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A trader works at the New York Stock Exchange.
No matter what the unemployment rate is, a president is more likely to be re-elected if the stock market rose on his watch, according to a study by four university professors. The report by Robert Prechter and Deepak Goel of...
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Mitt Romney supporters before a rally at Long Family Orchard, Farm & Cider Mill in Commerce, Michigan, on August 24, 2012.
Regardless of today’s polls, money or numbers, in Kevin McCarthy’s eyes, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan need to have the same goals held by the world’s greatest athletes in London last month. “It’s just like the Olympics,” McCarthy, the third-ranked...
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Americans for Prosperity Foundation chairman and Koch Industries Executive Vice President David H. Koch during the Defending the American Dream Summit in Washington, DC.
Tampa during convention week is awash in politicians, big donors and journalists. And sometimes they all choose the same place for dinner, as billionaire industrialist David Koch learned last night. A group of reporters including Slate’s Dave Weigel spotted Koch and Republican...
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Republican political adviser Karl Rove has his photo taken with a delegate on the floor of the Republican National Convention.
Updated at 5:20 pm EDT The canvas-covered entrance tunnel to the Tampa Bay Forum is long and warm — for all the wide plastic hosing pumping conditioned air into the luminous white channel lighted by Sixties-style, snaking floor lamps. It...
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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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