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Spotlight off Romney as Obama’s response to storm takes center stage
KITTERING, Ohio — Barack Obama spent Tuesday deploying the vast tools of his presidency to combat a raging super storm ravaging the East Coast; rival Mitt Romney took in cans of soup and mandarin oranges for victims. “Wow, that’s heavy! Good to meet you,” Romney said as he took a…
Romney refuses questions about eliminating FEMA during his ‘storm relief event’
At a so-called “storm relief event” on Tuesday, GOP hopeful Mitt Romney repeatedly refused to answer questions about his promise to eliminate the federal agency responsible for responding to disasters like Hurricane Sandy, which devastated much of the east coast this week. “TV pool asked Romney at least five times…
Norm Coleman assures Ohio voters Romney won’t overturn Roe v. Wade
Former Minnesota Senator and top surrogate for former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA)’s presidential campaign Norm Coleman (R) told a group of voters in Ohio on Monday that Romney would not overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that made abortion legal, a ruling that Romney’s campaign website calls…
Mitt Romney winning newspaper endorsement race in swing states
Republican contender for presidency attracts press support in key states Further to Ewen MacAskill’s piece about the Des Moines Register endorsing Mitt Romney, it is clear that the Republican contender is winning the newspaper endorsement race where it counts. A list drawn up by Poynter shows that Romney is leading…
Working class voters: Why America’s poor are willing to vote Republican
Tracey Owings is fighting hard to keep the home that has been in his family for 34 years. In 2000 his mother refinanced. In 2006 she died. In 2009 he lost his job and had no paid work for nine months. He fell behind with the mortgage. The bank moved…
Team Romney calls Ohio a ‘dead heat’
AVON LAKE, Ohio — Mitt Romney’s campaign called the US presidential race in key toss-up Ohio a “dead heat” Monday eight days before the election, claiming the Republican was poised to win the state after vital recent gains. In a morning memo, Romney’s Ohio state director Scott Jennings said a…
Romney surrogate: Romney’s Jeep ad is ’100 percent correct and accurate’
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) on Monday said that GOP hopeful Mitt Romney’s ad suggesting that Chrysler was moving Jeep production to China was “100 percent correct and accurate” — even though fact checkers have determined the claim is false. “I saw a story today that one of the great manufacturers…
Bloomberg News: Romney ‘rented’ Mormon church’s exemption to defer taxes for 15 years
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney used a loophole to “rent” the Mormon church’s tax exemption status and defer paying taxes for 15 years, according to a new report. Tax returns obtained by Bloomberg News through a Freedom of Information Act request indicated that Romney set up a charitable remainder unitrust…
GOP strategist: Romney ‘right on the button’ in knocking FEMA
A Republican strategist defended his party’s presidential candidate Monday for saying he would privatize disaster relief programs or leave states to fend for themselves. “Most people don’t have a positive impression of FEMA,” Ron Bonjean said Monday. “I think Mitt Romney was right on the button.” Bonjean was referring to…
Romney doubles down on misleading Jeep claim Chrysler called ‘fantasies’
Speaking to voters in Ohio recently, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said that President Barack Obama’s auto bailout has been such a failure that auto-maker Jeep is “thinking of moving all production to China.” Although journalists, and even Chrysler itself, quickly pointed out that claim has absolutely no basis in…
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