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... Ron Paul says he will not compete in primaries in any of the states that have not yet voted -- essentially confirming Mitt Romney wil be the GOP nominee...
... this is the first time Romney has reached the 50% level of support and is his largest lead ever over the president...
Arizona Ron Paul supporters boo Romney's son off stage; call Romney 'the white Obama'...
... Mitt Romney's son, Josh, was boo'ed off stage by Paul supporters at the Arizona GOP state convention Saturday... some attendees said they heard Paul supporters chanting outside that Mitt Romney is "the
white Obama"...
Rasmussen poll: 68% would vote to replace
entire Congress...
... in Rasmussen's latest survey of likely voters, more voters than ever would vote to replace the entire Congress rather than keep it...
In wake of Paul movement in Iowa GOP, donations slow, staffer resigns...
... the ascendancy of Ron Paul-centric leaders at Iowa's GOP state party headquarters has triggered a backlash... donations have slowed and its respected executive director, Chad Olsen, has resigned...
Gingrich to hit campaign trail
with Romney...
... says Newt: "Look, I talk regularly with the Romney folks. I'm helping him in a number of places. I'm doing an event next week in Georgia for him and I'm going to speak for him at the Georgia convention next weekend. I'm going to be with him at the end of the month in Las Vegas at a big event, and I'm going to do all I can to help Mitt..."
Rasmussen: Romney wins a 3-way race with Obama, Paul...
Romney fires back: Meet the steel company that Bain helped build ...
Romney speech: Evangelicals say Mitt hit right note...
... evangelical leaders praised Mitt Romney's speech at Liberty University, saying the Mormon candidate was right to acknowledge his religious diff
erences with other Christian voters...
"That was what he needed to do, was to acknowledge that there are theological differences between him and evangelicals," said Tony Perkins...
Romney uses Carter as campaign weapon...
... Romney is pursuing a strategy to puncture Obama's next-generation cool and paint the president as a retread, comparing him to Jimmy Carter and his fuzzy-headed liberal thinking... for Romney, Carter is a potent metaphor and political weapon...
... The recurring question of this election will be whether Mitt Romney's fairly consistent lead on the economy is enough to overcome Barack Obama's much larger lead on likability. After all, those seem to be the two largest gaps between the candidates...
Lawmakers stay largely silent over Chinese takeover of US bank branches...
... U.S. lawmakers have been unusually silent about federal regulators' decision to allow a Chinese bank to take over 13 bank branches in New York and California...
Romney responds to reports of his high school pranks...
... "Some may have gone too far, and for that I apologize..."
Family of alleged Romney high school prank victim angry over exploitation of story...
... "The family of John Lauber is releasing a statement saying the portrayal of John is factually incorrect and we are aggrieved that he would be used to further a political agenda..."
Source for WaPo's Romney hit piece: Acutally, I wasn't present during the prank...
"[Obama] has instantly solved the biggest problem Mitt Romney had, w
hich is how to energize and rally the social conservative and the evangelicals.
They are now singing 'Onward Christian Soldiers' and riding to the sounds of the guns on this [gay marriage] issue..."
Gay marriage adds complexity in swing states...
... gay marriage could have an impact at the margins in key states from Colorado to Ohio to Virginia by influencing voter turnout among important constituencies, among them minorities,
young voters and evangelicals...
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.. most blacks -- a core part of Obama's base -- do not support gay marriage... the same goes for democratic-leaning Hispanic voters...
... most evangelicals and conservatives are strongly opposed to gay marriage...
Gallup
Gay Marriage poll: 60% say won't influence...
... 60% say Obama's support for same-sex marriage will make no difference to their vote. Twice as any say it will make them less likely to vote for Obama as say more likely...
...NOTE: 13% say they are MORE likely to vote for Obama over this issue; 26% say they are LESS likely to vote for Obama over this issue...
Obama's
gay marriage stance brings flood of money...
... Obama's reelection team is experiencing a major surge in contributions since his pro-gay marriage announcement on May 9th..
Jeremiah Wright claims Obama ally offered $150,000 bribe in 2008 to shut up...
... In his on-the-record interview, Wright claims that an Obama ally offered him $10,000 to keep his mouth shut and stop preaching until after the election...
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