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Ohio elections chief breaks tie over ballot count
Posted 4:25 PM 2/21/2012
CINCINNATI (AP) Ohio's elections chief has sided with fellow members of the Republican party in breaking a tie vote over counting ballots in a disputed 2010 juvenile court election.
Secretary of State Jon Husted on Tuesday agreed that the Hamilton County Board of Elections in southwest (More)
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US Rep. Bachmann says she'll seek old Minn. seat
Posted 3:00 PM 2/21/2012
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) Fresh off the national stage of her failed presidential bid, Republican Michele Bachmann said Tuesday that she will seek re-election to her Minnesota congressional seat, even though her home is being thrown into a district currently represented by a Democrat.
A (More)
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Santorum blasts Obama's motives on power, abortion
Posted 1:33 PM 2/21/2012
PHOENIX (AP) A surging Rick Santorum is making increasingly harsh remarks about President Barack Obama, questioning not just the president's competence but his motives and even his Christian values.
Mitt Romney also is sharpening his anti-Obama rhetoric. He said Tuesday the president (More)
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Santorum says Obama elected as 'a rock star'
Posted 12:53 PM 2/21/2012
PHOENIX (AP) Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum belittled President Barack Obama on Tuesday as a rock star who won the White House four years ago, and dismissed fellow GOP rivals Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich as unable to provide solid conservative change for the nation.
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Jagger, B.B. King, belt out the blues for Obama
Posted 11:28 AM 2/21/2012
WASHINGTON (AP) Sometimes there are downsides to being president: You can't just go for a walk, says Barack Obama.
Then there are the times that more than make up for all those frustrations like Tuesday night, when Mick Jagger, B.B. King, Jeff Beck and other musical giants came by the (More)
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Gingrich: Obama has 'anti-American' energy policy
Posted 5:32 AM 2/21/2012
WASHINGTON (AP) Newt Gingrich is asserting that President Barack Obama pursues an "outrageously anti-American" energy policy that snubs the Keystone oil pipeline and puts too much stock in electric car technology to wean the country from foreign oil dependency.
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FACT CHECK: Artful swerves on the auto bailout
Posted 12:36 AM 2/21/2012
WASHINGTON (AP) Michigan has become squirm central for Republican presidential candidates who are trying to explain their opposition to the auto bailout before the big primary in the home of automakers. Their tale is terribly tangled, and President Barack Obama isn't telling it straight (More)
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Mich. voters: Santorum connects better than Romney
Posted 2:24 PM 2/20/2012
MUSKEGON, Mich. (AP) Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum promised Monday to revive manufacturing, cut taxes and shrink government, pledges that drew loud applause from conservative Michigan voters who said he was more in line with their values than native son and GOP rival Mitt (More)
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As Santorum seizes social issues, Romney demurs
Posted 1:55 PM 2/20/2012
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) Philosophical differences between the top two Republican presidential candidates are becoming starker.
Rick Santorum is driving harder on religious and social issues while Mitt Romney rarely discusses them in detail.
Santorum in recent days has questioned the (More)
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Latino Mormons speaking out against Romney
Posted 1:14 AM 2/20/2012
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) When Honduran-born Antonella Cecilia Packard converted to the Mormon Faith 20 years ago, she said it was like "coming home."
The Catholic-educated Packard, who grew up in "the middle of Mayan ruins," appreciated the faith's strong sense of family and conservative (More)
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