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Rick Santorum paid double Mitt Romney’s tax rate in 2010, records show

By doris | Published: February 16, 2012

Full Story at FirstRead.msnbc.msn.com Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum sought to draw another sharp contrast between himself and Republican rival Mitt Romney when his campaign released four years of tax returns Wednesday night. The documents, reported by Politico, show Santorum and his wife, Karen, earned more than $3.5 million from 2007 through 2010, but paid more [...]

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Contraception controversy consumes D.C., campaign

By doris | Published: February 9, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Congressional Democrats and Republicans escalated their rhetorical war Thursday over a pending federal rule requiring religiously affiliated employers to provide full contraception coverage to women — one day after hints emerged of a possible compromise between the White House and conservative religious critics. Numerous rank-and-file Democrats urged the [...]

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Obama signs off on Super PAC donation encouragement

By doris | Published: February 8, 2012

Full Story at FirstRea.msnbc.msn.com President Obama personally signed off on his campaign’s decision to actively encourage donations to Democratic Super PAC Priorities USA, according to senior campaign officials who spoke on a conference call with reporters Tuesday morning. But an official would not characterize the tone of Obama’s agreement to back a policy that is [...]

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Romney on ‘poor’ comment: I misspoke

By doris | Published: February 5, 2012

Full Story at PoliticalTicker.blogs.CNN.com (CNN) – One day after Mitt Romney took heat for a comment he made about the poor, the Republican presidential candidate characterized his remark as a “misstatement.” “I misspoke,” Romney said Thursday in an interview aired on KSNV, a CNN affiliate in Las Vegas. “When you do I don’t know how [...]

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Obama pushes campaign themes in Arizona and Iowa

By doris | Published: January 26, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — President Barack Obama on Wednesday launched a three-day visit to five battleground states in the November election by pressing State of the Union themes of core American values and having the wealthy pay more taxes. At an Iowa manufacturing plant that he said represented the kind of job creation [...]

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Gingrich: S.C. ‘decided to be with us in changing Washington’

By doris | Published: January 22, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com Columbia, South Carolina (CNN) — Newt Gingrich won Saturday’s South Carolina GOP presidential primary, marking a stunning turnaround for a candidate who finished fourth in Iowa and New Hampshire and whose campaign had been left for dead — again — by observers just weeks ago. With about 95% of polling places [...]

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Gingrich delivers show-stopper at beginning of South Carolina debate

By doris | Published: January 20, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com Charleston, South Carolina (CNN) — The four remaining GOP candidates played to their individual strengths on Thursday and tried to leave a lasting impression in a final, boisterous debate two days before South Carolina’s pivotal primary. In a campaign cycle where debates have had direct consequences on the ebb and flow [...]

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Obama to visit swing state Ohio to talk economy

By doris | Published: January 14, 2012

Full Story at NBCPolitics.msnbbc.msn.com President Barack Obama will visit the political battleground state of Ohio next week, ushering in the 2012 election year with a speech focused on the economy, the White House said on Thursday. Obama will visit Cleveland on Wednesday, just after he returns from a more than week-long vacation in Hawaii, White [...]

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Romney wins N.H. primary, Paul second, Huntsman third

By doris | Published: January 11, 2012

Full Story at NBCPoliticsmsnbc.msn.com MANCHESTER, N.H. – Mitt Romney won the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, scoring a decisive victory for the former Massachusetts governor in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination. Texas Rep. Ron Paul finished second, ahead of former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, who came in third. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum [...]

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POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Monday, January 9, 2012

By doris | Published: January 9, 2012

Full Story at PoliticalTicker.CNN.com The CNN Washington Bureau’s morning speed read of the top stories making news from around the country and the world. Click on the headlines for more. WASHINGTON/POLITICAL: CNN: Rivals turn up heat on Romney as N.H. primary closes inWith one day to go until the New Hampshire primary, Republican presidential front-runner [...]

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Sunday debate offers GOP hopeful second chance at fireworks

By doris | Published: January 8, 2012

Full Story at NBCPolitics.msnbc.msn.com MANCHESTER, N.H. — Republican presidential hopefuls will have a renewed opportunity to draw contrasts with each other in their second of two debates in a 12-hour span on Sunday morning. A Saturday night debate in Manchester yielded few defining moments, and did little to add new scrutiny that had been expected [...]

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After dismal Iowa showing, Bachmann suspends campaign

By doris | Published: January 5, 2012

Full Story at NBCPolitics.msnbc.msn.com Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann has suspended her campaign for the White House. “I have decided to stand aside,” she told a room of supporters and reporters in Iowa. Bachmann said she leaves the race knowing the campaign was run “with integrity.” She said now, the country needs to “stand united [...]

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