Category Archives: Candidates

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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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 calls birth control rule a ‘violation of conscience’

By doris | Published: February 7, 2012

Full Story at FirstRead.msnbc.msn.com CENTENNIAL, CO — Mitt Romney injected himself into a battle between religious groups and the Obama administration on Monday night, calling a new requirement that health care plans include coverage for contraception a “violation of conscience.” Before one of the largest crowds of his campaign, Romney decried the new rule, which [...]

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Santorum cancels events to be with sick daughter

By doris | Published: January 29, 2012

Full Story at NBCPoliticsmsnbc.msn.com Updated at 1 a.m. ET: WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum canceled his Sunday morning campaign events and planned to spend time with his hospitalized daughter. “Rick and his wife Karen are admitting their daughter Bella to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia this evening,” spokesman Hogan Gidley said [...]

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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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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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Five things we learned from back-to-back debates

By doris | Published: January 10, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN) — Republican presidential candidates faced off twice in 11 hours on Saturday and Sunday in debates ahead of Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary. While both debates were staged in the Granite State, it was clear that the rivals intended for their messages to go beyond New Hampshire. Here [...]

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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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White House, GOP senators file health care law arguments

By doris | Published: January 7, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — The Obama administration Friday filed papers with the U.S. Supreme Court outlining its arguments in favor of the minimum coverage provision of the Affordable Care Act — the latest move in a high-stakes legal battle playing out in the heat of the presidential campaigns. Justice Department lawyers essentially [...]

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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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Obama talks to Iowa supporters on caucus night

By doris | Published: January 4, 2012

Full Story at PoliticalTicker.Blogs.CNN.com (CNN) – President Barack Obama addressed via video conference several Democratic caucus sites in Iowa Tuesday, four years after winning the state’s contest in a surprise victory that fueled his campaign on a path to the nomination. “We’ve still got a lot of work to do. But think about the change [...]

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