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22 states join campaign finance fight

Sun, 20 May 2012 13:28:01 GMT

Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws restricting corporate campaign spending.

Beau Biden visits Hampton Roads

Thu, 17 May 2012 23:37:38 GMT

Vice President Joe Biden’s son Beau was in Norfolk Thursday to kickoff a campaign event and spoke with 10 On Your Side about the military.

George W. Bush unlikely in Romney bid

Wed, 16 May 2012 14:52:34 GMT

After months of silence, George W. Bush finally weighed on the presidential race. "I'm for Mitt Romney," the former president said Tuesday in Washington, perhaps his only public statement on the race before the Nov. 6 election.

Romney wins Nebraska, Oregon primaries

Wed, 16 May 2012 12:44:10 GMT

Nebraska and Oregon Republicans, as expected, have made clear their preference for the GOP nomination by choosing Romney in Tuesday's presidential primaries

G.W. Bush: I'm for Mitt Romney

Wed, 16 May 2012 10:57:50 GMT

Romney's campaign doesn't foresee the 43rd president playing a substantive role in the race.

Ron Paul ends active campaigning

Mon, 14 May 2012 18:45:33 GMT

Ron Paul, the congressman from Texas and a favorite of tea partyers, effectively ended his presidential campaign Monday but urged his fervent supporters to continue working at the state party level to cause havoc for presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

Obama seeks to undercut Romney on jobs

Mon, 14 May 2012 12:35:55 GMT

President Barack Obama is casting Mitt Romney as a greedy, job-killing corporate titan with little concern for the working class in a new, multi-pronged effort that seeks to undermine the central rationale for his Republican rival's candidacy: his business credentials.

Women ponder how they became an issue

Sat, 12 May 2012 16:03:06 GMT

Everybody, it seems, is talking about women in this campaign — what they should do, how they should act, who they should be in society. But do women see themselves reflected in the dialogue — or is the mirror of political rhetoric distorting their concerns? How, exactly, is all this talk about women playing among women?

Romney to urge grads to honor family

Sat, 12 May 2012 13:04:51 GMT

Mitt Romney is steering clear of the fight over gay marriage and talking about his commitments to his own family in a commencement address at a conservative Christian university.

Biden: Sorry, Mr. President

Fri, 11 May 2012 12:04:10 GMT

After nearly single-handedly pushing gay marriage to the forefront of the presidential campaign and inadvertently pressuring President Barack Obama to declare his support for same-sex unions, there was only one thing left for Vice President Joe Biden to do.