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Romney Far Ahead in New York
Tweet Share on Facebook April 5, 2012 Comment (1)The pundits and the politicians have given lots of attention to the April 24 primary in Pennsylvania, but in some ways the New York contest on the same day is more important. A victory there could go a long way toward ending all serious challenges to Mitt Romney as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, and a new poll released today shows that Romney is far ahead.
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Romney Pulls Ahead in Santorum's Home State
Tweet Share on Facebook April 5, 2012 Comment (2)Mitt Romney has surged ahead in Rick Santorum's home state of Pennsylvania. The latest PPP survey, released Thursday, gives Romney 42 percent of the likely vote in the Republican primary April 24, compared with Santorum's 37, Ron Paul's 9, and Newt Gingrich's 6. A month ago, Santorum held a 17-point lead, 42 to 25.
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Wisconsin, D.C., Md. Put Romney More Than Halfway to GOP Nod
Tweet Share on Facebook April 4, 2012 Comment (3)Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney moved well past the halfway point in the delegate count for the GOP nomination by winning three more primaries Tuesday.
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Romney, Obama Begin Polarizing General Election
Tweet Share on Facebook April 4, 2012 Comment (5)The real race is finally on: Mitt Romney vs. Barack Obama, the pro-business Republican vs. the pro-government Democrat, the venture capitalist vs. the community organizer, two men offering starkly different visions of the America they want to see in the future.
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Ron Paul May Not Endorse Eventual Republican Nominee
Tweet Share on Facebook April 3, 2012 Comment (67)Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul says he hasn't come to a conclusion about whether he will endorse anyone for the Republican presidential nomination if his own campaign falls short. "I haven't decided," Paul tells WMAL, a Washington, D.C. radio station.
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Paul, a U.S. representative from Texas with a libertarian platform, says he remains concerned that the other GOP candidates aren't sufficiently committed to his concepts of individual liberty, cutting the power and spending of the federal government and a limited U.S. military role abroad. He disagrees with his rivals in his opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in his criticism of U.S., moves to stop Iran from making nuclear weapons.
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Obama Tries to Upstage GOP Primaries—Again
Tweet Share on Facebook April 3, 2012 Comment (3)President Obama will try to upstage his Republican rivals again Tuesday when he delivers an economic speech in Washington at the same time voters will be casting ballots in GOP presidential primaries in Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington, D.C.
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Obama's Lead Among Women Continues to Grow
Tweet Share on Facebook April 2, 2012 Comment (12)Mitt Romney's gender gap is growing. The latest evidence comes from a new USA Today-Gallup poll, released Monday, that shows President Obama with a substantial lead over Republican front-runner Romney in a dozen swing states, largely because of Obama's popularity among women.
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Romney’s Path to Nomination Runs Through Wisconsin
Tweet Share on Facebook April 2, 2012 Comment (3)Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are taking different paths in the run-up to Tuesday's Republican presidential primary in Wisconsin, but Romney appears to be in the driver's seat.
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Obama Campaign on the Attack Against Romney
Tweet Share on Facebook April 2, 2012 Comment (3)President Obama's re-election campaign is zeroing in on Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney more than ever.
