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Indiana embraces GOP -- up to a point
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana continued its shift to the right Tuesday as voters supported Republican candidates for president and governor, but also sent a clear signal on where its embrace of conservatism ends. While GOP presidential hopeful Mitt...
Tags: Joe Donnelly, Republican Party, Richard Mourdock, Sociology, Democratic Party
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Romney wins Indiana, Obama wins Michigan
FISHERS, Ind. (AP) — Mitt Romney brought Indiana back into the Republican fold Tuesday, reclaiming a traditionally GOP state that was usurped by Democrat Barack Obama in 2008 on his way to his first term as president. Obama has also won Michigan in...
Tags: Republican Party, Joe Donnelly, Richard Mourdock, Democratic Party, Politics
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Dems fight for continued Senate control
WASHINGTON (AP) — Majority Democrats fought Republicans for control of the Senate on Tuesday after a bitter campaign marked by roughly $1 billion in outside spending in competitive races from Virginia to Montana. Republican Sen. Scott Brown, who...
Tags: Joe Donnelly, Republican Party, Richard Mourdock, Todd Akin, Mitt Romney
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5 things to know about the election in Michigan
DETROIT (AP) — Here are five things to know about Election Day in Michigan: 1. MUST-WIN FOR OBAMA No Republican presidential nominee has won in Michigan since George H.W. Bush in 1988. If Mitt Romney breaks his party's losing streak, it will be...Tags: Republican Party, Democratic Party, Politics, Mitt Romney, General Motors Corp.
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Abortion flap refocuses Indiana Senate campaign
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Seeking to capture an Indiana Senate seat Democrats haven't held for four decades, Joe Donnelly's television ads depict him as an earnest moderate while slamming his tea party-backed Senate opponent for an abortion remark that...
Tags: Republican Party, Joe Donnelly, Richard Mourdock, Todd Akin, Democratic Party
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Hometown Secrets: The famous Michiana campaign stop by Senator Bobby Kennedy
WSBT-TVWe are at the end of the election season, and so far our area hasn't received a visit from any of the presidential candidates. But over the last 130 years we have seen our share of campaign stops. According to the Center for History, one of the...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Martin Luther King Jr., Politics, Stepan Company, Barack Obama
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Mourdock criticized over rape, pregnancy comments
NEW ALBANY, Ind. (AP) — Top Republicans were slow to embrace tea party-backed Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock after he ousted a longtime GOP senator from office. Though he eventually won their support — and money — Mourdock...
Tags: Republican Party, Joe Donnelly, Richard Mourdock, Todd Akin, Politics
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Romney stands by his endorsement of Mourdock
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney disavowed Senate candidate Richard Mourdock's comment that when a woman becomes pregnant during a rape "that's something God intended," but stood by his endorsement of the Indiana...
Tags: Republican Party, Richard Mourdock, Todd Akin, Democratic Party, Politics
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GOP candidates in close races disavow rape remark
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just as Mitt Romney and other Republicans had cut into the Democrats' advantage with female voters, a tea party-backed Senate candidate's awkward remark — that if rape leads to pregnancy it's "something God intended" —...
Tags: Republican Party, Joe Donnelly, Richard Mourdock, Todd Akin, Tommy Thompson
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Family Spokesman: George McGovern dead at age 90
WALTER R. MEARS,Associated PressSIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — George S. McGovern, a proud liberal who argued fervently against the Vietnam War as a senator from South Dakota and suffered one of the most crushing defeats in presidential election history against Richard Nixon in 1972,...Tags: Spiro Agnew, Republican Party, Bob Dole, U.S. Army, Democratic Party
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Stress a factor in Engel's decision to withdraw name
South Bend TribuneNILES -- Stress was an issue in a Niles Township treasurer candidate's decision to pull out of the race for the position, according to a letter the candidate e-mailed to township Clerk Marge Durm-Hiatt. At a township board meeting Monday night, Durm-...Tags: Politics, Elections, Voting
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Tea party hero changes tune to woo Indiana moderates
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Richard Mourdock became one of the tea party's biggest winners of the 2012 primary season when he knocked off veteran Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar in a brutal campaign built on his contention that Lugar was too old, too out of...
Tags: Republican Party, Joe Donnelly, Richard Mourdock, Democratic Party, Politics
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