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Obama team slams Romney’s corporate past
Barack Obama’s campaign has fired off a withering attack on Mitt Romney, branding the US president’s likely election foe as a corporate raider who made money “hand over fist” by destroying jobs. The Obama campaign’s intervention Friday whipped up a new storm around Romney, who has been battered by criticism…
Feisty Gingrich makes plea for evangelical vote
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) – These are desperate times for Newt Gingrich. But this is the audience he’s been waiting for: South Carolina’s evangelical Christians, who he hopes will rescue his flagging bid for the Republican presidential nomination. His message to them is direct and urgent: Christians are under attack,…
Mormons believe U.S. ready for first Mormon president
WASHINGTON — Most Mormons believe Americans are ready to elect the first Mormon president in the upcoming election, according to results of a Pew Research Center survey announced Thursday. The Pew Research Center, a public policy research foundation, conducted the survey independently from the Mormon church at a time Republican…
Democrats fan Romney ‘Bain’ storm
WASHINGTON — Gleeful Democrats fanned the flames Thursday after Republicans did President Barack Obama’s dirty work for him and savaged their likely 2012 nominee Mitt Romney as a “vulture capitalist.” An explosion of vitriol from rivals Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry in recent days, thrust Romney’s past as a Wall…
Anti-choice faux embrace of single mothers a victory for feminists
This story is definitely flying around feminist circles. Michael Kranish and Scott Helman, two investigative reporters for the Boston Globe, have published an excerpt from their new book about Mitt Romney in Vanity Fair. In it, they tell the story of a woman who was in Romney’s church and when she…
Watch: Devastating anti-Romney film surfaces
“When Mitt Romney Came to Town,” a film about Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s time as CEO of Bain Capital, is without a doubt the most serious attack on the former Massachusetts governor’s campaign. Produced by a former top Romney strategist, the film focuses on people turned out of their…
As Romney rises, Tea Party focuses on Senate races
CHICAGO (Reuters) – As Mitt Romney inches toward the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, many conservative activists are increasingly focused on a different political prize for 2012: the Senate. Republicans, who currently have 47 of the 100 Senate seats, are seen as having a good shot of winning control of the…
Colbert weighing presidential run after shock poll
As the Republican primary race rolls ever onward, it looks as if Mitt Romney has a real chance to become the inevitable nominee, and South Carolina could be his do-or-die moment. Oddly enough, a recent survey by Public Policy Polling found that South Carolina voters have another candidate in mind:…
Romney lacks clear remedy for U.S. economy: analysis
(Reuters) – Mitt Romney, the frontrunner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, is promising Americans deep spending cuts, smaller government, trade penalties on China, a new Federal Reserve chairman and sweeping deregulation. The bold economic strategy Romney has sketched out in his White House bid seems designed to appeal to…
Stewart: Romney most successful candidate who ‘no one likes’
On Wednesday’s The Daily Show, Jon Stewart ran down the results of the New Hampshire primary, including the fact that Mitt Romney keeps winning in spite of the fact that no one actually seems to like him. He then expressed his bafflement at the media’s insistence on pretending that Ron…
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