Articles filed under Misc Elections
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Medicare takes campaign spotlightAug 17, 2012 6:11 pm - SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — The jobs-and-economy election suddenly seems all about Medicare — for now, at least. Republican Mitt Romney is embracing a topic his party usually ap...
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West Chicago Park District puts rec center on ballotAug 17, 2012 10:00 am - West Chicago Park District will ask residents in November for permission to borrow $15 million to build a community recreation center. Park officials voted this week to ...
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Obama campaign offers Romney 5-year tax disclosureAug 17, 2012 9:12 am - GREENVILLE, S.C. — Barack Obama’s re-election campaign kept up pressure against Republican rival Mitt Romney on two fronts Friday, launching a new ad defending the presi...
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Romney says he never paid less than 13 percent in taxesAug 16, 2012 7:53 pm - GREER, S.C. — Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney declared Thursday he has paid at least 13 percent of his income in federal taxes every year for the past deca...
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Undoing Obama Medicare cuts may backfire on RomneyAug 16, 2012 6:42 am - WASHINGTON — GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s new promise to restore the Medicare cuts made by President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law could backfire i...
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The other Paul Ryan plan: $800B in Medicaid cutsAug 15, 2012 10:35 am - WASHINGTON — There’s another Paul Ryan plan for health care, a fundamental change in caring for the poor and disabled that would affect many more people than the Medicar...
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Report: Obama’s campaign more wired than Romney’sAug 15, 2012 9:32 am - WASHINGTON — Four years ago, then-Sen. Barack Obama got a head start on Arizona Sen. John McCain when it came to reaching voters online, on their mobile phones and on so...
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Judge won’t halt Pa. voter ID lawAug 15, 2012 9:14 am - HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Pennsylvania judge on Wednesday refused to stop a tough new voter identification law from going into effect, which Democrats say will suppress votes ...
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Romney says Obama just trying to ‘hang onto power’Aug 15, 2012 9:14 am - WASHINGTON — Escalating an increasingly acrimonious campaign, Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney dug in Wednesday on his charge that President Barack Obama’s...
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Familiar foe: In Ryan, Obama sees twofold targetAug 14, 2012 10:00 am - DES MOINES, Iowa — In his run for a second term, President Barack Obama had an opponent before he had an opponent: House Republicans. They shellacked him in the midterm ...