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Primary sweep has Romney 1 win from GOP nomination
Mitt Romney swept all the delegates in GOP primaries in Kentucky and Arkansas and picked up more endorsements from party leaders, putting him one win away from claiming the Republican nomination for president. With no serious opposition left, the former Massachusetts governor should get that win next Tuesday when voters ...
Romney defends record at Bain Capital firm
Mitt Romney is defending his work at the private equity firm he co-founded and says it's part of why he's qualified to be president. Romney told Time magazine on Wednesday that "someone who spent their career in the economy" is better qualified to fix the economy than someone who spent their ...
Romney: American kids get 'third-world education'
Charging that American students are getting a "third-world education" under President Barack Obama, Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney on Wednesday proposed a voucher-style system that could significantly alter the public school system and revive the debate over school choice. Romney, who has been reluctant to stray far from the economic ...
Obama team trumpets new polling on gay marriage
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is beginning to express some confidence that the president's historic, yet politically risky, embrace of gay marriage may not hurt him in the November election. In a conference call announcing efforts to get gay and lesbian voters engaged in the Obama campaign, officials said poll ...
Romney says Congress should wait to act on economy
Mitt Romney says that if elected Congress should wait until he takes office to block automatic spending cuts and to keep tax cuts from expiring. In an interview with Time magazine on Wednesday, the Republican presidential candidate said he wants Congress to deal with major issues to keep the U.S. ...
Obama, Dems redoubling money efforts to keep edge
His cash advantage threatened, President Barack Obama and his party are redoubling their fundraising efforts after robust hauls by Republican rival Mitt Romney and a slew of GOP-leaning super PACs that are raking in cash from the party faithful highly motivated to topple the Democrat. Obama still has a significant ...
Rep. King: CIA, Pentagon, too close to filmmakers
A House committee chairman charged Wednesday that the CIA and Defense Department jeopardized national security by cooperating too closely with filmmakers producing a movie on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King. R-N.Y., first raised questions about the bin Laden movie last summer, but ...
Obama to graduates: 'A new feeling about America'
President Barack Obama declared Wednesday the world has a "new feeling about America" and more respect for its leadership, weaving re-election themes into a commencement speech to jubilant graduates of the U.S. Air Force Academy. "We can say with confidence and pride: The United States is stronger, safer and more ...
Obama airing ads on veterans, seniors
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is airing two new ads, one focusing on his work with veterans returning home from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and another aimed at seniors dependent on Medicare. In the veterans spot, Obama credits veterans for allowing the U.S. to "go after al-Qaida and kill ...
Competitive Senate race shaping up in North Dakota
North Dakota's prosperity from an energy boom as the rest of the country slowly crawls out from under a collapsed economy is making a contest of a Senate race that Democrats had all but conceded. Heidi Heitkamp, a former state attorney general with ties to the energy industry and a ...
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