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The Romney Campaign

The Romney Campaign
Mitt Romney during his 1994 Senate run: The GOP candidate worked at Bain Capital from 1984 until 1999, during which time the company helped Staples and Sports Authority get their starts.

4 good things Bain Capital did on Mitt Romney's watch

Democrats say the GOP presidential hopeful plundered companies and destroyed jobs. But what about Romney's private-equity successes?

 
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The Left is eating up parallels between Batman's latest nemesis Bane and Bain Capital, the private equity firm Mitt Romney once ran.

Bane vs. Bain Capital: The Dark Knight Rises' Mitt Romney connection

The upcoming Batman flick's new villain and the controversial company Mitt founded share more than a similar-sounding name

 
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Mitt Romney has yet to settle on a consistent message to rebut President Obama's claims that Bain Capital is a job-killing, profit-maximizing vehicle that benefits investors, not workers.

3 ways Mitt Romney can beat back attacks on Bain

While Team Obama hits Bain again and again, Romney struggles to develop a cogent strategy for neutralizing criticism of his former company

 
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Mitt Romney's upbeat new ad, promising tax cuts, will run in swing states Iowa, Ohio, North Carolina, and Virginia.

Anatomy of a campaign ad: 'Day One'

Mitt Romney tries to deflect attention from his tenure at Bain Capital with an "upbeat and statesmanlike" ad outlining the first initiatives of a Romney administration

 
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Robert Shrum

Robert Shrum: Bain is just chapter one in the Book of Romney

Republicans are desperate to declare Obama's attacks on Mitt's business background off-limits. But in the life of Romney, vulture capitalism is an inescapable theme

 
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In the first scene of Mitt Romney's new campaign ad "Day One," he promises to approve the Keystone pipeline to "create thousands of jobs that Obama blocked."

Romney's 'Day One': Does his first ad set him apart from Obama?

With a TV commercial airing in swing states, Mitt Romney declares that he'd begin his presidency by reversing key Obama policies

 
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Free from the attacks of his Republican rivals, Mitt Romney's favorability rating has risen from 39 percent in February to 50 percent today.

Mitt Romney's newfound popularity: 5 theories

Romney's favorability ratings have jumped significantly since the days when he was fighting a heated primary battle. Who's warming to Romney, and why?

 
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In praising former President Bill Clinton to bash President Obama, Mitt Romney has suggested that Obama's supposed abandonment of "the Clinton doctrine" is due to "a personal beef with the Clintons."

Is Bill Clinton an effective ally... for Mitt Romney?

Romney has been talking up the former chief executive as a way to paint President Obama as a leftist Democratic outlier. Could the ploy backfire?

 
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James Lipton host of "Inside the Actors Studio" says that Romney's personality void is "a potentially fatal flaw for any actor, but especially for a presidential candidate."

Humanizing Mitt Romney: Could James Lipton's master acting tips help?

The famed Inside the Actor's Studio host offers unsolicited advice to "Mittbot" on how to warm up his mechanical laugh, dress better, and, above all, "act like a human"

 
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George W. Bush and 5 other arms-length Romney endorsers

George W. Bush and 5 other arm's-length Romney endorsers

The former president's ever-so-slight show of support is just the latest in a series of lukewarm endorsements for the GOP's presumptive nominee

 
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Mitt Romney speaks to Iowa steel workers: Countering President Obama's Bain attack, Romney released a web video illustrating how his private-equity firm helped the working class.

Mitt Romney's Bain defense: A convincing rebuttal?

Team Obama attacks Romney's record at private-equity giant Bain Capital, and within hours, the Romney campaign rolls out a slick video response

 
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Mitt Romney holds forth in Chantilly, Va., on May 2: If Romney vowed to break up banks that have been deemed "Too Big Too Fail," it would "undercut the charge that he's a creature of Wall Street and the financial super-elite," says James Pethokoukis.

Would Mitt Romney be smart to take on Wall Street?

JPMorgan's big bad bet could be political gold for Romney, says conservative James Pethokoukis — if Mitt starts pushing the breakup of "Too Big to Fail" banks

 
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Mitt Romney first said he didn't recall the incident at all, but his subsequent statements seem to suggest that he does.

Mitt Romney's 'cruel and nasty' high school bullying: 5 ways it hurts him

The story of one mean-spirited act from 50 years ago is causing Team Romney a huge headache. A look at why it could get even worse

 
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Mitt Romney (left) with father George (center) and brother Scott (right) in 1965, the same year that Mitt reportedly picked on a fellow student who many suspected to be gay.

Mitt Romney's 'vicious' high-school bullying: Is his apology sufficient?

After The Washington Post reports that Mitt aggressively picked on a classmate five decades ago, the Republican says he's sorry for any offensive teen antics

 
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"My position is the same on gay marriage as it's been, well, from the beginning, and that is that marriage is a relation between a man and a woman," Mitt Romney said Wednesday. "That's the posture that I had as governor and I have that today."

Obama's gay-marriage 'evolution': A political win for Mitt Romney?

The contrast has never been more clear: Obama supports same-sex marriage, while Romney firmly opposes it. What's less clear: How that will play with voters

 
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"I pushed the idea of a managed bankruptcy, and finally when that was done, and help was given, the companies got back on their feet," Mitt Romney says of Detroit's success. "So I'll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry has come back."

Mitt Romney's 'dishonest' auto rescue claim: 3 ways it hurts him

The presumptive GOP nominee famously opposed the auto bailouts, and his attempt to recast history is provoking the ire of Democrats and Republicans

 

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