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Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen reads a Venezuelan newspaper during a visit to the election center for the Venezuelan community in Doral, Florida February 12, 2012. Venezuelans celebrate for the first time a primary process to choose one opposition candidate to challenge president Hugo Chávez in presidential election on October.
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As Republicans, we can not fire our nominee in September. We need to know now ... So I hope you'll put your tax records out there this week so the people of South Carolina can take a look and decide if, you know, we got a flawed candidate or not.
If all white men were like the ones on stage in SC GOP debates last night, you wouldn't speak to one white man in the USA!
His media saturation of the Florida airways is clearly having an impact, and, based on what I have learned, he is staying on message by talking about spending and deficits — two issues GOP voters care about.More quotes »
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Obama's budget offers short-term help for economy
the document for its proposals to increase spending in such areas as infrastructure and for its tax increases.House Republicans will put forward a sharp alternative to Obama's plan that will provide deficit reduction through an overhaul of Medicare and other 2/12/12 Read more »
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Maine GOP chairman say Romney wins caucuses
Romney eked out a narrow win in Maine's Republican caucuses, state party officials announced Saturday, providing his campaign a much-needed boost after three straight losses earlier this week. But the former Massachusetts governor's margin of victory over Read more »
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Obama didn't see backlash on birth control coming
Constitution."About a week later, priests read letters from bishops in churches across the nation, expressing their concerns.Republicans soon pounced. GOP presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich accused the president of an attack on religion. Read more »
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In Maine, Paul vies to extend Romney losing streak
officials planned to declare a winner Saturday evening.Romney wants Maine voters to help in his struggle to convince his party's conservative wing that he should be the candidate they back. The former Massachusetts governor said in a Washington speech Friday Read more »
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Former state Sen. Spano admits tax evasion
acknowledge that I did not pay all the taxes that I should have paid and I'm sorry for that," Spano, 58, said.The Yonkers Republican spent 28 years in the legislature, rising to assistant majority leader of the State Senate. Popular, affable and barrel-chested, Read more »
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Reversal for Fortune- Obama and the SuperPACs
for his campaign and the Democratic Party in 2011, with the efforts continuing this year. So he will not exactly be facing his Republican opponent “unilaterally disarmed” as Jim Messina, his campaign manager, claimed. However, direct donations to the presidential 34 m ago from The Moderate Voice Read more »
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House filings sure sign of change
— who hold only 40 seats in the 100-member chamber — because incumbents are more likely than newcomers to retain a seat for a party. "Democrats should be seeing that as bad news," Downs said. "This gives the Republicans, more than likely, a greater comfort 36 m ago from Courier Press Read more »
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Holloway, Pat
with large law firms in Dallas admitted openly to being Republicans, Holloway worked actively in the Dallas County Republican Party that elected the first Republican Congressman from Texas since the Civil War, and that was pivotal in electing Republican John 37 m ago from Austin American-Statesman Read more »
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GOP wants vote on birth control
from voters in one of Indianas congressional districts, a mistake that could keep him off the statewide ballot in the May 8 Republican primary. All other major candidates Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul and Mitt Romney collected the required number. DELEGATE STANDINGS: 43 m ago from The Springfield News-Leader Read more »
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Ron Paul Says He Can Beat Obama Too
YORK (CBS NEWS) - Fresh off a close second-place finish in the Maine caucuses, Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul said he is “disappointed” with the results, but says he will stay in the race. On CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” Paul also looked past the 44 m ago from CBS 11 - Dallas/Fort Worth Read more »
