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Los Angeles Times
| 7 months ago
As governor of Massachusetts, he dove deeply into the subject while creating the most far-reaching state health plan in the country. As president, he would bring an unusual degree of nuance to any discussion of health insurance. In theory, that...
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Star Tribune
| 7 months ago
Republican Mitt Romney blames President Obama for annual trillion-dollar deficits adding to what is now a $16 trillion national debt. Nonpartisan analysts agree that Obama inherited a bad hand: The 2009 deficit was a projected $1.2 trillion when he...
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Washington Post
| 7 months ago
The campaigns have been battling over taxes ever since Romney, during one of the debate's first exchanges, directly challenged Obama's assertion that Romney's tax plan would finance big new breaks for the wealthy by wiping out popular deductions for...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama speaks during the presidential debate in Denver, Colorado. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images One of the greatest challenges of Mitt Romney 's career has always been to win over a conservative wing of the Republican...
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The Hill
| 8 months ago
The legislators argue that the silver lining in President Obama's underwhelming debate showing is that Romney gave Democrats plenty of ammunition to reinforce their case that he is a flip-flopper willing to say anything to get elected. "Romney's...
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Washington Post
| 8 months ago
Conversely, it's kind of boring to think of yourself as having a set of technocratic disagreements with the opposition. Yet, for the most part, that's what this U.S. presidential election is about. One of this year's more amusing Ideological Battle...
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CNN
| 8 months ago
A few months ago he told donors at a Florida fundraiser that he'd never convince the 47% of Americans who he described as government-dependent shoo-ins for President Barack Obama to "take personal responsibility and care for their lives." In the...
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The Hutchinson News
| 8 months ago
One large, strategic question at the center of the presidential race: In order to beat President Obama, does Mitt Romney need to be an exceptional candidate or merely an acceptable one? For much of the campaign, Romney and his team have operated...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
President Obama seized a positive jobs report Friday, telling an audience at Fairfax, Va., that the United States is "moving forward again." "This morning, we found out that the unemployment rate has fallen to its lowest level since I took office,"...
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Inquirer.net
| 8 months ago
The former Massachusetts governor running for US president definitely angered the people in the neighborhood who grew up on the long-running educational series after he threatened to pull the plug on America's public television service and, by...
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NY Daily News
| 8 months ago
Mitt Romney now says his 47%' remark about dependent' Americans was completely wrong' "In this case, I said something that's just completely wrong," Romney said...Friday, October 5, 2012, 1:55 PM "I care about 100%" Mitt Romney insisted, after...
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Al Jazeera
| 8 months ago
01 Mitt Romney, the US Republican presidential candidate, has said his secretly-filmed remarks dismissing 47 per cent of Americans as government dependants were "completely wrong". Romney, widely perceived to have won the first round of presidential...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
The Romney debate No question, the first presidential debate marked a seismic shift in the race for the White House. The man who is nearly impossible to trust was downright paternal -- a splash of expensive white teeth and a touch of Marcus Welby.
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The Denver Post
| 8 months ago
Trickle-down government will not bring down the cost of energy. Trickle-down government will not let incomes rise," Romney said Thursday at the Denver conference. "This is about the 23 million people in this country who are out of work, who have...
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The Gleaner
| 8 months ago
The Mitt Romney who demolished President Barack Obama in their first debate of the general-election season wasn't the same candidate at all who has been campaigning for president for the last six years. Romney was no longer the man whose wealth...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
Mitt Romney reopened the race for the White House yesterday (Thursday) after securing victory over Barack Obama in the first presidential debate and revitalising Republicans who had feared his campaign was heading for defeat. The former Massachusetts...
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Miami Herald
| 8 months ago
The small group of voters who remain undecided or at least open to persuasion in the presidential campaign consistently tell pollsters that they want to hear specifics and don't like partisan attacks. President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, his...
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The Hindustan Times
| 8 months ago
In an attempt to recover from a disappointing presidential debate, President Barack Obama blasted his Republican challenger for not being "the real Mitt Romney" by contradicting his own beliefs. In campaign appearances after the debate, Obama said...
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Glen Ridge Voice
| 8 months ago
Wednesday's first presidential debate, many Republicans were becoming increasingly gloomy over the prospects of GOP candidate Mitt Romney. Incumbent Barack Obama had inched ahead in the national polls and far more alarmingly for Republicans, the...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama told a campaign rally in Denver Thursday "the fellow on stage last night" at the presidential debate was not "the real Mitt Romney." Shrugging off a consensus among political analysts, focus group participants and snap polls...
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The independent
| 8 months ago
Suggested Topics Bamboozled by a fiercely belligerent debate performance by Mitt Romney, the Barack Obama campaign was rushing to regroup yesterday to protect its momentum in a presidential contest that overnight seemed to have travelled from nearly...
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The Courier-Mail
| 8 months ago
Obama has demanded truth from the "real Mitt Romney" as aides promised a "hard look" at strategy after the US president's listless performance in the first White House debate. Passionate, cutting and engaged, in stark comparison to his debate showing,...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 8 months ago
The Mitt Romney who shone in Wednesday night's debate was the moderate Massachusetts governor, not the condescending presidential candidate who spent the past year pandering to the far right. The Barack Obama who phoned in a lackluster performance...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
With his flaccid debate performance against Republican Mitt Romney in the rear-view mirror, President Obama spent his travels Thursday saying things he probably wishes he'd said on stage including a rejoinder to the Romney line about Big Bird . In a...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 8 months ago
US president Barack Obama has fired back after giving what was widely seen as a lacklustre performance against Republican candidate Mitt Romney in the first televised presidential debate. Mr Romney defied expectations in yesterday's debate,...
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Boston Globe
| 8 months ago
Romney made the case that his term as a Republican governor in Massachusetts would enable him to break the partisan gridlock in Washington, a goal Obama has failed to accomplish. I had the great experience -- it didn't seem like it at the time -- of...
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Al Jazeera English
| 8 months ago
49 Barack Obama has gone on the offensive as he attempts to claw back following a televised presidential debate that his Republican rival Mitt Romney was widely perceived to have won. The US president demanded truth from the "real Mitt Romney" on...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 8 months ago
Fifteen minutes into Wednesday night's debate here, Mitt Romney politely called the president of the United States a liar. After President Obama accused his GOP rival of seeking to cut taxes on the wealthy -- a stock line for the incumbent, and...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 8 months ago
Friday Oct 5, 2012 Obama subdued and defensive in first of three televised debates before next month's presidential election Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee for the White House, delivered a knock-out blow in the first presidential debate during...
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Star Tribune
| 8 months ago
Looking for a quick recovery from a disappointing debate, President Barack Obama questioned the identity of the "real" Mitt Romney on Thursday, suggesting his Republican rival had not been candid about his policy positions while on stage. "Gov.
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USA Today
| 8 months ago
President Obama followed up last night's debate today by saying that viewers did not see "the real' Mitt Romney. The Romney at last night's debate refused to own up to the impact of his proposed tax cuts for the wealthy, education cuts, and past...
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Boston Herald
| 8 months ago
Updated 58 minutes ago Text size R epublican nominee and former Bay State governor Mitt Romney made a little-noticed, but major gaffe in last night's first presidential debate. About 35 minutes into the Denver face-off, President Obama launched into...
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The Hill
| 8 months ago
David Axelrod, Obama's senior campaign strategist, said they are going to take "a hard look" at Obama's debate performance and that they'll have to make some judgments about where to draw the lines in these debates and how to use our time. It's like...
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Fox News
| 8 months ago
FoxNews.com My experience as a governor is if I come in and lay down a piece of legislation and say it's my way or the highway, I don't get a lot done. -- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney , the Republican nominee for President, in his first...
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Chicago-Sun Times
| 8 months ago
Mitt Romney prevailed over President Barack Obama in their first debate on Wednesday with Obama not able to present a forceful defense of his tenure in office or why he deserved a second term...Romney won but did not turn the contest upside down as...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
Having exceeded expectations for last night's debate, Mitt Romney has been declared the victor. The Republican presidential nominee stayed on message and tried to connect with the people, and even seems to have defined a lot of what President Barack...
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College Candy
| 8 months ago
I was expecting Obama's charisma to take center-stage, with Romney awkwardly attempting (but failing) to get across his plans for our future...In my opinion, recent history and expectations were proved wrong last night when these anticipated roles of...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Even a passable performance was going to earn Romney hosannas' Wednesday's debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama can be summed up by one moment. Early on, the president accused Romney of wanting to put in place a $5tn tax cut that will, he...
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Fox News
| 8 months ago
FoxNews.com Mitt Romney energized his campaign for president Wednesday night, charging out of his first debate having by most accounts from both sides of the political spectrum dominated President Obama in a stand-off for which he was evidently well-...
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Herald Tribune
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney offered competing visions Wednesday night of how they would lead the country out of the deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression, each promising voters in a combative first debate that he had a...
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Taiwan News
| 8 months ago
Travel & Delicacy Beauty never Ends Ecological Environment Taiwan News, Staff Writer 2012-10-04 03:21 PM Republican Mitt Romney, looking to jolt his struggling presidential campaign, accused Barack Obama of misrepresenting his positions as the two...
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Boston Globe
| 8 months ago
After months of dueling attack ads and long-distance sparring, President Obama and Mitt Romney outlined and dissected their competing plans to stimulate the sputtering economy on Wednesday night in the first presidential debate of the 2012 general...
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Boston Globe
| 8 months ago
After appearing somewhat thunderstruck for the first 20 minutes of his first presidential debate, understandable when considering Romney had never been on a stage so grand while Obama encounters them daily, the Republican nominee settled into a...
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MarketWatch
| 8 months ago
Mitt Romney tried to use the words of President Barack Obama's administration against him in the first of three debates Wednesday in an effort to reach out to middle-class voters that appear to be drifting away from the Republican challenger.
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
Challenger Mitt Romney used Wednesday's debate to put President Barack Obama on the defensive on health care, jobs and other issues. The president's reluctance to fire back harshly gave new hope to Republican partisans. Romney managed to highlight...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney battled for 90 minutes Wednesday in detail-laden jousting over tax plans, health care and government regulation. The first of their three debates took place on the campus of the University of Denver,...
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Summit Daily News
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney talk at the end of the first presidential debate in Denver, Wednesday. In a showdown at close quarters, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt...
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Star Tribune
| 8 months ago
Jim Lehrer may be regretting his decision to come out of semi-retirement and moderate his 12th presidential debate. The veteran PBS anchor drew caustic social media reviews for his performance on Wednesday, with critics saying he failed to keep...
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Boston Globe
| 8 months ago
In a showdown at close quarters, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney sparred aggressively in their first campaign debate Wednesday night over taxes, deficits and strong steps needed to create jobs in a sputtering national economy. The...
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The Day
| 8 months ago
Primed for a showdown, President Barack Obama accused Republican rival Mitt Romney in campaign debate Wednesday night of wanting to "double down on the top-down policies" that led to a devastating economic downturn four years ago...Romney rebutted...
