2012 Election
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Mitt Romney facing challenges
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Mitt Romney, who won three more primaries Tuesday and is on track to claim his party's presidential nomination in June if not before, is facing a challenge of historic proportions.
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Marco Rubio says no to vice president slot
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Florida's Marco Rubio was asked about his prospects during an appearance Wednesday in Palm Beach Gardens. He said: "I'm not going to be the vice president."
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Marion Barry wins primary, celebrates all over Twitter
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Were you on Twitter during last night's D.C. Council Democratic primary on Tuesday night? If you were, the chances are high that you got caught up in a frenzy of Marion Barry's celebratory tweets.
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D.C. Primary 2012: Marion Barry easily wins
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Marion Barry has only lost one election in his career - in 1990, after he had been sentenced to six months in federal prison on a drug charge.
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Should the other GOP candidates step aside? (Poll)
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It now seems that Mitt Romney will end up being the GOP candidate for president in 2012 after Tuesday night's primaries. Does that mean it's time for Santorum, Paul and Gingrich to back off? Take our poll.
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Mitt Romney wins Maryland, D.C., Wisconsin primaries
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The three victories enable Romney to pad his already-wide delegate lead over Republican rival Rick Santorum, who is coming under growing pressure to abandon his own candidacy in the name of party unity.
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WATCH LIVE: NewsChannel 8's live coverage of tonight's D.C., Maryland primaries
Need to know who will be your next elected official. Watch NewsChannel 8's live D.C. and Maryland election coverage here.
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WATCH LIVE: Politico brings you up-to-the-minute primary coverage
Jim VandeHei, Maggie Haberman and Mike Allen host Tuesday night's primary coverage. Guests include RNC Chairman Reince Priebus. The coverage starts at 7 p.m. Watch it live here.
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GOP budget plan is 'trojan horse,' Obama says
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In an election-year pitch to middle-class voters, President Barack Obama is denouncing a House Republican budget plan as a "Trojan horse," warning that it represents "an attempt to impose a radical vision on our country" that would hurt the pocketbooks of working families.
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Barack Obama's gay marriage stance weighs heavy in election year
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Advocates and confidantes both say it's now just a matter of time until President Obama publicly voices his support for same-sex marriage, but will it come before the November election?
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D.C. Primary: Mitt Romney expected to easily win
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In a straw poll a, Mitt Romney won with 72 percent of the vote. The District has just over 30,000 registered Republicans, or 6.6 percent of the electorate.
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President Bush to endorse Mitt Romney
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Former President George H.W. Bush plans to endorse Mitt Romney at an event Thursday in Houston.
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Newt Gingrich cuts staff, vocuses on GOP convention, report says
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In the midst of running in a distant third to Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, Politico reports that Newt Gingrich is laying off one-third of his campaign staff and cutting back his campaign schedule.
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Newt Gingrich needs to stay on tight budget
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Newt Gingrich says he has enough money to keep going, but his campaign must stay on "a fairly tight budget" to reach the Republican convention in Tampa, Fla. Gingrich was campaigning Tuesday in Annapolis.
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Rick Santorum calls Obama health care law 'unconstitutional'
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"There's one candidate who's uniquely disqualified to make the case. That's the reason I'm here and he's not," GOP candidate Rick Santorum told reporters outside the Supreme Court as protesters behind him chanted, "Health care is a right."
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Demonstrators protest health care law at DHHS
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Demonstrators say the Catholic Church doesn’t believe in birth control pills, and to make them provide them to anybody that works for them is a crime.
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Mitt Romney speaks in Arbutus, Md.
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Speaking in Arbutus, Md., in Baltimore County, Mitt Romney drew cheers from the crowd a day after a decisive win during the Illinois primary Tuesday night.
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Romney wins Illinois primary
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Romney triumphed after benefitting from a crushing advantage in the television advertising wars, and as his chief rival struggled to overcome self-imposed political wounds.
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