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BLOOMFIELD HILLS (WWJ) – GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney is apologizing for an incident he helped orchestrate while he attended Cranbrook High School in Bloomfield Hills back in 1965.
Romney was responding to an article published by the Washington Post saying that he and his friends ambushed a classmate, who some students suspected was gay.
According to the [...]

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Just as the presidential contenders sneak away from the campaign trail to catch a ball game, as Mitt Romney did last weekend, sports team owners and executives are making a salvo into politics, shelling out big money to influence the 2012 election.
From NFL team owners to professional basketball players, some of the biggest players in [...]

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The associated Press
Published: April 23, 2012
Updated: 04/23/2012 03:30 pm
ASTON, Pa. – Mitt Romney declined to endorse an immigration proposal from potential running mate Marco Rubio while campaigning with Rubio today.
Romney said he’s considering the freshman Florida senator’s plan to help some young people stay in the country legally while denying them an opportunity to become [...]

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Valerie Macon/Getty ImagesTed Nugent performing in 2008 at the House of Blues in Los Angeles.
8:53 p.m. | Updated The rock star Ted Nugent became the latest — and perhaps least likely — proxy in the battle between the Obama and Romney camps as Democrats seized on vaguely threatening remarks that mr. Nugent made over the [...]

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Her defense of her choice to stay home with her kids was compelling, but Mitt Romney’s struggle with women voters isn’t over.
Watching Ann Romney somberly defend herself against grave and terrible attacks on her maternal nature Thursday, it was easy to forget that not 24 hours prior, Mitt Romney was losing badly in the political [...]

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Obama and DNC advisor Hilary Rosen is under fire after she said “Mitt Romney seems a little old fashioned,” “Doesn’t view women as equals,” and highlighted that Ann Romney “never worked a day in her life.”
Ann Romney made an appearance on “America’s Newsroom” and said that when she first heard Rosen’s statements she wished [...]

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For most of this year, the arrival of the Republican presidential contest in town has quickly become the biggest political story of the day in those places.
But not in Wisconsin.
The backdrop for Tuesday’s primary between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum in Wisconsin is the bitter battle being waged by the state’s unions to recall Gov. [...]

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Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan, a man so boring that the focus of this post is going to be Mitt Romney, has endorsed the aforementioned former Massachusetts governor for president. The Wisconsin primary is next week. “We’re going to be entering a counterproductive phase in this primary if it keeps dragging on,” Ryan said in an [...]

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County reporter Christina Kauffman is covering Rick Santorum’s campaign stop in Gettysburg Tuesday night.
Keep an eye on this page or on Kauffman’s Twitter account (@ydyorkcounty) for live updates from the event, and check yorkdispatch.com later in the evening for her full story.
Continue reading for Kauffman’s preview of Santorum’s visit.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are trying to make the most of a mixed Super Tuesday, each claiming a measure of victory but unable to settle the most tumultuous race for the GOP presidential nomination in decades.
Romney narrowly won in pivotal Ohio, seized a home-state victory in Massachusetts, triumphed in Idaho, Vermont [...]

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