GREEN BAY, April 3, 2012 Republican front-runner Mitt Romney is looking for a sweep in three Republican primaries on Tuesday, expecting to tighten his grasp in the contest to decide who will challenge President Barak Obama in the November general election. Regardless of the outcome in Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington, D.C., the former governor of Massachusetts is rapidly shifting his focus to the general election and the challenges of Mr. Obama’s better-financed and ...
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PORTLAND, Maine, February 13, 2012 Mitt Romney eked out a narrow win in Maine’s Republican caucuses, state party officials announced on Saturday, providing his campaign for the party’s presidential nomination a much-needed boost after three straight losses earlier this week. But the former Massachusetts governor’s margin of victory over Texas Rep. Ron Paul was so slim it all but guaranteed scrutiny of the party’s decision not to count the results of caucuses scheduled ...
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PORTLAND (Maine), February 11, 2012 Mitt Romney is looking to overcome his struggle to win his party’s sceptical conservative wing and avoid a fourth consecutive defeat at the polls on the path to the Republican presidential nomination Saturday in Maine. The Maine election comes at a critical time in Romney’s quest to become the party nominee who will take on President Barack Obama, instead of merely the frontrunner in the state-by-state race. Maine officials ...
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Washington, February 9, 2012 Rick Santorum won unexpected victories Tuesday in the Republican presidential candidate nominating contests, reviving his challenge to frontrunner Mitt Romney for the party nomination. “Wow. Conservatism is alive and well in Missouri and Minnesota,” the staunchly conservative Santorum told supporters after he won both those two states. “I don’t stand here to claim to be the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney; I stand here to ...
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LAS VEGAS, February 5, 2012 Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney cruised to victory in the Nevada caucuses Saturday night, notching a second straight triumph over a field of rivals suddenly struggling to keep pace. The caucuses drew little attention in the nominating campaign, but Nevada figures to be a fierce battleground in November between the winner of the Republican nomination and Democrat President Barack Obama. The state’s unemployment rate was ...
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LAS VEGAS, February 4, 2012 Republican front-runner Mitt Romney seemed poised to pick up another State on Friday in the race to challenge President Barack Obama this fall, as candidates made a last push before the caucuses in Nevada this weekend. Mr. Romney, a Mormon with close ties to church leaders, is expected to carry an overwhelming majority of votes from Nevada members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Saturday. Roughly 7 per cent of Nevada’s ...
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Washington, February 1, 2012 Mitt Romney was rolling to an easy win Tuesday night in the Florida presidential primary against rival Republican Newt Gingrich, leading 47 per cent to 32 per cent with 80 per cent of precincts reporting. The win gives the former Massachusetts governor a decisive national lead over the rest of the field, after running neck-and-neck against Mr. Gingrich, the former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, only days before the Florida vote. ...
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MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina, January 17, 2012 Mitt Romney’s Republican rivals attacked his record as a private businessman on Monday night in the first of two debates before a pivotal weekend primary in South Carolina, where a Romney victory in next Saturday’s balloting could seal his lock on the Republican nomination to challenge President Barack Obama in the November general election. The President weighed down by a struggling American economy is seen as ...
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