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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
Restore Our Future, the super PAC helping Republican candidate Mitt Romney, raised millions of dollars in May from an array of wealthy donors and corporations giving as much as $1 million, new records show. The group raised $5 million in May and...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
Obama for America raised $39.1 million in May and spent $44.6 million. The $39.1 million makes up part of the $60 million, announced earlier this month, that the campaign raised jointly with the Democratic National Committee. Combined, the Romney...
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Austin America-Statesman/Texas Longhorns
| 11 months ago
Major donors supportive of President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney spent millions of dollars last month to get their candidate elected. But outside political groups helping Romney are poised to account for a growing share of that...
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NY Daily News
| 11 months ago
Mayor Bloomberg would not tip his hand on a possible White House endorsement Wednesday, first praising President Obama 's social positions before ripping his job creation record just seconds later...I agree with the President on most things, said...
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Kansas City Star
| 11 months ago
Donors supporting President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney have helped them raise hundreds of millions of dollars in their bids for the White House.But a growing share of financial support from "super" political committees raises...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
President Obama 's campaign spent heavily in May and shelled out more than it raised, according to a report filed Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission. The report shows Obama's campaign raised $39.1 million for the month and spent $44.6...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
In this April 18, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in Dearborn, Mich.(AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File) As for the the $1.2 billion ad figure, the Obama officials broke it down this way: $200 million on commercials directly from Romney, $150...
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The Tribune
| 11 months ago
He had introduced a bill in 2007 that sought to address some of the same issues. It's ironic, but I think appropriate, that we're doing something on the anniversary of Watergate, Price said in announcing the legislation. Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., has...
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Jerusalem Post
| 11 months ago
The multi-millionaire who believes corporations are people, too, and who is running for capitalist-in-chief, is a genuine Marxist...His campaign theme should be, in Groucho's words, I have my principles, and if you don't like them, I have others, an...
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KSBY
| 11 months ago
President Barack Obama's campaign says it expects the president to become the first incumbent to be outspent by his opponent. They are outlining the potential for $1 billion in spending from Republican-leaning outside groups supporting Mitt Romney.
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
If anyone questioned whether the 2012 election would be all about the "air war" rather than the "ground game", then they should doubt it no longer. Making phone calls and knocking on doors is still vital, but the hundreds of millions of dollars now...
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USA Today
| 11 months ago
The three Ohio firms CRC Information Systems Inc., Fairbanks Properties, LLC and Waterbury Properties, LLC share a post office box with Reynolds and Reynolds, a Dayton company that provides software and other services to auto dealers, according to...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
The conference call was set up to focus on the economy and knock President Obama's comment that the private sector was "doing fine." But reporters wanted to ask about immigration. Romney aides repeatedly urged reporters to restrict their questions...
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News 24
| 11 months ago
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign rolled out a new attack ad on Wednesday seeking to dispel rival Mitt Romney's image of a tax-slasher whose cuts benefited working-class Americans. The president's knock against the man challenging him for...
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Los Angeles Times
| 11 months ago
Mitt Romney 's pledges from his gubernatorial campaign a decade ago are the key sound bites in new attack ads from President Obama 's reelection campaign, which aim to undermine the Republican nominee's economic credentials. Two new ads from Obama...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
More than a dozen Republican heavy-hitters are scheduled to join the private retreat as special guests. According to a fundraiser who is attending, guests include some GOP stars believed to be contenders to be Romney's vice presidential running mate:...
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The New York Observer
| 11 months ago
Obama Campaign Bets Mitt Romney Won't Win Michigan 8:58am Mitt Romney campaigning in Michigan yesterday. (Photo: Getty) Yesterday, Mitt Romney wrapped up his six state bus tour in Michigan, the state where he was raised and his father was governor...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
If Romney succeeds in making that argument, he's got a good shot at becoming the next president...The first component of Romney's three-point argument is that the economy is, quite simply, awful. This is the easiest argument to make, and Romney has...
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Money Morning
| 11 months ago
More and more Americans have voiced concern over the U.S. economy barreling toward " Recession 2013 ." Fears were fueled by a May 22 Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report that claimed the scheduled year-end tax increases and spending cuts (known...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
The amount of money that has been spent on political elections this year is more than the GDP of the nation of Denmark...Share This Story Almost half a billion dollars -- exactly $466,403,652 -- has been funneled into state campaign efforts in 2012,...
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United Press International
| 11 months ago
Nevada casino mogul and Republican Party donor Sheldon Adelson could donate $100 million this campaign cycle, a person knowledgeable about the situation said. The person said Adelson, not wanting to be limited to just one candidate or cause, could...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
Romney, the presumptive GOP presidential candidate, has so far declined to state if he would repeal Obama's executive decision to allow some illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children to stay in the country and work without fear of...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
The former House Speaker argued more should be done to empower everyday Americans in the political process. "We're in a situation where if you're really rich, you have an enormous, and I think unfair, advantage," Gingrich said. "The trick is not to...
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Fox
| 11 months ago
The hottest trend among comedic talk show hosts in recent months has revolved around bashing Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney, his personal wealth, and his ranking in the one percent. But have these famous television comedians forgotten...
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Parsippany LIfe
| 11 months ago
The Record Is November's presidential election a referendum on President Obama's record or a choice between two different approaches to government? How voters answer that question could well determine the outcome. If voters think their job is to pass...
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Fox
| 11 months ago
Associated Press Mitt Romney is coming home -- this time as the likely Republican presidential nominee. "I think Michigan's a state I can win," a relaxed, jovial Romney told reporters on his campaign plane as he left Iowa en route to his home state,...
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Fox News
| 11 months ago
The hottest trend among comedic talk show hosts in recent months has revolved around bashing Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney, his personal wealth, and his ranking in the one percent. But have these famous television comedians forgotten...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
Sixty-four percent of likely voters said they approved of Obama's policy change in a Bloomberg National Poll released Tuesday. Thirty percent surveyed said they disagreed with the decision. The results highlight the challenges presumptive GOP...
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Truthdig
| 11 months ago
President Obama showed last week that it's possible to find a reasonable, humane solution for at least 800,000 young people who were illegally brought into this country as children...Seems to me that Obama's unilateral decision to let these...
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Los Angeles Times
| 11 months ago
Iowa Mitt Romney introduced criticism of President Obama 's record on illegal immigration into his standard campaign speech on Monday as he wrapped up a swing across eastern Iowa. Romney had avoided bringing up the topic in remarks to supporters at...
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Des Moines Register
| 11 months ago
Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney pilots the Spirit of Dubuque up the Mississippi River during a bus-tour stop in the city on Monday. His wife, Ann Romney, is at left (Rodney White/The Register)...Perhaps 100 supporters joined...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
The super PAC Restore Our Future is making a major ad buy in eight battleground states in support of former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney . Media buying sources say the group is putting down at least $7 million on television ads in Colorado,...
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Pakistan Chronicle
| 11 months ago
Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama on Sunday of political motivation in offering work permits to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children, but declined to say he...
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Los Angeles Times
| 11 months ago
For diehard Republicans in Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker achieved something close to rock-star status when he battled labor unions and survived a June 5 recall election. His popularity among true believers was so great that he upstaged Mitt Romney...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 11 months ago
News about Seattle City Hall, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, Washington Governor Christine Gregoire, Seattle and King County government and more Las Vegas casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who gave $10 million to Mitt Romney's SuperPAC last week, has...
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NY Daily News
| 11 months ago
There was Mitt Romney on Sunday with Bob Schieffer, in the middle of his bus tour through Pennsylvania, Romney presenting himself as honestly as he could, which means as the rich, affable, last stiff standing on the Republican side...There used to be...
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Arab News
| 11 months ago
Wagner Sunday 17 June 2012 THE US government may have a penchant for adventures on foreign soil and blind loyalty to Israel, but the American people generally have isolationist tendencies. The Republican Party pretty much feels the same way, offering...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
Adelson began participating in presidential elections last year as Gingrich's most prolific backer. Adelson and his wife donated tens of millions of dollars to support Gingrich's campaign . But with Gingrich out of the race, Adelson is directing his...
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United Press International
| 11 months ago
Mitt Romney called President Obama's move to allow the children of illegal immigrants to remain in the United States a political stopgap. Romney Sunday dismissed the proposal as a campaign Hail Mary aimed at improving his chances for re-election, and...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
Mitt Romney and CBS anchor Bob Schieffer during a taping of Face the Nation in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Photograph: Getty Images Mitt Romney has accused Barack Obama of playing politics with immigration, but refused to say whether he would repeal an...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
Asked about whether he would repeal the new policy on CBS's Face the Nation, Romney vowed to seek long-term immigration reform, but avoided a clear stance on Obama's new deportation policies. Well, it would be overtaken by events if you will, by...
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SF Gate
| 11 months ago
organ, BP, Walmart and the multibillionaire Koch brothers have just launched a TV advertisement blasting President Obama for the national debt. Actually, I don't know who's behind the ad because there's no way to know...The front group for the ad is...
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The New York Times
| 11 months ago
Mr. Adelson who has already donated more than $30 million this year to super PACs backing Newt Gingrich, who dropped out of the presidential race last month, and Mitt Romney, who is now the Republicans' likely nominee is quickly expanding his giving...
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Star Tribune
| 11 months ago
President Obama and former governor Mitt Romney delivered dueling speeches on the economy last week, but they need to freshen up their facts. Obama: "They haven't specified exactly where the knife would fall, but here's some of what would happen if...
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Los Angeles Times
| 11 months ago
Select a date range Create a custom date range Las Vegas It is only fitting that the Right Online conference, a project of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation, should hold its conference for political bloggers in the Sands Expo, a huge meeting...
