Archive for the 'Security' Category

Boehner vows action to overturn Obama administration rule on birth control

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

Seeking to stoke a political vulnerability for President Obama, Republican lawmakers moved Wednesday to amp up pressure on the White House over a controversial new health-care rule that critics say violates religious liberty — vowing to press for legislation to repeal the provision unless the administration relents.
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Obama fundraising powered by small donors, new study shows

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

A new analysis released Wednesday confirms that President Obama is outpacing his own record four years ago of pulling in small donations.
Nearly half of the donors to Obama’s reelection campaign in 2011 gave $200 or less, more than double the proportion seen in 2007, according to the analysis from the Campaign Finance Institute, which tracks money in politics.
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Rick Santorum’s strategy of focusing on low-key races paid off

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

On the night of the Nevada caucuses, as Mitt Romney hosted a boisterous presidential-style victory party in Las Vegas to celebrate a big Nevada win and Newt Gingrich held a combative press conference to insist his loss in the state would not slow his effort, former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum was nowhere to be found in the Silver State.
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Ron Paul camp: We’re poised to win delegates

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

Seven states have held nominating contests thus far in the fight for the GOP presidential nod, and Ron Paul has won a grand total of zero of them.

Still, the Texas congressman’s camp contends that it’s well-positioned heading into the nearly month-long stretch before Super Tuesday.
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A hyper-regional GOP delegate race? Here’s how

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

Rick Santorum’s trio of victories in Tuesday’s contests in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri virtually assures that the Republican presidential race will, on some level, be a delegate race.
And if that delegate race drags on for a while, it could very well pit different regions of the country against one another.
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