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Obama, Romney agree on comfort zone: 63 degrees
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney disagree on many things, but their teams reached consensus on one issue — the room temperature in the hall at their second debate. By bipartisan agreement, the non-profit Commission on Presidential Debates kept the room at a cool 62 to 64 degrees Fahrenheit (17 to…
Romney stunned by debate moderator’s fact check on Libya attacks
GOP hopeful Mitt Romney found himself backtracking during the second presidential debate after moderator Candy Crowley challenged his assertion that President Barack Obama had not referred to recent attacks on Americans in Libya as terrorism. “The day after the attack, governor, I stood in the Rose Garden and I told…
Report: Presidential campaigns don’t want debate moderator asking questions
Presidential debate moderator Candy Crowley’s stated intent to ask questions of both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney during Tuesday night’s town hall encounter has led to concerns from both candidate’s campaign teams. Time Magazine reported Sunday night that both campaigns have asked the Commission on Presidential Debates, which organizes each…
Ed Gillespie: Romney has been ‘completely consistent’ on abortion
Ed Gillespie, a senior adviser to Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, is insisting that the former Massachusetts governor has not recently tried to soften his positions — particularly on abortion — to appeal to independent voters. CNN’s Candy Crowley pointed out on Sunday that former President Bill Clinton had declared…
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus: Gary Johnson is a ‘non-factor’
Although former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson is gaining in the polls and is expected to be on the ballot in all 50 states as third-party presidential candidate, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus insisted on Sunday that the libertarian was a “non-factor.” During an interview with Priebus on CNN,…
Senior Romney adviser: It wasn’t necessary to thank troops at convention
Senior Romney campaign adviser Eric Fehrnstrom on Sunday defended his boss for not thanking U.S. troops or even mentioning the war in Afghanistan while accepting the Republican presidential nomination during the GOP convention on Thursday. During an interview on CNN, host Candy Crowley asked Fehrnstrom if Mitt Romney snubbed the…
Maryland governor: Romney sending ‘coded messages’ with birther joke
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) on Sunday asserted that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was sending “coded messages” and pandering to white voters by making jokes suggesting that President Barack Obama was not a U.S. citizen. Speaking to a large crowd of supporters in Michigan on Friday, Romney had…
Bachmann: The GOP ‘is extremely pro-woman’
Despite Republicans hosting an all male panel this week in a House hearing on the White House contraception decision, Rep. Michele Bachmann felt Sunday morning her party was unquestionably in support of women’s rights. Bachmann appeared on CNN’s State of the Union and was asked by host Candy Crowley if…
RNC chair: ‘Of course the party doesn’t favor the rich’
The chairman of the Republican National Committee says that it is simply “not true” that his party takes the side of the wealthiest Americans over the poor and middle class. CNN’s Candy Crowley asked RNC Chairman Reince Priebus Sunday about a recent New York Times poll (PDF) which found that…
McConnell: Police, firefighter layoffs not my problem
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Sunday that saving the jobs of police and firefighters was not the role of the federal government. CNN’s Candy Crowley reminded the Kentucky Republican that a recent Gallup/USA Today poll found that 75 percent of Americans supported President Barack Obama’s plan to provide…
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