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Christian Science Monitor
| 9 months ago
Up-and-comers in the GOP are still in prime speaking spots, as are Ann Romney and Rep. Paul Ryan. Action at the GOP convention will be suspended Monday, while Isaac sweeps past...The storm-threatened Republican National Convention will cram four...
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USA Today
| 9 months ago
So if the idea by the Obama folks was to kill Romney by the time of the convention, that didn't happen. "Even more than a ballot bounce we are looking for an image bounce, we are looking for voters to learn more about who Mitt Romney is, what he...
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
Mitt Romney claimed the campaign high ground Sunday, saying he was the candidate of big ideas while U.S...Romney told "Fox News Sunday" that while he and the Republicans wanted to talk about the future and getting the United States moving forward,...
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
The head of the Republican Party said a poll giving President Obama an edge in likeability and compassion didn't mean U.S. voters were repelled by Mitt Romney . Reince Priebus brushed off the CNN poll as merely indicating Obama was favored in those...
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Fox News
| 9 months ago
FoxNews.com Mitt Romney on Sunday defended his support of women, pointing to his record as Massachusetts governor and his stance on female health issues. In a wide-ranging interview with Fox News Sunday, Romney said the health care reform laws he...
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USA Today
| 9 months ago
The Democrats today released a preview of a mock movie they call The Do-Over , describing it as Romney's attempt to re-invent himself at this week's convention in Tampa. The moving is "rated N -- for not gonna work," the Obama people said. Among the "...
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 9 months ago
Mitt Romney 's task at the Republican National Convention this week will be to keep the focus on the struggles of the US economy under President Obama and to tell an appealing personal story about his life and accomplishments, according to...
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Voice of America
| 9 months ago
VOA News August 26, 2012 A tropical storm which forecasters say could soon develop into a hurricane has delayed the start of the U.S...The Republicans this week are to formally nominate Mitt Romney and his vice presidential running mate Paul Ryan as...
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The Hill
| 9 months ago
Obama opted out of the public financing system in his first run for the White House in 2008, a decision that allowed him to raise more money from private donors. Obama argued at the time that the public financing system was broken. Romney said Obama'...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 9 months ago
4 differences on Israel President Obama made the Israeli-Palestinian peace process a priority from the first week of his administration, but his positions have rankled Israel 's conservative coalition government, while not advancing the parties...
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The Tribune
| 9 months ago
But he said as Obama is "constantly attacking, constantly using negative messaging, I think his connectivity with people will drop." He told NBC's "Meet the Press" that Romney has a chance at the upcoming Republican National Convention to reconnect...
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Kansas City Star
| 9 months ago
Sen. John McCain says Republican Mitt Romney has to sell his message about jobs and the economy to women and Hispanics this November if he is to win the presidential election.McCain, who led an unsuccessful bid against President Barack Obama in 2008,...
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The Daily Herald
| 9 months ago
At 30 seconds a spot, and sometimes 60, it would take more than six months to watch all 526,633 presidential election ads that have run on television since the general election began in earnest in early April...Of the 526,104 presidential ads...
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Courier & Press
| 9 months ago
Obama represents middle class Posted August 26, 2012 at 3 a.m. Laura Blackburn, Evansville Obama represents the middle class Romney/Ryan fans love to talk about doing things for "job creators" to stimulate the economy. They fail to recognize that the...
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Kansas City Star
| 9 months ago
Mitt Romney's presidential campaign is using Barack Obama's words from 2008 against him in a new ad about Medicare.Romney's campaign on Sunday rolled out a television ad that quotes Obama in criticizing his 2008 rival for proposed cuts to the popular...
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The New York Times
| 9 months ago
More than a quarter of the 50 million beneficiaries receive coverage through private Medicare Advantage plans, mostly health maintenance organizations, and Medicare's drug benefits are delivered exclusively by private insurers, subsidized by the...
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan appeared together for the first time since Ryan joined the ticket at a rally Saturday morning in the important swing state of Ohio. The rally was also a last public appearance before the Republican National Convention begins...
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney Saturday charged President Obama has thrown in the towel on the U.S. economy. In his weekly podcast, Romney cited economic data showing a decline in household income and rising unemployment in 44 states. "...
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Voice of America
| 9 months ago
VOA News August 25, 2012 Republican officials have postponed by one day the start of their party's presidential convention in Tampa, Florida, moving opening events to Tuesday in hopes of escaping the wrath of an oncoming tropical storm. A Republican...
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Chicago Tribune
| 9 months ago
Saturday cancelled most of Monday's planned opening of the Republican National Convention, bowing to concerns about the safety of delegates who were to gather as the tropical storm Isaac barreled into the area. The plan, announced in a conference...
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
Text Size The Washington Post Just under a year ago, Mitt Romney was looking at what promised to be a rough evening in Tampa, the same city where he will formally accept his party's presidential nomination this week. At the time, that prize seemed to...
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Los Angeles Times
| 9 months ago
As Mitt Romney prepares to be officially named the GOP nominee, President Obama dismissed reports that he personally dislikes his rival, but said Romney has failed to live up to the requisites of running for president by not releasing more tax...
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Los Angeles Times
| 9 months ago
Ohio Mitt Romney had a warmup for next week's convention speech Saturday, engaging in call-answer chant with an enthusiastic crowd of several thousand people here and comparing the faint sound of protesters in the distance to a Greek chorus.
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 9 months ago
Anyone at this point who don't know who they are voting for probably should not vote, because if you are swayed by the political commercials, and pundits talking on TV, you are not a responsible voter anyway. Romney has told you he does not care...
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SF Gate
| 9 months ago
Mitt Romney is about to have the biggest political stage of his life at the Republican National Convention . What do you expect to hear from him, and how do you plan to counter it when you speak at your convention just a week later? Obama: I suspect...
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The Guardian
| 9 months ago
In his weekly address, the president defended the proposed reforms laid out in his landmark Affordable Care Act, contrasting it with the blueprint outlined by Mitt Romney 's conservative running mate Paul Ryan . Ryan's budget plan would turn Medicare...
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News 24
| 9 months ago
US President Barack Obama called on Saturday for protecting Medicare - a government-run health insurance programme for the senior, drawing a sharp distinction between his plan and that of his Republican opponents. "Here in America, we believe in...
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The Hill
| 9 months ago
Romney campaign strategist Russ Schriefer said there won't be any letup at the convention. We believe energy independence, our ability for America to harness its own natural resources to help this economy, is important, he said on a call with...
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Jerusalem Post
| 9 months ago
Republican presidential candidate says US must be ready "to take whatever action is necessary" to prevent Hezbollah, Hamas and al-Qaida from gaining "capacity to carry out a mass destruction, mass death event." Republican US presidential candidate...
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Star Tribune
| 9 months ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Friday that he would send U.S. troops to Syria if needed to prevent the spread of chemical weapons. "I think we have to also be ready to take whatever action is necessary to ensure that we do not...
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The Tribune
| 9 months ago
Romney makes 'birther' joke during Michigan stop Romney makes 'birther' joke during Michigan stop Campaigning today in his home state of Michigan, Mitt Romney stepped into the birther controversy, telling a crowd he's never been asked where he was...
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National Public Radio
| 9 months ago
In Commerce, Mich., today, The Associated Press reports, Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney told supporters that he and his wife, Ann, had been born in nearby hospitals. Then, Romney added, "no one's ever asked to see my birth certificate;...
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CNSNews.com
| 9 months ago
In this March 5, 2012, file photo, Ann Romney, wife of Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, laughs with him as he campaigns at a town hall meeting at Taylor Winfield in Youngstown, Ohio. Long before Romney became...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 9 months ago
While campaigning in Michigan on Friday, Mitt Romney made a groaner of a birth certificate joke. We'll give you the whole statement so you can judge it for yourself.
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Kansas City Star
| 9 months ago
Obama would extend expiring Bush-era tax cuts for households earning under $250,000 a year but allow them to rise for wealthier taxpayers. He'd make those earning more than $1 million a year pay taxes at a minimum 30 percent rate...He acknowledges...
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
President Barack Obama has a lead over Republican hopeful Mitt Romney in most personal characteristics, including "likability."...When asked whether Obama or Romney is more likable, 54 percent of the 1,033 poll respondents chose Obama while 31...
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PRWeb
| 9 months ago
August 24, 2012 After a new poll report from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal was released this week indicating Mitt Romney’s reputation has been damaged by the recent campaigns from the opposing democratic campaign, Reputation Management...
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 9 months ago
Germany has promoted austerity as central to fixing eurozone woes. So is there any resonance between Chancellor Merkel's views and the Romney-Ryan ticket?...Four years after Mr. Obama entered the White House he is still highly popular. But could...
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said he aims for the United States to become energy independent by 2020. In a campaign stop Thursday in New Mexico, Romney said, "This is not some pie in the sky kind of thing...His speech comes in tandem...
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CNN
| 9 months ago
Despite the vicious political attacks over energy policy in the United States, the recent boom in oil and gas production will likely continue, no matter who wins the White House. On Thursday Mitt Romney pledged to make North America energy...
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Midland Park Suburban News
| 9 months ago
MI Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney Friday raised the discredited rumor that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States and thus ineligible to be president. The presumptive GOP nominee, joined for a rally outside Detroit...
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Los Angeles Times
| 9 months ago
Ryan 's home state has tightened since Mitt Romney chose him as his running mate, The Times has updated its battleground map to show Wisconsin as a tossup. The map allows users to test their own predictions of the electoral college outcome. So far,...
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 9 months ago
Mitt Romney's success in raising hundreds of millions of dollars in the costliest presidential race ever can be traced in part to a secretive data-mining project that sifts through Americans' personal information to identify new and likely wealthy...
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Asia Times
| 9 months ago
Constitutionally ill-equipped to rally the Republican base, Romney
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Telegram & Gazette
| 9 months ago
Claiming health care bragging rights, Mitt Romney said Thursday his plan to provide health insurance to everyone in Massachusetts was superior to the one it inspired, President Barack Obamas much-debated national law...The law signed by Romney in...
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SF Gate
| 9 months ago
Although President Obama and his Republican challenger view energy development as a way to rev up the economy and create jobs, Romney's plan focuses squarely on the oil and gas sector. In a 21-page report detailing his energy agenda, Romney touts oil...
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The Tribune
| 9 months ago
Romney promises energy independence by 2020 Romney promises energy independence by 2020 Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney promised on Thursday to aggressively expand offshore oil drilling along Virginia, North Carolina and the Gulf of...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 9 months ago
In what his campaign billed as a major policy speech, Mitt Romney unveiled an energy plan Thursday that would give states the power to determine whether drilling and mining should occur on federal lands within their borders as part of a larger effort...
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Kevin M.D. Medical Blog
| 9 months ago
How is that, you say? Isn't the Romney/Ryan vision of how to reform health care diametrically opposed to that of Obama? Yes . . . and no. Romney and Ryan both propose to convert Medicare from an open-ended, defined benefit program to a defined...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 9 months ago
White House hopeful Mitt Romney will unveil an energy plan on Thursday that would empower US states to control drilling on federal lands he says could raise trillions of dollars in government revenue. The proposal, which repeats Romney's call for...
