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Obama Launches Campaign in Empty Arena

Barack Obama launched his campaign in unspectacular fashion today at Ohio State University, the largest college in the crucial swing state. A photo posted to twitter by Mitt Romney’s campaign spokesman Ryan Williams reveals sparse attendance. The above image, according to Williams, was taken during the President’s first official campaign speech.   During the speech, [...]

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Romney mocks Obama moving ‘forward’

By MAGGIE HABERMAN  Mitt Romney’s first pooled fundraiser tonight in Virginia featured this bit of mockery of the Obama campaign’s new slogan, “Forward:”   Speaking of the Obama campaign, he got a laugh with, “Forward is his new slogan, forward what, over the cliff!”   Romney also stayed out of trouble that he got into [...]

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Jewish Voters Leaving Obama

Polling significantly worse than in 2008   BY:  Washington Free Beacon Staff  Obama is far behind his 2008 pace with Jewish voters, new polling shows. According to Michael Barone at the Washington Examiner:   The latest survey of Jewish Americans, conducted March 14-27 by a firm called Knowledge Networks for the American Jewish Committee, shows [...]

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Obama Losing Rock-star Status Among Young Voters

A Commentary By Michael Barone   THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER   Last week, Barack Obama delivered speeches at universities in Chapel Hill, N.C., Iowa City, Iowa, and Boulder, Colo. The trip was, press secretary Jay Carney assured us, official government business, not political campaigning. It’s part of a pattern. Neil Munro of the Daily Caller has [...]

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Romney and the Youth Vote

By: Katrina Trinko******National Review Online In March, on the eve of the Illinois primary, over a thousand Bradley University students gathered to hear Mitt Romney. Dressed casually, many in shorts and T-shirts, they stood outside on an unusually warm spring day in Peoria. They listened as 30-year-old Republican Representative Aaron Schock introduced Romney, and watched [...]

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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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Primary results 2012: Mitt Romney ‘s 5-state sweep

By ALEXANDER BURNS  Mitt Romney swept all five Republican primary elections Tuesday night, putting an end once and for all to any hopes for a comeback by his beleaguered GOP primary opponents. The last state to be called was New York, where voting ended at 9 p.m.; Romney was previously projected the winner in Connecticut, [...]

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Why Mitt Romney will be a good president

By KAREN HUGHES Ten years ago, I walked into the White House press room and shocked the reporters there by announcing that later that summer, I would be leaving my job as counselor to the president to return to Texas. The decision was agonizingly difficult and purely personal. I believed in President George W. Bush, [...]

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Obama……Honey, I ate the dog

Wowie Zowie!!! Not much needs to be said about this terrific graphic other than to say Obama and Co. have had a terrible week or so with the Ann Romney has “never worked a day in her life” remark and their attempt to ridicule Mitt Romney’s vacation with the family dog Seamus……Boy, when things go [...]

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Mitt Romney plays the victim card

By REID J. EPSTEIN Meet Mitt Romney the victim. And that may be a good thing for his campaign. Following the still-rippling kerfuffle over Hilary Rosen’s comments that Ann Romney “hasn’t worked a day in her life,” Romney is portraying himself as the victim of the liberal media and secular culture, and some social conservatives [...]

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