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San Jose Mercury News
| 7 months ago
Mercury News Editorial The most compelling case for Barack Obama's re-election was made this past week, not by him or by any campaign strategy but by a storm named Sandy. We've seen the heartbreaking images of grieving mothers and destroyed homes, as...
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Kansas City Star
| 7 months ago
what Republican nominee Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama say they'll do for the country, and what's been revealed about each man along the way.After six days of political conventions, six hours of debates and a months-long barrage of 30-second...
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SF Gate
| 7 months ago
Mitt Romney is making his closing argument, warning that re-electing President Barack Obama would threaten another government shutdown and national default. That's according to excerpts his campaign released of a speech he will deliver Friday in...
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Towleroad
| 7 months ago
The language, word choice and narratives pretty much sum up the candidates' differences. First, Romney : On June 2, 2011, I began my quest for the presidency on the farm of Doug and Stella Scamman in Stratham, New Hampshire. I said then that our ...
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Daily Chronicle
| 7 months ago
But a few summers ago, my family rented a beach house on the New Jersey shore about 500 feet from the Atlantic Ocean...Much of Strathmere, N.J., where the house was located is ravaged. Google showed me a picture of a guy kayaking down a main street.
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Newsbusters
| 7 months ago
Romney has a long history of flip-flopping and dodging questions on a number of important issues. He's refused to, let's see, give specifics on his budget and tax plan. He's refused to say if he supports the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act for women. He'...
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Washington Post
| 7 months ago
On this recent day at the University of Richmond, 12 students sat listening to his spiel. My job is to not even be remotely interesting, Perriello told the group, brandishing a flip-chart marker and walking his audience through Romney's tax cut...
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Mustang Daily
| 7 months ago
November 1, 2012 This opinion piece was written by Cal Poly College Republicans Executive Board...But this election is not just about Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. It's about what we, as Americans, want our country to look like. Over the last four...
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The Dallas Morning News
| 7 months ago
As relief workers began clearing up the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney avoided overt partisan politics Wednesday. Obama traveled to New Jersey to survey the damage and appear alongside Gov. Chris Christie, a...
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Bookforum
| 7 months ago
Problem Posted by John Cassidy Like many othersthough not the weather forecasters or the political authoritiesI underestimated the scope of the storm. Now that at least thirty-eight people are dead, thousands have been driven from their homes, and...
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The New York Times
| 7 months ago
Ryan, Mitt Romney's running mate, campaigning in Green Bay, Wis. More Photos » The scene of Mr. Obama greeting his onetime political antagonist Gov. Chris Christie in Atlantic City was a striking departure from what has become an increasingly bitter...
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North Valley Suburbanite
| 7 months ago
ON THE BIG screens of our high-definition TVs, the small screens of our phones that think they are smarter than we are and the midsized screens of our tablets, the final week of Campaign 2012 has just shattered all the politicos' master plans...The...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 7 months ago
Thursday Nov 1, 2012 Republican's recent show of a lack of integrity threatens to be his downfall, writes Tracey Barnett This was my tipping point...The day after Hurricane Sandy struck, Romney faced the press pool at a non-campaign rally, one...
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SF Gate
| 7 months ago
Fla. (AP) Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney pledged Wednesday to deliver the "real change" he says his Democratic opponent promised but has not achieved. With President Barack Obama in New Jersey surveying storm damage, Romney softened...
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Los Angeles Times
| 7 months ago
Mitt Romney offered sunny optimism about the nation's future -- and no direct criticism of President Obama -- as the GOP presidential nominee returned to the campaign trail Wednesday after a pause in stumping as Hurricane Sandy battered the East...
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San Diego Politico
| 7 months ago
In fact, an analysis from Third Way says that the Ryan-Bilbray budget would set the clock back on disaster preparation to the days before Hurricane Katrina. Read more about the Ryan-Bilbray budget and the damage it would do to disaster response and...
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The Boston Globe
| 7 months ago
With six days until the election, President Obama's double-digit lead over Mitt Romney when it comes to whom voters trust more on health policy has eroded over the last month, according to the latest Kaiser Family Foundation health tracking poll. The...
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Inquirer.net
| 7 months ago
President Barack Obama, locked in a tight re-election bid, is joining with one of his top Republican critics Wednesday to visit victims of superstorm Sandy, giving Americans a high-profile display of presidential leadership while leaving rival Mitt...
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Boston Globe
| 7 months ago
Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that's the right direction, Romney said. And if you can go even further, and send it back to the private sector, that's even better. The...
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The Independent
| 7 months ago
President Barack Obama, locked in a tight re-election bid, is joining with one of his top Republican critics Wednesday to visit victims of superstorm Sandy, giving Americans a high-profile display of presidential leadership while leaving rival Mitt...
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CNN
| 7 months ago
Jared Bernstein is the former chief economist and economic adviser to Vice President Joseph Biden. (CNN) -- I'm writing this from a Dunkin' Donuts in northern Virginia the day after Hurricane Sandy blasted through, wiping out power to millions of...
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Star Tribune
| 7 months ago
There's nothing like a natural disaster to test the depth of politicians' preference for small government. And so Mitt Romney found himself on the hot seat after superstorm Sandy battered the East Coast. Only last year, as Romney hewed to the right...
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Salem News
| 7 months ago
One short paragraph from a report by The Tax Policy Center confirms the truth of the Holy See's objective and how it relates to Romney's candidacy. Grover Norquist, in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, admitted that:...
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The Boston Globe
| 7 months ago
Both candidates put overt campaigning on hold on Monday and Tuesday and turned their attention to a storm that has killed more than two dozen people across seven states. Romney helped collect relief supplies in Ohio; Obama spoke with governors and...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 7 months ago
Republican presidential nominee had some trouble being heard. The day after Sandy clawed her way across the Northeast -- leaving fires, flooding, downed trees, thousands homeless, millions without power and 40 dead -- both Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney...
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The Globe & Mail
| 7 months ago
A"Vote Early" sign in displayed as former President Bill Clinton speaks at a President Barack Obama campaign rally, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in Youngstown, Ohio The Associated Press video video U.S...While Hurricane Sandy has forced a timeout from...
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 7 months ago
Mitt Romney is running hard today, but not after voters. He has suspended campaigning for the time being, out of respect for the millions struggling with the devastation inflicted by Hurricane Sandy...Absolutely," replied Romney. "Every time you have...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 7 months ago
Hearst Washington Bureau On the day after Hurricane Sandy smashed into the mid-Atlantic states, the presidential campaign was on hold...Though official campaign efforts for both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were on hold because of the disaster that...
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CNN
| 7 months ago
In this case, it was once-in-a-lifetime Superstorm Sandy, which caused the outspoken Republican governor of New Jersey to declare a state of emergency and seek federal help for widespread devastation. Interviewed Tuesday on NBC, Christie described...
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Daily Nation
| 7 months ago
Superstorm Sandy muffled vitriolic campaigning a week from the US election, as President Barack Obama managed the aftermath Tuesday and Mitt Romney faced a post-disaster political minefield. Obama stayed in the White House, acting as a leader in the...
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Santa Barbara Independent
| 7 months ago
In the third debate, would-be president Romney frequently framed his points with an etch-a-sketch proscenium supporting American exceptionalism. Because America and our promise of democracy is the hope of the whole earth, our ill-conceived invasions...
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Los Angeles Times
| 7 months ago
Continuing its assault on a misleading ad by Mitt Romney about the auto bailout, President Obama 's campaign has launched a television commercial accusing the Republican of a lie for suggesting Jeep would shift American jobs to China . The 30-second...
