Articles filed under Misc Elections
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Decade of war, recession leaves voters glumSep 01, 2012 11:00 pm - COLUMBUS, Ohio — He’s 30, between jobs, with $50,000 in student debt and no clear sense what the future holds. But Erik Santamaria, Ohio-born son of Salvadorans, has a p...
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Pluses, minuses for the Republican conventionAug 31, 2012 10:00 pm - TAMPA, Fla. — The Republican convention propelled Mitt Romney into the fall campaign on a high note, thanks to his well-received acceptance speech, an appealing cast of ...
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Movie audiences discovering anti-Obama documentary ‘2016’Aug 31, 2012 6:18 pm - LOS ANGELES — It wasn’t backed by any Hollywood movie studio. Reviews were mostly negative. It premiered in Houston, not Los Angeles or New York. And yet despite the unc...
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Romney begins fall campaign with economic pledgeAug 31, 2012 10:48 am - TAMPA, Fla. — Mitt Romney is making the first stop of his fall campaign for the White House a visit to hurricane-damaged Louisiana, hoping to convince Americans he is no...
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Ann Romney: Eastwood is ‘a unique guy’Aug 31, 2012 10:48 am - TAMPA, Fla. — Ann Romney says she appreciates the support Clint Eastwood gave her husband’s presidential bid, even if the actor’s bizarre monologue at the GOP convention...
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Obama visits Texas to mark Iraq war anniversaryAug 31, 2012 10:48 am - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is serving up an election-year reminder that he ended the Iraq war, visiting a Texas military base two years to the day that he forma...
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Romney to visit storm-damaged LouisianaAug 31, 2012 10:48 am - LAKELAND, Fla. — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney ordered a detour to hurricane-damaged Louisiana on Friday as he campaigned his way out of the Republican N...
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Oops! Florida Sen. Rubio endorses more government?Aug 31, 2012 10:48 am - TAMPA, Fla. — Tea Party favorite Marco Rubio had one of those did-he-just-say-that moments by jumbling words in his Republican National Convention speech to accidentally...
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Celebs tweet about Eastwood at RNCAug 31, 2012 8:59 am - A sampling of celebrity tweets in response to Clint Eastwood’s odd conversation with an invisible President Barack Obama in an empty chair before the Republican National...
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Not in Romney speech: Afghanistan, Social SecurityAug 31, 2012 8:53 am - WASHINGTON — Social Security. Medicare. Iraq. Afghanistan. Illegal immigration. They’re all costly to taxpayers and the next president presumably will have to address th...