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National Public Radio
| 10 months ago
The Boston Globe reported new details Friday about Mitt Romney's lingering ties to his private equity firm, Bain Capital, after he left Boston to run the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. The Globe says Romney was "not merely an absentee owner"...
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Boston Globe
| 10 months ago
Ever since T he Washington Post published a story last month stating that Bain Capital had invested in companies that profited from outsourcing American jobs, the presidential race has been consumed by the matter of Romney's involvement and also by...
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Arizona Republic
| 10 months ago
Bush is skipping the Republican National Convention next month in Tampa, Fla., where presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney will officially become the party's standard bearer. "President Bush was grateful for the invitation," his spokesman, Freddy Ford,...
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Washington Post
| 10 months ago
President Obama 's campaign spent heavily in June, including $38 million on ads, and appears likely to have less cash for the fall campaign than Mitt Romney . And if Romney has indeed passed the president, he will have erased a $90 million deficit in...
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The Tribune
| 10 months ago
Obama, Romney trying to stay on message President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney both keep trying to change the subject. Democrats want Romney to explain offshore accounts Democrats want Romney to explain offshore accounts Mitt Romney...
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Fox News
| 10 months ago
TV in Tallahassee that aired Friday, Obama said: "What I said was together we build roads and we build bridges." He added: "That's the point I've made millions of times, and by the way, that's a point Mr. Romney has made as well, so this is just a...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
President Obama broadened his attack on Mitt Romney on Thursday, using Medicare to draw a sharper contrast on key issues in this swing state. With an eye on seniors, Obama warned that Romney would undermine their federal healthcare entitlement...
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The Daily Telegraph
| 10 months ago
THE US presidential election campaign is picking up steam with the campaigns of both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney exchanging barbs on an almost daily basis. Obama's team recently ran a TV ad showing Romney singing a less than tuneful version of...
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The Washington Times
| 10 months ago
With the economy showing new signs of further weaknesses, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S...His pleas have become a familiar litany in frequent appearances on Capitol Hill, but they have fallen on deaf ears. The only branch of government that has the...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
Mitt Romney continued to hammer President Obama as being more concerned with his own reelection than the nation's economic woes, pointing Thursday to a recent comment by the president's spokesman that Obama had not met with his jobs council in six...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
Continuing the attack on Mitt Romney 's leadership at Bain Capital , Democrats in the Senate tried to advance legislation Thursday that would end loopholes for companies that relocate overseas, and use the savings for a 20% tax break on businesses...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
Pivoting back to policy after a relentless focus on Mitt Romney 's personal finances and business connections, President Obama began a two-day campaign jaunt to Florida with a warning to the state's most potent block of voters that his rival would...
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The Economic Times
| 10 months ago
President Barack Obama told voters in Florida on Thursday that Republican challenger Mitt Romney wants to undo the structures of American society that built a vibrant middle class. Romney, speaking in a Boston suburb, repeated his charge that Obama...
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The Hill
| 10 months ago
Speaking to a crowd at a convention center in Jacksonville, Obama said Romney plans to roll back healthcare reform, forcing more than 200,000 Floridians to pay more for their prescription drugs. Pivoting to his tax-extension proposal during his...
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USA Today
| 10 months ago
Obama warns Romney would endanger health safety net Updated President Obama took his fight for re-election to Jacksonville this afternoon, where he warned voters in the state with a large senior population that turning the White House over to Mitt...
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The Hill
| 10 months ago
When I run for president of the United States, you can hold me to that standard, Pelosi told reporters in the Capitol. The disclosure that we have is full and complete, she added, noting that she's met all of the financial disclosure obligations...
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NY Daily News
| 10 months ago
Hesitant to make waves or any sudden moves, the former Massachusetts governor has ignored the urging of many in his own party to clearly define his pro-business biography and his vision for America...In a speech to more than 1,000 of his supporters...
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Washington Post
| 10 months ago
Myers in Feb. 2009, shortly after taking office, to announce the American Recovery Act, a trip punctuated by his infamous embrace of then-Gov. Charlie Crist (D). That moment was later used by Republican Marco Rubio to mock Crist's support of the...
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Zee News
| 10 months ago
Romney, Obama locked in dead heat ahead of polls' Washington: US President Barack Obama and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney are locked in a dead heat among Americans in the race for the White House, according to a new poll.
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Washington Post
| 10 months ago
That's his decision, and his campaign is sticking to it (at least for now)...Romney's general election campaign, from day one, has taken the long view. When the waters get choppy, his response is almost uniformly to not panic, hope to ride it out,...
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Newsbusters
| 10 months ago
On July 13, President Barack Obama told a campaign audience in Roanoke that "If you've got a business -- you didn't build that...As Geoffrey Dickens at NewsBusters pointed out on Wednesday , it wasn't until July 17 that any of the Big Three broadcast...
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Inquirer.net
| 10 months ago
Mitt Romney went on the offensive against Barack Obama in a fiery speech in a key state in the presidential campaign, accusing Obama of caring more about keeping his own job than he does about the 8.2 percent of American workers who are unemployed.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 10 months ago
Shear / The New York Times Mitt Romney has said it every way he can: He is not releasing any more of his tax returns. Mr. Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is facing millions of dollars in searing ads from President Barack...
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The Courier-Mail
| 10 months ago
Mitt Romney has blasted Barack Obama in a fiery speech in a key state, charging that the president cares more about keeping his own job than he does about the 8.2 per cent of American workers who are unemployed. In a speech on Wednesday, Romney told...
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Washington Post
| 10 months ago
Whatever obstacles Romney faced from his rivals in his long battle to win the Republican nomination last winter and spring, nothing compares with the tenacity demonstrated by the president's Chicago-based operation. As a result, Obama's team has been...
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The Columbus Dispatch
| 10 months ago
It remains to be seen whether presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's new message works for him in Ohio. But at the very least, he's found something he can say that clicks when Gov. John Kasich is standing with him on stage. Kasich...
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Washington Post
| 10 months ago
Ohio Mitt Romney, on the ropes from fellow Republicans over his tax returns, has continued to ignore the issue on the campaign trail, instead taking a Taxes, What Taxes? approach. In an appearance here, Romney stepped up his attacks on President...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
Remember when Democrats made hay out of Mitt Romney saying he likes to be able to fire people?...If you haven't already, you will soon encounter an email, blog post or hashtag mocking President Obama for his recent comments about business and success.
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Newsbusters
| 10 months ago
The Los Angeles Times freaked out Wednesday about Mitt Romney suggesting Obama's socialist leanings are somehow un-American. Their tabloidish headline was Romney campaign's attacks on Obama play on birther' fears : Mitt Romney says the Obama...
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CNN
| 10 months ago
A new Romney TV commercial advances the campaign's latest attack strategy, accusing Obama's administration of sending taxpayer dollars to failed energy companies whose owners contributed to his campaign. "Where did all the Obama stimulus money go?"...
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The Tribune
| 10 months ago
The top Republican on Capitol Hill defended Romney on Wednesday, saying the campaign is "not about tax returns, it's about the economy." Boehner: Obama doesn't care about the middle class Boehner: Obama doesn't care about the middle class House...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
President Obama 's advantage among Latino voters is getting larger, a new poll suggests, even as Mitt Romney 's campaign released what it said was its ninth ad in Spanish. The poll by Latino Decisions, released Wednesday, showed support for Obama...
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CNN
| 10 months ago
EDT, Wed July 18, 2012 Mitt Romney addresses a campaign rally Tuesday at Horizontal Wireline Services in Irwin, Pennsylvania...Bennett, a CNN contributor, is the author of " The Book of Man: Readings on the Path to Manhood. " He was U.S. secretary of...
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Washington Post
| 10 months ago
Bernanke on Wednesday reprised his warning to lawmakers that they must take steps to avoid the end-of-year fiscal cliff that could send the country back into recession, as he repeated his bleak assessments of U.S. economic growth and the labor market.
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
He's the guy who tangled bitterly with Mitt Romney in the Republican primary, attacking him for practicing "vulture capitalism" at Bain Capital and being attacked, in turn, for what Romney characterized as "liberal" immigration policies in Texas...An...
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AP Online
| 10 months ago
Chairman Ben Bernanke told lawmakers Wednesday that the Federal Reserve's efforts to bolster growth helped lift the U.S. economy out of the Great Recession. But he acknowledged that growth remains weak and the Fed can only do so much.
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The Guardian
| 10 months ago
Video via YouTube Who So far, the 2012 US presidential race has been the "Goldilocks" election...If it is too bad, then President Barack Obama looks like toast and Mitt Romney can start measuring the drapes in the Oval Office. But if the recovery...
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Fox News
| 10 months ago
FoxNews.com Mitt Romney is starting to give anxious Republicans just what they want, moving from a defensive crouch over attacks on his Bain Capital record and launching a broadside against President Obama over the issue at the heart of the 2012 race...
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The Guardian
| 10 months ago
The Wall Street Journal piece quoted earlier on Mitt Romney 's vice presidential pick has some meat on its bones: It appears unlikely now that Mr Romney will name his selection before departing next week for a trip abroad.
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The Hill
| 10 months ago
I will be the first president in modern history to be outspent in his re-election campaign, if things continue as they have so far, Obama wrote. I'm talking about the Romney campaign and the Republicans themselves. Those outside groups just add even...
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The Globe & Mail
| 10 months ago
Canadians in America The 2012 presidential campaign has become increasingly scrappy and negative and the attacks do not always fall within lines of fairness and accuracy. In a tight race, expect a summer of unrelenting attack ads from both campaigns.
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
In remarks that played on debunked assertions about President Obama 's birthplace, Mitt Romney on Tuesday said that the current administration resembled foreign governments and one of his chief surrogates said the president needed to "learn how to be...
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The Economic Times
| 10 months ago
As Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney faces a withering attack over outsourcing and layoffs by his former firm, Bain Capital, employees at a Bain-owned company are appealing to Romney to stop their jobs being shipped overseas. Romney has...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
Mitt Romney on Tuesday compared President Obama 's administration to those in foreign lands where the well-connected receive government handouts while the middle-class suffers...I'm ashamed to say we're seeing the president hand out money to the...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 10 months ago
But, in an interview with the conservative website National Review Online , Romney said he had already released his most recent records from 2010 and would not be going further back to quiet his critics. "In the political environment that exists...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 10 months ago
News about Seattle City Hall, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, Washington Governor Christine Gregoire, Seattle and King County government and more A nationwide survey by Public Policy Polling carries a message to Republican nominee-in-waiting Mitt Romney: ...
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Taiwan News
| 10 months ago
Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney was in a fighting mood after being on the defensive for days, declaring that President Barack Obama had insulted the business community...In a speech to supporters in Virginia last week, Obama said...
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DAWN
| 10 months ago
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke pointed to a gloomy outlook for the US economy Tuesday, warning further reductions in unemployment would likely prove frustratingly slow. Dealing a body blow to Barack Obama and others praying for rapid economic...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
The idea of the "American dream" may be ingrained as a hallmark of life in the United States, but an increasing number of Americans believe that dream is impossible for them to achieve, according to a new poll. Share This Story Nearly half of likely...
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MarketWatch
| 10 months ago
Pessimistic Bernanke doesn't commit to action Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke sketched out for members of Congress the weaker economic outlook and stressed that the central bank is prepared to take further action to try to give the...
