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Sources: President Obama heads back to Virginia Friday
Obama campaign sources have confirmed to ABC7's Scott Thuman that the President will be back in Northern Virginia on Friday for another rally.
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Mother Nature rains on both parties' parades
With Hurricane Isaac shortening Tampa’s Republican National Convention and now a lingering set of storms crashing President Obama’s Charlotte crescendo, it seems Mother Nature has no favorite between the two parties.
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$1 BILLION DOLLARS, ‘THE DONALD’ & A UNICORN
Our political globe seems to be spinning at break-neck speed and with a self-induced wobble that can’t easily be righted.
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Lights, camera, smile! (Even if it's fake)
Rick and Mitt: Grin and bear what you truly dread.
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A 'Super' Hangover for Romney and Santorum
If political junkies thought it was tense watching the numbers come in last night (at least in Ohio), imagine what Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum felt like Wednesday morning.
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Debate Day Doldrums
After a respite of 27 days, the four candidates will square off tonight on a stage in Mesa, Ariz. and for the first time yet, Rick Santorum will be the top target.
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Tweet not what your country can do for you....
Tuesday, in his pitch to Americans in favor of extending the payroll-tax cuts, Mr. Obama ended his speech by encouraging them to use: #40dollars when Tweeting as a way of pressuring Republicans to follow suit.
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Lessons of a Super Bowl on the campaign trail
As cliché as it may be, these guys are clearly the big QB’s duking it out right now. They hurl attacks on the other team’s defense like Brady and Manning with stinging results and whose arms never seem to tire.
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Mitt Romney: No iPod necessary
It’s important to remind ourselves that Florida, while powerful, is just one state in this process that could go on for some time.
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Are we grading President Obama on a curve?
Are we grading the president on a curve with regard to his major campaign speeches?
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DNC 2012: The starring role of women at the DNC
Women are playing a starring role at this year's DNC - and there's a good reason for it. ABC7's senior political reporter Scott Thuman has all the DNC news.
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Hockey Playoffs or Politics?
They say Virginia is for lovers. But then again, maybe that only applies in non-election years.
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Three weeks of weird
Mitt Romney has won, again. A political hat trick is his latest coup. Virginia, Maryland and the ever-important Midwestern prize of cheese heads doling out a whopping 42 delegates have crowned Romney their king. That is at least, until November when Dems will chime in with gusto.
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Mitt-Tastrophe Avoided
It seems everyone was primed to pounce on what would have been an embarrassing Mitt Romney loss in his home state…and whew! Romney could probably wring an entire assembly-line sized bucket of sweat from whatever Brooks Brothers handkerchief he used to wipe his brow while watching returns.
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FBI sting nabs suspected U.S. Capitol bomber
Amine el-Khalifi was arrested in a sting in which he thought he was going to detonate a bomb at the U.S. Capitol.
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SWEEP-TORUM
While you may not think Santorum can go the distance, you’d better acknowledge that his victories are having a significant impact on this race.
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You're endorsed! Donald Trump backs Mitt Romney
There was a pageant-like quality to the event in Las Vegas on Thursday as “the Donald” betrothed upon Mitt Romney the most glamorous (remember, we’re talking Vegas here) endorsement yet.
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TCT is back
Welcome back loyal TCT followers! The hiatus is over and with the campaign now in full swing, I’ll once again be providing those daily tidbits, analyses & inside-the-beltway insights you’d grown accustomed to.
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