I debated between framing this article as a sort of “open letter toRick Santorum and Newt Gingrich” or else just a regular piece written to those who happen to be reading it. I have opted for the latter, but I sure wouldn’t mind if Rick and Newt were reading it. We are standing at a point in [...]
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) set out his ideas for reforming Social Security in a speech at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, telling his audience that a system of private accounts would give them more money in retirement and saddle the government with less debt. “It increases your freedom by giving you control [...]
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Seemingly back in campaign mode, President Barack Obama headlined a pair of Vermont fundraisers on Friday which ended with the Democrat vowing to bring the change promised in his 2008 victory. During his Burlington speech to a crowd of nearly 4,500 at the University of Vermont, Obama itemized the highlights of his first term in [...]
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Despite staking rival Rick Santorum to a six-day head start in Wisconsin, Mitt Romney arrived here Friday with a lead in the polls, the endorsement of influential homegrown conservative Paul Ryan, and the aura of an all-but certain nominee. In an afternoon speech at Lawrence University, Romney ignored the other Republicans in the race and [...]
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On Wisconsin TV, Rick Santorum is getting pummeled as someone who doesn’t understand the economy. On the radio, he’s portrayed as squishy on funding for women’s health care provider Planned Parenthood. In mailings, Santorum has “crazy ideas” that the state’s Republican voters are asked to reject in their presidential primary next week. Yet again, the [...]
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George W. Bush is as hard to find in his father’s office, as he is in the 2012 presidential contest. The 43rd president appears in a gold-framed picture tucked into a far corner of the room, partially hidden by a Texas flag and a cabinet door. The placement — whether intentional or not — is [...]
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George H.W. Bush, re-endorsing Mitt Romney today in Texas and making it formal for the first time – complete with live Fox News footage – was egged on by his wife Barbara: “Aren’t you going to sing a song for us? Know when to fold ‘em?” she asked her husband, per POLITICO’s Reid Epstein. “Yeah,” he said. “I [...]
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“I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.” So said John Kerry, in Huntington, W.V., on Tuesday, March 16, 2004, two weeks after he had clinched the Democratic presidential nomination by carrying every state but Vermont in the Super Tuesday primaries. Kerry was responding to an ad run by George [...]
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President Obama is pushing past both GOP front runners in the latest Ohio election poll. Results from the Quinnipiac University poll showed the president above former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney by 47 to 41 percent. Obama also held a 47-40 percent lead over former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum. “President Barack Obama is on a roll [...]
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It was among the day’s most probing questions about health care, with ramifications for tens of millions of Americans and the presidential campaign. But it did not come from a Supreme Court justice. It came from Jay Leno on “The Tonight Show,’’ and it was directed to his guest, Mitt Romney. What might happen, Leno [...]
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The news tonight that Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) had officially endorsed Mitt Romney for President inarguably raised the volume on talk of a Republican ticket of “R and R”—Romney and Rubio, that is. But Rubio, who gave the former Massachusetts governor his blessings on Sean Hannity’s program on Fox News, was already the favorite of [...]
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Mitt Romney trails Barack Obama by 19 points in basic popularity as the 2012 presidential contest inches closer to the main event, with a record 50 percent of Americans in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll now rating Romney unfavorably overall. Thirty-four percent hold a favorable opinion of Romney, the lowest for any leading presidential [...]
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U.S.’s November election and leads by a lesser margin in a third, according to a poll that says Obama is benefitting from a recovering economy and support among female voters. The “swing-state poll” for Quinnipiac University shows Obama ahead of Romney by 7 percentage points in Florida, 6 points in Ohio and 3 points in [...]
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Ask Ron Paul why he’s still in the presidential race, and he’ll tell you not to bother him with “silly questions.” In an interview on CNN, host Piers Morgan asked the Texas congressman on Monday night, “If I was prescribing some medicine for you right now, congressman, I think I would say the situation is [...]
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House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said Tuesday “the American people should be very afraid” concerning President Barack Obama’s off-microphone remarks to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday that after the election he will have more “flexibility” with the Russians on missile defense, adding that he believes Obama will will sell out [...]
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