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United Press International
| 7 months ago
President Obama and Mitt Romney are neck-and-neck as they head down the stretch in the U.S. presidential race, a new poll indicated Sunday. The Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey gave both candidates 47 percent of the vote on the eve of their final...
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Miami Herald
| 7 months ago
In the America viewed through the lens of a presidential campaign commercial, coal miners hear that their jobs are "in danger," voters are warned that "China is stealing American ideas," and the middle class, it's been said time and again, is "...
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SF Gate
| 7 months ago
Fla. (AP) Republican Mitt Romney took a break from debate preparations Sunday to watch reporters who cover him play football against his senior staff. Less than three weeks before Election Day, Romney headed to Delray Beach, where senior staffers...
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International Business Times
| 7 months ago
President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are tied nationally, according to a poll released Sunday morning by NBC News and the Wall Street Journal. They each claim 47 percent among likely voters, and Obama leads 49 percent to Romney's 44 percent among...
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Telegram & Gazette
| 7 months ago
A liberal group in Massachusetts has gathered in front of the campaign headquarters of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and delivered binders bearing his record on issues that concern women. The Saturday-afternoon event follows Romneys...
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The Glenwood Post Independent
| 7 months ago
Oh, to be 12 again, the better to enjoy the presidential debates. Or rather, the better to appreciate the Twitterverse, where America's obsessive-compulsive, attention-deficit population holds the zeitgeist hostage with tweets and memes that...
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Gawker
| 7 months ago
Today, a report from the New York Times clarifies Romney's definition of fireable people as anyone who he has not worked with closely (i.e. played at least one round of golf with). In particular, the article cites a moment during Romney's 2008...
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Newsbusters
| 7 months ago
Count former New York Times writer Virginia Heffernan as one of the media feminists who wanted to hit Mitt Romney with a binder for about a week. From her digital macrame rug on Yahoo News , Heffernan wrote an entire column insisting "The remark did...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 7 months ago
Abortion is a tricky issue for both Romney and Obama campaigns. In polls, a plurality agrees that abortion should be generally available...Mitt Romney is having to talk about abortion a lot more than he'd like to these days for one key reason: His...
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Tulsa World
| 7 months ago
From the beginning of the debate I felt like he had a condescending smirk on his face. Sure I opposed him before the debate, but it is obvious that his so-called self-assurance look enthralled the Barack Obama opposition. The so-called "liberal media"...
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The Globe & Mail
| 7 months ago
Story I listened to him as though listening to a man discussing the domestication of the zebra. If you're going to have women in the work force If you're compelled by circumstances beyond your control to attempt to harness a panicky and unpredictable...
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Miami Herald
| 7 months ago
President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are engaged in a furious duel for women's votes, battling daily with attack ads, massive rallies and heartfelt testimonials from supportive women. In the latest round Friday, the president fired up a raucous...
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Newsbusters
| 7 months ago
Timothy Egan, a liberal reporter for the New York Times who is now a left-wing columnist for nytimes.com, wrote a post Thursday on the second presidential debate. It followed the paper's desperate-sounding editorial that same day that tried to paint...
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International Business Times
| 7 months ago
2012 Republican Party presidential nominee Mitt Romney with wife Ann Romney. Romney reiterated that she would not be making the decisions, that her it's her husband's job if he were to be nominated as president. She added that she is pro-life, even...
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Fox News
| 7 months ago
FoxNews.com President Obama and his surrogates ripped into Mitt Romney over the past week for allegedly being wishy-washy on the matter of "equal pay" -- part of the campaign's aggressive appeal to vital female voters. But despite all the rhetoric,...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
If men like Mitt Romney aren't listening, why bother to try to engage in serious argument, wonders Megan Carpentier. Photograph: Charles Dharapak/AP If you were oblivious to the news and yet searching for the perfect three-ring binder on Amazon this...
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Los Angeles Times
| 7 months ago
President Obama diagnosed his opponent with a case of Romnesia Friday morning but pledged to help solve the problem by reminding voters of Mitt Romney 's severely conservative positions. Speaking to a crowd here, Obama accused Romney of backtracking...
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Snarky Gossip
| 7 months ago
During Tuesday night's debate with President Barack Obama , Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney told the harrowing story of the time he tried to find women to fill roles on his cabinet while he was governor of Massachusetts. Romney packed...
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Reuters
| 7 months ago
Topics Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney answers a question during the second U.S. presidential debate in Hempstead, New York, October 16, 2012. Mitt Romney has distanced himself from his remarks lamenting the nearly 47 percent of Americans...
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Reuters
| 7 months ago
Republican presidential nominee and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney stands in his campaign plane in Sterling, Virginia, October 18, 2012. Thanks to Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney's debate comment that he received "binders...
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Reuters
| 7 months ago
Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney during a rally at Crofton Industries in Portsmouth, Virginia May 3, 2012. Virginia is a key battleground in the race between Democratic President Barack Obama and...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 7 months ago
According to one analysis, such a cap on deductions would generate $1.3 trillion in revenues, short of the estimated $5 trillion in tax cuts. Mitt Romney stirred a new round of debate over his tax reform plan this week when he said a few simple words:...
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The Hindustan Times
| 7 months ago
It continued Wednesday with the candidates taking their battle straight to voters, specially women voters. Mitt Romney's binders full of women comment, used by him at the debate to explain his support for equal opportunities for women, bounced around...
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Indian Express
| 7 months ago
Maybe theyll tell the kids that, in the end, the whole election came down to the time Mitt Romney put Big Bird in a binder on the car roof. President Obama has had his ups and downs in this campaign, but Romney has a near-monopoly on interesting...
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International Business Times
| 7 months ago
Reuters/Mike Segar) The exercise-science major at Adelphi University was invited to attend the second presidential debate and ask a question after answering a telemarketer call. Epstein's sister initially received the call from a research company...
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Newsbusters
| 7 months ago
The New York Times must be really worried about bolstering Obama's support among women, with a Gallup poll shows Romney pulling even with Obama among women (though reporter Michael Shear strenously downplayed the fact in a Wednesday post by saying...
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Gawker
| 7 months ago
Website Counting Down to October Surprise' Has the Internet Guessing No one is quite sure who's behind a mysterious new website promising "an October Surprise that will change the 2012 election," but that hasn't stopped people from guessing. So far,...
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The Boston Globe
| 7 months ago
N.H. (AP) President Barack Obama told supporters in swing state New Hampshire Thursday that rival Mitt Romney took another swing'' and whiffed'' when asked during a debate how he'd pay for his tax cut plan. Surrounded by brilliant fall foliage and a...
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Boston.com
| 7 months ago
N.H. (AP) Jeanne Shaheen, the first woman elected governor of New Hampshire and the state's first female U.S. senator, says unlike Republican Mitt Romney, President Barack Obama didn't need a binder to appoint women'' to high-ranking positions.
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Christian Science Monitor
| 7 months ago
There's no Five Brothers Bus" (a.k.a. "Mitt Mobile) or Five Brothers blog, like there was in 2008, but Mitt Romney 's five sons Tagg, Matt, Josh, Ben, and Craig still play a key role in the presidential campaign. Mitt Romney has been called...
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Gawker
| 7 months ago
After Mitt Romney bragged about the "binders full of women" he was given while Governor of Massachusetts, Amazon was flooded with cheeky, often funny customer reviews of its binders. Generally I think the "debate meme" ( any debate meme), and its...
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Zee News
| 7 months ago
A day after a lively, feisty encounter on stage, President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are back on the campaign trail keeping up their fight off stage. An energised Obama, who by most accounts delivered a much improved stronger...
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Tulsa World
| 7 months ago
The questions before Tuesday night's second presidential debate were: Will President Obama bounce back after a lackluster performance in the first debate?...After his dismal showing in the first debate he had nowhere to go but up. This time, the...
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Denver Post
| 7 months ago
Re- publican nominee Mitt Romney's comment during the second presidential debate that he had received "binders full of women" as Massachusetts governor when he requested more female job candidates went viral Wednesday, fueling a broader fight between...
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United Press International
| 7 months ago
I need your help," the former Massachusetts governor said. "I have to be honest with you. I love these debates, you know, these things are great," Romney said, referring to the second presidential debate Tuesday. "I think it's interesting the...
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Boston Herald
| 7 months ago
T he frenzy whipped up by Mitt Romney 's claims of poring over binders full of woman to ensure his cabinet wasn't male-dominated drew a sharp response from both sides of the aisle yesterday Democrats disputing the notion he actively sought out female...
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NY Daily News
| 7 months ago
It's time for binders full of women to have its 15 minutes of fame on the campaign trail. Mitt Romney 's sound bite made during the second presidential debate became a political and cultural phenomenon Wednesday, mocked by President Obama and...
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Washington Post
| 7 months ago
Text Size The Washington Post It was a memorable anecdote, one that could have shown Mitt Romney's sensitivity toward the issue of gender equality in the workforce. The Republican presidential candidate said he had reached out to a women's group to...
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Los Angeles Times
| 7 months ago
But women's rights advocates said the comment nevertheless sheds light on the serious issue of workplace inequality. Romney's comment in Tuesday night's town hall event came during a discussion of gender inequality on the job and that dialogue was...
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Miami Herald
| 7 months ago
The women's group that gave Mitt Romney binders of women's resumes contested his version of the story on Wednesday, while Democrats worked to criticize his record, although Romney apparently named a comparable percentage of women to top spots as...
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Arizona Republic
| 7 months ago
Members of a coalition of Massachusetts women's groups on Wednesday disputed Mitt Romney's assertion that he requested the names of potential female candidates for high-level, state positions when he was elected governor. "To be perfectly clear, Mitt...
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Acushnet Community News
| 7 months ago
Mitt Romney sparked Internet ridicule and Democratic derision with his claim Tuesday night to have ordered up "binders full of women" to staff his Massachusetts cabinet, threatening to undermine his appeal to a key constituency in the final push to...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
You can choose to turn back the clock 50 years for women, gays and immigrants or you can move us forward.' Photograph: David Greedy/Getty Images Barack Obama stepped up his attacks on Mitt Romney in the battle to appeal to female voters as he sought...
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CNN
| 7 months ago
Before Tuesday night's debate, polls showed Mitt Romney had gained ground with women voters. But his comments about using "whole binders full of women" as a hiring aid while governor, whiffing on an equal pay law question, and alluding to helping...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 7 months ago
At this point Mitt Romney probably regrets announcing to the world he has binders full of women. Not just because the phrase is bizarre enough to have spawned a Twitter account , Facebook page (with tens of thousands of followers), a music video and...
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US Magazine
| 7 months ago
binders full of women." Responding to a question about gender income inequality, Governor Romney told the moderator that he had made a point of seeking out female applicants for his gubernatorial cabinet in Massachusetts. "We took a concerted effort...
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Bogota Bulletin
| 7 months ago
President Barack Obama on Wednesday ridiculed challenger Mitt Romney's debate description of receiving "binders full of women," while the GOP nominee said the incumbent's policies have failed female voters. The two bounded out of their quarrelsome...
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Miami Herald
| 7 months ago
In response to a question about unequal pay for women at Tuesday's debate, Republican nominee Mitt Romney said that as governor of Massachusetts, he made an effort to seek qualified women for his cabinet. He said he went to a number of womens...
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The Progressive
| 7 months ago
That was bad news for Romney, who had magically erased Obama's advantage with women voters after the first debate--which was completely free of women's issues. Moderator Candy Crowley steered the candidates right to the edge of the gender gap when...
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Gawker
| 7 months ago
Turns Out Romney Didn't Commission Them, Compile Them, or Pay Particular Attention to Them During last night's debate, a question was raised by an attendee concerning each candidates track record on equality for women in the workplace. In response to...
