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The independent
| 10 months ago
As President Barack Obama's re-election campaign pushes to cast Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee, as a champagne candidate bent on protecting the rich, Mr Obama yesterday renewed his call on the US Congress to end Bush-era tax cuts...
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The New York Times
| 10 months ago
Archive Recent Posts July 09 Ahead of a two-day bus tour to thank Iowa voters, Rick Santorum suggested he has a limited relationship with Mitt Romney but an enduring one with the first caucus state. July 09 The reception, with music, vegan dishes and...
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Arab News
| 10 months ago
US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney raised $106.1 million in June, far surpassing President Barack Obama's $71 million haul in the record-setting money race leading to the Nov. 6 election. Romney's June fundraising, announced by the...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
Many small businesses have been paying nearly twice the amount for half the health care benefits for their employees. However, under the new health care mandate, small businesses, which account for nearly two-thirds of the country's national output,...
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Voice of America
| 10 months ago
President Barack Obama on Monday called on Congress to approve a one year extension of Bush-era tax cuts for people making less than $250,000 per year, a proposal that has been rejected by congressional Republicans and likely Republican Party...
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NY Daily News
| 10 months ago
Mitt Romney 's campaign is preparing to push back on attacks about his tenure at the private equity firm Bain Capital by dropping the L-bomb, Buzzfeed reported Monday...It will also circulate a document to reporters with what it says are presidential...
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United Press International
| 10 months ago
Most U.S. voters said the Affordable Care Act will be repealed if presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney wins, Rasmussen Reports said Monday. Eighty percent of likely voters nationwide said they believe the healthcare law would be...
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United Press International
| 10 months ago
Of the total the Romney campaign collected, $22.3 million was raised in increments of less than $250, the Los Angeles Times reported. Another $4.6 million -- mostly in small donations -- came from a joint fundraiser by the Romney campaign and the...
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Fox News
| 10 months ago
FoxNews.com A majority of likely voters say President Obama has transformed the country in a negative way during his first term, according to a new poll for The Hill newspaper. In addition, two-thirds of likely voters said the president has kept his...
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Politico
| 10 months ago
President Barack Obama called Monday for Congress to pass an extension of Bush-era tax cuts for household incomes less than $250,000 in the coming weeks, and to leave a debate on whether to extend the cuts to the rich until after the presidential...
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Washington Post
| 10 months ago
President Barack Obama delivers a statement calling for a one-year extension of Bush-era tax cuts, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, July 9, 2012. Jason Reed That political reality will be proven yet again in the aftermath of...
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Boston Globe
| 10 months ago
President Obama called on Congress Monday to extend Bush-era tax cuts for middle-class families making less than $250,000 a year, but not for the wealthiest Americans --pitting himself against Republicans who would like the extension to apply to...
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The Economic Times
| 10 months ago
Republican Mitt Romney raked in $106 million in June, his team announced Monday, trouncing President Barack Obama by $35 million and asserting a second straight month of campaign fundraising dominance. Romney and the Republican National Committee now...
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The Guardian
| 10 months ago
Barack Obama's team is spending heavily on ads in swing states, and earlier than it did in 2008. Photograph: Getty Images The fundraising gap between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney is opening up, with the Obama campaign team lagging more than $35m...
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Boston Globe
| 10 months ago
The haul is $35 million more than President Obama collected in the same period, according to a report by Politico . The official announcement from the Romney campaign followed news reports last week that his committee had collected more than $100...
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The Hill
| 10 months ago
Romney and the Republican National Committee raised $106.1 million for June, while Obama and Democratic National Committee pulled in $71 million. The $35 million gap between the two intensified concerns within the Obama campaign that they may...
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National Public Radio
| 10 months ago
For the second month in a row, Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney and his party have raised more money than the Democratic incumbent, President Obama. Romney and his fellow Republicans hauled in $106 million in June for his presidential...
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USA Today
| 10 months ago
Majority say Obama has made things worse Updated A new poll says President Obama has changed things for the worse in the United States. A survey by The Hill , a Washington, D.C., newspaper, says that 56% of likely voters believe Obama has transformed...
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The Guardian
| 10 months ago
Good morning and welcome to today's live politics coverage. Here's Ryan Devereaux with a round-up of the latest developments. President Barack Obama will call on Congress to extend tax cuts for the middle class today, in an attempt to shift the...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
Mitt Romney pulled in a blockbuster fundraising haul in June, collecting $106.1 million for his campaign and the Republican party, his campaign announced today. The total marks Romney's best fundraising month yet, as the former Massachusetts governor...
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Courier & Press
| 10 months ago
Election must go on without evidence of health care's effect Posted July 9, 2012 at 3 a.m. I'm still on the fence about Obamacare, even after the Supreme Court ruling. I want to see how it plays out before I decide whether I'm a supporter or not. My...
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The Hill
| 10 months ago
The campaign released a new video that slams Romney for alleged reliance on tax havens, signaling a strong push to capitalize politically on a Vanity Fair magazine story about Romney's holdings outside the U.S. Vanity Fair last week reported on a...
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United Press International
| 10 months ago
A Democratic governor said Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney 's business career was a legitimate campaign issue because he has no economic platform. Gov. Martin O'Malley of Maryland said on ABC's "This Week" Sunday Romney made his fortune...
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The Hill
| 10 months ago
Mitt Romney is the ObamaCare daddy, Durbin, the No...He gave birth to this baby up in Massachusetts, and now he doesn't recognize it, and can't pick out any strains in the hereditary chain there that look like anything he did in Massachusetts.
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The Hill
| 10 months ago
Speaking on Fox News Sunday, Priebus said that President Obama had not only failed to turn the economy around but also, after promising to unite the country, turned out to be the most divisive president in history. He cast the 2012 election in stark...
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United Press International
| 11 months ago
Likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is having trouble defining his position on the Supreme Court's decision upholding the individual mandate that's part of the Affordable Care Act...UPI/Kevin Dietsch License photo Published: July 8,...
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The Steamboat Pilot
| 11 months ago
The Affordable Care Act is hardly the first effort to address the issues of health care reform in the United States. In 1980, when Medicare and Medicaid expenses were less than 10 percent of the U.S. budget, there was an initial move to control...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
Obama's weekly address President Barack Obama attempted to turn the heat back on Mitt Romney and Congress on Saturday as he sought to divert attention away from the third consecutive month of lacklustre jobs reports. In his weekly address to the...
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The Olympian
| 11 months ago
How Mitt Romney wielded power as Massachusetts' governor How Mitt Romney wielded power as Massachusetts' governor In 2006, 12 tons of concrete dropped from the roof of a tunnel on a major Massachusetts artery, killing a woman and terrifying drivers...
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The Economic Times
| 11 months ago
The comment came after new Labor Department statistics showed that the June jobless rate was unchanged from May at 8.2 percent, with 12.7 million people in the ranks of the unemployed. The United States added only 80,000 jobs in June, the third month...
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 11 months ago
In giving Obama the win over his health-care law, the Supreme Court handed the Republicans and presidential nominee Mitt Romney some potentially powerful ammunition in its campaign to label Obama a tax and spend liberal. Obama can deny the tax...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
Obama's political team long has played down the significance of the Labor Department's monthly report and did so again on Friday. They contend that Americans are not, and should not be, fixated on the current unemployment rate or monthly statistics.
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CNN
| 11 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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Los Angeles Times
| 11 months ago
Mitt Romney , amid one of his roughest stretches of the campaign since clinching the Republican nomination, was saved by the bell -- the June jobs report -- Friday. Returning to the issue seen as his best argument in the presidential election, Romney...
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NY Daily News
| 11 months ago
Mitt Romney slammed President Obama for another disappointing jobs report Friday blaming the incumbent's policies for the misery in America today. The Labor Department revealed that the national unemployment rate held steady at 8.2% in June, a third...
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The Hill
| 11 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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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Mitt Romney continued to flex his fundraising muscle in June, combining with the Republican National Committee and the Romney Victory fund, a joint entity between the candidate and the party, to rake in more than $100 million. Share This Story The...
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NY Daily News
| 11 months ago
At a time when it wouldn't be the worst idea for Mitt Romney , trying to be the first guy to knock out a sitting President in this country in 20 years, to show some actual backbone, Romney looks more flexible than Gumby every time he starts talking...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 11 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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Miami Herald
| 11 months ago
The presidential campaign is pressing into the heat of summer just as the government issues new jobless numbers that will define the state of the economy and the political contest four months from Election Day. A chorus of prominent conservative...
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SF Gate
| 11 months ago
Campaigning by bus through swing state Ohio, President Obama cast his re-election bid as a bet on the American worker Thursday, even as he braced for a Friday unemployment report that will help set battle lines for the hot summer to come.
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The Daily Telegraph
| 11 months ago
Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney raised more than $US100 million ($A97.54 million) in June according to a report, putting fundraising pressure squarely on President Barack Obama. THE figure is a record for the 2012 campaign, but below the $...
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Taiwan News
| 11 months ago
Travel & Delicacy Beauty never Ends Ecological Environment Taiwan News, Staff Writer 2012-07-06 11:58 AM Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney had a big fundraising month in June, with his campaign and the Republican National...
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United Press International
| 11 months ago
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney "is being impacted by a push from the right" on the Affordable Care Act, the White House said. "For years, Mitt Romney has been defending not only his bill that he pushed forward [as governor of]...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
The Romney campaign appears to have out-earned the Obama campaign for the second straight month. Photograph: Charles Dharapak/AP Mitt Romney raised $100m in June, confirming Barack Obama 's fear expressed Thursday that he is going to be massively...
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Virginian-Pilot Online
| 11 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
| 11 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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Boston Globe
| 11 months ago
Romney's latest one-month total is his best by far, outpacing the $76.8 million he raised a month earlier. It also marks only the second time a presidential candidate has raised more than $100 million in a single month. Obama's joint fund-raising...
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CNN
| 11 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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DAWN
| 11 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.
