It’s a measure of the high regard that national Republicans have for Ann Wagner, and how much of a runaway front-runner she is in a Missouri U.S. House race, that she delivered her party’s weekly address just 10 days before...
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Former chair of the Missouri Republican party Ann Wagner, of St. Louis County, waits in a line of candidates filing for political office Tuesday morning, Feb. 28, 2012, at the secretary of state's office in Jefferson City, Mo.
Ann Wagner Raises Republican Profile Before Easy Missouri Victory
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Mitt Romney supporters at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Oct. 23, 2012 in Morrison, Colorado.
Romney’s $111.8 Million Fortnight
As potential evidence of a post-debate surge, Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign said today it raised $111.8 million during the first half of October. The total includes dollars donated to Romney’s campaign as well as related committees associated with the Republican National...
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Randall Stephenson, chairman, president and chief executive officer of AT&T Inc.
AT&T Rings Romney’s Bell
AT&T Inc., the largest U.S. phone company, is taking sides in the election contest between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney. The company’s political action committee contributed $5,000 to Romney last month, Federal Election Commission reports show. Earlier...
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President Barack Obama at a campaign rally at Kent State University on Sept. 26, 2012 in Ohio.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 59,362
That’s the number of presidential election ads that ran in the seven-day period ended Sept. 24, according to Kantar Media’s CMAG. President Barack Obama’s campaign accounted for 29,505 of those spots, about half the total and more than twice the...
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House Majority Whip Rep. Kevin McCarthy, left, and House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor during a news conference on Capitol Hill.
Romney Surrogate Goes Global in Race for Cash
A senior House Republican is willing to go halfway across the world to help out Mitt Romney. Representative Kevin McCarthy, the third-ranked House Republican, hopped on the 13-hour flight to Hong Kong from San Francisco yesterday to raise cash for...
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`Bump in the Road:’ Republicans Repeating Obama’s Words for Him
The Republican National Committee’s new ad opens with chaos in the streets of Libya, gunfire and headlines about the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that killed the U.S. ambassador, Chris Stevens. ”I said even at the time, this...
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Reagan’s `Fat Man:’ Obama’s Redistribution of Wealth — RNC ad
It was, as Ronald Reagan put it in October 1964, “a time for choosing.” “We have so many people who can’t see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got...
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Senator John McCain, a Republican from Arizona, right, salutes while Jeanine McDonnell, daughter of Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, center, and Christopher Devlin-Young, Gold Olympian alpine ski racer, exit the stage at the Republican National Convention in Tampa on Aug. 29, 2012.
Democrats: Campaign Finance Reform — Remembering McCain
Although the Democrats defeated Senator John McCain in the contest for the White House four years ago, they still support the campaign finance law he co-authored — while his own Republican Party last week disavowed his signature legislation. The Democratic...
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Protesters march through Uptown, the Charlotte business district, before the start of the Democratic National Convention.
Priebus: Hope and Disappointment
The Republican National Committee started an “Obama Isn’t Working” rapid-response center in Charlotte today as a counterpoint to the Democratic National Convention with a Web site and daily press conference “highlighting how America is not better off under President Obama.”...
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Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus at the University of Chicago.
Priebus Refreshes Republican Coffer
Reince Priebus inherited a Republican National Committee in January 2011 that had been out-raised by its Democratic counterpart and needed to pay off a $23 million debt. His predecessor, Michael Steele, was criticized over his management of the party’s finances...
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