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Occupy anniversary: The 1 percent are winning
It's been a good year for the 1 percent. The protesters who occupied public spaces in cities across the country, beginning with Wall Street on Sept. 17, 2011, garnered a great deal of attention for the idea that our democracy is being hijacked by the...Tags: Chicago Mayor, Under Armour Inc., Parties and Movements, The Wall Street Journal, Political Dissent
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Sometimes, you almost want to feel sorry for Mitt Romney
I am starting to feel sorry for Mitt Romney. On an international tour to three countries, he made news in two of them by dissing the London Olympics and infuriating the Palestinians. The poor guy -- for months, people have complained that he never says...
Tags: 2010 Winter Olympic Games, United Kingdom, NBC (tv network), Pakistan, Israel
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Money is on the unofficial agenda at the Republican National Convention
TAMPA, Fla. — A little more than a year ago, Frank VanderSloot contributed $1million to a "super PAC" supporting Mitt Romney. Now, the Idaho-based health products executive is a sought-after donor at the Republican National Convention as he makes...
Tags: The Huffington Post, Parties and Movements, Americans for Prosperity, Karl Rove, Charity
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A love affair with numbers
Farm and Food FileWe have long proclaimed, and make no apology for, our deep love affair with numbers. Since figures backstop fact, numbers are the meat and potatoes and forks and knives of journalism. They are, in a word, beautiful, and, like true beauty, they can take...Tags: Weather Statistics, Weather, Humane Society of the United States, POLITICO LLC, Democratic Party
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Romney arrives at condensed GOP convention
Mitt Romney arrived Tuesday at the condensed Republican National Convention in Tampa as organizers kept a nervous eye on Hurricane Isaac churning toward Louisiana's coast. The storm caused a one-day delay in the convention agenda, but Republican...
Tags: John McCain, U.S. House Committee on the Budget, CNN (tv network), 2012 Republican National Convention, John Boehner
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Mitt Romney clinches GOP nomination
Mitt Romney officially clinched the GOP presidential nomination Tuesday when a majority of delegates to the Republican National Convention supported his candidacy. To roaring cheers in the packed Tampa Bay Times Forum, the delegation from New Jersey...
Tags: Joe Biden, John McCain, U.S. House Committee on the Budget, CNN (tv network), MoveOn
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Supreme confidence, shaken
It should come as no surprise that in the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll, less than half of Americans surveyed -- 44 percent -- said they approve of theU.S. Supreme Court. Furthermore, three-quarters said they believed individual personal and...
Tags: John Paul Stevens, Joe Biden, Regional Elections, The Supremes (music group), Politics
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Special interests unleash flood of contributions, especially to Republicans
TALLAHASSEE — Responding to an election field upended by redistricting, Florida corporations and interest-groups are flooding a record amount of cash into legislative races that will help finance a blizzard of ads and fliers during the coming...Tags: Tallahassee (Leon, Florida), Mickey Mouse (fictional animal), Maitland, Companies and Corporations, U.S. Sugar Corporation
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Self-interest trumps democracy
With so many tens of millions of dollars flowing into political campaigns anonymously this year, it's hard to believe anyone would oppose some minimum level of disclosure. After all, it was Justice Anthony Kennedy who wrote in the infamous Citizens United...
Tags: Anthony Kennedy, John McCain, Parties and Movements, Charity, Karl Rove
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Who’s paying for those fliers and ads? Disney, FPL, GEO Group, assorted m/billionaires
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelTALLAHASSEE — With heated legislative primaries going full-steam in Tampa, Orlando and Jacksonville, we thought we'd go back and take a minute to highlight who some of the biggest financiers of these campaigns turned out to be. For the last quarter,... -
Rafalca Romney Tweets From The Olympics
The Hartford CourantRafalca, the horse co-owned by Ann Romney and ignored by Mitt, is in London competing in the Olympic event called dressage. Finally over jet lag. If you think flying coach is bad, I had to stand the whole way. Airplane food is terrible, even in horse...Tags: Ann Romney, Chris Murphy, Harvey Weinstein, Ball Gymnastics, Tea Party Movement
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Mitt Romney Records Second $100 Million Month
CNNThe fundraising effort of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney brought in more than $100 million for the second month in a row, his campaign said Monday morning. The $101.3 million haul is just shy of the campaign’s June fundraising,...Tags: Clint Eastwood, Parties and Movements, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Charity
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