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Los Angeles Times
| over 1 year ago
Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum each ridiculed President Obama 's record on energy and the environment on Monday, while Mitt Romney stuck to his economic agenda as the trio of Republican presidential candidates wrapped up their Mississippi and...
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NY Daily News
| over 1 year ago
A Florida pastor is calling for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to publicly renounce his "racist Mormon religion."...O'Neal Dozier , a supporter of fellow GOPer Rick Santorum , also insisted that the former governor of Massachusetts...
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The Sun Herald
| over 1 year ago
A crowd of several hundred gathered at a Coast Energy Summit in Biloxi today to hear GOP candidates Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, plus other state and regional leaders speak about domestic energy production policies...I would suspect the president...
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Boston Globe
| over 1 year ago
If the opportunity provides itself at an open convention, they're not going to nominate a moderate Massachusetts governor who has been outspending his opponent 10 to one and can't win the election outright. Romney, however, said he is closing the...
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United Press International
| over 1 year ago
The following are the dates for the 2012 Republican presidential primaries and their results. All are Tuesdays unless otherwise noted: Jan. 3: Jan. 3: Iowa caucus: (Official -- eight precincts missing) Rick Santorum 29,839, Mitt Romney 29,805, Ron...
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Daily News & Analysis
| over 1 year ago
For the first time in the run-up to the crucial 2012 presidential election in the US, hot favourite President Barack Obama's approval ratings have plunged below 50% and is trailing behind Republican hopeful Mitt Romney . If November elections were to...
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The New York Times
| over 1 year ago
Volatile contests in Alabama and Mississippi, both of which hold primaries on Tuesday, suggest a fragmented and fickle Southern electorate. Rick Santorum said Mitt Romney can't close the deal, and Newt Gingrich called Mr. Romney the Republicans'...
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Reuters
| over 1 year ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks with workers and supporters at Thompson Tractor in Birmingham, Alabama March 9, 2012. A new poll Monday showed Mitt Romney is surprisingly strong in two Republican presidential primary contests in...
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Fox News
| over 1 year ago
As Republicans head to the polls in three states for the latest iteration in the presidential primary, Mitt Romney is banking his delegates on a methodical push to the top. And he says he's not buying the hype he can't wrap up the deal even as his...
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The Journal-World
| over 1 year ago
Topeka Rick Santorum won the Kansas Republican Party caucus in a landslide, but the Kansas Democratic Party turned its aim on second-place finisher Mitt Romney. "Mitt Romney failed to convince Kansas Republican voters that he has what it takes to...
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Miami Herald
| over 1 year ago
Rick Santorum says he believes he would get the Republican presidential nomination if that race lasts until the GOP nominating convention. Without naming chief rival Mitt Romney, Santorum says that if the race remains undecided by the party's August...
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Miami Herald
| over 1 year ago
With a muddled outcome from the 10 Super Tuesday states, there's no sign the GOP presidential primary process will be resolved before California Republicans hold a vote that pundits once said was too late to matter...A new poll of California voters...
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Washington Post
| over 1 year ago
Among the accomplishments cited are new auto efficiency standards requiring an average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, an increase in domestic oil production of 120,000 barrels a day last year and the approval of 29 onshore renewable energy...
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Fox News
| over 1 year ago
A majority of Americans disapprove of the way President Barack Obama is handling the economy -- with a record number who "disapprove strongly" -- amid soaring gas prices and an uncertain fiscal future, a new Washington Post-ABC News survey out Monday...
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Zee News
| over 1 year ago
Graham Washington: Mitt Romney has all but won the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, top senator Lindsey Graham said on Sunday, agreeing with the candidate that "mathematically, this thing is about over.
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Miami Herald
| over 1 year ago
Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum face a daunting calendar in the months ahead: a set of far-flung primaries that offer little chance for a knockout punch as they battle for the 1,144 delegates needed to clinch the GOP presidential nomination. In that...
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The Guardian
| over 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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MarketWatch
| over 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
| over 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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Washington Post
| over 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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Washington Post
| over 1 year ago
There's no relief in sight for Mitt Romney , with a new poll showing a tight race in the Illinois primary later this month. The new Chicago Tribune/WGN-TV poll shows Romney at 35 percent in the March 20 primary, but Rick Santorum is within the margin...
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The Age
| over 1 year ago
Nick O'Malley, Washington March 12, 2012 Read later Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum speaks during a campaign rally in Ohio. Santorum demolished his rivals in the Kansas caucuses in the race to become the Republican presidential...
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United Press International
| over 1 year ago
Twenty delegates are at stake in Hawaii's first-ever Republican presidential caucuses Tuesday...During the 2008 presidential campaign, Hawaii's GOP delegates were selected at the state's Republican convention. GOP presidential candidate Sen. John...
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NY Daily News
| over 1 year ago
Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston presents a Profile in Courage Award to someone in politics who's displayed uncommon bravery. If this is an honor Mitt Romney ever hopes to win, he should give up now. The cowardly lion of presidential politics...
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The Fresno Bee
| over 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
| over 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
| over 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
| over 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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The Birmingham News
| over 1 year ago
Newt Gingrich wrapped up a full day of campaigning in hotbeds of Republican support across Alabama tonight with a last stop in Hoover where he hammered President Barack Obama. On energy, economic and foreign policy, Gingrich said Obama has failed. "...
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Toronto Star
| over 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
| over 1 year ago
Well, I would say it probably wouldn't help, Bob Dool, the chairman of the Sedgwick County Republican Party, said of Romney's failure to tap a representative to speak for him in Wichita . We had accepted up until yesterday anybody to speak on behalf...
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The Independent
| over 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
| over 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
| over 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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Miami Herald
| over 1 year ago
Republican voters in Mississippi, the very reddest of the red states, have never been in a position like this: GOP presidential candidates, their fates still in the wind, are here with their hats in hands, showing the love...All have frequently...
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The New York Times
| over 1 year ago
For Massachusetts officials used to the glad-handing of local politics, Mitt Romney was an unfamiliar breed. His approach could offer hints of how a possible President Romney might deal with Congress. Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich have largely...
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The Hindu
| over 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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Daily Southtown
| over 1 year ago
Political Reporter apallasch@suntimes.com March 9, 2012 6:30PM Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks at the Mississippi Farmers Market in Jackson, Miss., Friday. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) Updated: March 9, 2012 6:42PM Get ready to...
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Los Angeles Times
| over 1 year ago
Reporting from Jackson, Miss. While Mitt Romney 's GOP rivals swept recently through the South appealing to culturally conservative voters, Romney kept a tight focus on the economy during his two-day southern swing -- ignoring his competitors while...
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The Guardian
| over 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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United Press International
| over 1 year ago
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is spending more money than he is bringing in, but is asking for more from lawmakers, officials said. In January, the Romney campaign and the super PAC supporting him brought in $13.1 million in January,...
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Washington Post
| over 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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CNN
| over 1 year ago
It's an infomercial," Romney told a crowd in Jackson, Mississippi. "I have some suggestions for the president and for the (film's) producer. ... Talk to the 24 million Americans who are out of work or underemployed in this country." Or "how about our...
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Washington Post
| over 1 year ago
Mitt Romney did not specifically mention the new unemployment figures during a town hall event in Mississippi's capital Friday morning. The closest he came was a swipe at President Obama over the documentary his campaign produced to tout the...
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The New York Times
| over 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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Reuters
| over 1 year ago
President Barack Obama walks across the South Lawn as he returns from a day trip to North Carolina, at the White House in Washington, March 7, 2012. The Obama administration's working group this week will discuss rising gasoline prices as it...
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Fox News
| over 1 year ago
Next time you hear some politician with a three-point plan on $2 gas, you let them know -- tell them we're tired of hearing election-year promises. What we need is a serious all-of-the-above strategy for American efficiency innovation." -- President...
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United Press International
| over 1 year ago
Critics of the White House said more domestic oil and gas production would lower U.S. gasoline prices but others called for fewer breaks for big oil companies. The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power had hearings over gasoline...
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United Press International
| over 1 year ago
The U.S. president, though his alternative-fuel initiative, sent a message to the Middle East that their oil is needed as much as "their sand," a lawmaker said...President Barack Obama told supporters in North Carolina that he was proposing $1...
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Daily News & Analysis
| over 1 year ago
US President Barack Obama has warned that growing energy demands in populous and emerging economies like India, China and Brazil would be responsible for the increase in global oil prices in the long term. "Over the long term, the biggest reason oil...
