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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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Romney riles up electric crowd in Bucks County

  SEAN COLLINS WALSH, Daily News Staff Writer   THE STANDS were packed, the bright lights were on and the crowd was chanting. It was a frigid Bucks County night in early November, but it wasn’t a Council Rock-Pennsbury football game. It was Mitt Romney’s final drive for the White House, his two-minute drill of [...]

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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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Republicans look to bury Obama on coal issues

By BOB KING and ERICA MARTINSON  Anger over coal helped an imprisoned felon defeat President Barack Obama this month in several West Virginia counties. Now Republicans hope Mitt Romney can squeeze an electoral diamond out of coal country in battleground states such as Ohio, Virginia and Pennsylvania. The GOP has stoked the fires by accusing [...]

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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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The Declaration of Independence 1776

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the [...]

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Now It’s Obama Who Is ‘Bitter’ and Clinging to Something

By Dan Hill FOXNEWS.COM Look at President Obama’s face during his White House press conference following last week’s post-midterm election debacle, and what do you see? You may not be a facial coding expert like I am, but anybody can recognize –and maybe even be shocked by—the degree to which Barack Obama has gone from [...]

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71% in Pennsylvania Favor Troops on Border To Stop Illegal Immigration

June 12, 2010 Seventy-one percent (71%) of Likely Voters in Pennsylvania support sending U.S. troops to the border with Mexico to help prevent illegal immigration, according to a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state. Sixteen percent (16%) are opposed to such a move, while 14% are not sure. Nationally, 79% of voters believe [...]

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Scott Brown’s special election strategy

Today’s Monday Fix column — yes, we write for the dead-tree edition of the Post too! — looks at Sen. Scott Brown’s (R) decision to wade into the special elections in Hawaii and Pennsylvania and what it might mean for the man from Massachusetts’ political future. Brown has emailed the Hawaii addresses on his broad [...]

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