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Republican candidates chase Mitt Romney in South Carolina

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney raised $24 million during the last three months of 2011. Romney's campaign announced the year's final fundraising numbers on Wednesday, a day after MITT Romney is not the first Mormon to run for the US presidency. The first Mormon to run was, in fact, the first Mormon: [...]

Mitt Romney poised to make history

Mitt Romney was projected the winner of Tuesday night's Iowa caucus. Read conservative news, blogs and opinion about 2012, 2012 Elections, Iowa and Mitt Romney from The Weekly Standard, the must read magazine available in online edition. By Paul West Mitt Romney may not look like a giant after an Iowa caucus win likely to [...]

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The Republican front-runner has taken an aggressive stance on Russia in his campaign speeches, but will it translate into policy in a Romney administration? Mitt Romney thinks US-Russian reset has to end. Source: Reuters / Vostock Photo In the summer Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Tuesday he thought it was "dangerous" to select a [...]

Debate Suggests Brutish Campaign to Come

(CNN) – While presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Perry battled it out in Tuesday's debate, Sarah Palin said she thought Newt Gingrich took home the winner's belt. "Everybody could learn from Newt Gingrich and the way – his calm, cool, (CNN) – While presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Perry battled it out in [...]

Mitt Romney solidifies his front-runner status in Republican debate

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Tuesday night he'd give just the middle class a tax cut on capital gains because he's "not worried about rich people," even as multiple Republicans have accused President Obama of fueling "class Visit Biography.com and follow the career of Mitt Romney, former Massachusetts governer who's running for the Republican [...]

Mitt Romney's performance in Republican debate leaves rivals on sidelines

Chris Christie, just one week after definitively announcing he will not run for president in the 2012 race, plans to endorse Mitt Romney for the job Tuesday afternoon, Fox News has learned. The event is set to take place in Oct. 11 (Bloomberg) — The conventional wisdom now treats Mitt Romney, the former governor of [...]

Mitt Romney lays low as GOP rivals spar in Iowa

By Chris Cassidy Republican front-runner Mitt Romney sat back and let his fellow GOPers poke and jab each other in last night's Iowa debate — though hecklers earlier in the day were less forgiving — while the all-but-certain prospect of Texas Gov. Mitt Romney says he'll compete in Iowa, but not be part of the [...]

Romney Tells Iowa Hecklers, 'Corporations Are People'

On the campaign trail at the Iowa State Fair, the GOP 2012 hopeful inadvertently coins a phrase that's bound to be used against him. On the campaign trail at the Iowa State Fair, the GOP 2012 hopeful inadvertently coins a phrase that's bound to be used against him. A feisty Mitt Romney faced down unfriendly [...]

Why Romney's Gaffe Might Not Matter

Gov. Mitt Romney lobbied the credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s in 2004 to raise his state’s credit rating in part because Massachusetts had raised taxes during an economic downturn two years earlier. Stunner. Radical Leftists Interrupt & Harass Mitt Romney at Iowa State Fair (Video). Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, August 11, 2011, [...]

Super PAC Corporate Donations: Not All Contributions Are Equal

Mitt Romney of Massachusetts ahead of the pack. But the polls differ on how large a lead he has. Romney will take part in the debate on Thursday night, but focus is increasingly turning to three possible candidates who have yet to enter the race. By Shira Schoenberg, Globe Correspondent KEENE, NH – After promising [...]