Updated at 3 pm EDT President Barack Obama wasn’t pulling any punches for Republican Mitt Romney in his conversation with Rolling Stone magazine, yet the Romney campaign responded today with a somewhat more general rebuttal. Writing about a forthcoming Rolling...
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Rolling Stone's Nov. 8, 2012 issue featuring President Barack Obama hits newsstands on Oct. 26, 2012. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Obama, who once called bank executives "fat cats" and their pay "obscene," says Wall Street needs to change executive pay incentives that reward risky bets that can yield fortunes but can also devastate financial institutions.
Obama’s Rolling Stone `BS’ Remark for Romney — Campaign Responds
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Obama-Backing Super-PAC Launches $30 Mln Anti-Romney Ad Campaign
Updated at 10 am EDT Priorities USA Action, the super-PAC supporting President Barack Obama’s re-election, is launching a $30 million anti-Mitt Romney offensive today. It kicks off with a new advertisement timed to the first day of the Republican National...
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Mitt Romney and his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan at a campaign event.
Romney-Ryan Shun Akin on Rape
Updated at 12:45 pm EDT Republican Mitt Romney’s campaign moved swiftly to distance itself from the televised statement of Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri, the Republican candidate for Senate there, that “legitimate rape” is less likely to result in pregnancy....
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