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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan - and their Wives! - Open Up to PEOPLE — However tough and tight the race against President Obama gets this fall, Janna Ryan predicts that her husband Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney can count on one thing: fun. — PEOPLE was first to sit down with the freshly minted …
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“60 Minutes”: Romney, Ryan answer critics of Medicare position — CBS News chief Washington correspondent and anchor of “Face the Nation” Bob Schieffer sat down with Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan on Sunday for their first interview since the Republican presidential nominee announced Ryan as his running mate.


GOP again turns to Kristol ball — Once again, Bill Kristol gets his way — and once again, watch out. — For two consecutive presidential cycles now, the founding editor of the Weekly Standard has successfully led the conservative media drumbeat for a bold vice presidential pick: In 2008 …
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Forget the budget: Paul Ryan is hot!
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Paul Ryan: Randian poseur
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Game-changing pick for Romney, worst nightmare for Obama
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No, Paul Ryan is not ‘courageous’
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Romney finds safety in CBS and Schieffer
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Ryan Could Make Wisconsin a True Battleground
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Romney Picked Ryan Over Advisers' Early Doubts
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Paul Ryan Only Passed 2 Bills Into Law In More Than A Decade
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Obama Welcomes ‘Ideological Leader’ Paul Ryan to Race
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Paul Ryan greeted as hometown hero
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Enthusiasm greets ticket in N.C.
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John McCain, Debbie Wasserman Schultz react to Paul Ryan joining GOP ticket
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POLITICO-GW Battleground Poll: Tied up — The race for the White House remained in a dead heat just before Mitt Romney announced Paul Ryan as his running mate, a new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground poll finds. — The poll, conducted in the days leading up to the Ryan announcement …
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Darrell Issa to Sue Eric Holder Monday — House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa plans to sue Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday for refusing to provide documents related to the “Fast and Furious” gun-smuggling operation. — “The committee expects to file …
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GOP-led House Oversight Committee to file contempt suit against AG Eric Holder
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Michelle Obama: Barack's not a ‘superhero’ — “He's not a superhero; he's a human. So he needs your help,” the First Lady said. AP Photo — Close — First Lady Michelle Obama says her husband isn't a “superhero” and that President Barack Obama will need all the help he can get in order to be reelected.
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Obama camp: 1,000 attended ‘half-full’ fundraiser — CHICAGO — Republicans quickly jumped on a report that President Obama's largest fundraiser here Sunday was only “half full,” but the crowd for the event was larger than the Obama campaign had initially anticipated. — “At Obama fundraiser in Chicago.

STATEMENT FROM GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN ABOUT THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION — YOU SEE IT FIRST RIGHT HERE — “...Everything I said at the 2008 convention about then-candidate Obama still stands today, and in fact the predictions made about the very unqualified and inexperienced Community Organizer's plans to …

Video: Erskine Bowles says Ryan budget “sensible ... honest, serious” — Why is this important? Erskine Bowles has a long pedigree as a Democratic budget thinker — and presidential adviser. When Barack Obama needed to pick the co-chair for his deficit committee, which he roundly ignored in the end …
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Problems Riddle Moves to Collect Credit Card Debt — The same problems that plagued the foreclosure process — and prompted a multibillion-dollar settlement with big banks — are now emerging in the debt collection practices of credit card companies. — As they work through a glut of bad loans …
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Spanish commercial property on the brink — The Spanish and Italian commercial property markets have all but collapsed with the number of transactions in both countries falling more than 90 per cent in the three months to July as investors worry about the future of the eurozone.
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122 Minutes With Jamie Dimon — The JPMorgan Chase CEO is really, really, really sorry. Except when he's not. — E — ven here, on his own turf, they are giving Jamie Dimon a hard time. — “Um, yeah, my question is kind of broad?” begins a gawky guy who identifies himself as a Tufts student interning in Client Solutions.
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Paul Ryan's Ayn Rand Reader: Lesson One … - One Thing the 2012 Dream Team Has On the 1992 Dream Team - Yglesias: Is Taco Bell Trying To Turn Itself Into Chipotle? - From Glenn Beck to Ira Glass: Great Magazine Stories About Talk Radio - You Won't Believe the Nasty Things Guys Say to Women Playing Video Games
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