BEXLEY, Ohio — Mitt Romney, eager to capitalize on his primary-election victories this week, is aggressively pushing for new donations to offset his presidential campaign’s heavy spending and is erecting battle stations in upcoming Super Tuesday states.
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich keeps saying he's going to take his presidential campaign "all the way to the convention," suggesting he believes front-runner Mitt Romney might not win enough delegates during the state caucuses and primaries to secure the nomination before the summer meeting.
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Top Republicans are calling for a review of the methods used in presidential caucuses after a series of vote-counting mishaps in three early states.
Maine on Tuesday became the latest state to fall victim to the caucus bug, with a local report noting that the state GOP declared Mitt Romney the winner of a close race without many localities reporting votes in the totals, including some that had submitted their results and some whose caucuses were set for later this month.
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Rick Santorum’s trio of victories in Tuesday’s contests in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri virtually assures that the Republican presidential race will, on some level, be a delegate race.
And if that delegate race drags on for a while, it could very well pit different regions of the country against one another.
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Mitt Romney holds a strong lead nationally in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, with a 2 to 1 advantage over his closest competitors, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Polling manager Peyton M. Craighill and polling analyst Scott Clement contributed to this report.
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President Obama released a $3.8 trillion budget this morning that includes tax increases, continued infrastructure spending aimed at getting the country out of the economic crisis, and less debt reduction than Obama had previously promised.
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Mitt Romney spent much of his speech Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference trying to convince the activists assembled that he’s truly one of them.
He’s fighting a losing battle right now.
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Romney doesn’t think a brokered convention can happen, his wife wants to strangle the press sometimes, Santorum thinks he’s a bully and Obama is fired.
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