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Obama, Romney push economic themes in key states

By Jim Kuhnhenn, Steve Peoples | August 2, 2012

President Barack Obama is launching a tough new tax-equality pitch in a TV ad asserting that Republican rival Mitt Romney's economic proposals would mean cuts for the wealthiest Americans and higher bills for everyone else. Romney hit back with a new spot timed to Obama's appearance Thursday in Florida and...
Obama: Economy has to grow 'even faster'

By Ben Feller | July 6, 2012

A sobering economic snapshot intensified the presidential campaign on Friday as President Barack Obama rolled through two vote-rich battleground states and Republican Mitt Romney fended off conservative complaints about his plan for winning.
Romney calls Obama's health care requirement a tax

By KASIE HUNT, Associated Press | July 5, 2012

Mitt Romney on Wednesday said requiring all Americans to buy health insurance amounts to a tax, contradicting a senior campaign adviser who days ago said the Republican presidential candidate viewed President Barack Obama's mandate as anything but a tax.
It used to be a mandate

By Calvin Woodward | July 3, 2012

It looks like a tax, smells like a tax, and the Supreme Court says it must be a tax. But politicians in both parties are squirming over how to define the Thing in President Barack Obama's health care law that requires people to pay up if they don't get health...
Aide says Romney sees mandate as a penalty

By The Associated Press | July 3, 2012

A top adviser says Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney doesn't see the health care mandate as a tax but as a penalty or a fee or even a fine.
Romney poised for GOP nod after Texas

By Steve Peoples | May 29, 2012

Mitt Romney is poised to clinch the Republican presidential nomination after Tuesday's Texas GOP primary, a largely uncontested election that will formalize the former Massachusetts governor's status as President Barack Obama's general election challenger.