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Mitt Romney and Ohio Gov. John Kasich arrive for a roundtable discussion with students at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio, on April 27, 2012.
President Barack Obama’s campaign is telling Mitt Romney to“get real” in a television ad that paints the Republican challenger as out of touch on higher education funding. “Take a risk. Get the education. Borrow money if you have to from...
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Sinatra sits in front of a sign before the arrival of Mitt Romney at a house party in Clive, Iowa.
The campaign is going to the dogs. First, President Barack Obama took a jab at Republican Mitt Romney today with an allusion to the 1983 family road trip in which Romney put the family dog in a kennel on the...
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Newark Mayor Cory Booker leaps from a mobile billboard during part of the FixGunChecks.org truck tour stop.
Donors funding many of the current political ads that boost or attack candidates are being kept under wraps. But a group sponsoring a new ad campaign calling for gun-control plans from President Obama and Mitt Romney has opted for disclosure....
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Kenosha County, Wisconsin, home to Ocean Spray and one of the fastest growing counties in the country, is in Paul Ryan’s home district. And Kenosha County is small — just under 170,000 residents — but they make a difference. The...
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A supporter at a Barack Obama campaign event in Chicago on August 12, 2012.
Nearly half of likely voters own a smartphone, a third skip commercials when watching television because they have digital video recorders and a third own a tablet computer. Those are some of the findings from a national survey conducted by...
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White House Press Secretary Jay Carney and Whiten House Senior Adviser David Plouffe, right, outside President Barack Obama's bus at a campaign stop in Morrison, Ill., on Aug. 17, 2011.
David Plouffe may not eat for another week. President Barack Obama’s painfully thin White House senior adviser and 2008 campaign manager, who’s on board for Obama’s three-day Iowa bus tour, was among a group of presidential and campaign aides who stayed...
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Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan at a campaign rally at the Waukesha County Expo Center on August 12, 2012 in Wisconsin.
A narrative is quickly developing in Washington that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s pick of Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his running mate is a gift to President Obama. Ryan’s proposal to “end Medicare as we know it” seems...
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New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman
Tax-exempt nonprofit groups account for some of the biggest, yet most mysterious, spending in the presidential election. And now they’ve attracted the attention of New York’s attorney general. Eric Schneiderman, a Democrat, has asked two dozen nonprofits to explain how...
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Mitt Romney, center, his son Craig, right, and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi at a campaign event El Palacio de los Jugos, in Miami on Aug. 13, 2012.
In a campaign, advance work is everything. In South Florida, it’s not beyond reason that a random sampling of sponsors for a campaign stop might find a little of the old cocaine cowboy in someone’s closet. That’s what happened to...
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Ford cars at the 82nd Geneva Motor Show.
Getting people where they want to go, and possibly registering them to vote en route, is the theme in Washington today, as transportation issues vie for the attention of politicos with primary elections in four states. Ford Motor Co. analyst...
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