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President Barack Obama gets out of a General Motors Co. (GM) Chevrolet Volt electric vehicle in Holland, Michigan.
Democrats may be holding their national convention in North Carolina, but part of the spotlight when they gather next week will be on Michigan. Specifically, the bailout of two of that state’s iconic auto firms — GM and Chrysler — that President Barack...
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Fox News interview with Ronald Reagan's son Michael Reagan during the RNC in Tampa.
Who was watching Mitt Romney accept his party’s presidential nomination? A lot of Fox News Channel viewers. With about 25 million tuning in, more than 9 million punched Fox. The ratings from Nielsen Media Research show 9.1 million tuning in...
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Delegates at the Republican National Convention.
Poll numbers released released at the start of the Republican National Convention this week by ABC News and the Washington Post showed a majority of voters, 51 percent, with an unfavorable view pf the party’s presidential nominee, Mitt Romney. That attracted a fair...
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Mitt Romney and his family on their newly painted campaign plane following the RNC convention.
“Believe in America,” reads the slogan painted across Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s new campaign plane — the one heading straight to Louisiana for a tour of the storm damage left by Hurricane Isaac. Romney, who accepted his party’s nomination...
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Mitt Romney and Rep. Paul Ryan on stage after accepting the nomination during the final day of the Republican National Convention.
As Mitt Romney accepted his party’s presidential nomination last night, watching his speech from a Wyoming bar were potential candidates to run the Federal Reserve should he win. Glenn Hubbard, dean of Columbia Business School and an economic adviser to...
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Karl Rove, former Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff to former President George W. Bush, right, with Sen. Orrin Hatch on the floor of the Republican National Convention.
Karl Rove steered George W. Bush to two presidential election victories. Now Rove, the brain behind a super-PAC called American Crossroads, is trying to do the same for Mitt Romney — and Rove spelled out his strategy for unseating President...
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Republican National Convention mugs in Tampa.
That’s the share of registered voters who have a favorable view of the Republican Party, according to a USA Today/Gallup poll taken Aug. 20-22, about a week before the party’s national convention began in Tampa. The party had a 41...
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Mitt Romney before speaking at the Republican National Convention.
Updated with the delivery of Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech The abbreviated three-day presidential convention of the Republican Party is closing with the posing of a choice. Barack Obama versus Mitt Romney. Old hope versus new hope. Obama is a good...
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Filmmaker Clint Eastwood at the Republican National Convention.
Delegates were spellbound by Eastwood’s comedy routine, in which he had a dialogue with an imaginary Obama in an empty chair. When he declared, “We own this county,” delegates gave him a standing ovation. When he said if a politician didn’t get...
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Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida, arrives on stage to speak at the Republican National Convention.
Senator Marco Rubio of Florida is among the Republicans whom Mitt Romney was said to consider as a running mate. Instead, the junior senator from Florida is introducing the party’s presidential nominee tonight. And Rubio is sounding a theme that...
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