August 2012
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“A top campaign adviser would not say whether the word “Mormon” would make an...”
– Will Mitt Romney Say The ‘M’ Word (Mormon) In Tampa?, Michael P. Falcone
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“There is a sense that Republicans sincerely believe that every American, with...”
– The founders’ divine small business dream, Walter Shapiro
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“For a moment, [Ann Romney] also separated women voters from the men in their...”
– Can a speech by a woman, for women, draft female voters for Mitt?, Virginia Heffernan
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What five words do you want to hear in Romney’s...
For our first foray into making a video version of #HashOut, we tracked down delegates, students and a few journalists and asked what five words they wanted to hear from Mitt Romney in his Thursday speech. We talked to more than a dozen people and some of them really stood out.
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“We’ve never come into a convention where another campaign has spent a half...”
– Stuart Stevens, senior Mitt Romney advisor, downplays a potential convention bounce for the candidate
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Watch Yahoo/ABC's streaming show from the RNC and... →
We’re speaking today with Beth Myers and Eric Fehrnstrom of the Romney campaign
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Do you have a question for the team running Mitt...
Reply below and we may include it in our live Q&A Tuesday with Beth Myers, Eric Fehrnstrom and Ashley O’Connor at the Republican National Convention in Tampa. We’ll be streaming the conversation live: tune in at 9:00 am EST Tuesday.
What question would you ask the team behind Mitt Romney?
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“It is easy to romanticize the old days at political conventions. I am not sure I...”
– Walter Shapiro, Dan Quayle and Pat Buchanan ensured that 1988 was the last of its kind
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“I think Biden is like a sunny day to the middle class families across this...”
– Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki responding to a question as to whether VP Joe Biden is more of a Category 3 or a Category 4 on the storm-ranking scale as he prepares to visit Florida during the RNC.
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littlefacemitt:
So this happened.
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“Like a pickup artist who worries that his crude wingman has hurt his chances...”
– Todd Akin meets the women of the Internet, Virginia Heffernan
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Scott Brown says Rep. Akin should step down after...
“As a husband and father of two young women, I found Todd Akin’s comments about women and rape outrageous, inappropriate and wrong. There is no place in our public discourse for this type of offensive thinking. Not only should he apologize, but I believe Rep. Akin’s statement was so far out of bounds that he should resign the nomination for US Senate in Missouri.”
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“For the record, I think hot dogs—and anything that includes meat—are...”
– Our reporter Chris Moody gets a birthday hot dog from Paul Ryan (and a chance to ask him about Medicare.)
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“So why is there something disturbing to me in the relative youth of Paul Ryan,...”
– Talking ’bout my Generation X: Paul Ryan can’t be old enough to run for vice president. Can he?
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“In terms of “followers,” “views” and...”
– Obama campaign posts almost four times as much digital content as Romney campaign, study shows: Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News
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“In picking Rep. Paul Ryan, whose eponymous budget plan has become synonymous...”
– “An Ideological Battle That Voters Don’t Want”
Amy Walter considers the fall-out of Mitt Romney’s VP pick
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