Updated at 12:45 pm and 2 pm EDT Messing with Ann Romney, it appears, can get messy. First there was Hilary Rosen, the Democratic activist who said that Mitt Romney’s wife, a mother of five, had never worked a day...
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Ann Romney during a dressage event.
Ann Romney a Target Off-Limits?
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Ann Romney nimbly avoids her horse Rafalca during a photo op at the National Grand Prix Dressage Championship at the United States Equestrian Federation Festival of Champions.
Romney’s Rafalca: ‘Dancing Around the Issues,’ Pushing Boundaries?
There are TV ads, and there are videos. The TV ads are broadcast, or relayed by cable networks, to millions of Americans in battleground states, all aimed at influencing public opinion about the presidential election contest. The videos are rolled...
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Michelle Obama with supporters and volunteers at the Barbara Goleman High School on July 10, 2012 in Miami Lakes, Florida.
Michelle Obama vs. `War on Women’
It took some time, during President Barack Obama’s campaign for election in 2008, for Michelle Obama to demonstrate her potential political power on the road. The Obama campaign hasn’t wasted any time this year. Still, even as the first lady...
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Mitt and Ann Romney with their family in Bedford, N.H.
Romney Super-PAC Revives Rosengate for Mother’s Day
Happy Mother’s Day, from Restore Our Future. The super-PAC supporting presumed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said it has a new television ad on the air today that includes comments Obama supporters Hilary Rosen and Bill Maher made last month...
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Guns n' Roses at the LA Street Scene on September 28, 1985 in Los Angeles.
Mitt Romney’s Guns ‘N Roses
It spoke plainly of the presidential election contest at hand that Mitt Romney would state on the stage of the National Rifle Association convention in St. Louis both this: ”We need a president who will stand up for the rights...
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nn Romney with her family in Rochester, New Hampshire, on Jan. 8, 2012.
War of Women: Working?
The so-called “war on women” is becoming a war of women. Hilary Rosen, a Democratic strategist, fired first, last night accusing Republican Mitt Romney’s wife, Ann, of “never working a day in her life.” Ann Romney, like about one third...
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Mitt and Ann Romney in Knoxville, Tennessee, on March 4, 2012.
Mitt Courts Moms With Ann’s Help
Women — and particularly mothers — have been getting special shout-outs from Mitt Romney and his wife Ann on the campaign trail lately, as the Republican frontrunner works to reach out to what could be a key swing demographic both in his party’s...
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