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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, right, talks with his son, George P. Bush.
A George Bush from Texas held court in Tampa today. He isn’t a former president, but, given his lineage, he could be considered as a future one. And he may be in the right place for that. “We’re already a...
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Todd Akin’s newest television ad seeks to shift the focus to his Senate opponent and away from his comments about “legitimate rape” that prompted Mitt Romney and Republican strategists to shun him. “My six-second mistake is well known,” the Missouri...
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Lanhee Chen, policy director for Mitt Romney.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney would consider an approach to cutting the U.S. deficit that would wring savings from the tax code by capping the total benefit taxpayers can receive from tax expenditures, according to Lanhee Chen, Romney’s policy director....
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President Barack Obama at a campaign event in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 29, 2012.
The president answered ten questions from users of the social news website Reddit yesterday ranging from the mundane to the serious. The news from the interview, which the president did from Charlottesville, Virginia, at the end of a two-day campaign...
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A photograph of Mitt Romney at the Tampa Bay Times Forum.
Updated 12:08 p.m. Mitt Romney took a break from speech prep today to mingle with top donors at an exclusive resort in St. Petersburg, across the bay from the Republican National Convention in Tampa. Romney’s most prolific fundraisers were told...
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Delegates enter the Romney-Ryan official store at the Republican National Convention.
The 2012 Republican National Convention, which ends today, is notable for its absence of political buttons. No vendors selling them to delegates as they approach the Tampa Bay Times Forum. No campaign marketplace. About the only place to buy buttons...
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Republican vice presidential nominee, Rep. Paul Ryan addresses the Republican National Convention.
Last night, Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan repeated Mitt Romney’s pledge to create 12 million jobs in the first four years of his presidency. That’s a pledge that assumes monthly job growth at a pace that Romney once called...
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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush looks over the convention floor from the podium during a microphone check at the Republican National Convention.
Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor raised in Texas and schooled in Miami’s business community, says his Republican Party can narrow a wide gap with Democrats among Latino voters as people “get to know” the party’s presidential nominee, Mitt Romney....
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People gather outside The River church during a Unity Rally ahead of the Republican National Convention.
The Republican convention stage last night was ringing with promises to repeal “Obama-care” — described as 2,000 pages of central-government regulations, rules, fees and fines by Mitt Romney’s running mate, rather than President Barack Obama’s means of assuring health insurance...
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A "Bloomin' Onion" by Outback Steakhouse.
While the political season has zeroed in on a small handful of companies Bain controlled during Mitt Romney’s tenure, the impact of the $65 billion private-equity firm is felt far and wide. Take Tampa. Now that Isaac has cleared out,...
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