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Central issues of Election 2012
Whoever wins the presidential election in November will confront urgent problems: Should tax cuts scheduled to expire be renewed? Should federal spending be cut to reduce the deficit or would that weaken an already lackluster economy? After one of the...Tags: Personal Income, Insurance, U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Crime, Law and Justice, Lindsey O. Graham
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Stats, Grins and 'Malarkey': Biden, Ryan Face Off in Debate
CNNDANVILLE, Ky. -- Vice President Joe Biden and Republican Paul Ryan, the man who wants his job, exchanged fire over taxes, Medicare, national security and some animated facial expressions in their only debate before Election Day. Here are five things we...Tags: Republican Party, Libya, Mountains, Afghanistan, Pakistan
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Analysis: High stakes for vice presidential debate
An AP News Analysis: Debate is 9-10:30 p.m.tonight; aired on all major TV networks and Public Radio WASHINGTON (AP) — Time running short, Vice President Joe Biden faces the greater burden in his debate with Republican Paul Ryan as he seeks to use...
Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, Polls, Washington, DC, Politics, White House
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Obama squad hopes vice presidential debate halts GOP momentum
DANVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Paul Ryan pull up a couple of chairs for a vice presidential debate that has mushroomed in importance since Mitt Romney's strong showing in the first presidential faceoff. This time, it's the...
Tags: Radio, Republican Party, Entertainment, Politics, Paul Ryan
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GUEST COLUMN: The VP is just a heartbeat away
Contributing WriterEvery four years there’s a big to-do in the media about whom the Democratic or Republican candidate is going to choose for his running mate. Of course, the incumbent president usually goes with his incumbent vice president. Their choices are of...Tags: Lyndon B. Johnson, Paul Ryan, White House, Barack Obama, Joe Lieberman
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Romney and Ryan build a bridge to the 20th century
The Republican team of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan is less about the future than it is about nostalgia for a past that many Americans imagine was better -- a time when businessmen were free of government meddling and all citizens, even the poor, old or...
Tags: Ethics, Entertainment Events, Republican Party, Politics, Paul Ryan
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Foreign policy at forefront is a Romney hurdle
With protests at U.S. embassies and four Americans dead, Mitt Romney is suddenly facing a presidential election focused on a foreign policy crisis he gambled wouldn't happen. It did — and at a bad time for the GOP hopeful. Momentum in the race is...
Tags: The New York Times, John McLaughlin, Libya, Republican Party, Paul Ryan
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Bill Clinton Touts Obama, Warns Against Romney
Los Angeles TimesCHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Declaring that "America is better off" than it was when Barack Obama became president, former President Clinton lauded the record of his Democratic successor and skewered his Republican rival, depicting the choice before voters as one...Tags: Republican Party, U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Elizabeth Warren, Barack Obama, Fox News Channel (tv network)
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Paul Ryan runs well-oiled fundraising machine
WASHINGTON — Rep. Paul D. Ryan has cultivated his "affable wonk" persona into an effective moneymaker, winning over CEOs and K Street lobbyists to build a fundraising machine that has boosted his standing on Capitol Hill and helped make him one of...
Tags: Republican Party, Washington, DC, Politics, Paul Ryan, Economy, Business and Finance
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Fact Check: Romney's deficit vow lacks specifics
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney promised he would cut deficits and put America on track to a balanced budget as president, but he left voters to take it on faith that he could deliver. The details behind that pledge, and the painful spending choices...
Tags: Personal Income, Insurance, Republican Party, Washington, DC, Crime, Law and Justice
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Tropical Storm Isaac's Slow Pace Makes it More Dangerous
CNNTAMPA, Fla. -- New Orleans and much of the Gulf Coast faced the anniversary of devastating Hurricane Katrina by hunkering down for new storm amid "a high level of anxiety," as the Crescent City's mayor put it Monday. Forecasters project Tropical Storm...Tags: Natural Disasters, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Republican Party, Crime, Law and Justice, Hurricanes
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