AP – Mitt Romney strode into the final 48 hours of the pivotal Florida Republican primary campaign with the confidence of a resurgent front-runner, predicting he’ll win in Tuesday’s voting while looking ahead to future contests.
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Ahead in Florida, Romney turns focus back to Obama
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AP – Just how rich is Mitt Romney? Add up the wealth of the last eight presidents, from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama. Then double that number. Now you’re in Romney territory.
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Romney would rank among richest presidents ever
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AP – Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry is blasting the Obama administration for intruding on states’ rights.
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Perry defends states’ rights
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AP – Republican Jon Huntsman’s endorsement of Mitt Romney further cements Romney as the favorite in Saturday’s pivotal South Carolina primary, adding another name to the list of party figures calling him best able to beat Democratic President Bararck Obama.
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Huntsman departure a marginal help to Romney in SC
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AP – Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry on Sunday accused the Obama administration of “over-the-top rhetoric” and “disdain for the military” in its condemnation of a video that purportedly shows four Marines urinating on corpses in Afghanistan.
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Perry: Marines in video are ‘kids,’ not criminals
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AP – Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich blasted the Justice Department for blocking a South Carolina voter identification law and suggested the Obama administration wants to “steal elections.”
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Gingrich: Justice Dept wants to "steal elections"
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AP – Courting disaffected conservatives, House Republican leaders offered Friday to overturn a pair of Obama administration environmental policies and avert a deep cut in payments to doctors treating Medicare patients as part of legislation renewing a Social Security payroll tax cut through 2012.
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Republicans seek support for a payroll tax plan
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AP – President Barack Obama’s close attention to the Asia-Pacific region signaled both a turn toward a part of the world experiencing solid growth and one away from Europe’s dark economic woes, at least temporarily.
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Obama asserts growing US stake in Asia
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AP – Seizing an opportunity for historic progress in repressive Myanmar, President Barack Obama is dispatching Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to the long-isolated nation next month in an attempt to accelerate fledgling reforms.
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Obama sending Clinton to repressive Myanmar
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AP – Searching for help, President Barack Obama lobbied the skeptical leaders of Russia and China on Saturday for support in keeping Iran from becoming a nuclear-armed menace to the world, hoping to yield a “common response” to a crisis that is testing international unity.
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Wary about Iran, Obama lobbies Russia and China
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