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Adviser: Romney “shellshocked” by loss

    By Jan Crawford / CBS News   BOSTON, Mass. Mitt Romney’s campaign got its first hint something was wrong on the afternoon of Election Day, when state campaign workers on the ground began reporting huge turnout in areas favorable to President Obama: northeastern Ohio, northern Virginia, central Florida and Miami-Dade. Then came the [...]

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President Obama’s reelection: 12 takeaways

By MAGGIE HABERMAN  It’s over.   And the 2012 presidential race pretty much played out as predicted by public pollsters and observers. Except it was a better night for President Barack Obama in certain significant respects than was anticipated.   He defeated Mitt Romney in nearly all of the battleground states, including Virginia and Ohio, [...]

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Tampa Bay Times/Bay News 9 poll: I-4 voters back Romney 51-45

By Adam C. Smith, Times Political Editor   It has been a fundamental rule of Florida politics for decades: Statewide campaigns are won and lost on the I-4 corridor.   Today that celebrated swing-voter swath stretching from Tampa Bay to Daytona Beach is poised to deliver Florida’s 29 electoral votes to Mitt Romney.   An [...]

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Rubio rips Obama ideas: People come to America to get away from them

By MAGGIE HABERMAN   Sen. Marco Rubio slammed President Obama as he warmed up for Mitt Romney at a rally in Pensacola earlier today, saying the president’s ideas are the ones people come to America from other countries “to get away from.” “He just put out a picture book that he calls his plan for [...]

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Democrats face ‘fight of our lives’ to win Florida

By JONATHAN MARTIN and JAMES HOHMANN | 10/22/12 4:24 AM EDT BOCA RATON, Fla. — Florida Republicans are feeling increasingly optimistic that Mitt Romney will carry the biggest of swing-state prizes, and for good reason — he’s narrowly leading in most every poll here and President Barack Obama is under 50 percent in the same [...]

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Obama, Oy Vey! American Jews Finally Have Had Enough

By Stella Paul “Two Jews, three opinions” goes the famous joke. And every day, more of those opinions turn pro-Romney, as American Jews increasingly reject the collapsing presidency of Barack Hussein Obama.   Romney’s surging poll numbers in the crucial state of Florida reflect his growing success with Bubbie Molly and her unemployed grandson Adam, [...]

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Why Mitt Romney isn’t going to get blown out

Posted by Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake on September 27, 2012 at 6:30 am It’s easy amid a slew of swing state and national polling that shows President Obama opening up a high single-digit lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney to conclude that we could be witnessing an electoral blowout in the making. But, there’s [...]

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‘The candidate of Yes We Can has become the President of No I Can’t': Romney says if Obama can’t change Washington from the inside then ‘he’s going outside!’

BY:  Toby Harnden   Mitt Romney has seized on President Barack Obama’s statement that he ‘can’t change Washington from the inside by telling him: ‘He can only change it from outside? Well, we’re going to give him a chance in November. He’s going outside!’   Speaking at a rally in Sarasota, Florida, Romney reacted swiftly [...]

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Florida defies Justice Department on voter purge

Florida’s secretary of state told the Justice Department on Wednesday that the state’s move to purge noncitizens from its voter rolls does not violate the law — and it instead appears the Obama administration is the one breaking federal law. “It is individuals who are not citizens of the United States,” Florida secretary of state [...]

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Election 2012: Florida President: Florida: Romney 46%, Obama 45%

Likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney now runs even with President Obama in the key swing state of Florida. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the Sunshine State finds Romney with 46% of the vote, while Obama earns 45% support. Six percent (6%) prefer some other candidate, and another three percent [...]

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