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The Romney Campaign
Mitt Romney's tax plan is not passing muster with vetting agencies, but Jennifer Rubin at The Washington Post says campaign proposals don't need to be "scorable."

Does Romney need to 'fill in the blanks' of his tax plan?

Romney's proposed tax breaks would create a $360 billion hole in the budget — and he hasn't specified what he'd do to close the gap

 
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Will Romney reassure the conservative base that he's obediently opposed to gay marriage by showing up at a Chick-fil-A franchise for a photo op?

Should Mitt Romney embrace Chick-fil-A?

Though Romney has distanced himself from the latest battle over gay marriage, conservatives want him to endorse the controversial fried chicken chain

 
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-Nev.) dubious claim about Mitt Romney's personal taxes may come back to haunt the Democrat.

Will Harry Reid regret his claim about Mitt Romney's taxes?

Without proof, the Senate majority leader insists that the Republican paid no taxes for 10 years, earning a hail of criticism from conservatives and liberals alike

 
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Mitt Romney's tax plan would cost the typical U.S. family earning between $50,000 and $75,000 a year an extra $641 in taxes, according to a non-partisan think tank.

Would Mitt Romney actually raise taxes on 95 percent of Americans?

A nonpartisan think tank crunches the numbers, and they're not pretty: Under Romney, middle-class families could see their tax bills jump by hundreds of dollars

 
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Mitt Romney meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on July 29: Romney's foreign tour, which included a stop in Israel, seemed to highlight his potential inability to broker a two-state peace process in the Mideast.

Would a President Romney kill the Arab-Israeli peace process?

Mitt Romney ticked off Palestinians and took a conspicuously Israeli view of the Mideast stalemate during his foreign tour. Could he ever broker peace?

 
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Mitt Romney visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem's old city on July 29: The Republican's Israel visit may have helped him lock up some Jewish votes in key battleground states.

4 ways Mitt Romney's foreign tour was actually a success

With near unanimity, the press has decided that the Republican's tour of England, Israel, and Poland was a big flop. Here's why the media may be wrong

 
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Mitt Romney delivers a speech outside the Old City in Jerusalem on July 29: During his visit, Romney upset Palestinians by saying that he recognizes "the power of culture and a few other things" that have made Israelis prosperous.

Mitt Romney's 'racist' remarks against Palestinians: Will they actually help him?

Romney earns the ire of Palestinians by suggesting that they are mired in poverty because of their cultural inferiority to Israel

 
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Is Romney "just too insecure to be president?" asks Newsweek on its latest cover, a question that is striking many commentators as a bit boneheaded, given the evidence.

5 ways Mitt Romney is not a wimp

Newsweek calls Romney an insecure wimp on the cover of its latest issue, but the label isn't particularly accurate

 
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During a visit to Jerusalem on July 29, Mitt Romney met with his old acquaintance Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Mitt Romney backs Israel's right to attack Iran: Admirable or irresponsible?

The Republican presidential candidate visits Jerusalem, and courts controversy by taking a hawkish stand on Iran's nuclear program

 
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Romney meets with Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne on July 26: The GOP presidential candidate's world tour got off to a rocky start.

Mitt Romney's London gaffes: 5 ways they hurt him

The first stop on Romney's foreign trip has been marred by a series of missteps and rookie mistakes. How damaging will they be?

 
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Mitt Romney leaves 10 Downing Street after meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron: The Republican offended many Brits when he said London didn't seem prepared for the Olympics.

Mitt Romney disses the London Olympics: A campaign disaster?

Critics pounce after the Republican questions whether England is prepared for the games, and many are quick to declare his big foreign trip a total bust

 
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Mitt Romney speaks in New Hampshire on July 20: Romney's campaign quickly disavowed a comment made by an anonymous adviser that seemed to paint President Obama as out of touch with the U.S.-British "Anglo-Saxon" connection.

Will the 'Anglo-Saxon' controversy hurt Mitt Romney... or Obama?

The rival campaigns trade jabs over a quote attributed to an anonymous Romney adviser. Will either side score any political points here?

 
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In a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Mitt Romney hammered the president over scheduled defense cuts, foreign policy, and security leaks.

Romney's foreign policy: Identical to Obama's?

On the eve of his world tour, the presumptive GOP nominee is blasting Obama's foreign policy record, but many say Romney's proposals are just more of the same

 
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Mitt Romney in 2002, when he was president of the Salt Lake City Organizing Committee for the Winter Olympics.

4 reasons Romney doesn't want to talk about the Olympics

Romney's rescue of the once-scandal-plagued 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics was one of his big accomplishments. So why isn't he bragging about it?

 
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Mitt Romney will visit the United Kingdom, Israel, and Poland on a six-day trip to compensate for his relative weakness in foreign policy.

Mitt Romney's overseas tour: Will it boost his foreign policy cred?

The GOP candidate is about to take the commander-in-chief test. Will his trip abroad burnish his credentials the way Obama's 2008 world tour did for him?

 
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Mitt Romney went from picking up about 5,000 Twitter followers a day to 23,926 on July 20 and 93,054 on July 21.

Is Romney buying Twitter followers?

After Mitt Romney's popularity spikes, skeptics suspect social-media shenanigans — but his campaign says it's as puzzled as everyone else

 

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