Maine: Mitt Romney eked out a narrow win in Maine's Republican caucuses, state party officials announced 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 later in...
11:58 AM, Feb 12, 2012
Washington: Mitt Romney has taken a political gamble by supporting automatic increases in the federal minimum wage, a move that could help bolster his support among low-income Americans but is opposed by the conservative base of his party. The former Massachusetts governor wants to see the US minimum wage raised from $7.25 per hour by having it indexed to inflation. Mr Romney made the proposal early in his campaign for...
05:19 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Cleveland (Ohio): Frank Szabo, vice-president of the Cleveland Fire Fighters Association, says his members have traditionally voted Republican in much higher numbers than other unions. But after working to defeat an effort by Ohio's Republican governor last year to restrict union bargaining rights, Mr Szabo thinks the 2012 presidential poll might be different. "I think it had a permanent impact in the way I look at candidates," Mr Szabo said....
05:04 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Washington: Rick Santorum, the socially conservative former Pennsylvania senator, has made a surprise comeback in the Republican presidential nominating contest, winning in Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado, and taking the shine off Mitt Romney's frontrunner status. Mr Santorum's strong showing on Tuesday in the non-binding Minnesota caucus and Missouri primary, and a close victory in Colorado, will not help him win the delegates needed to secure the nomination. But it will...
03:20 PM, Feb 08, 2012
Washington: Former Senator Rick Santorum rejuvenated his presidential hopes on Tuesday with overwhelming victories over front-runner Mitt Romney in Republican nominating contests in Missouri and Minnesota. Santorum, who until Tuesday had won only one of the first five Republican contests, crushed his rivals in a non-binding primary in Missouri and in the Minnesota caucuses. His previous victory had been by a slim margin over Romney in Iowa. Results were still...
10:18 AM, Feb 08, 2012
Washington: US President Barack Obama is leading over his potential Republican challenger Mitt Romney by six points, a latest opinion poll has said. The opinion poll results by The Washington Post and ABC news came a day after Obama said that he deserves to be re-elected for the second term given that his administration has successfully led the nation in revival of its economy. Romney, who won his third primary...
11:29 AM, Feb 07, 2012
Las Vegas: Republican front-runner Mitt Romney cruised to an easy victory in Nevada on Saturday, crushing his three remaining rivals and taking firm command of the party's volatile presidential nominating race. Romney captured 44 percent of the vote with about 43 percent of precincts counted, taking about a 20-point lead over his closest rivals, former US House Speaker Newt Gingrich and US Representative Ron Paul, who were battling for second...
10:55 AM, Feb 05, 2012
Las Vegas: Mitt Romney, heavily favored to win Nevada's presidential caucuses Saturday, focused on the state's unemployment rate " which is well above the national average " rather than campaigning against chief Republican rival Newt Gingrich. Campaigning throughout Nevada on Friday, Romney sought to convince weary voters that he alone had the prescriptions for what ails the country " even as the government reported that a quarter-million Americans streamed back...
08:04 AM, Feb 04, 2012
Washington: Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has won the Republican primary in Florida, defeating Newt Gingrich. The victory has brought him closer to bagging the Republican nomination to challenge the incumbent, Barack Obama, in November presidential elections. Gingrich, who created a major upset in the previous South Carolina, was polled over 4.25 lakh votes against Romney's 6.3 lakh votes with more than two-thirds of the votes counted. As a result,...
07:21 AM, Feb 01, 2012
Cocoa Beach, Florida: Florida's Republican voters go to the polls on Tuesday in a high-stakes presidential primary election that could determine the direction of the race. In what shapes up as a two-man contest, most opinion polls show Mitt Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, holding a double-digit lead over Newt Gingrich, a former US House speaker. Florida is the largest state to hold a presidential primary so far this year...
03:08 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Miami: Mitt Romney strode into the final 48 hours of the pivotal Florida Republican primary campaign with the confidence of a resurgent front-runner, predicting he'll win in Tuesday's voting while looking ahead to future contests. His main rival Newt Gingrich hustled around the state, trying to rekindle the energy that lifted him to victory in the South Carolina primary on Jan 21. He acknowledged the possibility he could lose here...
11:32 PM, Jan 29, 2012
Washington: White House hopeful Mitt Romney widened his lead over rival Newt Gingrich to 11 percentage points in Florida, according to Reuters/Ipsos online poll results on Saturday, up from 8 points a day earlier, as he cemented his front-runner status in the Republican nomination race. With just three days remaining before Florida's Republican primary, Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, led Gingrich, a former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives,...
05:58 PM, Jan 29, 2012
Washington: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she wants to step off the "high wire of American politics" after two decades and is again tamping down speculation that she might stay in government if President Barack Obama wins a second term. Clinton told State Department employees on Thursday that she is ready for a rest and is paying no attention to the Republican presidential candidate debates. She said she...
11:07 AM, Jan 27, 2012
Text of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, as provided by the White House: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests and fellow Americans: Last month, I went to Andrews Air Force Base and welcomed home some of our last troops to serve in Iraq. Together, we offered a final, proud salute to the colors under which more than a million of our fellow citizens...
10:03 AM, Jan 25, 2012
US President Barack Obama listed out the achievements of his first term, topping that list the improved state of the economy and the end of the America's most wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden. ...
09:48 AM, Jan 25, 2012
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