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The Hill
| 1 year ago
President Obama and Mitt Romney, the presumptive GOP nominee, have begun to circle each other over the charge of elitism, which both see as a threat. The economy has shown signs of strengthening, but with the national unemployment rate at 8.3...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Editorial Plenty of primaries remain to be settled in the US Republican party's presidential nomination race. Among them is the largest prize of all, California on 5 June. Before then, there is a showdown on 24 April in Pennsylvania, home state of...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Articles The former Massachusetts governor, who is on the verge of clinching the Republican nomination to face off Obama in the United States of America's November presidential election, quoted Obama's recent remark to Russian President Dmitry...
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Truthdig
| 1 year ago
Apr 4, 2012 Mitt Romney sure is acting like a man who has it in the bag, and he practically does after racking up more wins lately in the GOP primary sweepstakes. That means, of course, that it's time to show President Obama what he's got, and on...
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The Tribune
| 1 year ago
Romney, Obama gloss over realities Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama on Wednesday of inflicting a "government takeover of health care" on Americans, even though Obama's law is closely modeled on the plan...
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Reuters
| 1 year ago
Topics Former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney gestures during the Newspaper Association of America/American Society of Newspaper Editors annual luncheon in Washington, April 4, 2012. Republican candidate Mitt Romney accused President Barack...
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The Tribune
| 1 year ago
He does not want to share his real plans before the election, either with the public or the press," Romney said in an address to the American Society of News Editors convention in Washington. He cited Obama's remarks to President Dmitry Medvedev that...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
He doesn't want to share his real plans with the American public, Romney said...Romney likened the incident to Obama's health-care bill, which then-House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) at one point said would have to be passed before Congress would...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney has taken a commanding lead in the battle for his party's presidential nomination after winning three primary votes on Tuesday in Wisconsin, Maryland and the District of Columbia. The focus of the 2012...
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CNN
| 1 year ago
After hammering Republican rivals for months, Mitt Romney is gearing up for the main event and turning his full attention to President Obama. The two camps are now openly trading broadsides -- and the first salvos are over the economy, a topic likely...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
Speaking to a conference of news editors, Romney laid out a choice between himself and Obama in a speech that signaled his focus has shifted to the general election. He also used his remarks to contrast his own background and detailed economic plan...
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
Incumbent presidents generally try to cast their re-election contest as a choice between the imperfect but well-meaning and effective occupant of the White House and the far worse alternative offered by the rival party. Challengers, on the other hand,...
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The New York Times
| 1 year ago
Appearing before a group of journalists that had hosted the president on Tuesday, Mr. Romney began by recalling Mr. Obama's recent comment to Russia's leader, in a moment picked up by a live microphone, that his flexibility on foreign policy would...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney 's win in the Wisconsin primary on Tuesday night effectively sealed the Republican presidential nomination for the former Massachusetts governor...While most people are content to look at the topline numbers Romney beat former...
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
On the heels of his three-state sweep in Tuesday's primaries , GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney is this noon taking to the same stage where President Obama yesterday delivered some sharp words about the former Massachusetts governor and other...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
Updated Mitt Romney took after President Obama in his remarks to newspaper editors today, railing about the Democrat's handling of the economy and for failing Americans. The GOP front-runner sounded many of the same themes he did during his victory...
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The Globe & Mail
| 1 year ago
Video Media Video Meanwhile, Mr. Obama and his campaign have now honed-in on Mitt Romney. Oblique references to their likely Republican opponent are of the past. Mr. Obama is naming Mr. Romney in speeches, and his campaign is running attack ads in...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Former Massachusetts governor faces well-funded opponent who travels to events by Air Force One. With a sweep of three presidential primaries on Tuesday, Mitt Romney graduated from Republican front-runner to underdog in a November match-up against US...
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HNN
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney's three state sweep this Tuesday is being touted as the tipping point in his surge toward the Republican nomination. The candidate whose greatest ability has been his inevitability now seems all but destined to become the Republican...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Articles In his victory speech in Milwaukee, Romney ignored Santorum and gave voters a sense of what the general election campaign will be like, sharply criticizing Obama for his handling of the U.S. economy and high gasoline prices. "It's enough to...
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The Globe & Mail
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney's hat trick of Republican primary wins on Tuesday, while impressive, is a reminder that he is still not playing in the arena that ultimately counts. In any other year, the presumptive GOP nominee would be pivoting to the general election...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Romney wins in Maryland and Washington, D.C.; Wisconsin remains the night's biggest prize. Mitt Romney won contests in Maryland and Washington, DC on Tuesday to tighten his grip on the race for the Republican presidential nomination and looked to...
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The Washington Times
| 1 year ago
With Paul Ryan , Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush endorsing the former Massachusetts governor last week, there aren't any white knights left to play the role of GOP savior...Psychoanalyzing the remaining contenders for why they are staying in the race is...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
Voters are going to the polls Tuesday in GOP primaries in Maryland, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia with front-runner Mitt Romney looking for big wins -- or even a sweep as he tries to close out the Republican race. Romney, the former...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
It didn't take long for Team Romney to point out that their man isn't the only politician who has used the word...Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom tweeted out a Politico article with three examples: -- "I think [Michelle Obama] is somebody who they...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
ET, 04/03/2012 TheWashingtonPost How can Mitt Romney close the gender gap?...Ask a Republican voter who has seen her in action, and they will probably tell you one thing Ann Romney is real. So what's the problem with Mitt Romney, Ann's husband, who...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is running against 'Obamacare', despite its close resemblance to his own Massachusetts healthcare plan, 'Romneycare'. Photograph: AP Photo/Steven Senne This election and every election is defined in broad...
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News 24
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney looked to pull further away from his rivals for the Republican nomination in three primaries on Tuesday as the campaign focus shifted to the November contest against US President Barack Obama. Primary polls opened in Maryland and the US...
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Toronto Star
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney took aim at Barack Obama in his speeches leading up to Tuesday's Republican primaries. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney looked with assurance toward a victory in three more primary elections Tuesday while increasingly turning...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
The arrangement between the RNC and Romney camp would allow donors to contribute as much as $75,000 per person, according to the Wall Street Journal , which first reported the story. The joint committee would allow potential contributors to donate to...
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The New York Times
| 1 year ago
In an online town-hall-style meeting last week, Mr. Romney accused Mr. Obama of having a presidential policy intended to see energy prices rise, and he mocked the president for once saying that he would like gasoline prices to change gradually. They...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney is aiming for a hat-trick of primary wins as voters in Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington DC pick a Republican presidential candidate. The former Massachusetts governor is hoping to knock main rival Rick Santorum out of the race so he can...
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CNN
| 1 year ago
The Obama-Biden re-election campaign is sharpening its general election message against Romney. The Obama re-election campaign has recently started drawing battle lines around what is likely to be the most talked about issue until Nov. 6: the economy.
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
President Obama used a Rose Garden news conference with the president of Mexico and prime minister of Canada to reject the political argument of his likely Republican opponent that he's insufficiently committed to the notion of American...
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Virginian-Pilot Online
| 1 year ago
President Barack Obama is countering a charge from Mitt Romney that he's been weak in projecting American power abroad. But Obama skipped a chance to blast Romney and the rest of the GOP presidential field. Speaking alongside leaders of Mexico and...
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Mail Online UK
| 1 year ago
Bill Clinton has said that he would be 'happy' if his wife Hillary decided to run for President in 2016, holding out the prospect that she could abandon her insistence that she will withdraw from politics at the start of next year. 'It's entirely up...
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CNN
| 1 year ago
Even Mitt Romney admits that he's got his work cut out for him to reach out to female voters as he transitions from the Republican presidential nomination battle to what will most likely be his general election matchup against President Barack Obama.
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
The two-term Democrat told ABC News in an interview released Monday that he doubted Romney could make the necessary pivot back to a more centrist campaign to woo voters already wary of perceived political opportunism. He started this campaign in the...
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
April 2, 2012 The GOP candidates for president have seized on high gas prices as a line of attack against President Obama, largely saying the answer is more domestic oil drilling. But one of those candidates, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney,...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
Barack Obama's re-election campaign stepped up its attacks on Mitt Romney on Sunday, as Vice-President Joe Biden called him the most out of touch candidate of modern times. The vice-president, who has been deployed by Obama as the champion of America'...
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
US Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in separate comments, have criticized Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney over perceived tardiness in judging Russia in Cold War terms. Romney's statement last week labeling...
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The Courier-Mail
| 1 year ago
Presidential front runnner Mitt Romney has come under attack for calling Russia the US' biggest foe. Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton both criticized Mr Romney yesterday (today local time) for characterizing Russia as...
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Boston Globe
| 1 year ago
During an appearance on CBS's Face the Nation, Biden criticized Romney's statement last week that Russia is without question our number one geopolitical foe. He just seems to be uninformed or stuck in a Cold War mentality, Biden said. I think what...
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MarketWatch
| 1 year ago
We believe we will come out of Tuesday showing we have the resources, the ideas and the record to go out there and not just beat Gov. Romney but be the conservative alternative to Barack Obama, he said on NBC'sMeet the Press. Newt Gingrich, the...
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KSAZ
| 1 year ago
Vice President Joe Biden is scoffing at Mitt Romney's criticism of President Barack Obama over a remark Obama was overheard making to Russia's leader on an open microphone...Front-running Republican presidential candidate Romney said Obama's remarks...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Vice President Joe Biden called Mitt Romney "out of touch" with the concerns of the middle class, the latest signal of how the Obama reelection campaign plans to target the leading Republican hopeful in November. "This is about the middle class...It'...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
He's out of touch' Updated Vice President Joe Biden is outlining the Obama campaign's strategy against Mitt Romney, should he move forward and clinch the Republican nomination: He's out of touch, and doesn't have specific plans. "I think Governor...
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Orlando Sentinel Online
| 1 year ago
Bob Schieffer, left, interviews Vice President Joe Biden on 'Face the Nation.' Photo credit: Chris Usher/CBS In an exclusive interview on CBS' Face the Nation, Vice President Joe Biden derides Mitt Romney as a little out of touch for the Republican...
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The Tribune
| 1 year ago
GOP front-runner Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, called it "alarming" and part of a pattern of "breathtaking weakness" with America's foes. He asked what else Obama would be flexible on if he were to win a second term. "Speaking of flexible,...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
I'll introduce to you," he told supporters, "the heavyweight champion of my life." In typical Mitt Romney fashion, the former Massachusetts governor belatedly realized the less-than-glowing implications that calling your wife a "heavyweight" might...
