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WASHINGTON (AP) — He's a smug, Harvard-trained elitist who doesn't get how regular Americans are struggling these days. More extreme than he lets on, he's keeping his true agenda hidden until after Election Day. He's clueless about fixing the economy, over his head on foreign policy. Who is he? Your answer will help decide the next president. Is it Barack Obama, as seen by Mitt Romney? Or Romney, the way Obama depicts him? For all their liberal versus conservative differences, when the two presidential contenders describe each other, they sound like they're ragging on the same flawed guy. Or mirror...

Remember that NYT piece last week wondering about friction between Romney and the House GOP as as he tacks towards the center for the general election while they try to hold the line on the right? Here’s the first wisp of smoke. “ "I fully support the effort to extend the low interest rate on student loans,” Romney said at a joint news conference with Florida Senator Marco Rubio. “There was some concern that that would expire halfway through the year, and I support extending the temporary relief on interest rates for students as a result of student loans, obviously,...

Newt Gingrich Calls Mitt Romney 'Obama Lite' Gingrich compared Romney to President Obama several times in his speech, saying the Republican Party did not need to elect an "Obama lite." Gingrich also compared Romney and Obama on food stamps. Gingrich often calls Obama "the best food stamp president in history" as a part of his usual stump speech. But Friday, Gingrich added Romney into his rhetoric, calling him a "little food stamp." "We now know from Gov. Romney, he joins President Obama. Obama is big food stamp, he's little food stamp - but they both think food stamps are...

Can't post from Bloomberg per their request. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-01/rising-cain-reveals-depth-of-anti-romney-vote-margaret-carlson.html

Rick Perry's led the Republican field in every Southern state that we've polled since he entered the Presidential race...until now. Mitt Romney continues to lead the way in Florida with 30% to 24% for Perry, 10% for Gingrich, 8% for Ron Paul, 7% for Herman Cain, 6% for Michele Bachmann, 3% for Jon Huntsman, 2% for Rick Santorum, and 1% for Gary Johnson.Perry had a poor debate performance in Florida Thursday night and our results suggest that the negative coverage he received from that did hurt him some in the state. We started this poll on Thursday night before the...

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Tim Pawlenty is exiting the race for the White House the same way he came in — on a tidal wave of conventional wisdom. He was too even-tempered, they say, to catch on with a white-hot electorate. He was too level-headed, they say, to connect with a grassroots that’s gone to extremes. He was a nice guy — “boring,” in the parlance of our times — so he finished last. Breaking news: The conventional wisdom is wrong. Pawlenty’s personality problem wasn’t a charisma deficit — it was a wimpiness surplus. But the wimp factor is meaningless relative to the flaw...

Congressman Tom Perriello recently announced his summer town hall schedule. We need to take this opportunity to make sure he knows that Virginians statewide disapprove of the actions of him and other big-spending liberals in Congress. I urge you to attend one of these meetings and let Perriello know that you disapprove of his votes on Obamacare, wasteful stimulus spending, and job-killing cap-and-trade legislation. November is Coming-- so make your voice heard at one of the following town halls: *Dates, times, and locations are according to Perriello's website. Monday, August 9 7:30 am – 9:30 am The Nelson Center 8445...

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