Saturday, October 27, 2012

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Saturday, Oct 27, 2012 05:37 PM PDT

Des Moines Register backs Mitt Romney 
Saturday, Oct 27, 2012 05:37 PM PDT
LAND O'LAKES, Fla.â€"Mitt Romney won a major newspaper endorsement on Saturday, as the Des Moines Register's editorial board formally backed the GOP candidate's bid for the presidency. It was the first time in 40 years the influential battleground state paper endorsed a Republican in the general election, dating back to its support of Richard Nixon [...]
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Rubio drops off Romney bus after daughter’s car accident 
Saturday, Oct 27, 2012 04:33 PM PDT
LAKEWOOD CREST, Fla.â€"Florida Sen. Marco Rubio abruptly dropped off Mitt Romney's campaign bus just east of Tampa Saturday evening after word that his 12-year-old daughter had been injured in a car accident in Miami and airlifted to a local hospital. According to his office, Rubio, who had been campaigning with Romney in Florida today, was [...]
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Study: Quitting smoking before 30 increases women’s lifespan 
Saturday, Oct 27, 2012 02:18 PM PDT
Women who quit smoking by the age of 30 almost completely avoid the risk of an early tobacco-related death â€" by more than 97 percent â€" according to a study of more than a million women in the United Kingdom. Conversely, lifelong smokers on average die 10 years earlier than non-smoking women. The results were [...]
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Obama hits Romney for ‘cradle-to-grave tax hikes and fees’ 
Saturday, Oct 27, 2012 01:18 PM PDT
NASHUA, N.H. â€" Mocking Mitt Romney's vow to bring "big change" to Washington, President Barack Obama charged at a campaign rally here Saturday that his Republican rival was actually offering a "big re-run" of George W. Bush's policies. The embattled incumbent also hit Romney's record as governor of nearby Massachusetts, accusing him of imposing "cradle-to-grave [...]
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Obama did not deny requests for help in Benghazi: Aide 
Saturday, Oct 27, 2012 11:24 AM PDT
The White House on Saturday flatly denied that President Barack Obama withheld requests for help from the besieged American compound in Benghazi, Libya, as it came under on attack by suspected terrorists on September 11th. "Neither the president nor anyone in the White House denied any requests for assistance in Benghazi," National Security Council spokesman [...]
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Romney cancels Virginia events ahead of Hurricane Sandy 
Saturday, Oct 27, 2012 11:17 AM PDT
PENSACOLA, Fla.â€"Mitt Romney is canceling campaign events on Sunday in Virginia as a "precautionary move" as the East Coast braces for Hurricane Sandy, which is expected to make landfall late Sunday night or early Monday morning. Instead, the GOP nominee will travel from Florida, where he's campaigning Saturday, to Ohio on Sunday morning, where he [...]
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Obama hits Romney on Wall Street, Medicare, education 
Saturday, Oct 27, 2012 09:26 AM PDT
NASHUA, N.H. - President Barack Obama's re-election campaign released a harsh new ad Saturday that accuses Republican rival Mitt Romney of looking to roll back regulations on Wall Street, turn Medicare into a voucher system, and slash education funding. The 30-second ad cast the incumbent in a defensive light -- someone fighting to hold onto [...]
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