Articles filed under Mitt Romney
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Jobs report gives Obama much-needed boostOct 07, 2012 12:21 pm - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama celebrated much-needed good economic news Friday as the unemployment rate dropped to its lowest level since he took office. "We are m...
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Post-debate: Romney basks, Obama challengesOct 05, 2012 8:51 am - DENVER — An invigorated Mitt Romney basked in rave reviews Thursday after his first face-off with the president, envisioning an inaugural celebration with conservative a...
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Social media renders rapid judgment on debateOct 05, 2012 4:56 pm - WASHINGTON — Big Bird is endangered. Jim Lehrer lost control. And Mitt Romney crushed President Barack Obama. Those were the judgments rendered across Twitter and Faceb...
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Warnings, tweets, Jenga off-camera at debatesOct 04, 2012 11:31 pm - DENVER — Most voters watched the debate on the television and didn’t get to see what happened before and after President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney took the stage. And...
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Many watch debate; some are pleased, few are movedOct 04, 2012 9:43 pm - Like so many other Americans, David Becker knew long before Wednesday night's debate whom he'd be supporting in the presidential election. And, like so many other Americ...
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In West Chicago, a quiet, somber view of the first presidential debateDec 05, 2017 8:53 am - In a room set up to seat 40, nine people sat, for the West Chicago Library’s viewing party of the first presidential debate Wednesday evening. Patriotic napkins, bottles...
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Churches using ‘souls to polls’ to rally voteOct 04, 2012 2:01 am - MIAMI — It’s not just the collection plate that’s getting passed around this fall at hundreds of mainly African-American and Latino churches in presidential battleground...
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Judge halts Pa.’s tough new voter ID requirementOct 04, 2012 2:01 am - By Robert Barnes/The Washington Post A Pennsylvania judge Tuesday ordered state officials not to enforce the commonwealth’s tough new voter ID law in the November electi...
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Economic trend lines, for now, favoring ObamaSep 26, 2012 11:51 am - WASHINGTON — For the past year, as the presidential election unfolded, President Barack Obama confronted a dizzying swell of economic news — hiring up, hiring down, a eu...
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Presidential campaign is nice, and then again notSep 25, 2012 9:14 pm - NEW YORK — In a split-screen race for the presidency, Republican Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama were on their best campaign behavior in public Tuesday, all the w...