Mitt Romney aides today mapped out their plans for a four-day, four-state bus tour that will take their fight directly into areas President Barack Obama won in 2008. Eric Fehrnstrom, a Romney senior adviser, told reporters at the campaign’s Boston...
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Mitt Romney looks at corn with corn farmer Lemar Koethe in a cornfield on August 8, 2012 in Des Moines, Iowa.
Romney’s Swing-State Bus Tour: Pitch for a `Stronger Middle Class’
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Speaker of the House John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor in Washington.
Republican Leaders, Super-PACs Shape North Carolina House Runoff
A runoff election for a House seat today between two North Carolina Republicans is unusual for the intervention of party leaders and outside groups. Richard Hudson, a former chief of staff to three House members, is the preferred candidate of...
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John Edwards arrives outside federal court in Greensboro, N.C.
Edwards Case Ends in Mistrial
Updated at 5:30 pm EDT The jury hearing the federal government’s case against John Edwards, a former North Carolina senator and 2004 Democratic nominee for vice president, has found him not guilty on one count. And with the jury deadlocked...
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During the Pledge of Allegiance at a rally supporting a constitutional ban on gay marriage in Raleigh, N.C., on April 20, 2012.
Obama’s ‘Evolution’ on Same-Sex Marriage Slowed on Battleground
North Carolina. Colorado. These are two of the only factors anyone needs to know about President Barack Obama’s slow “evolution” toward support of same-sex marriage. Obama is counting on both states for re-election, and will formally become his party’s nominee...
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Tom Barrett and Kathleen Falk before a live debate between Democratic gubernatorial primary candidates in Madison, Wisconsin, on May 4, 2012.
Primary Day: What to Watch
Congress, not the White House, is the major focus of primary elections today. Indiana, North Carolina and West Virginia are voting on the first of six consecutive Tuesdays on which there will be congressional primaries. There’s also a Democratic primary...
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Candidates for the Democratic nominee for North Carolina governor, state Rep. Bill Faison, D-Orange, left, former Rep. Bob Etheridge, center, and Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton prior to a live televised debate at WRAL in Raleigh, North Carolina, on April 16, 2012.
Etheridge Touts Background in Schools, Not Congress, in N.C. Ad
Bob Etheridge, a North Carolina Democrat running for governor this year, spent 14 years in Congress and eight years prior to that as state schools superintendent. Can you guess which job he’s touting in a new campaign commercial? (Hint: it’s...
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A customized North Carolina license plate in Greenville on Oct. 27, 2008.
Magic Number of the Day: 6.3
That’s the average percentage-point margin of victory for President Barack Obama in the 2008 election in North Carolina, Colorado and Iowa – three states Obama is visiting this week. Obama won by three-tenths of one percentage point in North Carolina...
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