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Voters arrive to caucus for the Republican presidential candidate in Las Vegas.
That’s how frequently Nevada has voted with the presidential election winner in the past 25 elections spanning 100 years, the best record among all states. The only time during this span that Nevada didn’t side with the nationwide winner was...
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Rep. Todd Akin during a news conference on the new Health and Human Services Department abortion rule on March 21, 2012.
The way Todd Akin Tweets it, “the liberal media” are out to get him. In a string of messages on Twitter since the Republican candidate for Senate in Missouri vowed to carry on his campaign, including a fundraising appeal to...
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President Barack Obama exits Marine One to board Air Force One for a trip to Ohio on Aug. 21, 2012.
President Barack Obama holds a four-percentage-point lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney in a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll that also shows low approval ratings for Congress. The poll released today showed Obama with 48 percent backing, Romney with 44 percent. Obama has never...
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Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus at the University of Chicago.
Reince Priebus inherited a Republican National Committee in January 2011 that had been out-raised by its Democratic counterpart and needed to pay off a $23 million debt. His predecessor, Michael Steele, was criticized over his management of the party’s finances...
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A Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan supporter in Potomac, Maryland.
Mitt Romney, the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, had roundly condemned the remarks about rape made by Rep. Todd Akin, the party’s candidate for U.S. Senate in Missouri. But Romney, saying there was no way he could defend Akin in...
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Mitt Romney arrives at Wilson Air Center to attend fundraising events on Aug. 21, 2012, in Houston, Texas.
With President Barack Obama wooing young voters in Ohio and Republican Representative Paul Ryan courting Pennsylvanians, Mitt Romney decided to focus his election efforts today on a slightly less pivotal voting bloc: Oil Barons. The Republican presidential candidate is spending...
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President Barack Obama with students at Sloopy's diner during a surprise visit to the Ohio State University campus in Columbus on August 21, 2012.
President Barack Obama wasn’t going to miss an opportunity to visit a Big Ten school. Before giving an education speech at the smaller (and private) Capital University at Bexley, Ohio, today Obama made a stop at the student union at...
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Steve Holloway of Lincoln County, Mo., celebrates word that Todd Akin won the GOP primary at his campaign party at the Columns in St. Charles, Mo., on Aug. 7, 2012.
Updated at 2:55 pm EDT Now the choir has spoken. So has Todd Akin. Senator Roy Blunt, the Republican junior senator from Missouri, is standing at the front of a line of fellow big-name Missouri Republicans calling for Rep. Akin,...
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Written by Steve Matthews If you’re looking for an unconventional way to assess the mood of the country and economy, check out U.S. birth and marriage rates. Americans had 3.96 million babies last year, the fewest since 1999 and a...
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Last time, it was “Drill, baby, drill.” This time, it’s fund, baby, fund. Energy companies such as Chevron Corp. and Duke Energy Corp. are helping to fund the Republican National Convention next week in Tampa, Florida. Both corporations, along with...
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