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Simon Pinsky, left, and Joshua Pinsky outside the Manhattan City Clerk's office after getting their marriage license.
David Tepper, the head of the hedge fund Appaloosa Management, was the top donor last month to a super-political action committee that will aid Republican candidates who support same-sex marriage. Tepper gave $150,000 to American Unity PAC, which formed in...
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Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign event at the Cox Pavilion on September 21, 2012 in Las Vegas.
Republican Mitt Romney, who has lagged in polling in critical swing states and confronted criticism for his published comments about the 47 percent of Americans who pay no taxes as well as questions from fellow Republicans about his campaign’s strategy,...
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie addresses a town hall meeting in Manchester, N.J.
Want to go to Chris Christie’s 50th birthday party? It’ll cost you. New Jersey’s Republican State Committee has emailed invitations to donors looking to attend the Oct. 1 fete for the feisty governor at the Short Hills Hilton, which will...
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Former Virginia Governor Tim Kaine during the Democratic National Convention.
In the 2006 and 2008 elections, it wasn’t hard to find Democratic television ads attacking George W. Bush, who had poor approval ratings at the end of his eight-year presidency. Now comes Tim Kaine, the Democratic nominee for a U.S....
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Rep. Paul Ryan in Lakeland, Florida.
“Paul Ryan.” This was Houston attorney Steve Mostyn’s answer when asked why he decided to make a second $1 million contribution last month to a Democratic super-political action committee supporting President Barack Obama’s re-election. “There’s this false belief that Mitt...
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Mitt and Ann Romney during the RNC.
Updated with added details Mitt and Ann Romney paid $1,935,708 in taxes last year on $13,696,951 in mostly investment income, according to a report from their accountants released by the campaign today. The Romneys’ effective tax rate for 2011 was...
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Jerry Springer
The two national party committees overseeing strategy in the Nov. 6 elections for the U.S. House together have $90 million to spend on the dozens of races that will determine whether Republicans defend their majority. The National Republican Congressional Committee...
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President Barack Obama at a campaign event in Woodbridge, Va.
It takes more than one term of a presidency to change a nation’s course, President Barack Obama said today. And it takes more than one party. “It can’t happen if you write off half the nation before you took office,”...
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Jim Messina, center, campaign manager for the re-election of President Barack Obama in Chicago.
Even as Republican challenger Mitt Romney’s campaign paid out more than $200,000 to his senior campaign staff members, President Barack Obama’s re-election effort is hoarding its cash. A check of Obama’s August filings with the Federal Election Commission found that...
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Sen. Claire McCaskill in Washington.
Missouri Republican Todd Akin’s assertion that “legitimate rape” rarely leads to pregnancy “opened the window” to his views, Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill said today. At a debate in Columbia, Missouri, McCaskill said Akin’s Aug. 19 remarks “say a lot about...
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