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by Michael D. Shear, Perry Bacon Jr. from washingtonpost.com, 49 months ago
ORLANDO, Jan. 28 -- The front-runners in the Florida Republican primary exchanged some of their sharpest criticisms of the campaign on Monday, with each seeking a win on Tuesday that would provide a big haul of delegates and a burst of momentum heading into a Feb. 5 mega-primary. More
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by Michael D. Shear, Juliet Eilperin from washingtonpost.com, 49 months ago
MANCHESTER, N.H., Jan. 5 -- Three days before New Hampshire voters go to the polls, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney engaged in a confrontational televised debate with his fellow Republican presidential contenders, clashing over foreign policy, immigration, character and negative... More
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by Michael D. Shear, Juliet Eilperin from washingtonpost.com, 49 months ago
MANCHESTER, N.H., Jan. 5 -- Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee exchanged sharp words as they opened a Saturday evening debate with a heated argument about foreign policy. More
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by Alec Macgillis, Michael D. Shear from washingtonpost.com, 51 months ago
ROCHESTER, N.H., Nov. 30 -- A man who claimed he had a bomb strapped to his chest seized four workers in Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign office here Friday afternoon, police said, holding them for more than five hours and demanding to speak to Clinton before surrendering to... More
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by Michael D. Shear, Juliet Eilperin from washingtonpost.com, 49 months ago
SARASOTA, Fla., Jan. 26 -- Sen. John McCain of Arizona accused former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney of having once supported a U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq, sparking an angry demand for an apology from Romney, who called the statement "dishonest." More
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by Jonathan Weisman, Michael D. Shear from washingtonpost.com, 49 months ago
In Washington, as anxious eyes were fixed on the stock markets, President Bush and Democratic leaders settled into a detente yesterday, cautiously moving toward agreement on an economic stimulus package. More
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by Juliet Eilperin, Michael D. Shear from washingtonpost.com, 49 months ago
SOUTHFIELD, Mich., Jan. 15 -- Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney resoundingly won the Michigan presidential primary Tuesday, seizing his first big victory in the Republican competition and blunting the momentum of his chief rival, Sen. John McCain (Ariz.). More
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by Michael D. Shear from washingtonpost.com, 49 months ago
For more than a month, former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has been in self-imposed political exile, a virtual sideshow as he all but sat out the early primaries to wait for the 2008 presidential contest to arrive in Florida. More
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by Michael D. Shear, Juliet Eilperin from washingtonpost.com, 49 months ago
MANCHESTER, N.H., Jan. 8 -- Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the early Republican front-runner whose campaign imploded last summer, handily won the New Hampshire primary Tuesday, dealing former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney his second loss in the GOP nomination contest. More
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by Anne E. Kornblut, Michael D. Shear from washingtonpost.com, 49 months ago
LEBANON, N.H., Jan. 7 -- A buoyant Sen. Barack Obama, anticipating a victory in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, told voters Monday that he is "riding a wave, and you're the wave," as presidential candidates in both parties started to look beyond the campaign here to extended nomination fights th... More
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by Michael D. Shear from washingtonpost.com, 49 months ago
MANCHESTER, N.H., Jan. 6 -- Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney sought on Sunday to revive his party's contentious debate over illegal immigration, hoping to remind voters in New Hampshire of the issue that stoked conservative anger and nearly derailed Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign.... More
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by Michael D. Shear, Peter Baker from washingtonpost.com, 49 months ago
MANCHESTER, N.H., Jan. 4 -- When George W. Bush stumbled here in his quest for the presidency in 2000, he had 18 days to recover before the next major primary. But the erstwhile front-runners humbled in Iowa this week emerged with just five days to get back on their feet, slow down their rivals and.... More
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by Michael D. Shear, Perry Bacon Jr. from washingtonpost.com, 49 months ago
DES MOINES, Jan. 3 -- Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee rode a wave of evangelical fervor to victory over Mitt Romney in Iowa's Republican caucuses Thursday, an outcome that hardly seemed possible two months ago. More
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by Michael D. Shear, Anne E. Kornblut from washingtonpost.com, 49 months ago
DES MOINES, Jan. 2 -- The presidential candidates made their final appeals to voters Wednesday in the earliest-starting and most expensive campaign in Iowa history, fanning out across the state in search of a victory and crucial momentum headed into a front-loaded primary season. More
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by Michael D. Shear, Perry Bacon Jr. from washingtonpost.com, 49 months ago
DES MOINES, Dec. 31 -- Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee took an unorthodox gamble in his bid for the presidency Monday, unveiling an attack ad against Republican rival Mitt Romney and then immediately pledging not to run it in the hopes of appealing to the better nature of Iowa voters. More
