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Boston Herald
| 9 months ago
Updated 42 minutes ago Text size I t's all about health care now. The presidential race just got a whole lot more interesting with GOP candidate Mitt Romney 's selection of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate. Ryan is best known nationally...
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
For younger Americans who make up the next generation of seniors, Romney said, Obama would bankrupt Medicare, while Romney's plan would leave the federal retiree health-care program solvent. The differences in our Medicare perspective could not be...
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Myrtle Beach Online
| 9 months ago
Road rage on this year's campaign trail A little road rage has entered the campaign trail. Debate joined on Medicare; Romney, Obama go at it Debate joined on Medicare; Romney, Obama go at it Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama in person and in...
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College Candy
| 9 months ago
This past Saturday, Mitt Romney named Paul Ryan his running mate. As a college girl who prefers to follow political news instead of celebrity gossip, I will admit that I was a little more than excited to finally hear the announcement. For me, this...
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Boston Globe
| 9 months ago
Both presidential candidates are in the midst of August campaign tours. President Obama was pictured listening to a member of his Secret Service security detail as he arrived at in Omaha on Aug. 13. The president set off from Chicago to embark on a...
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
Ohio How serious is the Romney campaign about seizing the offense in the Medicare battle? The campaign is dispatching Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's running mate, Paul Ryan, to a Florida retirement community this weekend...Saturday...
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Star Tribune
| 9 months ago
Republican vice presidential contender Paul Ryan says he never would have included a $700 billion Medicare cut in his budget if President Barack Obama hadn't done it first. "He put those cuts there," Ryan said Thursday, responding to a reporter's...
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Arizona Republic
| 9 months ago
Republican vice presidential contender Paul Ryan says he never would have included a $700 billion Medicare cut in his budget if President Barack Obama hadn't done it first. Mitt Romney and his running mate Ryan have been criticizing Obama in recent...
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SF Gate
| 9 months ago
Ohio (AP) Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan is inviting debate over his proposal to overhaul Medicare. The Wisconsin congressman told an Ohio audience Wednesday night that the Republican presidential ticket led by Mitt Romney will win...
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Los Angeles Times
| 9 months ago
President Obama defended his Medicare reforms Wednesday as improvements that didn't affect benefits for seniors by a dime. Countering a new critique from Republican Mitt Romney , Obama told a crowd here that his reforms have strengthened Medicare by...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 9 months ago
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan appear to be very in tune on a personal level, but they are still working out the kinks of their different policy pronouncements particularly on Medicare. Washington As campaign companions, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan couldn't...
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Virginian-Pilot Online
| 9 months ago
Speaker John Boehner has told rank-and-file House Republicans they can use the political tussle over Medicare to their advantage. In a conference call with members Tuesday night, Boehner told lawmakers running for re-election that their best defense...
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The New York Times
| 9 months ago
Archive Recent Posts August 15 As a young community organizer in Chicago, Barack Obama concluded that to make a real difference, he needed to gain power...August 15 The president, aides said, will use the last day of a three-day bus tour of Iowa to...
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Los Angeles Times
| 9 months ago
President Obama plans to argue Wednesday that his administration has strengthened Medicare without cutting benefits, as the campaign for the White House shifts to a fight over which candidate is better for seniors. Obama has saved seniors hundreds of...
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Chicago Tribune
| 9 months ago
First of all, Congressman Ryan has joined my campaign, and his campaign is my campaign now, and we're on exactly the same page, Romney said in response to anchor Anthony Mason's question. And my campaign has made it very clear: The president's cuts...
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WSJ.com: Health Blog
| 9 months ago
Here's what's making health news this morning: Medicare Highlights Divide on GOP Ticket (WSJ): An emerging point of contention is the $716 billion reduction over 10 years in Medicare's growthpart of President Obama's health-care law. What makes the...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 9 months ago
Already, the Romney campaign insists that voters should pay no attention to Paul Ryan 's fiscal agenda. It is the Romney-Ryan tax and budget plan, they say, not the Ryan-Romney plan.
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Embassy
| 9 months ago
T he presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, picked his running mate on Aug. 11, United States House Budget Committee chair Paul Ryan. Mr. Ryan's budget plan for America is well-known, but here's a refresher on some of his greatest...
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NY Daily News
| 9 months ago
With the announcement of Paul Ryan as Mitt Romney's running mate, the inevitable focus is on Ryan's policies. Specifically, the attacks will be directed at his budget plan, called The Path to Prosperity, and his laserlike focus on entitlement...
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Pakistan Chronicle
| 9 months ago
A man who was considered for the number-two slot on the Republican ticket will be trying to give Mitt Romney a boost today in the all-important state of Ohio. Sen. Rob Portman will be appearing with Romney as the GOP candidate makes three appearances...
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The Tribune
| 9 months ago
In selecting Paul Ryan as his running mate, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has taken the unusual step of embracing a man whose deficit-reduction plan is far more detailed than his own. Romney taps Ryan as running mate Romney taps Ryan...
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The Hill
| 9 months ago
Ryan's recent budget proposal would shift Medicare funding to a voucher-like program, a move that financial analysts and Democrats argue would increase costs for seniors. And while the Obama campaign has been slamming Ryan for that proposal, Romney's...
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Fox News
| 9 months ago
FoxNews.com Rep. Paul Ryan, in an interview with Fox News' Brit Hume, shot down critics who say Medicare is a losing issue for Republicans. "We're the ones who are offering a plan to save Medicare, to protect Medicare, to strengthen Medicare," Ryan...
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
In his second solo campaign event as the presumptive GOP vice presidential nominee, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Tuesday morning delivered a sharp critique of President Obama's energy policy, arguing that the president has done all that he can to make...
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Star Tribune
| 9 months ago
Mitt Romney's presidential campaign is telling seniors in a new television ad that President Barack Obama cut billions from Medicare to pay for his health care program. An announcer in the ad, released Tuesday, tells older voters they paid into...
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Star Tribune
| 9 months ago
Mitt Romney's campaign is blocking reporters from covering GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan's first meeting with donors in Las Vegas. Tuesday night's event at The Venetian hotel is expected to draw casino owner and Republican mega-donor...
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Kansas City Star
| 9 months ago
A new television ad from President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is linking Republican rival Mitt Romney to the education cuts in a budget plan by GOP running mate Paul Ryan.The ad doesn't name Ryan. But it criticizes Romney for backing plans...
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Fox News
| 9 months ago
FoxNews.com Here are a few little-known facts about Paul Ryan's supposedly slash-and-burn budget plan. Government spending increases almost every year over the next decade. Tax and other revenue rises year after year. The 10-year deficit is...
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NY Daily News
| 9 months ago
Mitt Romney 's selection of Paul Ryan provides an opening for a fundamental debate over entitlements and health care policy...Campaigning this week, the former Massachusetts governor is already downplaying the one thing that made Ryan famous: His...
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NY Daily News
| 9 months ago
If political double-talk were an Olympic event, Mitt Romney would have scored a perfect 10 in his 60 Minutes interview on Sunday. Asked about his new running mate's Medicare overhaul proposal a lightning rod for older voters Romney executed a series...
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USA Today
| 9 months ago
President Obama and Rep. Paul Ryan , Mitt Romney 's pick for his running mate, hit the trail in Iowa, while presumptive Republican nominee Romney stumped in Florida and Vice President Biden spoke in North Carolina all states carried by the president...
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Star Tribune
| 9 months ago
Rep. Paul Ryan got an immediate ratings boost after his selection as Mitt Romney's running mate, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Ryan was not well known nationally before Saturday's announcement, and favorable impressions of him...
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CNSNews.com
| 9 months ago
President Barack Obama and newly minted GOP vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan squared off Monday in the swing state of Iowa, with just six electoral votes but nevertheless important in a closely contested race. Obama called Ryan the the...
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Associated Press
| 9 months ago
Mitt Romney says there may be differences between his own budget plan and running mate Paul Ryan's, but he isn't volunteering any of them. Instead, the Republican presidential candidate said Monday that he and his running mate are "on the same page."...
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National Public Radio
| 9 months ago
Two days after Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney introduced him as his running mate, Paul Ryan made his first solo appearance at the Iowa State Fair, today. It's a grand tradition in Des Moines where candidates stand on a "soapbox" and...
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The Onion
| 9 months ago
Mitt Romney's announcement of Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate, your Republican friend will soon explain to you that while the Wisconsin representative may appear to be a risky pick, he actually brings more to the ticket than you'd...
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The Hill
| 9 months ago
Vice President Biden swiped at his challenger, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), on Monday, saying that while he is a good man, the presumptive GOP vice presidential nominee has a fundamentally flawed vision. Two days after presumptive GOP nominee Mitt...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 9 months ago
Republicans and Democrats alike are thrilled with Mitt Romney's choice of Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate, for exactly the same reason: They're sure it means they'll win on Nov. 6. Ryan's economic plan, far more specific than anything Romney had...
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
The full-court press came as a new USA Today/Gallup poll showed 39 percent of Americans thought Ryan was an excellent or pretty good pick for vice president, while 42 percent believed he was a fair or poor selection. But the poll found 48 percent of...
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News 24
| 9 months ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney sent his new running mate to the Midwestern state of Iowa on Monday, testing his campaign mettle against Barack Obama as the president began a bus tour of the battleground state that launched his...
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NY1
| 9 months ago
summary+' After campaigning together in several states over the weekend, Republicans Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are going their separate ways today. Romney will head to Florida and Ohio while Ryan travels to Iowa.
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 9 months ago
The plan's key element is more choice in health care a useful debating point for the presidential campaign.
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 9 months ago
Washington In selecting Paul Ryan for the GOP ticket, Mitt Romney appears to agree with one of the Wisconsin congressman's long-standing beliefs: If you aim for sweeping changes, you must run a campaign that clearly states your case to the American...
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USA Today
| 9 months ago
Paul Ryan to release two years of tax documents Updated Paul Ryan plans to release two years of tax returns, following the lead of Mitt Romney. The GOP vice presidential contender said on 60 Minutes last night that people he talks to say they're not...
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USA Today
| 9 months ago
Seeking to chain Ryan to the House Republican leadership that has fought him on farm policy and other issues, Obama plans to say today in Iowa: "He's one of those leaders of Congress standing in the way." Both Obama and Ryan -- chairman of the House...
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Towleroad
| 9 months ago
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan sat down for their first joint interview with CBS News' Bob Schieffer in which they discuss the pick process, how Ryan feels about being the VP pick, their message, and how many tax returns Ryan plans to release "two years",...
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Kansas City Star
| 9 months ago
Iowa President Barack Obama's campaign is already targeting Paul Ryan in a new online video, just two days after the Wisconsin congressman became Mitt Romney's vice presidential pick.The spot features Florida seniors talking about how Ryan's Medicare...
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Boston Globe
| 9 months ago
N.C A buoyant Mitt Romney and new running mate Paul Ryan propelled their bid for the White House through a series of boisterous events Sunday in the first day of extensive campaigning together since the former Massachusetts governor chose Ryan as his...
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The New York Times
| 9 months ago
Ryan's first outing alone as the Republican vice-presidential candidate he has chosen a particularly exposed high-wire appearance: a political soapbox at the Iowa State Fair...Ryan is now unquestionably the face of the Tea Party caucus in Washington,...
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
Smith said, referring to the junior Kentucky senator, Rand Paul...I didn't support Romney in the primary, but I will now with Paul in there. And so it went Sunday in the crucial swing state of Florida, in the GOP stronghold of St. John's County, and...
