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The New York Times
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney's commencement address Saturday at Liberty University, the evangelical institution in Virginia founded by Jerry Falwell, comes on the heels of President's Obama's announcement Wednesday that he supports same-sex marriage. But in a...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
evidence suggests that there are voters who are lukewarm about Obama but who can be mobilised to vote against the Republican. Photograph: Carlos Osorio/AP Most pundits agree that Mitt Romney isn't going to win this election because he's Mitt Romney,...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Campaigning in North Carolina on Friday, Mitt Romney made no mention of two of biggest issues in the news this weekthe revelation of a $2 billion trading loss by JP Morgan Chase & Co. and the state's vote earlier this week for an amendment to the...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R) on Thursday separated his views on same-sex marriage from his personal religious beliefs, telling a local Omaha TV station that his stance on gay rights stems from his belief of what's right for the...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
The stakes for Mitt Romney's speech on Saturday at Liberty University had already been high , as the event represents the first time during the 2012 campaign that the former Massachusetts governor and the first Mormon on track to clinch the GOP...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney supports right for gay couples to adopt Updated Mitt Romney reaffirmed his support for gay couples to adopt children. In an interview Thursday on Fox News, the presumptive GOP nominee said it is "fine" for couples of the same sex to adopt...
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The Salt Lake City Tribune
| 1 year ago
Kim Raff The Salt Lake Tribune) Josh Romney, son of presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, pitches a ball to his son, Nash, while at baseball practice for another son at a Holladay LDS stake house ball field. Josh Romney has been hitting the campaign...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
Kerry Healey, Romney's former lieutenant governor in Massachusetts and now an adviser to the Romney campaign, defended the presumptive GOP nominee against charges that he bullied other students during his high school years. Healey, who has known the...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
Romney Updated A new Bloomberg Poll shows a global/domestic split between President Obama and Mitt Romney. Global investors back Obama, while domestic ones prefer the Republican challenger. Overall, Obama leads Romney 49%-38% in the quarterly...
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The Daily Herald
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney apologized Thursday morning for pranks he helped orchestrate in high school that he said might have gone too far, including an incident in which he pinned down a fellow student and cut his hair. The presumptive Republican presidential...
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The Tribune
| 1 year ago
He equated their cases to those of Cuban refugees who are allowed to come to the United States and stay, because American leaders have decided the political circumstances in Cuba merit an exception to immigration laws. They have a significant...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R) said Thursday that he believes gay couples should be allowed to adopt children, even as he reiterated his view that marriage is defined as a relationship between a man and a woman. In an interview with...
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MarketWatch
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney may be entitled to claim more than $2,000 from Michigan's treasury, due to unclaimed property of his father. The department's unclaimed property division is holding cash for a George W...Mitt Romney's father, George Wilcken Romney, was a...
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Reuters
| 1 year ago
Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor, addresses a crowd of supporters during a rally at Lansing Community College in Lansing, Michigan May 8, 2012. Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting Mitt Romney apologized on...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
What Romney should have said to schoolchildren about his prank' and bullying Center, Mitt Romney at 14/ Left, right, Cranbrook School. (S. Springsteen FTP) Yes, Romney said he didn't remember behavior that today would clearly be defined as bullying...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney apologized this morning for hijinks during his high school years at a prep school in Michigan, an admission that came just hours after the Washington Post reported of his involvement in an episode in which a...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
The official campaign for the re-election of US President Barack Obama has released a video on YouTube challenging Republican candidate Mitt Romney over Obama's backing of gay marriage. Share This Story Obama recently became the first US president to...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
The video contrasts video of Obama's announcement with statements made by Romney on the campaign trail Wednesday, where the presumptive Republican nominee is shown saying that he believes marriage should be "between people of the same gender." Romney...
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Virginian-Pilot Online
| 1 year ago
President Barack Obama's campaign is using his support of gay marriage to draw a contrast with Republican rival Mitt Romney. The morning after Obama publically embraced same-sex marriage, his campaign released a web video titled "Mitt Romney:...
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Israel National News
| 1 year ago
My view is that marriage itself is between a man and a woman, Romney told reporters.
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Down the road from the Oklahoma State Capitol, where a towering oil derrick on the grounds is a tangible reminder of the industry's clout in the state, Mitt Romney took the podium at the state GOP headquarters Wednesday afternoon intent on hammering...
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Newsbusters
| 1 year ago
President Obama once again flipflopped on his position regarding same-sex marriage Wednesday, and his adoring media couldn't be more pleased...Now he's a leader of another kind: the first president to state his support for recognizing the marriage of...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney on Wednesday reaffirmed his view that marriage should be restricted to one man and one woman, highlighting a sharp contrast with President Barack Obama. Obama declared his unequivocal personal support for same-sex marriage during an...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney , who fought the legalization of same-sex marriage when he was governor of Massachusetts , said Wednesday that his stand on that tender and sensitive topic had not changed. I have the same view that I've had since running for office, the...
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KSAZ
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney reacted to President Barack Obama's embrace of same-sex marriage Wednesday, saying that he thinks marriage should be a relationship between a man and a woman. "This is a very tender and sensitive topic as are many social issues, but I...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Hours before President Obama made history on Wednesday by becoming the first sitting president to explicitly back same-sex marriage, presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney underscored his belief that marriage should be exclusively between a man...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 1 year ago
Yes, we know he's emphasizing the economy, and putting voters back to work, and so forth. What we're getting at here is the sort of emotional context the Romney camp hopes will prevail among the swing electorate in November.
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
Colo. Republican Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama taking credit for increased American energy production is like Romney claiming responsibility for the Red Sox's World Series wins when he was Massachusetts governor. In each case, neither one...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Addressing workers on a vast oil production field here, Mitt Romney assailed President Obama's energy policies as out of date and pledged to free up more domestic land for exploration. Making his first visit to Colorado since becoming the presumptive...
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
If you thought Mitt Romney was a robotic cyborg programmed by the Republican Party solely to give Barack Obama a run for his money, think again. It is now being reported that the GOP frontrunner once did something gasp human! According to a nearly...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 1 year ago
Los Gatos resident Bettina Inclan, who coordinates Hispanic outreach for the Republican National Committee, revealed at a video conference Tuesday that she wasn't sure about the former Massachusetts governor's approach to immigration. "As a candidate,...
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Education News
| 1 year ago
With Newt Gingrich dropping of the race for the Republican presidential nomination last week, the Presidential ballot for the coming November is mostly set. With that development comes a closer examination of both candidates' views on the issues...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
For activists who want to stamp out illegal immigration, the presidency is rather besides the point, at least while Mitt Romney is the nominee...I really wouldn't make any difference, because nobody's listening to me anyhow, says Dan Beck, a cop and...
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Newton Daily News
| 1 year ago
Watching Newt Gingrich's graceful and low-key withdrawal from the presidential race last week, it was hard not to think back to January in Columbia, S.C., when he drew a wall-to-wall, fired-up crowd to celebrate his blowout victory in that state's...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has swept primary elections in three more states, moving him even closer to becoming the nominee to run against President Barack Obama in November. Romney now has more than 900 delegates, after wins...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Committee , and Obama a rookie member. "Senator Lugar comes from a tradition of strong, bipartisan leadership on national security that helped us prevail in the Cold War and sustain American leadership ever since," Obama added. Also quick to praise...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Presumptive Republican U.S. presidential nominee Mitt Romney , with three more states in his win column Tuesday night, went after his Democratic opponent. The former Massachusetts governor, whose list of GOP rivals has been winnowed to U.S.
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Star Tribune
| 1 year ago
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is adding to his big lead in the race for convention delegates by winning the Indiana Republican presidential primary, inching closer to the number needed to clinch the GOP nomination. Romney won at least 18...
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Miami Herald
| 1 year ago
House Republicans have advanced their version of the Violence Against Women Act, and it's different than the version passed by the Democratic-controlled Senate. It was supposed to be introducing the team whose savvy grass-roots work will sway...
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The Tribune
| 1 year ago
Romney is "still deciding what his position on immigration is," Inclan said. Another top RNC official, Kirsten Kukowski, interrupted the meeting to say that Romney's position on immigration is, in fact, very clear. After the meeting, Inclan tweeted...
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Newsbusters
| 1 year ago
When a lone attendee at a Mitt Romney rally said President Obama should be tried for treason, Romney ignored and later disagreed with the statement. CNN correspondent Jim Acosta played up the incident big time on Tuesday's The Situation Room, using...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
The Republican National Committee spent Tuesday trying to downplay an official's suggestion that presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney has yet to make up his mind on immigration, the Hill reported . Share This Story "As a candidate, to my...
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The Tribune
| 1 year ago
The Spanish-language commercials are running as part of a nine-state, $25 million advertising effort the Obama team unveiled this week. The campaign had previously spent $850,000 on Spanish-language ads in the same three states to promote Obama's...
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Miami Herald
| 1 year ago
Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic bill Tuesday to preserve low interest rates for millions of college students' loans, as the two parties engaged in election-year choreography aimed at showing each is the better protector of families in today's...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
The top two Senate Democratic leaders called on Romney to enter the Senate debate after Republicans voted along party lines to block student loan legislation...I would suggest he pick up the phone and call Sen. McConnell and tell him he favors what...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
Obama's reelection campaign launched Spanish-language television ads in three states, while the Republican National Committee unveiled a new team of regional outreach staffers, each assigned to a key state. The Obama campaign's ads appeal to Hispanic...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
A top staffer for the Republican National Committee got the party's election-year outreach to Latino voters off to a disastrous public start Monday when she told a roomful of reporters that likely GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney , a hard-liner...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
A Republican National Committee roundtable on Tuesday aimed at highlighting the GOP's Hispanic get-out-the-vote effort ended up backfiring as the RNC's director of Hispanic outreach struggled to explain to reporters Republicans' message to Hispanics...
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The Dallas Morning News
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney's efforts to strike a hard line on immigration without offending too many Hispanic voters has befuddled even the GOP point person on Hispanic outreach...Because I don't know what Romney exactly has talked about different issues," Bettina...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
Romney still developing immigration policy Updated The Republican National Committee's Hispanic outreach director said Tuesday that it may be difficult for the party to answer voters' questions on Mitt Romney's immigration record because he has not...
