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DNC Chair: All GOP candidates are ‘the same’
Whether it’s Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, or even Hermain Cain, it doesn’t matter who wins the Republican presidential nomination, according to the Democratic National Committee chair. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz appeared in a debate with RNC counterpart Reince Priebus on Face The Nation Sunday morning. And the Florida congressman expressed…
Fox News panel: Perry campaign near ‘total collapse’
A panel of conservative pundits on Fox News savaged Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry Sunday after the candidate had a rough week. The Texas governor followed a poor debate performance with a loss to Herman Cain in the Florida straw poll Saturday, a defeat made even worse by the fact…
SNL, Alec Baldwin mock GOP debates, candidates
Guest host Alec Baldwin and the cast of Saturday Night Live opened the show’s 37th season with a parody of the on-going Republican presidential debates between Rick Perry (played by Baldwin), Mitt Romney and “six other people who’ll never be president, but showed up anyway.” SNL regular Bill Hader, playing…
Herman Cain wins Florida Republican straw poll
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain won an upset victory in the nonbinding straw poll sponsored by the Republican Party of Florida on Saturday, beating out seven other candidates including front-runner Rick Perry. (Reporting by Jane Sutton) mochila insert follows Powered by Mochila…
Romney says he’s part of the middle class
Millionaire Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Wednesday that he was seeking better tax policies for people in the middle class like himself. “I think it’s a real problem when you have half of Americans — almost half of Americans that are not paying income tax,” the candidate told a…
Ron Paul: Jon Stewart helped make my case
Texas Congressman Ron Paul (R) on Wednesday said The Daily Show host Jon Stewart helped boost media coverage of his presidential candidacy. “I think that another person that kind of made my case was Jon Stewart,” he told reporters at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor. “How could…
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