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Voice of America
| 10 months ago
Republicans meeting in Tampa, Florida, plan to get down to business Tuesday after their national nominating convention was delayed a day by the effects of Tropical Storm Isaac. The Republican National Convention will finally kick into high gear...
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The Age
| 10 months ago
65 per cent expect an Obama victory and 9 per cent a Romney victory...Myriad presidential polls mostly show the result is line-ball. In most polls there has been only 1 or 2 per cent between them for the last few months.
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The Tribune
| 10 months ago
The party planned to hold the first full day of its convention Tuesday to adopt its platform and conduct the roll call of the states to nominate Mitt Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, for president and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan for vice...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
One of the few pieces of business that transpired during Monday's 10-minute session of the Republican convention was the unveiling of a debt clock that will track how much the national debt will have increased by the time the delegates end their work...
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Canadian Free Press
| 10 months ago
Chris Matthews was a near classic example of how some members of the media are so over the moon about Obama that it serves as a reminder that their long knives are out for the Romney-Ryan ticket. Matthews' man-crush on Obama is blatant, but I do take...
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Washington Post
| 10 months ago
The Romney campaign's convention game plan is to tell the larger personal story of hard-earned success, as Time Magazine puts it. They will tap an unusually large circle of others who will speak on his behalf, reports the Wall Street Journal, and...
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The Hartford Courant
| 10 months ago
Malloy , never one to shirk the spotlight, is taking on a new role as one of President Obama 's staunchest defenders on the campaign trail. The freshman governor traveled to New Hampshire this weekend, where he delivered a sharply worded critique of...
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NY1
| 10 months ago
New York Republicans find themselves in a rare place this week: among people who share their politics. But for them, getting out the vote for Mitt Romney is more than just about winning the White House...Only the most optimistic New York Republican...
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NY1
| 10 months ago
Before his trip to Tampa, Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan extended his thanks to the Wisconsin community where he grew up on Monday. The vice presidential hopeful joined neighbors and friends at his high school in Janesville, Wisconsin...
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USA Today
| 10 months ago
Mitt Romney never fully captured the hearts of Tea Party supporters, but he is likely to capture their votes in November, according to activists gathering here. Sponsored Links Outside the convention hall where the party establishment runs the show,...
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National Public Radio
| 10 months ago
With 24 hours of nothing officially happening at the GOP convention in Tampa because of Tropical Storm Isaac, Ron Paul supporters for the second time in as many days made themselves the center of attention at Mitt Romney's big nomination party...
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Truthdig
| 10 months ago
If Republicans thought they could put the abortion issue on the back burner during the week of their convention, they should think twice. Tony Smith, a GOP Senate hopeful in Pennsylvania, is in hot water after he compared having a baby as a result of...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 10 months ago
ments Americans see Mitt Romney as candidate for the rich, poll finds The problem is not that Mitt Romney is rich, according to a new Pew survey. It's that he is seen as being a president who would help the rich more than the middle class. By...
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Boston Globe
| 10 months ago
In Florida, site of this week's Republican National Convention, President Obama leads GOP challenger Mitt Romney, 50 percent to 46 percent. In North Carolina, where Democrats will convene next week, Romney has a 48-47 edge on Obama. Each candidate's...
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Boston Globe
| 10 months ago
Ryan drew a big-picture contrast between the Republican ticket's vision of a more prosperous country and President Obama's America, which he described as a nation in debt, a nation in doubt, a nation in decline. Ryan, a Wisconsin representative and...
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SF Gate
| 10 months ago
Mitt Romney 's adopted state of Massachusetts is rewarded at the Republican National Convention with prime seating just feet from where he'll accept the nomination this week. It's a rare honor for Massachusetts, a Democratic bastion used to being...
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Taiwan News
| 10 months ago
U.S. presidential challenger Mitt Romney and the Republicans staged a remarkably subdued opening to their national convention Monday in the midst of a turbulent election year, mindful about uncorking a glittery political celebration as Tropical Storm...
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Star Tribune
| 10 months ago
Rep. Ron Paul's delegates are trying to mount a floor fight over new GOP rules designed to limit the ability of insurgent presidential candidates to amass delegates to future Republican conventions. They are getting help from other delegates, though...
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The Denver Post
| 10 months ago
Though Colorado Ron Paul delegates know they don't have a path to victory, it doesn't mean they will fake admiration for Mitt Romney at the Republican National Convention. Of Colorado's 36 delegates, eight stopped short of supporting Romney and his...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
As Republicans prepare to get their storm-delayed convention underway in Florida, a new poll shows President Obama clinging to a narrow lead in the state. The race is closer, a virtual tie, in North Carolina, where the Democrats plan to hold their...
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The Indianapolis Star
| 10 months ago
What does the Republican Party need to do to attract more young people? A: Hopefully I can be a voice for young folks down here, because young people arent always represented in politics in general. Hopefully I can add that to the conversation, said...
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MarketWatch
| 10 months ago
The Republicans say they want to make this election a referendum on two different views of America...The task of the Republican Party over the next four days and the next 10 weeks is to persuade the voters that the party really isn't a radical...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
On the eve of his formal elevation as the Republican party's presidential candidate, Mitt Romney acknowledged that a steady barrage of criticism from the Obama campaign has taken its toll. Romney decried the negative tone of a campaign that has...
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The Salt Lake City Tribune
| 10 months ago
The Salt Lake Tribune First Published 1 minute ago Updated 1 minute ago Mitt Romney's running mate, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, will be in Utah on Sept. 5 for his first fundraising visit to the state since joining the GOP ticket, The Salt Lake Tribune...
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The Courier-Mail
| 10 months ago
Barack Obama and the man who wants his job, Republican Mitt Romney, are locked in a neck-and-neck battle for the White House, with the challenger one point ahead in a new poll. As the two head into their parties' conventions, beginning this week with...
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Voice of America
| 10 months ago
Republican Party has shortened its national convention for the nomination of its presidential candidate Mitt Romney, as a tropical storm skirts the coastline of Florida, the southeastern state hosting the event. The four-day convention in the city of...
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Newsbusters
| 10 months ago
Since Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan was announced as Mitt Romney's running mate, the situation in the various states seems to have changed a bit. Ryan's home state of Wisconsin has tightened up quite a bit, moving from solid Obama to a tossup.
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United Press International
| 10 months ago
Nearly 72 percent of voters said President Barack Obama 's handling of the U.S. economy will be a major factor in the November election, a poll indicates. The Washington Post-ABC News poll showed that while Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney...
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NY Daily News
| 10 months ago
This November, Americans going to the polls will face a choice between two young, dynamic politicians offering vastly different visions for one of the nation's bedrock social programs. Rep. Paul Ryan may not be at the top of the ticket, but it's his...
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Washington Post
| 10 months ago
The findings continue a months-long pattern, with neither the incumbent nor the challenger able to sustain clear momentum, despite airing hundreds of millions of dollars in television ads most of them negative and exchanging some of the harshest...
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The New York Times
| 10 months ago
Recent Posts August 26 There have been only modest shifts back and forth in Mitt Romney's polling numbers since he named Representative Paul D...August 25 CNN's latest national poll showed Barack Obama leading Mitt Romney by nine percentage points...
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USA Today
| 10 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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Voice of America
| 10 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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Fox
| 10 months ago
Associated Press President Barack Obama said Mitt Romney has locked himself into "extreme positions" on economic and social issues and would surely impose them if elected, trying to discredit his Republican rival at the biggest political moment of...
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United Press International
| 10 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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NY1
| 10 months ago
summary+' Mitt Romney reached out to women voters during a rally in the key swing state of Ohio Saturday. During an outdoor rally near Columbus, the presumptive GOP nominee promised to promote women-led businesses if he's elected president.
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 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
| 10 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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Zee News
| 10 months ago
US President Barack Obama and his main rival Mitt Romney are running neck and neck in the race to be the next occupant of the White House, more than half a dozen polls have found ahead of the Republican and Democratic conventions.
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The Guardian
| 10 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
| 10 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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Christian Science Monitor
| 10 months ago
More in Tropical Storm Isaac won't stop the GOP from nominating Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan for the presidential ticket. But the potential hurricane's approach did cause the White House to scrap Vice President Joe Biden's planned trip to Tampa for the...
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AP Online
| 10 months ago
Mich. (AP) — Life has changed for Paul Ryan in the two weeks since Mitt Romney named him as his running mate. Before that, Ryan was an up-and-coming but little-known House member still untested on the national stage.
It's safe to say...
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AP Online
| 10 months ago
Ohio (AP) — Mitt Romney and running mate Paul Ryan look to shrug off the latest in a series of unwanted distractions when they face Ohio voters as the Republican presidential ticket for the first time.
The two men will appear at a...
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Zee News
| 10 months ago
US President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney remain locked closely in the race for the White House, according to two new polls released ahead of the Republican presidential convention starting on Monday.
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Kansas City Star
| 10 months ago
And Obama's campaign will hold events around the country aimed at women voters. The campaign also plans an economic-themed bus tour through Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin with party activists.In Tampa, Democrats plan daily events with party...
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 10 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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Fox News
| 10 months ago
FoxNews.com The back-to-school season is here, and as parents take their children to shop for school supplies, I suspect that many of them will be visiting a Staples store. I'm very familiar with those stores because Staples is one of many businesses...
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The New York Observer
| 10 months ago
After Vice President Joe Biden infamously told an audience that Mitt Romney is going to unchain Wall Street, and concluded they are going to put y'all back in chains, Mr. Romney's campaign cried foul. This was an obvious and unfair allusion to...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 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,...
