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USA Today
| 1 year ago
Don't make 'abrupt' shift in Afghan policy Updated Mitt Romney said the United States should not change its policy in Afghanistan because of 16 civilians were killed there, allegedly by an American soldier. "You don't make an abrupt shift in policy...
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NY1
| 1 year ago
Primary Day in Mississippi and Alabama could help bring some clarity to the GOP presidential campaign. Polls show close races, with Mitt Romney looking for his first win in the south. The former Massachusetts governor is focusing on the economy and...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
Rick Santorum put pressure on Newt Gingrich to bow out of the presidential race Tuesday, telling Fox News the former House speaker is making it "hard for me" to win primary contests without having much of a shot at the nomination himself. The...
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Boston Globe
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney is hoping a breakthrough Tuesday night could come from two states in the Deep South, a region that so far has looked askance at the former Massachusetts governor with dual degrees from Harvard. A week after Super Tuesday's 10-state...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
the story line is getting a little repetitive. Once again, a night of primaries becomes a night of high stakes for the GOP presidential candidates. Just like Florida , South Carolina, Michigan , all of Super Tuesday, or many of the other presidential...
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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
U.S. voters in the southern states of Mississippi and Alabama started casting ballots early Tuesday for the Republican candidate to challenge President Barack Obama in November. Frontrunner Mitt Romney hopes to edge closer to locking up his expected...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Articles The top three contenders have campaigned heavily in the state seeking support to outdo each other. Romney, who is aggressively campaigning to end Santorum's and Gingrich's presidential bid, sought the voters help to get more delegates. "I...
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Arab News
| 1 year ago
Republicans Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney battled on Monday for conservative support in Mississippi and Alabama ahead of presidential primaries that polls showed have turned into tense three-way ties. The stakes are high for all of the...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney needs his first win in a true southern state to show he can excite a central element of the GOP base. Rick Santorum needs to prove to Newt Gingrich that it's time for him to get out, giving the former senator a clear shot at Romney...In...
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The Hindu
| 1 year ago
AP Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. File photo The Republican presidential candidates were focussed on the southern U.S. states of Alabama and Mississippi Tuesday as voters in those conservative strongholds head...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Rick Santorum told Alabama voters to ignore predictions Mitt Romney would win the Republican presidential nomination and vote Tuesday with "your own head." "Don't vote with what the pundits say," Santorum told a rally of about 2,000 people in...
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Kansas.com
| 1 year ago
In an ironic postscript to the Kansas Republican caucus Saturday, it turns out that if Mitt Romney had just gotten slightly fewer votes, he'd have wound up losing less ground to his closest rival, Rick Santorum. Santorum easily won the caucus with 51.
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Canada.com
| 1 year ago
Foxworthy, who has starred in the TV show Are You Smarter Than A Fifth-Grader?, said he endorsed Romney because he believes the GOP candidate is best qualified to fix the U.S. economy. Republican John McCain carried both in the 2008 election - but...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
In Mississippi, Gingrich is barely leading the pack wi th 33 percent of likely voters saying they would vote for the candidate if "the election was today." Thirty-one percent said they would cast their ballot for Romney, 28 percent for Santorum , and...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Virgin Islands on Saturday, then why did most media outlets declare Mitt Romney the winner? The Texas congressman received just 11 votes more than the Massachusetts governor in the U.S. territory on Saturday, beating him by three percentage points.
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CNN
| 1 year ago
Rick Santorum hopes to parlay his weekend win in Kansas into a strong Tuesday in Mississippi and Alabama. The idea is to blow up the Southern strategy of Newt Gingrich's campaign and muscle Gingrich out of the race. And, voila a face-off with Mitt...
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Boston Globe
| 1 year ago
Rick Santorum launched a fresh attack Sunday on Mitt Romney, accusing him of not telling the truth about his support for a federal health insurance mandate based on Massachusetts law. Governor Romney actually advocated for the Massachusetts model...
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Boston Globe
| 1 year ago
In talk show appearances Sunday, Gingrich attacked Santorum for his economic policies, and said he will not drop out and give Santorum a chance to go head to head with former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. When I was speaker of the House, we led...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
Volatile GOP race isn't all about math Updated Rick Santorum argued the GOP presidential race is far from over, despite Mitt Romney's lead in delegates needed for the party's nomination. "This isn't a mathematical formula. This race has a tremendous...
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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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Charlotte Observer Online
| 1 year ago
Rick Santorum won the Kansas caucuses in a rout on Saturday, and Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney countered in Wyoming, a weekend prelude to suddenly pivotal Southern primary showdowns in the week ahead. "Things have an amazing way of...
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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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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Text Size Mitt Romney is the projected winner of the Wyoming Republican Presidential county caucuses, news sources report, and he also won GOP Presidential caucuses the U.S...Share This Story With 87 percent of precincts reporting on Saturday evening,...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney finished a distant second in the Kansas Republican caucuses, but has won nearly a clean sweep of the 27 delegates at stake today in contests in three island territories, according to the Associated Press. Romney won all nine GOP delegates...
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Washington Post
| 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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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
In a memo to reporters Saturday night, Romney's camp argued that the former Massachusetts governor and GOP frontrunner has come out ahead in Saturday's contests by his sweeping victories in the U.S. territories of Guam, the U.S...Today, Mitt Romney...
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Canada.com
| 1 year ago
Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum swept the Kansas caucuses on Saturday with 51 percent of the vote, giving him a boost going into crucial primary votes in the South next week. The conservative former senator from Pennsylvania was well...
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China News
| 1 year ago
Rick Santorum has won Kansas caucuses of the US Republican Party on Saturday, giving him momentum ahead of next week's "Southern Super Tuesday" contests in Mississippi and Alabama. After more than 85 percent of votes were counted in Kansas caucuses,...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Santorum was the projected winner of Saturday's Kansas caucuses. Kan., March 10 (UPI) -- Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorium Saturday was the projected winner of the Kansas caucuses after garnering strong support. The conservative Republican held...
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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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Guardian Unlimited
| 1 year ago
Rick Santorum's easy win in Kansas has dispelled any Republican hopes of an early conclusion to the race. Photograph: Eric Gay/AP Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum easily won the Kansas caucuses to consolidate his status as the main...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Though Romney holds a strong delegate advantage overall, he is unlikely to clinch the nomination anytime soon. He admitted that contests this Tuesday in Alabama and Mississippi are "road games" -- more favorable terrain for Santorum and Newt Gingrich...
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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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KSBY
| 1 year ago
Rick Santorum has overwhelmingly won the Kansas Republican presidential caucuses...Rival Newt Gingrich cancelled a scheduled trip to the state late last week to concentrate on Tuesday's upcoming primaries in Alabama and Mississippi. In the other...
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NY Daily News
| 1 year ago
Rick Santorum snagged another Midwestern triumph Saturday even as Mitt Romney continued his steady collection of delegates. Santorum captured the Kansas caucus, adding to his impressive string of victories in the Heartland. The former Pennsylvania...
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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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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney claimed victory in Saturday caucuses in Guam and Northern Mariana Islands, saying he secured support of all 18 delegates at stake in the U.S. Pacific territories. "The people of Guam have always stood...
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KSAZ
| 1 year ago
Republican presidential nomination frontrunner Mitt Romney extended his lead Saturday when he picked up 18 delegates from the Pacific in a sweep of Guam and the Northern Mariana islands. The Pacific Island territory of Guam -- about 1,680 miles (2,...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
Rick Santorum was fighting Saturday to creep up on Mitt Romney's lead with a win in the Kansas caucuses -- but the complexities of the delegate process combined with a string of contests in U.S. territories could make that task nearly impossible. ...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
Northern Mariana Islands Mitt Romney has won the Republican caucus in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands , picking up nine delegates. Romney won 87 percent of the 848 votes cast Saturday in the main islands of Saipan, Tinian and Rota.
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Seattle Times
| 1 year ago
40 delegates (three to statewide winner, three to winner of each of four congressional districts, 25 divided proportionally among candidates who receive at least 20 percent of statewide vote) Wyoming Time: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. MST, in six of state's 23...
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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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Fox News
| 1 year ago
Guam Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney picked up nine more delegates Saturday, winning unanimous backing at the Guam GOP convention. Republicans on the tiny Pacific island decided to shun traditional paper ballots and all 215 eligible...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R). (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) The clean sweep by Romney in the U.S. territory one of five that award Republican National Convention delegates in the nomination battle comes as one of Romney's sons,...
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Arizona Republic
| 1 year ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has picked up nine more delegates, winning unanimous backing at the Republican convention on the U.S. territory of Guam. Republicans on the tiny Pacific island decided to shun traditional paper ballots,...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 1 year ago
The Romney campaign says he now has support from 430 delegates, leading Rick Santorum by 245 delegates and Newt Gingrich by 324. Not so fast, says the Republican National Committee, the party's official body, which hosts the Republican convention...
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Miami Herald
| 1 year ago
Aiming to extinguish Newt Gingrich's campaign and emerge as Mitt Romney's sole rival, Rick Santorum stumped in Topeka, Kansas' state capital, and Wichita, its largest city, on Friday, the day before the state's caucuses and four days before critical...
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Toronto Star
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney facces skeptics in the Bible Belt statesnext week. Mitt Romney's path to the Republican presidential nomination is about to take a turn through the deep American South, which could complicate matters for the frontrunner in the race to...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, accompanied by his wife Callista, at a rally in Jackson, Mississippi. Photograph: Rogelio Solis/AP Former House speaker Newt Gingrich could bounce back next week with wins in Mississippi and Alabama , according to...
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Star Tribune
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney's Super Tuesday victories elicited a collective yawn from his party's superdelegates. Since Tuesday's voting, Romney has added only a single endorsement to his total among members of the Republican National Committee, the party leaders...
