If Cincinnati cookie sales are any indication, the contest between President Obama and Mitt Romney does indeed remain close in Ohio. Reporters traveling with Romney arrived in Dayton, Ohio, midday to be greeted with cookies with hand-decorated Romney faces painted...
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Election cookies of President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney at the Oakmont Bakery in Oakmont, Pennsylvania.
Obama: Ohio Cookie Contest Edge
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Mitt Romney cheers supporters at Land O’Lakes High School, in Florida, on Oct. 27, 2012.
Romney: Florida Swing-Corridor Poll — 51-45 Pct Edge Over Obama
An important poll of Central Florida voters paints an advantage for Republican Mitt Romney in a region critical to the outcome of the election in the biggest of all swing states. It’s important because Central Florida is what makes Florida...
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Ann Romney, Mitt Romney and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondhi during a rally at Tradition Town Square in Port St. Lucie, Florida.
Ann Romney: `Throw Out’ Education System — Good Housekeeping
Ann Romney wants to `throw out’ the education system. At least, that’s what she says in an interview with Good Housekeeping magazine which, a little more than one week before the presidential election, is likely to get plenty of attention...
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Former chair of the Missouri Republican party Ann Wagner, of St. Louis County, waits in a line of candidates filing for political office Tuesday morning, Feb. 28, 2012, at the secretary of state's office in Jefferson City, Mo.
Ann Wagner Raises Republican Profile Before Easy Missouri Victory
It’s a measure of the high regard that national Republicans have for Ann Wagner, and how much of a runaway front-runner she is in a Missouri U.S. House race, that she delivered her party’s weekly address just 10 days before...
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