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American businessman Sheldon Adelson, who has said he will donate millions to Mitt Romney's campaign, with his wife Miriam Ochsorn after Romney delivered a speech in Jerusalem, on July 29, 2012.
Reporting from Jerusalem There’s a big star on Mitt Romney’s trip to Israel — and it isn’t the candidate. As Sheldon Adelson made his way to his specially reserved seat at Romney’s speech yesterday in Jerusalem, he was swarmed by...
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Volunteers for the Obama 2012 campaign leave fliers on residences as they canvass for votes in South Tampa, Fl.
An alarm clock rings in the Obama video. A fundraising appeal goes out in Romney’s e-mail. 100 days left until Election Day. After all the primaries and all the cross-fire of attack ads, with the presidential nominating conventions just weeks...
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Mitt Romney, right, and Sen. Rob Portman call eligible voters from his campaign headquarters in Charleston, S.C.
If the betting on Intrade.com gives Rob Portman the advantage over Tim Pawlenty in getting picked as Mitt Romney’s running mate, this could have something to do with the fact that Portman is from Ohio, a must-win state for the...
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Senator John McCain of Arizona, Republican presidential nominee, right, stands with Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, his vice presidential nominee, after delivering a concession speech during an election night gathering outside the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona, on Nov. 4, 2008.
Dick Cheney, who led the nationwide search for Dick Cheney in 2000, has offered some private running-mate advice for Mitt Romney in 2012 — which might start with averting a “mistake” like John McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin in 2008....
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Mitt Romney visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on July 29, 2012 during the annual Tisha B’Av (Ninth of Av) fasting and a memorial day, commemorating the destruction of ancient Jerusalem temples.
Reporting from Jerusalem In Israel, campaign contributions buy you access to Mitt Romney, a kosher breakfast and, apparently, a fast-tracked pass to one of the world’s holiest sites. The Republican presidential candidate interrupted a day of official meetings to make...
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Mitt Romney in front of a picture of the Jerusalem Old City walls on July 29, 2012.
Republican Mitt Romney, commenting on an array of foreign and domestic policy issues in an interview with an Israeli newspaper before his trip there, suggested that “the Arab Spring” of popular uprisings in the region is a misnomer — and...
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Gaming tycoon Sheldon Adelson arrives to hear Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney delivers foreign policy remarks on July 29, 2012 in Jerusalem.
Updated July 29 at 10:20 am EDT: (This event was initially to be fully closed to reporters traveling with Mitt Romney, making it impossible for voters back home to know what Romney was telling the donors. After objections, campaign aides...
Read more »Written by Paul Barbagallo A federal appeals court has paved the way for the Federal Communications Commission to upload to the Internet slews of new public records on political TV ad spending. The Washington, D.C., Circuit Court on Friday denied...
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Mitt Romney and his wife Ann attend the opening ceremony at the Olympic Stadium on July 27, 2012 in London.
Was this Mitt Romney’s “potatoe” moment? The presumed Republican presidential nominee’s brief stay in London came off more like a blooper reel than a statesman’s first audition on the international stage. The visit recalled candidate slip-ups of years past — from Dan Quayle’s...
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A Mitt Romney supporter in Brunswick, Ohio.
They say people love to drop news on a Friday night. Bad news, generally. Or maybe a deflection from bad news. Word from the chief of Mitt Romney’s search for a running mate on a Friday night qualifies as big...
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