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Billionaires, shadowy groups fuel pricey election
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:28PM October 31, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Billionaires, anonymous donors and shadowy outside groups funneled enormous amounts of money into this year's federal elections, as the cost of the presidential campaign surged past $2 billion and is expected to set a record. Despite grumbling among watchdog groups and even candidates themselves, don't expect serious changes any time soon.
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NFL players talk politics, look ahead to election
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:56PM October 31, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — In a rare show of unity, President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney took turns praising Washington Redskins rookie quarterback Robert Griffin III a couple of weeks ago for a video that aired on the Fox network's NFL pregame show. They uttered polished, rote lines such as Romney's "RG3 hasn't been in Washington very long, but he's already created change" and Obama's "You're welcome at my house for a pickup game anytime."
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GOP TV ad links RI congressman to child molester
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:45PM October 31, 2012 CommentPROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — House Republicans are airing a TV ad in Rhode Island linking freshman Democratic Rep. David Cicilline to a child molester and a murderer he defended when he was a lawyer two decades ago.
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Biden jokes about 2016 presidential bid
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:33PM October 31, 2012 CommentSARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden is joking about running for president in 2016.
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Another pro-Romney group to air ads in PA
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:20PM October 31, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — A Republican-leaning independent group backing presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has launched a $3 million TV ad campaign in Pennsylvania.
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Analysis: Doing his job, Obama a subtle campaigner
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:06PM October 31, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — It may look to America like President Barack Obama is off the campaign trail. He's really not.
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Ryan's challenger campaigns against ... no one
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:50PM October 31, 2012 CommentJANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) — Rob Zerban spent his morning on his hands and knees scrubbing a toilet in a homeless shelter. Half a country away, Paul Ryan stood under a spotlight in Virginia talking about why he should be the next vice president.
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Ryan tells supporters to keep the faith
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:27PM October 31, 2012 CommentEAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) — Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan, entering the final week of the race for the White House, urged supporters Wednesday not to give up even as he has adopted a fight-the-good-fight, pep-talk tone in recent days.
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Few housing solutions offered in presidential race
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:21PM October 31, 2012 CommentHENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — This suburb in a battleground state is pockmarked with half-built subdivisions, foreclosed homes and voters like Leslie Levin.
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Ohio High School Students Told To Remove Rainbow T-Shirts Supporting Gay Rights
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:18PM October 31, 2012 CommentThe gay T-shirts may be prohibited because they are "political," or because they could a cause a disruption.
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Memo to Mitt Romney: GM's Success in China Is Good for America
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:52PM October 31, 2012 CommentWith every vote precious in battleground states like Ohio and Michigan, both presidential candidates are grasping for the slightest edge. Republican nominee Mitt Romney thinks he can gain it by continuing to bash the 2009 government bailouts of General Motors and Chrysler.
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THE RACE: Obama hums a GOP tune: US exceptionalism
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:41PM October 31, 2012 CommentLocked in a razor-thin battle for re-election, President Barack Obama is adapting a classic Republican tune: American exceptionalism.
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Biden calls Romney auto ad an 'outrageous lie'
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:40PM October 31, 2012 CommentSARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden is calling advertising released by Republican Mitt Romney "an outrageous lie" for asserting that automakers General Motors and Chrysler are adding jobs in China at the expense of workers in Ohio.
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Campaigns invade other sides' turf
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:13PM October 31, 2012 CommentMASON, Ohio (AP) — Romney-Ryan signs sit on nearly every block in this southwest Ohio suburb and there's scant trace of support for President Barack Obama.
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Romney faces scrutiny on aid in storm's wake
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:09PM October 31, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — There's nothing like a natural disaster to test the depth of politicians' preference for small government.
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Political ads gear up for final push of campaign
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:54AM October 31, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — The campaign ad crush has intensified and expanded in the final week of the presidential contest, with President Barack Obama, Republican challenger Mitt Romney and allied independent groups making their final, full-throated advertising pitches to voters in the major battlegrounds.
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Polls Show Obama, Romney Remain Deadlocked in Presidential Race
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In this photo taken Oct. 19, 2012, Jean Gianfagna displays some of the political mailers her family receives at her home in Westlake, Ohio. Gianfagna has had days when six or seven political mailings come in--occasionally four versions of the same one for herself, her husband, and two college-aged students.
National and battleground state polls remain remarkably close as the presidential election careens to the final week of campaigning. But President Barack Obama appears to maintain the edge when it comes to winning more electoral votes than Republican nominee Mitt Romney, with a 5-point lead in Ohio, the most sought-after prize.
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Obama to Resume Campaigning on Thursday
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:48AM October 31, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama plans to return to the campaign trail on Thursday with stops in Wisconsin, Nevada and Colorado, in his first campaign events since before a massive storm throttled the East Coast.
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5 things to watch for in the campaign homestretch
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:08AM October 31, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Five things to watch for in the final week of the presidential race between President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney:
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Obama, Romney in search of independent voters
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:58AM October 31, 2012 CommentMANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Political mailers are stuffed in their front doors and the phone rings nonstop. Under a fall canopy of crimson and golden leaves, the battle for independent voters is being waged hour by hour in battleground New Hampshire.
