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Manu Raju / Politico:
McCain: Palin was ‘better candidate’ than Romney — Mitt Romney's tax returns had nothing to do with Sen. John McCain's decision to choose Sarah Palin as his running mate in 2008, according to the Arizona Republican, saying he chose the former Alaska governor because she was a “better candidate.”
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Robert Costa / National Review:
Romney on Tax Returns: 'I'm Simply Not Enthusiastic about Giving Them Hundreds or Thousands of More Pages to Pick Through, Distort, and Lie About' — Earlier today, Mitt Romney spoke with National Review Online about life on the trail, his meeting with Dick Cheney,and his upcoming trip to Europe.
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National Review:
Release the Returns — Mitt Romney is steadfastly resisting calls to release additional years of his personal tax returns, arguing — not without good reason — that this demand is part of a fishing expedition by the Obama campaign, which hopes to exploit Romney's personal wealth …
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Mj Lee / Politico:
Ron Paul to Mitt Romney: Release tax returns — Texas Rep. Ron Paul said Tuesday that Mitt Romney should release more of his tax returns, adding to the pressure on the GOP nominee to share personal financial information with the public. — “Politically, I think that would help him,” …
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Joshua Green / Business Week:
What's Romney Hiding in His Tax Returns? — As George Will and many others have noted, there must be something truly damaging in Romney's pre-2010 tax returns for him to willingly endure the criticism and scrutiny that has accompanied his refusal to release them — a refusal he reiterated on Friday …
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Benjy Sarlin / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012 — John McCain: I Didn't Pick Romney Because 'Sarah Palin …
TPM2012 — John McCain: I Didn't Pick Romney Because 'Sarah Palin …
Steve Holland / Reuters:
Romney appears in final stages of running-mate decision
Romney appears in final stages of running-mate decision
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Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
15 Prominent Republicans Who Want Romney To Release More Tax Returns Right Now
15 Prominent Republicans Who Want Romney To Release More Tax Returns Right Now
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Callum Borchers / Boston Globe:
John Kerry's office blasts Mitt Romney over inaccurate claims about tax returns
John Kerry's office blasts Mitt Romney over inaccurate claims about tax returns
CNN:
McCain: Palin was better VP choice than Romney in 2008
McCain: Palin was better VP choice than Romney in 2008
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Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Michael Tomasky on Romney's Veep and Convention-Speaker Trap
Michael Tomasky on Romney's Veep and Convention-Speaker Trap
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Did Mitt Romney pay any federal taxes at all in 2009?
Did Mitt Romney pay any federal taxes at all in 2009?
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msnbc.com:
Romney surrogate Sununu: ‘I wish this president would learn how to be an American’ — By NBC's Garrett Haake and Michael O'Brien — Follow @GarrettNBCNews Follow @mpoindc — The Romney campaign ratcheted up its language on Tuesday in a conference call on which former New Hampshire governor …
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BuzzFeed:
Romney Backer Wishes Obama “Would Learn How To Be An American” — Sununu grabs the third rail. The Romney campaign lets the dogs out. — Source: youtube.com — In a brutal campaign conference call Tuesday organized by Mitt Romney's campaign, several of the candidate's surrogates went …
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WMUR:
Poll shows race tightening for president — Presidential approval rating slips in NH — Despite more Granite Staters disapproving of the job he has done, President Barack Obama still holds a slim lead over Republican Mitt Romney in a new poll. — The WMUR Granite State Poll shows …
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Mike Elk / Working In These Times:
Laid Off Steelworker in Anti-Romney Ad Says He Is Not Voting for Obama
Laid Off Steelworker in Anti-Romney Ad Says He Is Not Voting for Obama
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Mitt Romney ad pulled from YouTube
Mitt Romney ad pulled from YouTube
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Benjy Sarlin / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012 — Sununu Unleashed: Obama Needs To ‘Learn How To Be An American’
TPM2012 — Sununu Unleashed: Obama Needs To ‘Learn How To Be An American’
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Luke Johnson / The Huffington Post:
John Sununu: ‘I Wish This President Would Learn How To Be An American’
John Sununu: ‘I Wish This President Would Learn How To Be An American’
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Patrick Gavin / Politico:
George W. Bush: ‘8 years was awesome’ — In case there was any doubt, George W. Bush made it abundantly clear in a recent interview that although it was “awesome” being president for eight years, he doesn't miss life in political office. — “Eight years was awesome and I was famous and I was powerful …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Romney Knocks It Out of the Park — By all accounts, Mitt Romney was sensational today in Pennsylvania. His theme was Barack Obama's revelatory “you didn't build that” speech. Over the lunch hour (here in the Midwest), Twitter was burning up with commentary from those who were watching Romney's speech live.
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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Raising Taxes on Rich Seen as Good for Economy, Fairness — OVERVIEW — By two-to-one (44% to 22%), the public says that raising taxes on incomes above $250,00o would help the economy rather than hurt it, while 24% say this would not make a difference. Moreover, an identical percentage …
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Stephanie Warsmith / Akron Beacon Journal:
Obama campaign sues Ohio over early voting restrictions — President Barack Obama's campaign filed a lawsuit in Columbus this afternoon, seeking to restore the three days of early voting prior to Election Day that the GOP-controlled legislature eliminated, the campaign announced in an exclusive interview with the Beacon Journal today.
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Javier Manjarres / The Shark Tank:
Wasserman Schultz Has Unreported Second Home in NH, Lives Large on the High Seas — DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and President Barack Obama's re-election campaign team have been waging a coordinated effort against Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney by repeatedly casting aspersion …
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OnTheRedCarpet.com Entertainment News:
Mark Hamill: Mitt Romney is ‘not actually human’ (Video) — Mark Hamill says Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is “not actually human” and that people who don't vote to re-elect Barack Obama in the upcoming November election are “insane.” — The 60-year-old actor …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
How did vaunted Romney Death Star break down? — More Photos — Popular in Politics — A few days before the January 31 Florida Republican primary, a number of Mitt Romney's top aides took to the pages of the New York Times to brag about how they had destroyed Newt Gingrich.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Capitalism Debate — Let's say you are president in a time of a sustained economic slowdown. You initiated a series of big policies that you thought were going to turn the economy around, but they didn't work — either because they were insufficient or ineffective.
K. Allan Blume / Baptist Press News:
‘Guilty as charged,’ Cathy says of Chick-fil-A's stand on biblical & family values — CARY, N.C. (BP) — Dan Cathy oversees one of the country's most successful businesses. As president and chief operating officer of Chick-fil-A, Cathy leads a business with 1,608 restaurants that had sales of more than $4 billion dollars last year.
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama switches off his teleprompter — President Obama is weaning himself off his teleprompter. — At recent campaign events in Pennsylvania, Virginia and again Monday in Ohio, Obama spoke to crowds in high school gymnasiums and at crowded outdoor events without his teleprompter, instead using written notes.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Is Romney Overreacting to Bain Attacks? — Mitt Romney's campaign has begun to push back against the notion that President Obama's critiques on his tenure at Bain Capital have damaged him. A memo released by Mr. Romney's pollster, Neil Newhouse, suggests that the margin between Mr. Romney …
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Welcome to ‘Panthers Stadium’ — National Democrats have repeatedly touted their stand against taking corporate money for their convention in September, and so it was striking to see two emails from the DNC host committee referring to the Charlotte venue where President Obama will speak as “Panthers Stadium.”
Suzy Khimm / Washington Post:
Harry Reid promises filibuster reform if Dems win the election — In May, Harry Reid apologized for killing off a 2010 filibuster reform bill, admitting that the legislative procedure has been “abused, abused, and abused.” Reid has now gone a step farther: the Senate Majority Leader …
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James Pethokoukis / AEIdeas:
Paul Ryan rips Obama's comment that 'if you've got a business — you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen' — It was Rep. Paul Ryan's wife, Janna, who first saw — via Twitter — President Obama's recent comments about American entrepreneurs, that “if you've got a business — you didn't build that.
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Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
William Raspberry dies at 76: Washington Post columnist wrote about social issues including race, poverty — William Raspberry, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post whose fiercely independent views illuminated conflicts concerning education, poverty, crime and race …
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