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Jul 09 2012
News
Obama Pushes Tax Hike on Top Earners
After a dismal jobs report on Friday, President Obama is doing everything he can to prove he is a champion of the middle-class while at the same time painting Mitt Romney as out of touch. On Monday the president announced that he is committed to a one-year extension of the Bush-era tax rates for families earning less than $250,000 a year while calling for a tax hike on those families earning
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Aug 03 2012
News
Jobs numbers better than expected
Job growth in July beat expectations but unemployment ticked upward, the Labor Department reported Friday, handing Mitt Romney and the Obama administration a statistic of choice as they spar over the state of the economy.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/79352.html#ixzz22VQBw0M4
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Jun 21 2012
News
Race gap hardens in 2012 contest
The demographic battle lines of the 2012 campaign are rapidly solidifying as Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama gear up for a campaign defined by significant gaps between the candidates in voters race, gender and age. A trickle of recent swing-state surveys confirms a racial divide thats already been on vivid display in national polling: Obama has failed to gain new traction with white
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May 31 2012
News
Recent Polls Show 2012 Settling Into Deadlock
With about five months until Election Day, a slew of recent polls show the presidential campaign is settling into dead-lock, both nationally and in key battleground states.
President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee in waiting, are even or close to it in Iowa, Nevada and Colorado, according to NBC/Marist College polls of each state released Thursday morning. While Mr
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Jul 29 2015
News
Trump Schools the Republican Establishment
“Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably,” the great Homer Simpson once observed. “The lesson is: never try.” That’s probably how the so-called “smart set” within the Republican Party feels these days. Ever since Mitt Romney’s 2012 defeat—a loss that caught everyone off guard except for people who followed public opinion polls or read a newspaper—we Republicans were promised a
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Jun 25 2012
News
Four States Could Be Election Game-Changers
Much attention is lavished on the election-year "battleground states," the 10 or so states commonly thought to be the places that will determine the outcome of the presidential contest.
But let's consider for a minute the role that could be played by a smaller group of states—call them the game-changers. These are four reliably blue states where Mitt Romney's campaign thinks it has a
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Feb 05 2020
News
Senate Acquits Trump of 2 Impeachment Articles, Concluding Historic and Wrenching Trial
The Republican-controlled Senate, as has been expected since last week, voted Wednesday to acquit President Donald Trump on the two impeachment articles against him -- that he abused his high office and obstructed Congress' efforts to investigate the matter.
On the first article, abuse of power, the vote was 52-48. On the second, obstruction, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, who'd broken ranks
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May 09 2013
News
Blacks outvoted whites in 2012, the first time on record
A new Census Bureau report provides more evidence that the changing demographics of the United States are having a deep impact at the voting booth.
The report on the 2012 election found that for the first time on record, black voters turned out to the presidential polls at a higher rate than whites. More than 66% of eligible blacks voted in the presidential contest that pit President
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Nov 12 2016
Opinion
Trump won because college-educated Americans are out of touch
Higher education is isolated, insular and liberal. Average voters aren't. As the reality of President-elect Donald Trump settled in very early Wednesday morning, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes summed up an explanation common to many on the left: The Republican nominee pulled ahead thanks to old-fashioned American racism.
But the attempt to make Trump’s victory about racism appears to be at odds
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Jan 07 2021
Headline Roundup
Senate Republican Leadership Urges Support of Election Results for Good of the Republic
With emotional tones supporting the democratic process, leading Republican senators urged members not to oppose the certification of the electoral college for Joe Biden. Thursday morning, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell described it as the most important vote of his 36 year career. "The United States Senate will not be intimidated," McConnell said. Senator Mitt Romney, former Republican
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