Ann Romney wants to `throw out’ the education system. At least, that’s what she says in an interview with Good Housekeeping magazine which, a little more than one week before the presidential election, is likely to get plenty of attention...
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Ann Romney, Mitt Romney and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondhi during a rally at Tradition Town Square in Port St. Lucie, Florida.
Ann Romney: `Throw Out’ Education System — Good Housekeeping
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Mitt Romney addresses the Latino Coalition's 2012 Small Business Summit at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on May 23, 2012 in Washington, DC.
Romney’s Latino Pitch: `Politics Has Been Put Ahead of People’
Republican Mitt Romney, the winner of a party presidential primary contest that tested how tough candidates were willing to talk about illegal immigration, will try to make amends today with a speech in Los Angeles embracing “a nation of immigrants.”...
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Jeb Bush
Bush’s `Immigration Wars’ Road-Map
When the 2012 election is behind us, and the losing party starts picking up the pieces of its defeat, one Republican will stand ready with a prescription for the immigration debate ahead: Jeb Bush. Along with a scholar and constitutional...
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Volunteer Ginny Barahona of Washington, hands out buttons before first lady Michelle Obama spoke at a Hispanic caucus.
Julian Castro: Obama Near Clinton
Updated at 12:10 pm EDT President Barack Obama has a good chance of approaching former President Bill Clinton’s performance among Latino voters in November, says Julian Castro, the mayor of San Antonio, Texas. “The president is the only one in...
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Hillary Clinton, secretary of state, watches her husband Bill Clinton during her visit to the Island of East Timor, Indonesia.
2016: Bush-Clinton on Their Minds
Something’s been on the minds of a lot of people at the 2012 conventions: 2016. In Tampa, it was the thought of the campaign played forward to another cycle, an election in which a retiring second-term Barack Obama would be...
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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush takes the stage to speak during the final day of the Republican National Convention.
Bush on Romney: `Nation at Stake’
Jeb Bush has said that this was his “window of opportunity” to run for president. Instead, the former Florida governor is on stage tonight to speak for former Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts at the Republican National Convention in Tampa,...
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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush looks over the convention floor from the podium during a microphone check at the Republican National Convention.
Jeb Bush: Party Can `Narrow’ Gap with Democrats Among Latinos
Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor raised in Texas and schooled in Miami’s business community, says his Republican Party can narrow a wide gap with Democrats among Latino voters as people “get to know” the party’s presidential nominee, Mitt Romney....
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Video of former president George W. Bush is played during the Republican National Convention.
Jeb Bush: George Bush Unfair Target for Obama After Four Years
Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, son of one president and brother of another, will address the Republican National Convention tomorrow night, before the party nominates Mitt Romney for president. This is a convention that has yet to prominently acknowledge the...
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Representative Paul Ryan speaks to a stage manager during sound check at the Republican National Convention.
Ryan: `Don’t Have That Much Time’
Rep. Paul Ryan, the Republican Party’s candidate for vice president, will tell his convention — and, more pointedly, Americans viewing at home tonight – that the country doesn’t have “much time” to confront the financial problems that have piled up....
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President George W. Bush with his brother, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, and Jeb's son George P. Bush in Palm Beach, Florida.
Bush’s Convention Address: Phase III
When a Bush takes the stage at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, the party will not be looking backward. It will be casting eyes forward. It won’t be either one of the Bushes who served as president — George...
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