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Tropical Storm Isaac gained fresh muscle Sunday as it bore down on the Florida Keys, with forecasters warning it could grow into a dangerous Category 2 hurricane as it nears the northern Gulf Coast.
Republicans formally begin and then recess their convention in Tampa today, after pushing back speakers by one day as Tropical Storm Isaac passes by. It rained hard overnight and this morning and now the sun is poking through thick clouds...
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Mitt Romney boards his campaign plane at Port Columbus International Airport in Ohio, on August 25, 2012.
Mitt Romney heads to Tampa with an ironic burden: his success. His staggering wealth, earned from private equity, a business built on opaque and complex financial engineering, has left him without the kind of compelling life-story narrative that has launched...
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Home schooled students paint signs for delegates to wave at the upcoming Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, on August 21, 2012.
That’s how many presidential election ads ran on television in the Tampa, Florida market in the 30-day period ended Aug. 20, according to Kantar Media’s CMAG, which tracks advertising. That comes out to more than 232 ads per day in...
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Anthony Batri, from Largo, Fla., unfurls banners as preparations are made ahead of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Aug. 25, 2012.
When Texas Representative Mike Conaway goes fishing during the Republican National Convention this week, he’s also looking to reel in piles of cash for his leadership political action committee. AT&T Inc. is reaching out and touching lawmakers, hosting receptions for...
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Florida Independent Senate candidate, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, gestures toward passing motorists in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Charlie Crist, the former Florida governor who served as a Republican in the state’s highest office, in two of its elected Cabinet offices and in the state Legislature, made some waves in his party today when he announced his support...
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Joe Frazier, left, hits Muhammad Ali during the 15th round of their heavyweight title fight at New York's Madison Square Garden on March 8, 1971.
Ali versus Frazier, it wasn’t. But the co-founders of the super-political action committees supporting President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney attacked each other over the honesty of their ads, which have come to dominate presidential campaign advertising. Sitting side...
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A person walks by a sign warning about Hurricane Isaac, in Key West, Fla., on Aug. 26, 2012.
Tweets about the hurricane-turned-tropical storm were outnumbering Republican National Convention-related tweets 20-to-1 this afternoon, said Adam Sharp, the social networking service’s Washington-based manager of government and political partnerships, who has set up shop at the convention site in Tampa this...
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He’s been hounded by discredited allegations about his birth certificate, so President Barack Obama must have figured that his campaign could profit from the faux-controversy that has been touted by Donald Trump and others. Now available from the Obama re-election...
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It wouldn’t be a political convention if the Republican delegates flooding into Tampa didn’t get their share of swag. Each delegate received a bag that included sunglasses, a rain poncho, a stuffed animal from Tampa’s Busch Gardens, and a copy...
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Mary White of Rathdrum, Idaho, shows her support for Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, at a rally at the University of South Florida Sun Dome on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention in Tampa on Aug. 26, 2012.
Updated at 5:34 p.m. Some Ron Paul supporters attending the Republican National Convention this week aren’t happy with the way their candidate is being treated by Mitt Romney ’s campaign. And they want to be heard. At a rally of his supporters at...
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