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Coal miners say they were forced to attend Romney event and donate
A group of coal miners in Ohio feel they would have been fired if they did not attend an Aug. 14 event with presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and contribute to his campaign — and to make matters worse, they lost of day of pay for their trouble. In…
Huckabee to Ron Paul supporters: Respect the voters’ choice
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee thinks supporters of Texas Rep. Ron Paul (R) should line up behind presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, despite the treatment they received during this year’s primary season. “I don’t think they’ve been disrespected,” Huckabee told reporters in Tampa on Monday. “Elections are about —…
RNC chairman defends Romney’s ‘birther’ joke as ‘levity’
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Sunday said he supported presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s joke about President Barack Obama’s birth certificate because the race needs “levity.” Speaking to a large crowd of supporters in Michigan on Friday, Romney had come the closest yet to personally embracing the…
Romney: Women should support me because of ‘Romneycare’
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney says that women should support him because of a health insurance law he passed as the governor of Massachusetts — even though he has promised to repeal a similar law passed by President Barack Obama. During an interview that aired on Sunday, Fox News…
Romney snooping on Americans’ private data to sniff out potential donors
In hopes of identifying untapped Republican donors, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has secretly employed a data-mining firm based in Fort Worth, Texas to crunch thousands of minute, many times private details about Americans living in more than 120 million households, The Associated Press revealed on Friday. The AP…
Romney: ‘No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate’
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney came the closest yet on Friday to personally embracing the so-called birther movement’s theory that President Barack Obama is not a U.S. citizen. “I love being home in this place where Ann and I were raised, where both of us were born,” the former…
Romney claims Mormon faith dictates tax return secrecy
Update (below): Watch Romney boast to Fox News about paying tithes Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has a new reason for keeping his financial details secret from the American people: his Mormon faith. Speaking to Parade Magazine, Ann Romney said their tithing to the Mormon Church is so meaningful…
Biden warns Romney will ‘put y’all back in chains’
Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday warned that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s financial policies would put voters “back in chains.” At a campaign stop in Virginia, the vice president told a crowd — which included many African Americans — that Romney was “going to let the big banks…
Obama mocks Romney for putting dog on his car roof
President Barack Obama for the first time on Tuesday personally took a jab at presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for strapping his dog to the roof of his car. At a campaign event in Oskaloosa, Iowa, the president pointed out that Romney had invested in several companies that were…
Romney’s constitutional amendment disqualifies Ryan for no business experience
A constitutional amendment suggested by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney would have barred Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) from serving as his running mate. Speaking to supporters in Las Vegas last May, Romney told the story of a man who said the Constitution should be amended to require three years…
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