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KSAZ
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney will address the Republican National Committee meeting of state party chairmen this Friday in Phoenix, where he will stake his claim to the GOP nomination and call upon party leaders to unite, FOX News Channel reported. The meeting will...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney held a slight lead Monday over President Obama in the U.S. presidential race in the first Gallup tracking poll for the November election. Romney bagged 47 percent of the vote and Obama had 45 percent on the survey taken last week among...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Romney, now the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, will speak to the party chairs, who will become important partners in running ground operations in key swing states in this fall's general election. Romney will speak to the group Friday...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
Romney matchup, Romney leads 47% to 45% among registered voters. Romney has a 6-point edge among independent voters, who are typically the swing group in presidential elections. As expected, Obama and Romney are supported by an overwhelming majority...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Newt Gingrich has accepted that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is all but assured the Republican presidential nomination, and he's only staying in the race to influence the future nominee. And he also thinks the race is still wide open and...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Inauguration Day may be nine months away, but that's not stopping Mitt Romney from cashing in on the possibility that he could be president-elect by then. In a fundraising plea circulated by a Georgia supporter and obtained by Buzzfeed , the campaign...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Donations follow more than $16 million Adelson and his wife gave to a Super PAC backing Gingrich. Though Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has faltered, key financial backer Sheldon Adelson has given more contributions to help the GOP...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Share This Story President Barack Obama's reelection effort pulled in $53 million March almost entirely from small-dollar donors, the campaign announced on Monday. The total is a considerable increase from the campaign's February fundraising, which...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
President Obama pulled in $53 million in March for his reelection effort, his campaign announced today. The total marks an uptick in monthly fundraising for the campaign, which brought in a combined $45 million in February for the campaign, the...
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Courier & Press
| 1 year ago
Indiana, 18 other states stranded in presidential primary So, by April 10, barely four months into the campaign, Mitt Romney has the race for the Republican presidential nomination locked up, leaving 19 states including Indiana with no say in the GOP...
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The New York Times
| 1 year ago
The obstacles to a victory by President Obama in Arizona are considerable, but his aides say it is possible they can move the needle of history by winning a state analysts believe is heading Democratic. House Republicans said that Mr. Romney could go...
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The Age
| 1 year ago
April 16, 2012 Opinion Read later THE US presidential ballot is the world's most important election, such is the economic and military might of that nation. The state of the US is of fundamental importance to Australia, given our close defence and...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich called President Barack Obama a "food stamp president" while campaigning ahead of North Carolina's primary...House speaker spent Saturday stumping throughout North Carolina, which he says has the ability...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
Gingrich said the two had spoken on Friday but did not reveal if Santorum had indicated his support. "We had a nice chat," Gingrich said, according to reports. Gingrich, who battled Santorum to win the mantle of the conservative alternative to Romney,...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., dropped out of the contest for the Republican presidential nomination, virtually clearing the way for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to take the prize. But Romney has yet to inspire excitement among evangelicals and...
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Las Vegas Review-Journal / Sun
| 1 year ago
Four years ago, James Smack grabbed the microphone at the Nevada Republican Party Convention to lead a revolt by Ron Paul supporters. That attempt to take over the convention failed when the GOP convention chairman shut the 2008 meeting down. Today,...
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Boston Globe
| 1 year ago
With Rick Santorum's departure from the presidential race, Mitt Romney lost his last true challenger for the 2012 Republican nomination. As he gears up for a general election campaign against President Obama, Romney now faces the choice of picking a...
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The News & Observer
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney is showing up Wednesday to collect some checks in Raleigh and Charlotte. Only Newt Gingrich among the GOP presidential hopefuls has conducted anything approaching a traditional campaign in North Carolina's May 8 presidential primary...
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The Hutchinson News
| 1 year ago
Rick Santorum, who "suspended" his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday, might have selected the song "The Impossible Dream." Santorum's dream seemed improbable, if not impossible, from the start...Political "experts"...
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The Denver Post
| 1 year ago
Font Resize The Denver Post Colorado Republicans are heading to their national convention with their most conservative delegation in years, as supporters for Ron Paul and Rick Santorum masterminded a stunning upset in electing delegates. At the state...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Smiling now, but a tough road ahead for US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images I doubt you will ever find a politician more desperate to believe Nietzsche's aphorism that whatever doesn't kill us...
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Summit Daily News
| 1 year ago
The long GOP presidential contest appears to be at its end, with Mitt Romney appearing to be a virtual lock for the nomination. But look no further than the swing state of Colorado to see deep divisions among party faithful about the top race in the...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 1 year ago
Technically, if you include Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul, there were four...But with the abortion-gays-and-Mitt-Romney-hating Rick Santorum now gone from the Presidential race, Barack Hussein Obama and Willard Mitt Romney are the only realistic...
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The Daily Journal
| 1 year ago
Only yesterday in presidential politics, The Donald was a contender, 9-9-9 was a buzzed-about tax plan, and Sarah Palin was cruising Iowa in a red, white and blue motor coach. These days, Newt Gingrich's moon base is just a distant dream. Nothing...
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War In Context
| 1 year ago
Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, a surprising position that contradicts conventional wisdom about Paul's stance toward the Jewish state. Paul first made this position known Wednesday night, during a private meeting with evangelical leaders interested...
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The Denver Post
| 1 year ago
Others were passionate about Ron Paul or Rick Santorum, although he dropped out of the presidential race this week. "This is a Democratic Party that is in despair, that is radical, and somehow they know we're going to win this election in November,"...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 1 year ago
Mr Romney, who has fumbled when talking about his experience with guns, took up the cause of sportsmen and other gun owners in an address before the annual convention of the National Rifle Association (NRA) in St Louis. It was Mr Romney's first...
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
Alan Greenblatt Some 70,000 people are attending the National Rifle Association's annual convention in St...But that doesn't mean gun owners are completely sold on Mitt Romney. He may be the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, but many NRA...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Once he's elected president, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Friday, he'll work to extend America's 2nd Amendment right to bear arms to the entire world. In a speech to the National Rifle Assn. 's annual convention in St. Louis, Gingrich...
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Star Tribune
| 1 year ago
Former GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum says no group has done a better job of promoting American freedom than the National Rifle Association...Louis that the gun-rights group has been a vital beacon for individual liberties. He praised GOP...
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Aquarian
| 1 year ago
It takes place as this goes to press with its best presidential candidate left ignoring polls, election results, pundit prognostication, entrenched Republican power-plays, high-profile endorsements, a paltry campaign bankbook, history, and his party'...
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Star Tribune
| 1 year ago
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says the United Nations should adopt a treaty giving everyone on the planet the right to bear firearms. The GOP presidential candidate told the National Rifle Association convention Friday in St. Louis that the...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 1 year ago
News about Seattle City Hall, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, Washington Governor Christine Gregoire, Seattle and King County government and more Five weeks after Washington Republicans caucused in a then-contentious presidential nomination battle, the...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Text Size Mitt Romney will address the National Rifle Association, or NRA, on Friday along with candidate Newt Gingrich...Romney advisers told CNN that his speech on Friday marks the launch of the general election campaign against President Barack...
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Kuwait Times
| 1 year ago
Newt Gingrich's path to the Republican presidential nomination looks as hard as a mission to the moon, but he is still dreaming of the skies. The conservative known for his big ideas and love of space travel is relying on a few long-shot scenarios in...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum 's decision to end his bid on Tuesday means that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney will be the Republican standard-bearer against President Obama in the fall. The candidates are introduced before...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
Newt Gingrich rents donor list to raise money Updated Another sign of Newt Gingrich's money woes: He's renting out his donor list. Politico reports today that Gingrich is renting out his campaign's its donor list -- the campaign's "most valuable...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
But the former Pennsylvania senator said he didn't want to place blame in his decision to exit the race. "After Wisconsin it was very, very difficult to raise money but one of the reasons for that was the media narrative that the race is over," said...
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Mail Online UK
| 1 year ago
In his first interview since announcing he was dropping out of the presidential race, Rick Santorum hinted that money troubles contributed to the end of his campaign. Mr Santorum abruptly suspended his White House bid on Tuesday, initially citing his...
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HNN
| 1 year ago
Rick Santorum's announcement that he is suspending his presidential campaign brings the Republican primaries closer to the end. With all the speculation about brokered conventions and last-minute turnarounds, the original predictions appear to be...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Romney defeated Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul to win the Illinois Republican primary. April 12 (UPI) -- Ann Romney, wife of Republican U.S. presidential hopeful Mitt Romney , said in her first official campaign tweet raising five sons was...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney trails President Obama in polls on likability, and Republican strategists say his campaign is debating whether he should more openly discuss his Mormon faith.
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CNN
| 1 year ago
Hilary Rosen issued a statement after fellow Democrats, including a Twitter post on Michelle Obama's page, criticized her remarks the night before on CNN. "I apologize to Ann Romney and anyone else who was offended," said the statement by Rosen, who...
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Canada.com
| 1 year ago
Ann Romney, the wife of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, on Thursday fired back at a prominent Democrat who said she didn't understand the economic concerns of women because she had "never worked a day in her life." In a sharp rejoinder...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Gingrich told a group of Tea Party activists in Delaware: 'I think Fox has been for Romney all the way through'. Photograph: Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images Struggling Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich blamed the failure of his campaign...
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Star Tribune
| 1 year ago
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich says he probably wouldn't accept a job in Mitt Romney's Cabinet, if Romney is elected in November and such an offer is extended. AM's "Elliott In the Morning" show Thursday that he's not opposed to...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
Romney faces key challenges within GOP Updated Mitt Romney faces challenges in the Midwest and among voters who are young, conservative and highly religious, according to new polling by Gallup. The new Gallup Poll found Romney has less than a 10-...
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Belleville News-Democrat
| 1 year ago
Louis prepares to host NRA convention The Associated Press Text Size: tool goes here ST...Louis is preparing to welcome tens of thousands of gun enthusiasts. The National Rifle Association is holding its annual meeting and exhibit Friday through...
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Boston Globe
| 1 year ago
In Iowa, Tea Party activist Ryan Rhodes said he has a really good clothespin.'' That would be for his nose, he said, when he votes for Mitt Romney in November. Grass-roots conservatives said Wednesday they would reluctantly get behind the former...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
The same day Santorum exited the 2012 primary fight, Obama delivered his much-feted speech on the so-called Buffett Rule' at a campaign-style event in Florida. But the president's effort to position himself as a middle class warrior against the...
