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Washington Post
| 8 months ago
From floor speeches to news conferences, Democrats used every chance to poke at the House Budget Committee chairman...Reid (D-Nev.) lampooned Ryan's erroneous claim that he ran a marathon in less than three hours . Reid suggested that Ryan's...
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Washington Post
| 8 months ago
Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), left, with GOP nominee Mitt Romney and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, is considered an ideal surrogate...It is the imperative of the presidential campaign, a tsunami of words meant to coax and cajole, rile and rouse...Not when Wolf...
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Arizona Republic
| 8 months ago
Appealing for patriotism, former President Bill Clinton on Tuesday urged Americans to honor those killed on 9/11 and in the wars that followed by being a "good citizen" and getting engaged in the election. "The least we can do is show up and vote,"...
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Tahoe Daily Tribune
| 8 months ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks Tuesday at the National Guard Association of the United States in the Reno/Sparks Convention Center. Gov. Mitt Romney lavished praise on the National Guard at its annual national conference, and he...
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International Business Times
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama's approval rating has enjoyed a modest bump since the Democratic National Convention, while Mitt Romney is already behind in the presidential debate game, according to a national polls conducted by CNN/ORC International...
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Reuters
| 8 months ago
Republican presidential nominee and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney addresses the National Guard Association's convention in Reno, Nevada September 11, 2012...Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney used the anniversary of the attacks...
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Towleroad
| 8 months ago
They've previously deployed her to show the softer side of Mitt. Now they're sending her to stand on stage with a man who paid $83,000 to use David Duke's mailing list and addressed a white supremacist group while in public office. The same person...
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Miami Herald
| 8 months ago
Efforts in Congress to provide emergency drought aid to hard-hit farmers and overhaul crop subsidy programs appear to be falling victim to Washington gridlock. A raft of new polls, all reporting fairly similar numbers, underscores two critical facts...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
His comments were in keeping with the overall tone of the day, which has become the nation's most solemn commemorative event, taking the place once reserved for Dec...Both presidential campaigns suspended negative advertising for a day, giving...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
A raft of new polls, all reporting fairly similar numbers, underscores two critical facts about where the presidential race stands: President Obama has emerged from the back-to-back conventions having erased the edge that Republican challenger Mitt...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama during a campaign stop in Ames, last month. Photograph: Nati Harnik/AP Many commentators are writing daily pieces on President Obama's bounce. I wrote an analysis of Obama's bounce on Monday, trying to place it in a larger...
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National Public Radio
| 8 months ago
Getting caught in a fight between two important allies is not where a president locked in a tight re-election race would willingly choose to be. But that's where President Obama is today as he attempts for now to stay above the fray pitting the...
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International Business Times
| 8 months ago
Share This Story Assuming Romney's tax reform proposals were put into place, the billionarie casino magnate Adelson potentially stands to receive tax cuts adding up to more than $2 billion in savings. According to Seth Hanlon, the director of fiscal...
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Guardian Unlimited
| 8 months ago
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have failed to provide specifics but the overarching direction of their proposals is clear. Photograph: Julie Dermansky/Corbis The United States is beset by four deficits: a fiscal deficit, a jobs deficit, a deficit in...
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Truthdig
| 8 months ago
Sep 11, 2012 I'm trying to figure out just where Mitt Romney stands on health care reform...In an interview broadcast Sunday on Meet the Press, I thought I heard Romney say he liked some aspects of President Obama's Affordable Care Act and would keep...
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
Romney's comments at a rally of 1,200 supporters inside a Mansfield factory came as new national polls show Obama benefiting from a surge in voter support following last week's convention. Romney's pollster acknowledged Obama's bounce in a memorandum...
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Venture Beat
| 9 months ago
Taking advantage of powerful social media channels, Republican VP nominee Paul Ryan has posted criticisms against President Barack Obama on the popular question-and-answer service Quora. The move closely follows Ryan's use of a Google+ Hangout this...
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Aim Veron
| 9 months ago
The economy has improved here, and so has President Barack Obama's standing, putting pressure on Republican Mitt Romney in a state critical to his presidential hopes. No Republican has won the White House without winning Ohio, and Romney hopes to...
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Money Morning
| 9 months ago
Now that both the Republican and Democratic national conventions are over, one key question remains: Which side has the best liars? If America's two major political parties have anything in common, it's the ability to fold, twist and mutilate the...
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
Obama's total is a significant increase over the $76 million he raised in July and comes just a week after his campaign announced it had raked in contributions from 3.2 million people, more than who supported his groundbreaking 2008 campaign. The end...
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Star Tribune
| 9 months ago
President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney are set to address a major gathering of international philanthropists hosted by Bill Clinton. The former president announced Monday that Obama and Romney would participate in the annual meeting of the...
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USA Today
| 9 months ago
Obama, Romney argue about U.S. 'decline' Updated The latest issue in the presidential campaign: alleged U.S. decline. Mitt Romney and running mate Paul Ryan say that Obama's economic policies will eventually reduce the United States' standing in the...
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
Don't get too worked up about the latest polling, Newhouse wrote. While some voters will feel a bit of a sugar-high from the conventions, the basic structure of the race has not changed significantly. The reality of the Obama economy will reassert...
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USA Today
| 9 months ago
The reason they are "evasive about their plans," in the Obama campaign's view: "There are simply not enough loopholes for the wealthy in the federal budget that Mitt Romney could eliminate to pay for his tax cut," and the middle class will bear the...
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Fox News
| 9 months ago
FoxNews.com Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are moving to define what they plan to do and what they stand for on the hot-button issues of health care and taxes, after enduring a week in which Democratic convention-goers tried to define that for them. Both...
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SF Gate
| 9 months ago
President Barack Obama squeaked out a fundraising victory over Mitt Romney in August as the candidates gear up for the final stretch of their closely contested campaign. Obama raised more than $114 million in August, while Romney brought in just over...
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Truthdig
| 9 months ago
The question at the core of America's upcoming election isn't merely whose story most voting Americans believe to be true Mitt Romney's claim that the economy is in a stall and Obama's policies haven't worked, or Barack Obama's that it's slowly...
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Acushnet Community News
| 9 months ago
Mitt Romney said he would retain some popular parts of the new health care law he has pledged to repeal, while President Barack Obama focused attention in all-important Florida on the Republican ticket's stand on Medicare, an issue that's been more...
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The Mercury News
| 9 months ago
The remarks, made in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press," seemed to mark the emergence of a less openly partisan, more general-election-oriented Republican nominee, who is intent on appealing to middle-of-the-road voters who have not yet made up...
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SF Gate
| 9 months ago
President Barack Obama and Democrats pulled slightly ahead of Mitt Romney and Republicans in monthly fundraising in August for the first time in four months...It's a sharp increase for Obama, who raised $75 million in July. That had been the third...
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Taiwan News
| 9 months ago
The dispute over American health care dominated the presidential race Sunday with Republican challenger Mitt Romney altering his stand on President Barack Obama 's signature overhaul of the system, telling voters he would keep several important parts...
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Truthdig
| 9 months ago
Nominating Barack Obama for a second term, the former president brought to bear the full weight of his political experience and forensic skill Wednesday night, on behalf of a man who was once his adversary. Rewritten up until the final hour before he...
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The Hill
| 9 months ago
The division between Romney and Ryan was on display during the Sunday news shows, as Romney criticized the 2011 Budget Control Act (BCA) on NBC's Meet the Press, while Ryan defended his vote for the bill on CBS's Face the Nation. The Budget Control...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan, defended their tax, economic, and health-care ideas while trying to direct a more precise attack on Democratic President Barack Obama during interviews on four of the...
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
President Obama said Sunday he would still be willing to work with the Republicans on a budget compromise if he wins a second term. In a taped interview on CBS' "Face the Nation," Obama said he was still willing to seek further spending reductions...
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Aim Veron
| 9 months ago
Health care grabbed the spotlight Sunday with less than two months until Election Day in the deadlocked race. Mitt Romney said he would retain some popular parts of the new health care law he has pledged to repeal, while President Barack Obama...
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The Daily Telegraph
| 9 months ago
White House challenger Mitt Romney has slammed Barack Obama's "jobless recovery", seeking to tame the president's polling spurt following the Democratic National Convention. Romney accused Obama of failing to stop Iran's nuclear drive and reiterated...
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Zee News
| 9 months ago
The Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan on Sunday said that they agree with the 2014 deadline of security transition in Afghanistan but alleged that the views of the generals on the ground were not being considered by the Obama...
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
Romney and Ryan both responded to criticism leveled by former President Bill Clinton that Republican budget arithmetic including cuts in tax rates for the rich and increased defense spending cannot work without elimination of big middle-class tax...
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The New York Times
| 9 months ago
Archive Recent Posts September 09 President Obama is now regularly alluding to Bill Clinton on the campaign trail, despite frosty relations between the two in the past. September 09 Representative Paul Ryan, in a television interview, defended his...
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The Hill
| 9 months ago
Four budgets, $4 trillion deficits, 23 million people struggling to find work, the highest poverty rates in a generation, nearly one out of six Americans in poverty, said Ryan on ABC's This Week. Ryan pounced on Friday's weak jobs report numbers and...
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Kansas City Star
| 9 months ago
President Barack Obama says Mitt Romney and running mate Paul Ryan get a failing grade on explaining how they'd pay for trillions of dollars in tax cuts.The two Republicans were asked separately on different Sunday morning talk shows what loopholes...
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The Courier-Mail
| 9 months ago
Barack Obama has hinted Americans can expect budget cuts if he is re-elected in November, telling an interviewer some spending programs "are worthy" but unaffordable. Seeking to counter Republican criticism that his administration has increased the...
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USA Today
| 9 months ago
Paul Ryan stops short of giving GOP tax specifics Updated GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan criticized President Obama for his tax proposals and for putting America on the wrong path, but declined to say which loopholes he and Mitt Romney would...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
It cut taxes on the uber-rich, raises taxes on middle-income and lower-income Americans, and cuts federal programs in the U.S.'s modest social safety net. Simply, the Romney tax plan is the Bush tax plan on steroids...Consider this: Under Ryan's plan,...
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The Hill
| 9 months ago
In excerpts of an interview aired Sunday on CBS's Face the Nation, Obama said that the election would help sort out the fight over taxes and revenue that's intensified between the two parties since a grand bargain fell through last year. CBS's Scott...
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The Hill
| 9 months ago
In an interview on ABC's This Week airing Sunday, Ryan was asked if he would straight reject a deal which would provide $1 in new taxes for every $10 in spending cuts. Ryan, the GOP vice presidential nominee, said he would weigh the quality of the...
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Star Tribune
| 9 months ago
Obama said that presidential nominee Mitt Romney and Ryan are "new to foreign policy" and want to take the U.S. back "to an era of blustering and blundering that cost America so dearly." Ryan told CBS' "Face the Nation" that such "name calling" is "...
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Los Angeles Times
| 9 months ago
After the political conventions had ended and the monthly jobs report was out, a senior White House aide was asked what would happen to change the presidential contest between now and Oct. 3...After all, the matchup between President Obama and Mitt...
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Summit Daily News
| 9 months ago
Let's look at what candidate Romney wants for our country's future...The rich and corporations will be given very big tax breaks with the hope these groups will pass their money down to the rest of us by creating jobs. As a young person I recall many,...
