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CNN
| 12 months ago
Donna Brazile, a CNN contributor and Democratic strategist, is vice chairwoman for voter registration and participation at the Democratic National Committee. She is a nationally syndicated columnist, adjunct professor at Georgetown University and...
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The New York Times
| 12 months ago
Archive Recent Posts July 06 Kevin Madden, a communications expert with long ties to Mitt Romney, will become a more frequent and visible spokesman for the presidential campaign. July 06 On the heels of another anemic employment report, President...
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CNN
| 12 months ago
Stock prices dropped sharply at the opening bell on the report that the economy created 80,000 jobs in June , well below the number needed to bring down the 8.2% unemployment rate. At a campaign event in Poland, Ohio, Obama said the job growth --...
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The Hill
| 12 months ago
One of the things that you learn as president is that what you say matters and your principles matter," Obama told a local Cincinnati NBC affiliate, according to excerpts provided by his campaign. "And sometimes, you've got to fight for things that...
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Guardian Unlimited
| 12 months ago
Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images 8.12am: The New York Times's statistical blogger Nate Silver has an interesting thought about how the expectations for today's jobs report will affect the political climate. "It seems as though we're at something of an...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 12 months ago
Mitt Romney's bid for the White House suffered setbacks on several fronts yesterday (Thursday), as his wife conceded that his opponent was moving in for the kill and America's leading Right-wing newspaper criticised his campaign as "politically dumb".
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The Tribune
| 12 months ago
In an editorial Thursday, The Wall Street Journal said the Romney campaign is "slowly squandering an historic opportunity." "The Romney campaign thinks it can play it safe and coast to the White House by saying the economy stinks and it's Mr. Obama's...
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The New York Times
| 12 months ago
For those who refused to comply with the state's mandate to buy health insurance , he said in remarks to the Heritage Foundation, they are going to lose their personal tax exemption...As the Massachusetts governor and then as a presidential candidate,...
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The Washington Times
| 12 months ago
The rule of law has been replaced with arbitrary centralized government...It has been strangled by President Obama and the Supreme Court ...This is the real meaning of the court 's recent decision to uphold Obamacare...Roberts Jr. , declared the...
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The Washington Times
| 12 months ago
The White House attack line this week against Mitt Romney is that he is now calling the punishing fine in the health care mandate a tax, a few days after he said it was a penalty. While this is hardly one of the burning issues in the 2012...
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BBC
| 12 months ago
Mitt Romney and the Republicans raised a combined $100m (£64m) in June, setting a one-month record for any of the party's campaigns, US media report. The figure excludes the millions raised by groups that support the Republican presidential candidate.
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Virginian-Pilot Online
| 12 months ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and the Republican National Committee combined to raise more than $100 million in June, two GOP officials said Thursday, a striking number for a challenger who for the second straight month outpaced...
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The Boston Globe
| 12 months ago
As governor, Mitt Romney raised hundreds of millions of dollars in new and higher fees to help Massachusetts close a looming budget gap -- all the while seeking to preserve a no-new-tax record as he eyed a run for president. Now, the Supreme Court...
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Los Angeles Times
| 12 months ago
If Mitt Romney was trying to soothe restless conservatives with his July 4 declaration that the Obama healthcare mandate amounts to a tax, he might want to give it another shot. The Wall Street Journal , whose opinion pages are a highly regarded...
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The New York Observer
| 12 months ago
The Mitt Romney campaign has set off howls of scorn and outrage over its fumbling of the question of whether or not the monetary fine for failing to buy health insurance under Obamacare is a penalty or a tax. First it was Eric Ferhnstrom, Mr. Romney'...
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The Guardian
| 12 months ago
Mitt Romney on Wednesday contradicted his earlier statement and said the individual mandate was a tax after all. Photograph: Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters Mitt Romney 's contradictory statements on whether the Obama administration's health care reforms...
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CNN
| 12 months ago
As Republican presidential candidate, Romney opposes the federal health care law that does the same thing. Last week, Romney's top campaign adviser said the federal penalty for refusing to get health coverage was exactly that -- a fine, not a tax.
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USA Today
| 12 months ago
Romney says Roberts 'not accurate' on health care Updated Mitt Romney said in a TV interview that he would not appoint judges he disagreed with, but points to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on his website as an example of the type of person...
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Boston Globe
| 12 months ago
The Wall Street Journal's editorial board, an influential forum of conservative thought, today published a blistering critique of Mitt Romney's campaign, saying his insular staff and strategy ... are slowly squandering an historic opportunity. In an...
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Washington Post
| 12 months ago
The unfolding of events this week underscores the complexity of Romney's problem, one that has shadowed his candidacy for more than a year and that, based on the last few days, may trail him for the rest of the campaign. Though his and Obama's health-...
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DAWN
| 12 months ago
AFP 23 mins ago Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney has appeared to contradict previous campaign statements by saying President Barack Obama's health reform law entails a tax and not a penalty.
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The New York Observer
| 12 months ago
Romney And Obama Supporters Clash at July 4th Parade 7/04 8:34pm Mitt Romney shaking hands as his supporters held signs in front of Obama signs at the parade in Wolfeboro. While on vacation at his home on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire Mitt...
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The Washington Times
| 12 months ago
Obamacare was supposed to reduce the cost of health insurance but it has six taxes on Americans who already have health insurance...Obamacare was supposed to bend the cost curve down but it has a tax on medical devices...All the cool stuff you see in...
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The New York Times
| 12 months ago
Mitt Romney declared on Wednesday that President Obama's health care mandate was in fact a tax, shifting his campaign's characterization of the law and aligning himself with the conservative voices in his party. Rather than clarify his position, Mr.
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United Press International
| 12 months ago
Likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney reversed an aide's statement and told CBS News Wednesday that the individual healthcare mandate is a "tax." The individual mandate in the federal healthcare reform law, which requires everyone who...
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The Hill
| 12 months ago
In a two-day sweep through Ohio and Pennsylvania on Thursday and Friday, Obama will tout his own economic recovery efforts particularly his economic stimulus plan and the continuation of the Bush-era auto bailout in an attempt to contrast those...
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The Hill
| 12 months ago
Fifty-nine percent of Democratic registered voters said they were very enthusiastic about voting this year, up from only 46 percent in March, in a new CNN/ORC poll released Monday and conducted after the landmark court ruling. That massive spike in...
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MarketWatch
| 12 months ago
The U.S. finally limped into the 20th century last week when the Supreme Court affirmed the principle of government-sponsored universal health care a public service long since taken for granted in every other industrialized country and in many...
