Another Republican Senate candidate has waded into the contentious issue of pregnancy caused by rape, comparing the birth decision to be made in such cases to whether a child conceived out of wedlock should be aborted. The comments by Tom Smith, who...
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Republican Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. candidate Tom Smith.
Pennsylvania Republican Likens Rape Pregnancy to Out-of-Wedlock One
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Voting in the Illinois primary election in Bourgonnais.
Party Identification: Ebbs and Flows
The blogosphere has buzzed with complaints about polls this week. Polls that showed President Barack Obama running ahead of Republican Mitt Romney. The common complaint: too many Democrats surveyed. Andy Kohut, one of the best in the business, has an...
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President Barack Obama prepares to board Air Force One to Ohio for campaign stops in Mansfield and Akron.
Ohio: One in 10 Open to Persuasion
In Ohio, where President Barack Obama is campaigning for reelection today and where a new poll shows him holding an advantage over Republican Mitt Romney, there is room to move between now and November. While 87 percent of the likely...
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Volunteers for the Obama 2012 campaign are instructed on how to interact with residents in a Tampa neighborhood as they prepare to canvass the area.
Obama’s Swing-State Advantage: Quinnipiac, CBS, NYT Poll
President Barack Obama holds an advantage over Republican Mitt Romney in three swing states critical to the outcome of the presidential election, according to a poll conducted by Quinnipiac University, CBS News and the New York Times. The survey of...
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Mitt Romney hosts a small-business roundtable in Costa Mesa, Calif.
Super-PAC Sportscast: Obama Fumbles – Obama: ‘Splicing Dicing’
Instant replay can be a game-changer. “Okay fans, let’s go to the fumble of the week,” American Crossroads announces in a video-cast worthy of ESPN SportsCenter. “Barack Obama drops the ball on his own one yard line.” The super-PAC is...
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Crossing the London Bridge as the Olympic Rings hang from Tower Bridge.
Romney Goes `For the Gold’ – Democratic Olympic Commentary
Reporting from London: (with an update at 10:55 am EDT) Mitt Romney arrived in London this morning for a trip which aides hope will remind voters of his work rescuing the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics from financial disaster. Allies...
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Mitt Romney during a campaign event at Horizontal Wireline Services on July 17, 2012 in Irwin, Pa.
‘Obama Attacks Success,’ Romney Says — Replaying President’s Words
The business of business is business. And the business of government? President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney part ways on that question — with Obama pressing the highest-earning Americans to pay more taxes and Romney insisting on lowering the...
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The Republican primary election April 24, 2012 at Bodine High School in Philadelphia.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 10.3
That was the percentage-point margin of victory for President Barack Obama in Pennsylvania in 2008. It was the biggest winning margin there for a Democratic White House candidate in 44 years. The Nov. 6 election in Pennsylvania probably will be closer...
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A welder works on the deck component of a petroleum tanker at the Aker Philadelphia Shipyard.
‘Inch by Inch:’ Obama on Economy
“Inch by inch, yard by yard, mile by mile,” the economy is starting to come back. That’s President Barack Obama’s word on the economic recovery this afternoon. The president was addressing an audience at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh near the...
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Mitt Romney in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.
Obama Keeping `Cookiegate’ Alive
The Obama campaign isn’t letting “Cookiegate” go. An e-mail circulated to reporters covering the president’s two-day bus tour of Ohio and Pennsylvania announced that cookies from Pennsylvania’s Bethel Bakery would be awaiting them at Carnegie Mellon University for the president’s...
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