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Travelling Press Secretary Susan Hepworth, center, and secret service agents monitor the crowd as Mitt Romney departs a Wawa gas station in Quakertown, Pennsylvania on June 16, 2012.
That’s the cumulative number of electoral votes in the four states on a bus tour for Mitt Romney that starts Saturday in Virginia and heads to North Carolina, Florida and Ohio after that. All four states voted Republican in 2000...
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Dry and stunted corn stalks outside Eldorado, Illinois, on July 22, 2012.
It may be raining in Washington today, and hard. Yet the drought gripping nearly one-fourth of the lower 48 states is getting the attention of policymakers today in Washington. The USDA may today cut crop forecasts for the second month...
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Mitt Romney’s claim that President Barack Obama has quietly gutted the nation’s welfare overhaul may be a political winner with some voters. Yet it’s an assertion that is at odds with the views of policy experts, the Republican governor who suggested the...
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President Barack Obama at the home of John and Nicole Armstrong and their neighbors in Fairfax, Virginia.
It’s affluent, it’s a suburb of the nation’s capital and it’s the land of the independent voter. And it’s a critical county for President Barack Obama to carry big in November if he wants to win the election. Republican Mitt...
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Mitt Romney leaving a fundraising event in Manhattan on August 9, 2012 in New York City.
Updated at 7:30 and 8:15 pm EDT As he works to stir publicity about his pick of a running mate, Mitt Romney sat for NBC News. Chuck Todd, political director and chief White House correspondent for NBC, asked the Republican...
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President Barack Obama during his visit to the U.S. Olympic Training center on Aug. 9, 2012 in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Everyone wants a piece of the Olympics. The president, campaigning in Colorado today, stopped in at the U.S. Olympic Training Facility in Colorado Springs. He gave a shout-out to the U.S. Women’s Soccer team for “avenging” their World Cup loss. He...
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President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign operatives and allies have taken some heat for a Web-ad that the super-PAC backing Obama has prepared. It features Joe Soptic, former employee of a company that Bain Capital closed, speaking of losing his wife...
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President Barack Obama with owner Virginia Romero, left, as he orders breakfast from her son Robert Romero, right, during an unannounced visit to Romero's Cafe & Catering in Pueblo, Colorado, on August 9, 2012.
President Barack Obama, hoping to energize Hispanic voters in the swing state of Colorado, started his campaign morning in Pueblo today at Romero’s Cafe, which advertises itself as the “Home of Mr. Chile.” “I hear you guys got solid breakfast...
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It initially seemed fitting for President Barack Obama to accept his party’s nomination for re-election at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina, on the last night of the Democratic National Convention. Employees of the Charlotte-based bank whose name...
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Congressman Thaddeus McCotter at the 1st Annual Freedom Fest in Whitmore Lake, Michigan.
A “dysfunctional congressional staff” that had “completely lost its moral compass” forged and falsely signed nominating petitions for Thaddeus McCotter, the former Michigan Republican congressman, according to a report today from investigators in the Michigan Attorney General’s office. McCotter quit after...
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