Updated at 3:30 pm EDT What don’t Rick Perry and Mitt Romney have in common? Health insurance for their fellow home states’ residents. It was Perry, the Texas governor who also sought the Republican Party’s presidential nomination last year, who...
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Texas Governor Rick Perry says his first priority as president would be to do away with the new health care law while being interviewed by Google Soapbox at the Iowa State Fair pin this August 15, 2011 file photo in Iowa.
Perry’s Titanic Texas: Health Insurance
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John Kasich, governor of Ohio, center, announces his state's choice for presidential candidate at the Republican National Convention.
Ohio’s Kasich Accepting Medicaid Expansion Under ‘Obama-care’
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, an opponent of President Barack Obama’s federal health care program, has joined Republican governors in states including Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico in saying he supports the state accepting the Medicaid expansion under the law. Kasich...
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A cardboard cut-out of President Barack Obama during the Democratic National Convention.
Michael Reagan’s Super-PAC Attacks Obamacare on Pennsylvania TV
A Republican super-PAC is attacking President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul in television ads running in Pennsylvania, where Mitt Romney and Republican allies are trying to put the Democratic-leaning state in play. The health-care law “cuts Medicare by $716 billion” and...
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President Barack Obama greets supporters during a campaign rally at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, on Oct. 19, 2012.
`Romnesia:’ Obama’s Definition — Ramping for Final Debate
President Barack Obama has a cure for “Romnesia.” “If you come down with a case of Romnesia and you can’t seem to remember the policies that are still on your Web site or the promises that you’ve made over the six...
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Big Bird from Sesame Street may be an endangered species.
Romney: Obama `Creating Debt’ — Obama: Created Long Before
Unemployment isn’t the only weapon in Republican Mitt Romney’s campaign arsenal. There’s still a record federal deficit — $1.3 trillion on an annual basis — and accrued federal debt: $16 trillion. “President Obama says he’s creating jobs, but he’s really...
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Big Bird and other Sesame Street characters in New York.
Big Bird: Out with `Obama-care’ — Axelrod: all Romney’s Got
Big Bird may make for a good political punching bag. Yet there’s more to Mitt Romney’s threat to Sesame Street and other federal susbsidies than meets the eyes of debate spinners. David Axelrod, a senior adviser to President Barack Obama,...
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Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama during the Presidential Debate at the University of Denver on October 3, 2012 in Colorado.
Obama-Romney: Lasting Impressions
Updated at midnight EDT For all the anticipation of the first presidential debate, the lasting impressions may be few. Republican Mitt Romney scored with a forceful debating stance, but left the stage without a memorable line. President Barack Obama reeled...
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Mitt Romney arrives on stage to take part in Univision's show "Gran Encuentro" with moderators Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas in Miami on Sept. 19, 2012.
Romney: `Obama-care’ Grandfather
Suddenly, Mitt Romney is taking credit for mandatory health insurance coverage. In the Republican Party’s primaries, it was all the former governor of Massachusetts could do to dodge the challenges of party rivals in televised debates comparing the health-insurance mandate...
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Sen. Edward Kennedy and Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney during a ceremony for Romney to sign a new health care reform bill in Boston in this 2006 file photo.
`Moment Romney Lost the Election’ — RedState Frets About Boston-care
The Romney campaign got Rush Limbaugh’s and RedState’s attention today. It appeared that camp Romney was touting the Massachusetts health care law — an issue they’d spent months trying to explain away during the contentious Republican primary race. Romney spokeswoman...
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