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Ryan gets hometown send-off before trip to Tampa
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:58PM August 27, 2012 CommentJANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) — A raucous crowd cheered native son Paul Ryan on Monday as he prepared to accept the Republican Party's vice presidential nomination. He pledged to take the values of his family's longtime hometown to the White House.
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US officials checking SEAL raid book for secrets
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:50PM August 27, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials said Monday that they are reviewing a copy of a soon-to-be-published account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, checking for leaks of classified information.
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Happy now for tea party help, GOP faces challenges
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:30PM August 27, 2012 CommentTAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The Republican Party that's showing its face to America this week is a restless institution that relies heavily on the uncompromising passions of tea partyers, anti-immigration activists and social conservatives. It's a potent but unruly coalition that supplies vital energy today but poses serious challenges for the future.
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Clooney aids Obama campaign with Geneva fundraiser
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:03PM August 27, 2012 CommentGENEVA (AP) — George Clooney headlined a fundraiser Monday that took in more than a half-million dollars for President Barack Obama's re-election campaign, the second dinner this year where the actor has turned his A-list magnetism into political gold.
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SPIN METER: Debt clock has dual message
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:02PM August 27, 2012 CommentTAMPA, Fla. (AP) — As Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus gaveled the party's convention to order Monday, he also set in motion a debt clock, a theatrical flourish designed to remind Americans just how rapidly the government's tide of red ink is mounting under President Barack Obama.
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Republicans gavel open convention
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:04PM August 27, 2012 CommentTAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Republicans have gaveled open their convention that will culminate with the nomination of Mitt Romney to be president.
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THE RACE: Storm affecting plans for both parties
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:49PM August 27, 2012 CommentIsaac is blowing hard on the strategies of Republicans and Democrats alike, even though the strengthening tropical storm is skirting low-lying waterfront Tampa, Fla., where Republicans are struggling to get their national convention going so they can crown Mitt Romney as their nominee.
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WATCHING THE SHOW: Are conventions still relevant?
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:33PM August 27, 2012 CommentTAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The conventional wisdom about national political conventions is that they have outlived their purpose.
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Most Americans say the rich don't pay enough taxes
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:30PM August 27, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — As the income gap between rich and poor widens, a majority of Americans say the growing divide is bad for the country and believe that wealthy people are paying too little in taxes, according to a new survey.
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RNC chairman: Obama has not kept promises
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:47AM August 27, 2012 CommentTAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus (ryns PREE'-bus) says his party needs to remind voters that President Barack Obama has not kept his promise to improve the economy.
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Romney hopes Gulf Coast spared major destruction
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:24AM August 27, 2012 CommentWOLFEBORO, N.H. (AP) — Mitt Romney suggested Monday that he's not considering canceling the Republican National Convention even as New Orleans faces another powerful storm on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
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GOP: Show will go on in spite of storm's threat
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:55PM August 26, 2012 CommentTAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tuesday's brunch with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and House Speaker John Boehner has been moved indoors. Schedules were rearranged to fill an open Monday evening. Sandbags were in place outside the hotel housing the 800-strong California delegation.
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Romney accuses Obama of engaging in 'low' politics
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:10PM August 26, 2012 CommentTAMPA, Fla. (AP) — His Republican National Convention curtailed by a threatened hurricane, Mitt Romney conceded Sunday that fresh controversy over rape and abortion is harming his party and he accused Democrats of trying to exploit it for political gain.
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Analysis: Akin row shows GOP's social-fiscal rift
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:48PM August 26, 2012 CommentTAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Every now and then, an event awakens the ever-slumbering tensions between the Republican Party's two core wings: social conservatives and corporate interests.
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Romney faces balancing act with convention, storm
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:29PM August 26, 2012 CommentTAMPA, Fla. (AP) — With Tropical Storm Isaac bearing down on the Gulf Coast, Republicans left open the possibility of bigger changes to Mitt Romney's already-shortened convention, mindful of political awkwardness in celebrating while severe weather threatens New Orleans on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
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Tampa streets not filled with GOP protesters
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:29PM August 26, 2012 CommentTAMPA, Fla. (AP) — You can't see them. You can barely hear them over the din of the wind and rain swirling in the skies above from Tropical Storm Isaac. Protesters are here but it's highly unlikely they'll come close to crossing paths with Republicans for the presidential nominating convention.
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Republican Convention schedule day by day
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:29PM August 26, 2012 CommentOfficials with the Republican National Convention have cut virtually all of the activities scheduled for Monday and compressed what was to be a four-day convention to three days, running Tuesday through Thursday. A look at the revised schedule (all times are EDT):
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Romneys practice speeches at school auditorium
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:52PM August 26, 2012 CommentWOLFEBORO, N.H. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, spent Sunday evening at a local high school auditorium rehearsing their speeches to the Republican National Convention.
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Every 4 years, something more than just politics
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:44PM August 26, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — So much can change in four years.
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Republicans shuffle schedule as Isaac threatens
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:20PM August 26, 2012 CommentTAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Republicans will formally bestow their presidential nomination on Mitt Romney on Tuesday night, one day later than planned, officials announced Sunday as they revised the schedule for a national convention curtailed by the threat of Tropical Storm Isaac.
