Tag: Mitt Romney

(AP) Feds release health overhaul blueprint for statesBy RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVARAssociated PressWASHINGTONFifty million people in America lack health insurance and the law says most of them must soon be provided coverage. But how to deliver? The Obama administration Monday finalized an

(AP) Santorum spending primary day at home with familyBy PHILIP ELLIOTTAssociated PressMONTGOMERY, Ala.Rick Santorum is spending early Tuesday with his family at their home near Washington as voters in Mississippi and Alabama weigh in on the Republican presidential field. Santorum

(AP) Romney campaigns in Mo. while Deep South votesBy CHARLES BABINGTONAssociated PressST. LOUISAfter urging Mississippi and Alabama Republicans to speed him toward the presidential nomination, Mitt Romney is campaigning in Missouri ahead of its Saturday caucuses. The former Massachusetts governor

(AP) Gingrich banks on wins in Alabama and MississippiBy BETH FOUHYAssociated PressBIRMINGHAM, Ala.Republican Newt Gingrich says he plans to campaign for president until the party’s nominating convention in August, but his candidacy largely rests on the results of Tuesday’s primaries

(AP) Santorum: Convention would give me GOP nominationBy PHILIP ELLIOTTAssociated PressBILOXI, Miss.Rick Santorum said Monday his path to the Republican Party’s presidential nomination counts on continued chaos in the field and a fractured GOP arriving at its nominating convention in

Newt Gingrich fights to stay in the Republican presidential race on Tuesday with his hopes pinned on winning primaries in the conservative southern states of Alabama and Mississippi. As frontrunner Mitt Romney racks up more delegates on his expected long

President Barack Obama’s approval rating has plunged below 50 percent and he would be beaten by Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney if November’s US election were held today, a poll showed Monday. The survey, by ABC News and The Washington Post,

By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTONRick Santorum won the Kansas caucuses in a rout on Saturday and Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney showed strength in Wyoming, a weekend prelude to suddenly pivotal Southern showdowns in the week ahead.Returns from

(AP) Obama strikes back at GOP critics on gas pricesBy ANNE GEARANAssociated PressWASHINGTONPresident Barack Obama is hitting back at Republican criticism of his energy policies and his role in controlling gasoline prices. Obama used his weekly radio and Internet address

The battle for the Republican party crown heads into new territory with the “reddest of the red” states Kansas next to vote as Rick Santorum seeks to hobble Mitt Romney’s slow march forward. In normal times, Saturday’s caucuses in midwestern

(AP) Romney heads South into evangelical statesBy RACHEL ZOLL AND JENNIFER AGIESTAAssociated PressMitt Romney’s struggle with white evangelical voters doesn’t bode well for him as he moves through the GOP presidential primary, with Mississippi and Alabama just ahead. In the

(AP) GOP activists fear primary takes a toll on RomneyBy CHARLES BABINGTONAssociated PressWASHINGTONRepublican activists foresee a long, lumbering presidential campaign that almost certainly will nominate Mitt Romney but may leave him weakened in a fall battle against President Barack Obama.

(AP) Convention fight only hope for Santorum, Gingrich?By STEPHEN OHLEMACHERAssociated PressWASHINGTONNo, it’s not over yet. But at this rate Mitt Romney’s rivals won’t catch him unless they pull off an unlikely fight at the Republican National Convention in August. Romney

(AP) Santorum: Mississippi could make it a 2-man raceBy ERIK SCHELZIG and PHILIP ELLIOTTAssociated PressTUPELO, Miss.Urging conservatives not to yield, Republican Rick Santorum told supporters Wednesday that they could make the GOP presidential contest a two-man race if they deliver

(AP) Santorum, Romney duel in Ohio, split other statesBy DAVID ESPOAP Special CorrespondentWASHINGTONRick Santorum and Mitt Romney split six states and dueled for supremacy in Ohio on a Super Tuesday that stretched from one end of the country to the

(AFP) Rick Santorum supporters began partying in celebration of Super Tuesday wins in Oklahoma and Tennessee, crossing their fingers as the crucial Republican presidential contest in Ohio went down to the wire.An enthusiastic crowd, including entire families and a group

Reporters and editors hand-picked by journalism icon Andrew Breitbart descended upon Los Angeles yesterday to attend his funeral service being held within the city.Breitbart, 43 died of natural causes on Thursday in a Brentwood shopping area after having a friendly late night