Campaign 2012

Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is resigning as a national co-chairman of Republican Mitt Romney's presidential campaign to lobby for the financial services industry.

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Mitt Romney's remarks disparaging 47 percent of Americans are the latest in a string of poorly chosen words that play into Democrats' portrayal of him as out of touch. But he's not the only one plagued by a campaign gaffe deemed elitist by critics.

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A new Associated Press-GfK poll finds that Americans are feeling markedly better about the country's future and about Barack Obama's job performance. That said, the president's re-election race against Republican Mitt Romney remains a neck-and-neck proposition.

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Mitt Romney's campaign is not disputing a video that shows the Republican presidential candidate saying that almost half of Americans "believe that they are victims."

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GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney tells donors in a newly released video clip that Palestinians "have no interest" in peace with Israel.

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South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard is urging military personnel to register soon to vote in the November election. Daugaard says the deadline to register to vote in South Dakota is Oct. 22.

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Republican activists are incredulous: Why can't Republican Mitt Romney seem to break open a tight race with President Barack Obama given the nation's sluggish economy and conservative enthusiasm to beat the Democrat?

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Mitt Romney will explain more about what he would do as president, a strategy shift intended to change the trajectory of a race that President Barack Obama appears to be winning.

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Sensing an opening on the economy, President Barack Obama launched an aggressive new effort Saturday to convince voters in the most competitive states that Republican rival Mitt Romney is risky for the nation's recovery with a plan that caters to multimillionaires over the middle class.

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Republican Mitt Romney is criticizing President Barack Obama for not planning to meet in person with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week, calling it "confusing and troubling."

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