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Video of former president George W. Bush is played during the Republican National Convention.
Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, son of one president and brother of another, will address the Republican National Convention tomorrow night, before the party nominates Mitt Romney for president. This is a convention that has yet to prominently acknowledge the...
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Delegates cheer at the Republican National Convention.
Jack Oliver likes the vibe here in Tampa — and says it explains Mitt Romney’s fundraising prowess. The Republican presidential candidate’s fundraising team “has been incredible,” said Oliver, the national finance director for President George W. Bush’s successful 2004 re-election...
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Representative Paul Ryan speaks to a stage manager during sound check at the Republican National Convention.
Rep. Paul Ryan, the Republican Party’s candidate for vice president, will tell his convention — and, more pointedly, Americans viewing at home tonight – that the country doesn’t have “much time” to confront the financial problems that have piled up....
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President Barack Obama reflected in a TelePromTer at a campaign event in Dubuque, Iowa, during a three day campaign bus tour.
President Barack Obama will head back to Iowa on Saturday — for his seventh time this year. The Democrat was just there on Tuesday to campaign at Iowa State University. As we reported today in Bloomberg Insider, the publication being...
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Mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah, Mia Love addresses the Republican National Convention.
Last night, Utah Republican Mia Love was in Tampa, Florida, promoting Mitt Romney in a speech to the Republican National Convention. A few hours later, she was on Utah television, praising the Republican presidential nominee in a commercial for her...
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T. Boone Pickens, founder of BP Capital LLC.
Billionaire T. Boone Pickens says he’s “fed up” with Washington.He recalls one of his greatest victories as once getting Republican Senator Tom Coburn to sign off on an energy proposal that included a natural gas user-fee. “He wouldn’t pay a...
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Mitt Romney speaks at the American Legion National Convention on Aug. 29, 2012, in Indianapolis.
Swing-state voters continue to see more television ads attacking President Barack Obama than Republican challenger Mitt Romney. Romney and his allies ran three ads for every two by Obama and allied groups in the week leading up to the Republican...
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Jon Brovold is an Andover, Minnesota, small business owner who wants visitors to the Republican National Convention to go nuts. Kukui nuts that is. He’s set up a tent at the Channelside Bay Plaza, just outside the convention’s perimeter, selling...
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John Kasich, governor of Ohio, at the Republican National Convention.
Florida’s delegation has great seats for the Republican National Convention. If they could only get there. As punishment for defying the national party’s calendar and scheduling an early presidential primary, the host state’s delegates were given hotel rooms 30 miles...
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Former Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani at the Republican National Convention.
Updated with response at 11:41 am Aug. 30 Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani laughed when asked about former Republican Florida Governor Charlie Crist’s plan to speak at the Democratic National Convention next week in Charlotte, N.C. — Crist has...
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