How much do Republicans dislike President Obama? A whole lot. And here’s another sign.
Two recent ads from Oklahoma Rep. John Sullivan (R) promise that the lawmaker will “get in your face if you’re wrong — even a president’s face.” Here’s “Care”:
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Republicans are still winning the super PAC game. As of the end of April, American Crossroads has five times the cash of its Democratic counterpart, Priorities USA Action.
Crossroads’s fundraising has been declining, but the group has saved a solid pile of cash while its nonprofit sister arm spends.
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Third-party group calls it quits, Mitt Romney to air his first general election ad, another birther rumor is debunked and Gary Johnson shoots a watermelon.
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Newt Gingrich will campaign with Mitt Romney, Ann Romney isn’t getting involved, Bev Perdue says North Carolina is looking like Mississippi and one class at Liberty cals Mormonism a cult.
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President Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage has already excited donors and the Democratic base. But will it hurt Democrats down-ballot?
It’s possible.
Combined data from Washington Post-ABC News polls do show that while the country as a whole tilts in favor of gay marriage, voters in some key swing states oppose it.
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Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett has won the Democratic primary to face Gov. Scott Walker (R) in a recall election next month.
The recall will be a rematch. Barrett lost to Walker by five points in 2010. Since then, Walker has been under fire from unions for stripping public employees of their collective bargaining rights.
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Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) is calling on Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren, his Democratic challenger, to release all her past job applications and personnel records in order to settle her Native American heritage.
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Despite former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney’s overwhelming victory in the Nevada caucuses, Texas Rep. Ron Paul has won a majority of the state’s delegates to the party’s national convention later this year in Tampa, Florida.
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Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum sat down, Obama might break a new fundraising record (with some help from Clooney), some sniping in Virginia and something Charlie Rangel wants to know.
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Mitt Romney sits down with the bloggers, RNC tries to keep Nevada from going for Paul, Newt Gingrich says he was at his best when he was visionary and Obama leads in Virginia.
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On Thursday morning, President Obama’s campaign launched a new interactive infographic — “The life of Julia.”
Her’s how it works:You follow a cartoon woman named Julia from age 3 to age 67. At each step along the way, you learn how she was helped by policies pushed by Obama and how she would be hurt by differing policy prescriptions favored by former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.
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As we wrote earlier this week, Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren (D) has been playing defense regarding recent questions about her Native American heritage
The bigger problem for Warren as the week has drawn one is that she isn't playing defense very well, continuing to give Republicans lighter fluid with which to keep the controversy burning.
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Remember Ron Paul?
He has yet to win a primary. All his other fellow long-shots have dropped out (or will by the end of the day). The Republican National Committee is calling former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney the “presumptive nominee.”
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Karl Rove is bullish on Obama, Paul Ryan says Catholics can disagree, FreedomWorks endorses against Hatch and Newt Gingrich will “go bye-bye.”
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The conservative group Americans for Prosperity is spending $6.1 million on swing state ads accusing the Obama administration of wasting billions and sending jobs overseas through green energy projects.
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Rudy Giuliani endorsed Mitt Romney Monday morning, saying the all-but-official GOP nominee “has proved, time and again, that he excels at turning around difficult situations.”
In an interview with Fox News on the day before New York’s primary, Giuliani added, “who better than Mitt Romney to carry our banner” against President Obama? He praised the former Massachusetts' governor’s understanding of economics and “strength and toughness” on foreign policy.
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Joe Manchin not sure he’ll support Obama, Romney wants pledges, someone flips for Gingrich and Ron Paul raised $2.6 million in March.
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A few months ago, when the story of Mitt Romney’s dog Seamus’ ride on top of a car was once again in the news, a top strategist for President Obama took a subtle jab.
David Axelrod, the president’s closest political adviser, took to Twitter to declare that “loving owners” take their dogs inside the car, tweeting a photo of Obama carrying his dog Bo in the presidential limo.
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In a “Today” show appearance Tuesday morning, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said he hadn’t seriously considered being tapped as Mitt Romney’s running-mate.
But the House budget chairman has already settled comfortably into a traditional VP role: attack dog.
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The first Democratic ad in the Wisconsin gubernatorial recall election is out.
Former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk doesn’t mention Gov. Scott Walker (R) in her first campaign spot, but she does say that “today our leaders have lost sight of” Wisconsin values.
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Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has pulled ads attacking Rick Santorum off the air in Pennsylvania while the former senator spends time with his ailing daughter.
Santorum cancelled his Monday campaign events to stay in the hospital with Bella, 3, who was hospitalized Friday morning.
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In his speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors Tuesday, President Obama called the budget proposed by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) “thinly veiled social Darwinism.”
What does that mean?
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It’s primary day in Wisconsin, and you (hopefully) know what that means — it’s time for another Fix prediction contest.
If you’re new here, here’s how it works: you write your predictions in the comments section, and if you come closest to the actual vote totals, you win an official Fix t-shirt.
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If polling is accurate, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is headed for a three-state sweep tonight.
Polls in Wisconsin from the past few days show him with a steady lead of 7 or 8 points over former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum.
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Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney won Puerto Rico’s Republican primary on Sunday, the AP projected, likely taking the territory’s 20 GOP convention delegates.
The AP called the race with only 11 percent reporting, with Romney taking an overwhelming 82 percent of the vote. Romney will take all 20 of the territory’s delegates if he wins over 50 percent of the vote, as he is almost certain to do.
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In his Super Tuesday victory speech, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney praised his Republican rivals for their performances. “Thanks, guys,” he said. “Nice races.”
Um...awkward. Watch it for yourself (around the 2:05 mark):
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Today we’re running through the final polls in the most important Super Tuesday states — Ohio, Oklahoma, Georgia and Tennessee.
There’s a serious dearth of polling in Oklahoma.
But former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum is expected to do just fine in the Sooner State. The most recent Sooner Poll, taken in mid-February, gives him a double-digit lead.
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Today we’re running through the final polls in the most important Super Tuesday states — Ohio, Oklahoma, Georgia and Tennessee.
Tennessee could be the sleeper race of Super Tuesday.
Polls show former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum in the lead, but a Post-approved survey hasn’t been taken since mid-February.
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Today we’re running through the final polls in the most important Super Tuesday states — Ohio, Oklahoma, Georgia and Tennessee.
Polls in Ohio show a race between former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and former Pennsylvania governor Rick Santorum that’s too close to call.
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Today we’re running through the final polls in the most important Super Tuesday states — Ohio, Oklahoma, Georgia and Tennessee.
Polls in Ohio show a race between former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and former Pennsylvania governor Rick Santorum that’s too close to call.
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Today we’re running through the final polls in the most important Super Tuesday states — Ohio, Oklahoma, Georgia and Tennessee.
Polls in Ohio show a race between former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and former Pennsylvania governor Rick Santorum that’s too close to call.
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It’s going to be a long night.
But don’t worry: we have some Alaska, Ohio, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Georgia, Virginia, Vermont, Idaho and North Dakota (phew!) music to listen to while you wait.
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It’s going to be a long night.
But don’t worry: we have some Alaska, Ohio, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Georgia, Virginia, Vermont, Idaho and North Dakota (phew!) music to listen to while you wait.
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It’s going to be a long night.
But don’t worry: we have some Alaska, Ohio, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Georgia, Virginia, Vermont, Idaho and North Dakota (phew!) music to listen to while you wait.
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In an interview with Salon, the chairman of President Bush’s 2004 reelection campaign says he personally apologizes to people who “were harmed by the campaigns in which I was involved.”
Ken Mehlman came out as gay in 2010.
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Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum frequently says that money doesn’t guarantee victory.
That claim will be put to the test Tuesday night in Michigan, where former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and his allies have outspent Santorum and his supporters $3.8 million to $2.2 million on television ads.
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Jon Huntsman wants a third party, the Edwards sex tape will be destroyed, Dianne Feinstein wants to go back to maxed out donors, and Personhood in Virginia is dead.
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Jon Huntsman wants a third party, the Edwards sex tape will be destroyed, Dianne Feinstein wants to go back to maxed out donors, and Personhood in Virginia is dead.
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A super PAC supporting former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is out with a warmhearted spot about a former Bain Capital colleague whose missing daughter Romney helped find.
It’s an effective way to humanize a candidate who is struggling to connect with voters. But the ad also raises questions about how independent super PACs — groups that can raise unlimited funds but cannot coordinate with campaigns — really are.
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A super PAC supporting former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is out with a warmhearted spot about a former Bain Capital colleague whose missing daughter Romney helped find.
It’s an effective way to humanize a candidate who is struggling to connect with voters. But the ad also raises questions about how independent super PACs — groups that can raise unlimited funds but cannot coordinate with campaigns — really are.
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BuzzFeed broke the story Thursday morning — Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), an outspoken Catholic, was for a few short years of his life a Mormon.
Rubio was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints at age eight, and his family was active in their local Nevada church community. His returned to the Catholic Church a few years later, by the time he was 12, and subsequently moved to Miami.*
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BuzzFeed broke the story Thursday morning — Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), an outspoken Catholic, was for a few short years of his life a Mormon.
Rubio was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints at age eight, and his family was active in their local Nevada church community. His returned to the Catholic Church a few years later, by the time he was 12, and subsequently moved to Miami.*
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With nail-biter Arizona and Michigan primaries Feb. 28, it’s time for us to tell you the best Tweeps to follow for news from both states. Well, actually, it’s time for you to tell us.
Tweet us your favorite political people on Twitter — journalists, operatives, bloggers — in Arizona or Michigan with the hashtag #FixList. We’ll put the top choices into a list.
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With nail-biter Arizona and Michigan primaries Feb. 28, it’s time for us to tell you the best Tweeps to follow for news from both states. Well, actually, it’s time for you to tell us.
Tweet us your favorite political people on Twitter — journalists, operatives, bloggers — in Arizona or Michigan with the hashtag #FixList. We’ll put the top choices into a list.
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Texas set to have its primary at the end of May, Obama above 50 percent in CNN polling, Hispanic Republicans upset and Santorym getting the Megadeth vote.
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Rick Santorum leads Mitt Romney in the key battleground of Ohio, a new Quinnipiac poll finds.
The conservative former Pennsylvania senator takes 36 percent of the vote to the former Massachusetts governor’s 29 percent. Former House speaker Newt Gingrich follows with 20 percent; Texas Rep. Ron Paul is a distant fourth with 9 percent.
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Rick Santorum’s support is stronger, Democrats are shooting down rumors, Allen West has a primary challenger and Mitt Romney’s super PAC is spending another $1.5 million.
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The Michigan ad wars are heating up.
Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum is out with his first ad in the Rust Belt state, a positive spot arguing that he’s best positioned to take on President Obama.
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Mitt Romney’s attack machine heads to Michigan, Justice Breyer was robbed with a machete, Obama has a new “Truth Team” and Democratic debates are getting testy.
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We’ve tallied the results from our Colorado, Minnesota, Missouri predictions contest and found a winner. We also have a winner from Florida, which we somehow neglected to announce. (Sorry about that.)
For the “Mini Tuesday” results, we asked for the winner of each contest. No one predicted former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum’s three-state sweep, so we took the answer that came closest to former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney’s Colorado total.
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Rick Santorum has tied Mitt Romney in national support among Republicans, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
Conventional wisdom often has it that Romney’s position shifts are a known quantity from his 2008 run — they are “baked into the cake,” so opposition research and negative ads are unlikely to change voters’ perceptions much. This survey suggests otherwise.
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The National Review wants former House speaker Newt Gingrich to call it quits.
The GOP presidential candidate has long had an uneasy relationship with the mainstream conservative press in general and National Review in particular, and he will likely dismiss the editorial as “establishment” meddling.
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Rick Santorum is up in Pennslvania, Huntsman has a spot at Ford, Obama has some music he’d like you to listen to and Joe Miller might run again in 2014.
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New Mexico Lt. Gov. John Sanchez (R) has dropped his Senate bid — welcome news to former Rep. Heather Wilson, his chief primary opponent.
Sanchez was competing for the seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D).
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Ron Barber, an aide to former representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), will run for the House seat she just left.
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One of Pete Hoekstra’s (R) primary rivals is attacking the former House member for an ad that used crude Asian stereotypes.
Clark Durant, a Christian charter school founder challenging Hoekstra in the race to take on Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), put out his own ad calling Hoekstra’s controversial spot “demeaning.”
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Romney hits Gingrich in Ohio, a bunch of Florida lawmakers are changing races, Americans for Prosperity is helping Scott Walker and Ron Paul has a plan.
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One unintended consequence of the improving economy: The culture war is back.
Last night, former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum proved that social issues can still pack a punch.
For months, the Republican presidential candidates have hammered away on the economy — and only the economy — as they crisscrossed the campaign trail. But over the past few days, longtime social issues -- contraception, abortion and gay marriage -- have taken the stage in the campaign.
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In his Missouri victory speech Tuesday night, former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum devoted a substantial chunk of his remarks to the Obama administration’s decision to mandate birth control coverage with very limited exceptions for Catholic employers.
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Rush transcript of former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum’s speech in Minnesota Tuesday night, after winning the Minnesota caucus and Missouri beauty-contest primary:
Wow! Conservatism is alive and well in Missouri and Minnesota.
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Clint Eastwood responded Monday night to the debate over whether response his Super Bowl ad for Chrysler was an implicit endorsement of President Obama.
In the ad, Eastwood declares that it is “halftime in America” and that “Motor City is fighting again.”
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Newt Gingrich has dropped his Virginia quest, Michele Bachmann already found the perfect candidate, a House member was tricked by the Onion and Mitt Romney is changing targets.
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While Chrysler’s Super Bowl ad has become a political football, an actual campaign ad aired during the game is also causing controversy.
Michigan Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra (R) aired his first campaign ad of the cycle Sunday night, and Asian-American groups are crying foul.
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A Chrysler ad aired during the Super Bowl Sunday night has inspired ire among some Republicans and admiration among some Democrats — with both sides seeing a political message that boosts President Obama.
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Marco Rubio has said he’s not interested in being vice president. Repeatedly.
But the Florida Republican senator has thrust himself into the middle of a high-profile, hot-button controversy — a move that will likely spark more talk of his future plans.
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No surprise: Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is the overwhelming victor in Nevada’s caucuses, supported by a politically-active Mormon base but dominating across demographic groups.
About a quarter of the electorate appears to be Mormon — the same as in 2008, when Romney won with 51 percent of the vote. But Romney also beat Gingrich with evangelical voters, according to entrance polls.
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Newt Gingrich goes on the attack, Romney was once a Democrat, Santorum didn’t qualify for the ballot in Indiana and Florida Democrats seem ready to go to court.
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Do you want an offiical Fix t-shirt? Of course you do! And it’s easy.
All you have to do is guess the finish order and vote share of all four GOP presidential candidates in Nevada’s Saturday caucuses. (Okay, maybe not that easy. Those shirts are highly coveted; we can’t just give them away.)
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The Nevada caucuses are tomorrow, and that means we need music to listen to while we wait for the results.
Here’s how you can help. Tell us your favorite songs from or about the Silver State with the hashtag #fixplaylist, and we’ll add them to our primary day playlist. Deal?
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On Friday morning, the Susan B. Komen Foundation backed down from its decision to pull grants from Planned Parenthood.
More than 10,000 people donated to the family planning group in some way, according to President Cecile Richards. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg pledged a $250,000 matching gift to the group.
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January’s jobs report is welcome news for the president.
The unemployment rate dropped 0.2 percentage points to 8.3 percent; 243,000 new nonfarm jobs were created in the past month.
More important than the numbers is the trend: It’s the seventh-straight month of job growth over 100,000, as well as a marked increase from December when the economy added 200,000 jobs. It’s also the fifth straight month in which the unemployment rate dropped, and the lowest rate in nearly three years.
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Rick Santorum’s friends go on the attack, Newt Gingrich wants back on the Florida ballot, Erskine Bowles passes on the North Carolina governor’s race and Michael Bloomberg gives to Planned Parenthood.
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The Republican-supporting nonprofit Crossroads GPS is out with a new ad attacking President Obama over the collapse of Solyndra.
The $500,000 week-long buy on national cable is the conservative group’s second attack focused on the badly bungled stimulus investment in the solar energy company.
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In an interview with CNN Wednesday morning that should have been a Florida victory lap, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney made a fumble that could give rivals an attack ad sound bite.
Asked about his economic plan, Romney said repeatedly that he was not concerned with very poor Americans, but was focused instead on helping the middle class.
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Former House speaker Newt Gingrich was either a key lieutenant of President Ronald Reagan or a backbench congressman throwing rhetorical bombs at the president of his own party.
Which one is closer to the real Gingrich-Reagan relationship depends almost entirely on who you’re asking.
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In a new Spanish-language ad, former House speaker Newt Gingrich suggests — through Cuban-American speakers — that President Obama is headed down the same path as Fidel Castro.
“My parents came to America looking for freedom and opportunity, and now America is starting to look like the country my parents fled,” says a young man in the English version of the ad.
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A harsh new ad from former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney uses news footage from 1997 to remind voters of then-House speaker Newt Gingrich’s ethics violations.
“History Lesson” is unusual in that neither Romney nor Gingrich appears. The entire 30-second spot consists of an NBC News report from Jan. 21, 1997, the day Gingrich was reprimanded by Congress for using tax-exempt money for political purposes and giving the House Ethics Committee false information.
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Mike Huckabee doesn’t want to be in ads, the DCCC outraised the NRCC, Gingrich is still up in national Gallup polling and Rick Santorum’s biggest backer has an open checkbook.
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If you ever read this blog, you know that we love lists. And primaries, and music. We’re trying to bring that all together by making playlists for every primary state. But we need your help.
Suggest your Florida-related songs using the hashtag #fixplaylist, and we’ll come up with a playlist to listen to while we wait for the returns on Tuesday night.
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Despite new infusions of cash, former House speaker Newt Gingrich is still being crushed in Florida television ad spending by former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.
With the primary coming up on Jan. 31, Gingrich and his supporters are being outspent 5-to-1 by Romney and his supporters as total spending in the state approached $20 million.
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Bob Dole lays into Newt Gingrich, a trailer for another anti-super PAC documentary is out, Rick Perry has plummeted and there’s a debate tonight! Yes, another one.
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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) announced Wednesday morning that she will run for her fourth term in 2012.
“I’m looking forward to coming back and bringing a strong, powerful voice to Washington, D.C.,” Bachmann told the Associated Press.
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A new ad from a super PAC supporting former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney takes on former House speaker Newt Gingrich’s frequent mentions of Ronald Reagan.
“From debates you’d think Newt Gingrich was Ronald Reagan’s vice president,” the narrator of the ad, which is being sponsored by a group known as Restore Our Future, says. “Gingrich exagerrates, dropping Reagan’s name 50 times.” Clips of Gingrich invoking Reagan are the played .
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A super PAC supporting former House speaker Newt Gingrich has made a $6 million ad buy in Florida, underscoring the new dynamics of the presidential race.
A new ad from the group claims former Massachusett governor Mitt Romney “invented government-run health-care.” It paints the Republican candidate as an ally of Barack Obama through clever use of old clips. The spot repeats one 2002 clip in which Romney says “my views are progressive” three times.
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In this week’s New Yorker, Ryan Lizza delves into the decisions made by President Obama over the last three years, using previously-unreleased White House memos.
The piece shows Obama’s increasing willingness to listen to political advisers’ opinions on policy as his own popularity declined, and his attempts to compromise with Congress, business interests and members of his own administration in passing major legislation.
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The decision by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) to resign from Congress means a special election will be held for her seat — a race that could well be quite competitive.
According to state law, Gov. Jan Brewer (R-Ariz.) must set a date for a special election primary 80 to 90 days after Giffords formally steps down, and a general election will be set for 50 to 60 days after the primary. So the primary election for Giffords seat will likely be held in late April with the general election in June.
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If former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney loses South Carolina Saturday night, it will be a very expensive loss.
From Jan. 16 through the Saturday primary, he and his super PAC supporters have spent more than any two of his rivals combined, according to a Republican media buyer.
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Finally, two of the The Fix’s favorite things are coming together — music and presidential politics.
From now on, for every primary, we’ll come up with a playlist on Spotify, the official music-playing program of the Fix team. (Sorry, MOG.)
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry may not have won any primaries — or even come close — but he gave us some of the best television of the 2012 election so far. Now that he’s suspending his campaign, here’s a look back at the weirdest, most entertaining and most controversial moments in the Perry campaign. Good-bye, Rick Perry. We’ll miss you.
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Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Steve Israel (N.Y.) today unveiled the Republican-held and open seat targets he believes will fuel his party’s campaign to retake the House majority this November.
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Newt Gingrich is touting a confrontation with debate moderator Juan William on Monday night in a new TV ad, using the back and forth to make the case that the former House Speaker is the only candidate who can stand up to President Obama in a debate.
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Democrats and their allies in organized labor say they delivered over a million recall petition signatures against Gov. Scott Walker (R) Tuesday, far more than the 540,208 needed to spark a recall election.
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As he exits the presidential race, Jon Huntsman is expected to endorse rival Mitt Romney.
Huntsman has been one of Romney’s vicious critics on the trail, attacking the former Massachusetts governor on health-care mandates, taxes, abortion, foreign policy — you name it, Huntsman cut a Web video on it.
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Once again, former House speaker Newt Gingrich is caught between a rock and a hard place in his pledge to run a positive campaign.
Gingrich is now asking a super PAC supporting his bid to either correct or pull a series of brutal ads that attack former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney’s as a corporate vulture.
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The super PAC supporting former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is out with a meta-attack ad in Florida and South Carolina. The spot began airing Thursday morning.
The new Restore Our Future spot, “Desperate,” highlights quotes former House speaker Newt Gingrich’s criticisms of Romney’s Bain Capital record. Conservatives are quoted calling Gingrich “foolish,” “out of bounds” and “disgusting.”
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Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren (D) raised a whopping $5.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2011, her campaign announced today.
Sen. Scott Brown (R) raised $3.2 million for the race against Warren in the past three months — a respectable total for a Senate candidate but one that pales in comparison to Warren’s haul.
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Fresh off winning the New Hampshire primary, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney announced Tuesday morning that he raised $24 million in the last three months of 2011.
It’s a significant bump from Romney’s $14 million third quarter and another sign that he is close to locking up the Republican presidential nomination.
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