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Romney retools his message as his lead shrinks in Arizona

Blown Deadline — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:40:16 +0000

CHANDLER, Ariz.—The campaign signs at Mitt Romney’s first rally in Arizona in more than a week looked like a last minute print job. Red and white with a far more sparse design than his regular 2012 logo, the signs read “Mitt Romney AZ” and were printed on heavy letter stock paper that looked more like [...]

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Who would bomb Iran? Santorum, Romney, Gingrich & Paul on the nuclear threat: Character Sketch

Blown Deadline — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:40:14 +0000

Trailing by a double-digit margin in the polls in the waning weeks of his 2006 Senate reelection campaign in Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum went nuclear. He did so not by launching vicious new attacks on his soon-to-be-victorious Democratic opponent, Bob Casey, but by indulging his own obsession with mushroom-cloud politics. He began speaking incessantly about the [...]

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Obama, Romney release dueling tax plans

Blown Deadline — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:40:13 +0000

President Obama and Mitt Romney released dueling tax plans Wednesday, and helped define some key differences between the two candidates in this election year. Obama ‘s proposal would overhaul the corporate tax code with the goal of encouraging job creation and investment in the U.S., and reducing tax incentives for shifting operations overseas. “We want [...]

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Obama won’t watch CNN’s Republican presidential debate, White House says

Blown Deadline — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:40:11 +0000

The White House had a classic Washington explanation for why President Barack Obama won’t be watching Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate: He wants to spend more time with his family. “I suspect, knowing him, knowing his viewing habits, that he will not watch it. He has a family at home,” Jay Carney, the White House press [...]

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Ann Romney doesn’t follow anyone on Pinterest: the politics of social media

Blown Deadline — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:40:08 +0000

On Tuesday, the Romney campaign announced that Ann Romney started a Pinterest account. “Ann’s way ahead of me on this one,” Mitt Romney tweeted. And with that, the wife of the Republican presidential frontrunner (at least for the moment) cemented the social media sharing site as the internet sensation of the moment. Pinterest is a [...]

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Eva Longoria, Bill Daley and Russ Feingold among Obama campaign co-chairs

Blown Deadline — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:00:11 +0000

What do former White House chief of staff Bill Daley, Caroline Kennedy, Hollywood’s Eva Longoria, and Russ Feingold have in common? They’re all among the three dozen “national co-chairs” of President Barack Obama’s reelection effort. The Obama campaign said in an early Wednesday announcement that the officials “will serve as ambassadors for the President, advise [...]

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Marie Colvin, war reporter killed in Syria, was a guest on Anderson Cooper’s show last night

Blown Deadline — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:00:09 +0000

An American-born reporter for the London Sunday Times, Marie Colvin, along with a young French photographer, Remi Ochlik, were killed in Syria on Wednesday morning, according to several news reports. Colvin, one of the most celebrated war correspondents in the U.K., happened to be a guest on Anderson Cooper’s CNN show last night. On the [...]

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Obama to discuss gas prices in Thursday Miami speech

Blown Deadline — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:00:07 +0000

President Obama will discuss painfully high gasoline prices — and defend his record on energy production at home — in a speech at the University of Miami on Thursday, an administration official confirmed Tuesday. Rising costs at the pump, partly the result of turmoil in the Middle East, could threaten the timid economic recovery and [...]

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Undecided on candidates, Arizona Republicans seek authentic conservatism

Blown Deadline — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:00:04 +0000

PHOENIX, Ariz. — The latest CNN/TIME poll of Arizona Republicans shows roughly one third of likely primary voters might still change their minds about which candidate to support in the presidential primary next week. That decision-making was on full display here Tuesday at the El Zaribah Shrine Auditorium where Rick Santorum delivered the keynote address [...]

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Bloomberg tries a dinner setting for its new primetime show

Blown Deadline — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:40:08 +0000

On a seasonably cold Monday night in Manhattan earlier this month, four hedge fund managers–who oversee more than $20 billion in assets between them–gathered in a private back room of The Modern, Danny Meyer’s bustling, upscale restaurant adjacent to the Museum of Modern Art. They dined on Alaskan king crab salad and foie gras terrine, [...]

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