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Romney: Komen ‘wrong’ to fund Planned Parenthood’s breast cancer screenings
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says that it’s “wrong” for organizations like Susan G. Komen for the Cure to fund Planned Parenthood’s breast cancer screenings for poor women. During an interview with conservative radio host Scott Hennen on Monday, Romney said he disagreed with the Komen Foundation reversing their earlier…
Long primary battle could help Romney build support
EDINA, Minnesota — A drawn-out fight for the Republican nomination could work to frontrunner Mitt Romney’s advantage if he uses it to develop his campaign structure in swing states key to beating President Barack Obama in November. That’s what happened in 2008, when Obama built a formidable organization that registered…
Scott Rasmussen: Obama very likely to be reelected if trends continue
Scott Rasmussen of Rasmussen Reports predicted on Monday that President Barack Obama would win the 2012 election if the economy continued to improve. The latest Rasmussen poll showed Obama with a 7 point lead over the Republican frontrunner, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. “The trends are moving in President Obama’s…
Romney wins Nevada with 50 percent: full results
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Republican Mitt Romney won the Nevada presidential caucus with 50 percent of the vote, more than twice his nearest rival Newt Gingrich on 21.1 percent, full results showed Monday. Texas Representative Ron Paul was a couple of points behind Gingrich at 18.7 percent, followed by religious…
Gingrich calls Egyptian trial ‘the Obama hostage crisis’
At a campaign event in Golden, Colorado on Monday, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich likened the planned trial of 19 Americans in Egypt to the 1979 hostage crisis in Iran, calling it “the Obama hostage crisis.” “This reminds me exactly of Jimmy Carter and the Iranian hostages. You now have…
Rove: I’m ‘offended’ by Eastwood’s inspiring Super Bowl commercial
Republican strategist Karl Rove says the he was personally “offended” by an inspiring Chrysler advertisement starring Clint Eastwood that aired during halftime of Super Bowl XLVI. In the ad, Eastwood talks about how the the auto companies in Detroit — and Americans in general — are rebounding after the 2008…
Santorum: Romney and Obama both created ‘death panels’
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Monday asserted that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was “uniquely unqualified” for the GOP nomination because of the similarities between health care laws in Massachusetts and President Barack Obama’s health care reforms, including the repeatedly debunked claim that “death panels” would ration care to…
Trump takes credit for Romney’s Nevada win
Business mogul and self-promoter Donald Trump on Monday said that he would “always accept credit” for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s decisive win in Nevada on Saturday. “There was a lot riding on that particular race in Nevada and it was interesting, because the numbers were much, much greater than…
Top Obama advisers praise Clint Eastwood’s Super Bowl ad
Super Bowl commercials have become a pastime in America — to some, they’re as entertaining as the year’s big game. Sunday night’s annual affair was no different, but one ad stood above the rest, imparting a message of national unity and hope that could have come straight from President Barack…
Ron Paul took double reimbursements on air travel: report
Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) has been reimbursed twice for air travel repeatedly over the last 10 years, according to an examination of his financial records by Washington, D.C. publication Roll Call. Reporter Jonathan Strong claimed to have identified eight separate instances from 1999-2009 where Paul took reimbursement for his travel…
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