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Ron Paul will not be endorsing Mitt Romney no comments
Texas Congressman Ron Paul does not believe there is a lot of difference between Mitt Romney's and Barack Obama's policies. Photo: CNBC.
Texas Congressman Ron Paul has no plan to endorse Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, he told CNBC’s Futures Now on Thursday. When he spoke to Fox News a week ago, Dr. Paul told the channel that he was not ready to announce who he would be voting for.
Unemployment rate falls below 8 percent no comments
President Obama attended a rally at George Mason University
in Fairfax, Va., on Friday. Photo: Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty.
The Department of Labor announced on Friday that the official unemployment rate had decreased from 8.1 percent in August to 7.8 percent in September. This is the first time in 44 months that the jobless rate has fallen below the eight-percent (8%) mark.
Bloomberg poll: Obama 49%, Romney 43% no comments
A new national survey conducted for Bloomberg News between Sept. 21 and Sept. 24 shows that President Barack Obama would garner 49 percent of the votes were the Nov. 6 election held today. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is currently the favorite of 43 percent of voters. Just over 10 percent of their supporters could still be persuaded to change their minds between now and the contest.
Obama wants to see the freedoms of super PACs restrained no comments
President Obama took part in a question-and-answer session on social news website Reddit on Wednesday. Photo: Twitter.
President Barack Obama indicated on Wednesday that he would like to see a 2010 Supreme Court ruling allowing businesses and unions to contribute unlimited amounts of cash towards political campaigns overturned. The court’s decision a couple of years ago encouraged the emergence of super political action committees, or super PACs.
Ryan: Obama is China’s doormat no comments
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are promising to stop China penalizing U.S. businesses. Photo: Nelson Ching / Bloomberg.
Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan has criticized President Obama for letting China use him as a “doormat” and for failing to act to stop Beijing from pursuing an anti-U.S. economic policy.
Romney and Ryan get warm welcome in N.C. no comments
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan addressed a several-thousand strong crowd at the NASCAR Technical Institute in Mooresvilles, N.C., on Sunday. Photo: AP.
Presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney and his newly selected vice president, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, went to the NASCAR Technical Institute in Mooresville, N.C., on Sunday where around 6,000 people had congregated to hear the new duo talk about the country’s future after Obama. Their visit came only one day after the former Massachusetts governor revealed the identity of his running mate.
Obama and Romney react to jobs numbers no comments
Messrs. Obama and Romney interpret the latest jobs numbers in a very different way. Photos: Jae C. Hong / AP, left, Carolyn Kaster / AP, right.
President Barack Obama and presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney both commented on the latest jobs statistics published by the Department of Labor on Friday. The data shows that the U.S. economy created 163,000 jobs in July, well above economists’ expectations of 100,000 post creations last month.
GOP invites Ron Paul to Convention no comments
Texas Congressman Ron Paul was basically ignored when the
2008 Republican National Convention took place in Minneapolis, MN.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) has officially invited Texas Congressman Ron Paul to attend the National Convention in Tampa, Fla., at the end of August. This invitation comes in spite of the fact that Dr. Paul has so far failed to endorse presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney.
Murdoch wants Romney to change campaign staff no comments
News Corp. CEO, Rupert Murdoch, is calling on presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney to reshuffle his presidential campaign staff in order to defeat President Barack Obama on Nov. 6.
Ron Paul criticizes Supreme Court ruling over ObamaCare no comments
Mr. Obama described the Supreme Court's decision as
a victory for all Americans.
Texas Congressman Ron Paul issued a statement shortly after the Supreme Court announced that it had upheld President Barack Obama‘s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in its entirety. In it, Dr. Paul said that he strongly opposed Thursday’s ruling, but indicated that such a decision was to be expected from a court that has consistently failed to protect civil liberties.