Headline Roundup • July 21st, 2012
Politics Pause After Shooting
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Politics was put aside for a day as President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner both called for the nation to come together in the wake of the Colorado movie theater shooting Friday that took the lives of 12 people and wounded dozens more. Published July 21, 2012 Comments (9)
Politics came to a pause Friday as the shooting in Colorado trumped the partisan attacks that have come to define the political discourse.
The shootings of dozens at a Colorado movie theater led the presidential campaigns to tear up their scripts for Friday and beyond. President Obama cut short a campaign trip to Florida as his campaign and that of Republican Mitt Romney halted ads in Colorado and canceled some appearances.
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