Mitt Romney is trying his hand at Spanish. In a television advertisement released by his campaign today, the Republican presidential candidate appeals to Hispanic voters, saying they “are hurting,” and “deserve better” than the poor economic conditions under which they’re...
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Actor Jon Voight arrives on the floor of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Aug. 28, 2012.
Radio Row is a regular at political conventions. And Jon Voight is a regular spokesman for the right wing of his party. The actor sat with the The United West on Radio Row in the Tampa Convention Center at the...
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House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, left, and House Speaker John Boehner after a Republican Conference meeting.
Rep. Paul Ryan’s selection as Mitt Romney’s running mate will “help put us on offense” in the presidential campaign, House Speaker John Boehner says. The Ohio Republican, seeking to keep the party’s House majority — with his “cold, stone hand”...
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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio holds up the gavel after receiving it from outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. during the first session of the 112th Congress, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 5, 2011.
The presidency isn’t all that’s at stake this year. So is partisan control of Congress, where Rep. John Boehner of Ohio holds the House speaker’s gavel for the Republican majority. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat and former House speaker,...
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Then Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney escorts China's Premier Wen Jiabao on Wen's arrival at Logan International Airport in Boston in this 2003 file photo.
The president of an association of chief executives of major U.S. companies said today that he doubts Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will follow through with a threat to brand China a currency manipulator on his first day in office...
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Radio talk show host and conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh speaks at "An Evenining With Rush Limbaugh" event in Novi, Michigan.
Updated at 10:12 am EDT As President Barack Obama was ready this morning to make a televised statement about Tropical Storm Isaac, the widespread, poorly organized storm soon to make landfall, perhaps as a low-grade Category One hurricane, along the...
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Congressmen Ben Quayle, son of former Vice President Dan Quayle, left, and David Schweikert at a Republican candidate forum in Paradise Valley, Arizona.
Representatives Ben Quayle and David Schweikert have a good reason why they’re not at the Republican National Convention in Tampa this week: they’re opponents in a primary election today more than 2,000 miles away in Arizona. Quayle and Schweikert, both...
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Saratoga Springs Mayor Mia Love introduces herself at a training session for women aspiring to get into politics in Sandy, Utah.
Among the prime-time speakers at the National Republican Convention in Tampa this week: Mia Love, the 37-year-old female mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah. Love, who is Mormon and of Haitian heritage, was among the U.S. House recruits identified by leaders...
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Voters wait in line to cast their ballots in the U.S. presidential election at a polling station in Orlando in this 2008 file photo.
Four. That’s how many Florida counties backed President Barack Obama in 2008 after voting four years earlier for Republican President George W. Bush. One of them is Hillsborough County, which includes Tampa, the site of this week’s Republican National Convention....
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Protesters march through downtown Tampa.
Updated at 10 am EDT Priorities USA Action, the super-PAC supporting President Barack Obama’s re-election, is launching a $30 million anti-Mitt Romney offensive today. It kicks off with a new advertisement timed to the first day of the Republican National...
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