted, hard-fought primary season is a thoroughly good thing for the party concerned. The eventual nominee will be more finely tuned to voters' concerns and better prepared for the real battle ahead,...
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The Journal-World
| 1 year ago
Rick Santorum overwhelmingly won the Kansas Republican presidential caucuses on Saturday, bolstering his claim that front-runner Mitt Romney hasn't locked up the GOP nomination. Santorum appeared on track to pick up all of the state's 40 delegates,...
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Star Tribune
| 1 year ago
Rick Santorum has picked up at least 32 delegates in Saturday's caucuses, and he could get even more if his margin of victory holds up in Kansas. Mitt Romney has added at least 23 delegates, most of them from winning contests in Guam and the Northern...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
With 83% of votes counted, Santorum has 53% of the vote, rival Romney trails at 17%; Gingrich gets 15% and Paul takes 13%. US Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum swept the Kansas caucuses on Saturday with 53 percent of the vote, giving him...
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Community News
| 1 year ago
Rick Santorum overwhelmingly won the Kansas presidential caucuses Saturday as he tries to blunt Mitt Romney's momentum in the grinding campaign for the nomination to oppose President Barack Obama in the November election. Santorum, a former...
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Belleville News-Democrat
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney and his rivals are competing in caucuses in Kansas and Wyoming, the latest contests in a grinding campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. In all, 52 delegates to the Republican National Convention are at stake. Romney is...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
The US Republican primaries race has reached Kansas where Rick Santorum is expecting to do well on the strength of his conservative credentials. Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney, former governor of the liberal eastern state of Massachusetts, has...
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The Hindu
| 1 year ago
President Barack Obama seized on news of another burst of job growth as proof the U.S. economy is rebounding on his watch from a disastrous recession. The struggling economy has haunted the president as he seeks a second four-year term in November,...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Polls ahead of next week's Mississippi Republican Party primary indicate a tight race between front-runners Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich . In a March 7-8 American Research Group poll of 600 likely Republican primary voters in Mississippi, 35 percent...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, accompanied by his wife Callista, speaks at a rally in Jackson, Mississippi. Photograph: Rogelio Solis/AP It's been my argument for over a month that Mitt Romney was likely to win the Republican nomination, but it...
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The Birmingham News
| 1 year ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney told a packed crowd in Birmingham this afternoon that no less than the future of the nation is at stake in the 2012 race for the White House. "The real reason I'm in this race is the future of the country...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Rick Santorum wants a one-on-one battle against Mitt Romney for the GOP nod -- and he's stepping up his attacks on the Republican frontrunner in the hopes that a two-man race is what he'll soon have. In an address to more than 200 supporters in the...
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NY Daily News
| 1 year ago
With next week's defining Deep South primaries too close to call, the GOP battlefield shifts Saturday to Kansas where Rick Santorum hopes for a momentum-changing win. Santorum has been the only major Republican candidate to spend any time in Kansas...
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The New York Times
| 1 year ago
March 08 There's no doubt that Rick Santorum would make gains if Newt Gingrich dropped out, but would it be enough? March 07 It was a long and bumpy night for the candidates that ended in an underwhelming but basically successful outcome for Mitt...
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The New York Times
| 1 year ago
The Obama administration has begun an aggressive campaign to use approaching Supreme Court arguments on the new health care law as a moment to build support for the measure. Elizabeth Warren has drawn support for her Massachusetts Senate campaign...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Rick Santorum expressed hope on Thursday that he might be able to knock Newt Gingrich his chief rival for second place in the Republican primary out of the race within a week. What it would take, Santorum told reporters before a speech here, would be...
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The Birmingham News
| 1 year ago
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum went on the attack this afternoon against President Barack Obama and rival Mitt Romney. "We must make this a race about President Obama's deplorable record, about a president on the verge of...
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Kansas City Star
| 1 year ago
The contests are far from over, but at this rate of gathering delegates, Mitt Romney's rivals won't catch him unless they pull off an unlikely fight at the Republican National Convention in August. Romney is on a delegate-winning pace to secure the...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 1 year ago
One is an ugly and divisive fight at the Republican National Convention this August in Tampa, Florida. (AP)
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The Columbus Dispatch
| 1 year ago
The former Massachusetts governor slipped past Rick Santorum by 10,508 votes less than 1 percent of the 1.2 million cast in Tuesday's Republican presidential primary with a performance that any statewide Democratic candidate might envy...I was struck...
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Canada.com
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney's campaign told his Republican presidential rivals on Wednesday they could not catch him and pushed them to quit the race even though he failed to deliver a knockout blow in the biggest round of nominating contests. Romney won six of the...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney said Wednesday his six Super Tuesday victories, including a squeaker in Ohio, show his campaign for the Republican presidential nod is on track. Romney took victories in Vermont, Massachusetts (where he was governor), Virginia (where he...
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CNN
| 1 year ago
According to CNN's latest delegate count, Romney now has 404 delegates, compared with 165 for Rick Santorum, 106 for Newt Gingrich and 66 for Ron Paul. To claim the nomination, a candidate will need 1,144 delegates when Republicans meet for their...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney added about 200 delegates to his tally on Super Tuesday. Photograph: Win Mcnamee/Getty Images Mitt Romney 's campaign team has appealed for his rivals to quit the Republican presidential race, claiming that it is near impossible for them...
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Boston Globe
| 1 year ago
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and his wife Ann wave to supporters at his Super Tuesday campaign rally in Boston, Tuesday night, March 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia) Associated Press / March 7, 2012 E-...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney reached out to conservatives suspicious of him and sought to assert himself as the inevitable Republican US presidential nominee on Wednesday, despite failing to deliver a knockout blow to his rivals in the biggest round of nominating...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Articles "We have won in the West, the Midwest and the South and we're ready to win across this country," the former U.S. senator told supporters at a rally in Steubenville, an Ohio River city near the border with Pennsylvania , Santorum's home state.
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
No coup de grace from Romney, but he made progress' The morning after Super Tuesday , the narrative is still in flux. The pundits often derided as "inside the bubble" typically settle on a common narrative...One one side of the argument are those who...
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Kansas City Star
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney said Wednesday he's "prepared to fight all the way" to become the Republican presidential nominee after a strong showing on the biggest night of the GOP presidential primary season. But Rick Santorum demonstrated enough political muscle...
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NY Daily News
| 1 year ago
The once-and-future GOP frontrunner landed at least six victories, including a sweat-it-out nailbiter over Rick Santorum in the day's biggest prize: Ohio. The day's 10 coast-to-coast contests, which stretched from Georgia to Alaska, rewarded more...
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Telegram & Gazette
| 1 year ago
Former Gov. Mitt Romney made the most of his win in the Massachusetts primary last night despite mixed results elsewhere on Super Tuesday, promising hundreds of cheering supporters he is going to win the GOP nomination. '+unescape('')+' Enlarge photo...
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Boston Globe
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney narrowly beat Rick Santorum in the Ohio primary, the jewel of Super Tuesday, and won in five of the other nine states up for grabs in the Republican presidential contests. Newt Gingrich's win in Georgia kept his hopes alive in a fight...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney edged out Rick Santorum to win the Ohio Republican primary by a percentage point in the most-watched state of the 10 that voted on Super Tuesday. Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, trailed Santorum, a former U.S. senator from...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 1 year ago
Story continues below But he found himself holding only the slimmest of margins over Rick Santorum in Ohio, the most coveted primary of the night, while losing other contests in the South and the West. The Republican presidential race was always...
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The New York Times
| 1 year ago
His quest to win the Republican presidential nomination has always resembled a detailed, methodical business plan. Mr. Romney, who spent much of his life fixing troubled corporations, must now decide whether steps are necessary to repair his...
