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Mitt Romney: ‘I’m not going away’

By ANNA PALMER Mitt Romney’s campaign ended, but he’s not getting out of politics. Romney told top Washington bundlers, donors and senior campaign leadership in a meeting Friday morning that he would help out GOP candidates for governor in 2013, during the upcoming midterm elections and the 2016 presidential race, according to two people who [...]

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Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio’s makeovers

By MIKE ALLEN and JIM VANDEHEI   Marco Rubio doesn’t want to be the “Hispanic candidate.” Paul Ryan doesn’t want to be the “austerity guy.” Both want to run for president, or keep the option wide open. So each is trying to change his own image — and with it, the Republican Party’s — starting [...]

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Paul Ryan gets standing O from House GOP

By JAKE SHERMAN Rep. Paul Ryan received a standing ovation at a closed House Republican conference meeting Wednesday morning, his first talk to the party since losing the White House.   Ryan (R-Wis.) said the 2012 campaign was a “very positive experience” and his running mate Mitt Romney is a “wonderful man,” according to a [...]

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The Choice

  At stake is the very nature of the American social contract   “Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not.” That was Barack Obama in 2008. And he was right. Reagan was an ideological inflection point, ending a [...]

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Newt Gingrich: 300 electoral votes for Mitt Romney

  By KATIE GLUECK Newt Gingrich is predicting that this election will be a near-landslide victory for Mitt Romney. “I believe the minimum result will be 53-47 Romney, over 300 electoral votes, and the Republicans will pick up the Senate,” the former House speaker said Thursday night on Fox News’s “On the Record with Greta [...]

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How Mitt Romney would govern

  By MIKE ALLEN and JONATHAN ALLEN   Mitt Romney’s transition team — dubbed the “Readiness Project” — has stepped up its activities as the nominee has surged in the polls, planning a series of modest but quick accomplishments should he win and bracing for the likelihood Romney would butt heads with House Republicans as [...]

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Obama: The Man Who Fell to Earth

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VP hopeful Paul Ryan energizes Moon (PA.) crowd with campaign appearance

  By Salena  Zito Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan  attacked President Obama’s policies on jobs and energy on Saturday morning  during a quick stop near Pittsburgh International Airport. The rally between appearances in the election  battlegrounds of Florida and Ohio highlights what analysts consider a renewed  emphasis on Pennsylvania as polls show the gap [...]

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Ryan’s Benghazi Surprise

That foreign-policy slam won him the debate. By Larry Kudlow The irony of ironies: The Biden-Ryan debate was more about foreign policy than the economy and jobs. And yet another irony: Paul Ryan, an expert on all things fiscal, revealed a much better knowledge base of foreign policy than anyone thought existed. Shows how smart [...]

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The Bully vs. the Wonk

  The Veep’s strategy: Show contempt for your opponent. So now we know what Team Obama’s comeback plan was following last week’s defeat in the Presidential debate. Unleash Joe Biden to interrupt, filibuster, snarl, smirk and otherwise show contempt for Paul Ryan. The carnival act contributed to the least illuminating presidential or vice presidential debate [...]

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