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Obama Camp to Romney: Ditch Trump!

Friday, May 25th, 2012

Stand up to the GOP’s ‘extreme voices.’

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GOP problem: Their voters are dying off’

Monday, May 21st, 2012

When presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney appears before Latino small-business owners in Washington on Tuesday, he'll address a group whose explosive birth rates foreshadow a seismic political shift in GOP strongholds in the Deep South and Southwest.

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GOP problem: Their voters are dying off’

Joe Ricketts, a wealthy donor, getting attention in presidential contest

Friday, May 18th, 2012

First it was Sheldon Adelson, a casino mogul who helped finance Newt Gingrich’s presidential ambitions. Then it was Foster Friess, a multimillionaire with the propensity for off-color jokes who threw his money behind Rick Santorum. Read full article > >

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Cain Officially Endorses Romney

Thursday, May 17th, 2012

Will campaign for the GOP nominee.

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Obama, DNC Raised $43.6 Million in April

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

Competing with GOP super PACs.

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Clinton Disturbed by Mourdock’s Views

Tuesday, May 15th, 2012

GOP Senate candidate is opposed to compromise.

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Colorado Civil Union Bill Killed

Tuesday, May 15th, 2012

GOP says Democrats trying to play politics.

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Obama gay marriage endorsement mobilizes Christian conservatives

Saturday, May 12th, 2012

President Obama’s endorsement of same-sex marriage is energizing Christian conservative support for Mitt Romney in a way that the likely GOP nominee has so far not been able to do on his own, according to religious leaders and activists. Read full article > >

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GOP treads lightly on gay marriage issue

Friday, May 11th, 2012

As the run-up to the general election intensifies, same-sex marriage offers the parties one of their sharpest contrasts. But in a reversal of strategy from eight years ago, when President George W. Bush’s reelection team seized on the issue to energize his party’s social conservative base and win over some swing voters opposed to gay marriage, the Republicans of 2012 are so far treating the issue gingerly. Read full article > >

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Lugar’s loss polarizes U.S. Senate

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

The primary loss for the longest-serving GOP senator is the latest blow to the political center in the polarized chamber. Nearly half a dozen moderate senators are retiring.

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House to vote on GOP plan that would forestall Pentagon cuts

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

The House is expected to vote Thursday on a Republican plan that would spare the Pentagon from the deep across-the-board spending cuts envisioned as part of last summer’s debt-ceiling agreement, reviving what has been an emotional debate in Washington about the best ways to reduce the federal budget deficit. Read full article > >

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Ron Paul campaign: Will his delegates influence Republican National Convention?

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

What, exactly, is Ron Paul up to? The Texas congressman has, by all reasonable reckoning, lost his bid to be the Republican presidential nominee. Lost it big. In the GOP’s 35 primary and caucus votes , Paul has won as many as Barack Obama. Zero. Read full article > >

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House Democrats plan to pounce again on GOP budget

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

House Democrats plan to attack the spending plan next week as the GOP-controlled House votes on a budget reconciliation package that includes cuts to replace automatic, across-the-board reductions set to begin in January as part of the Budget Control Act. The BCA raised the debt ceiling, cut $1 trillion in federal spending and authorized another $1.2 trillion in cuts over the next decade, with roughly half of the money coming from defense spending. Read full article > >

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Alex Ovechkin’s ice time is an elephant in the room as Caps-Rangers series rolls on

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

NEW YORK — When he unleashed that game-winning wrist rocket from the point Monday night, Alex Ovechkin was battling a variety of forces. There were the rugged Rangers players who skated with him, the rabid Rangers fans, who counted down before each “Ovi (rhymes with Pucks!)” chant and, yes, his greatest neutralizer of all this postseason: Dale Hunter. Read full article > >

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Jennifer Rubin: Eight GOP lessons

Sunday, April 29th, 2012

Now that we’ve moved on to the general election, it is worth reviewing some lessons from the Republican primary season. Here are eight things that Republicans should be proud of and that not coincidentally will drive the left to distraction Read full article > >

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