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Wonkiest sign in New Hampshire?
Sun,8 Jan 2012 06:37 PM PST
The Ticket - MANCHESTER, N.H. -- People who live in early primary states pay attention. Just hours after Sunday's Republican presidential debate in which Newt Gingrich told Mitt Romney to spare the nation his "pious baloney" about spending most of his career in the private sector, this man, pictured above, decided to make a new sign. He is [...] Full Story | Top |
No break for Ron Paul following New Hampshire
Sun,8 Jan 2012 02:55 PM PST
The Ticket - MEREDITH, N.H. Ron Paul has confounded some political observers by taking extended breaks during some of the presidential campaign's most pivotal moments. But apparently, that habit won't continue. Regardless of how the Texas congressman performs Jan. 10 in New Hampshire, Paul said he's immediately jetting off to South Carolina. "I think I will be in [...] Full Story | Top |
Photo of the day: Ron Paul pride, hairstyle edition
Sun,8 Jan 2012 11:44 AM PST
The Ticket - MEREDITH, N.H.-- Justin Roy, 22, of Springfield, Mass., is so enamored with Ron Paul that he shaved a testament of support into his head. Roy, who drove two-and-a-half hours to see the Texas congressman speak here at a town hall event, was accompanied by his friend, who also happens to be his barber. Full Story | Top |
Iowa ballot counter stands by claim that his precinct gave Romney 20 extra votes
Sun,8 Jan 2012 08:51 AM PST
The Ticket - Edward L. True says he has never experienced this much press attention in his life. "Ed! There's a reporter on the phone!" True's mother said when Yahoo News called to speak with True this weekend. After filing an affidavit Thursday claiming the state Republican party misreported his Iowa precinct's vote totals-- potentially shifting the overall [...] Full Story | Top |
Yahoo! readers still unsure about Romney as frontrunner
Sun,8 Jan 2012 08:15 AM PST
The Ticket - When it comes to social media, Saturday's ABC/Yahoo! debate clearly captured the attention of many more Americans than earlier brawls with the crucial New Hampshire primary just days away. We saw nearly double the social media traffic compared to our Dec. 10 debate with ABC, according to social tracking firm Attensity. During the debate's broadcast, Attensity [...] Full Story | Top |
In final New Hampshire debate, candidates go after Romney–very briefly
Sun,8 Jan 2012 08:33 AM PST
The Ticket - CONCORD, N.H. -- They had to be poked, prodded and nudged to do it, but the Republican presidential candidates finally went on the offense against front-runner Mitt Romney during a Sunday morning debate--if only for a few minutes. Going down the line, NBC News moderator David Gregory gave the candidates an opportunity to explain in [...] Full Story | Top |
Liveblogging the NBC News/Facebook debate on 'Meet the Press'
Sun,8 Jan 2012 05:16 AM PST
The Ticket - Can it be? It's the last debate before the New Hampshire primary -- and a sleepy press corps has assembled in a filing center in Concord, N.H., to chronicle the event. There will be sleepy candidates, too: Yahoo News saw Rick Santorum arrive at his hotel lobby after 1 a.m. ET last night. During the [...] Full Story | Top |
Republican candidates stand by negative ads, fail to knock out Romney
Sat,7 Jan 2012 08:20 PM PST
The Ticket - GOFFSTOWN, N.H. -- With the pressure on just three days before the first primary contest in the nation, the Republican presidential candidates had their arsenals ready for tonight's debate--but left front runner Mitt Romney largely untouched. Romney is polling at around 40 percent in the state, several points in front of the closest runner-up. Tonight, [...] Full Story | Top |
Liveblogging the Yahoo News/ABC News GOP debate in New Hampshire
Sat,7 Jan 2012 05:32 PM PST
The Ticket - There could be no better distillation of the long 2012 Republican presidential campaign than the weekend before the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary, when one presidential debate will end and another will begin within a span of 10 hours. Saturday night's debate, the first since Michele Bachmann dropped out of the race, will be broadcast on ABC [...] Full Story | Top |
RuPaul in New Hampshire: 'This country was founded by a bunch of men wearing wigs'
Sat,7 Jan 2012 04:06 PM PST
The Ticket - MANCHESTER, N.H. -- "I am not Ron Paul!" shouted RuPaul, the famous drag queen (wearing men's street clothes), at the top of his lungs inside a cramped diner here, a picturesque little restaurant that presidential candidates have visited for years. "And I am not running for president of the United States!," he added. Sleepy locals [...] Full Story | Top |
In New Hampshire, Romney follows Obama's '08 trail
Sat,7 Jan 2012 12:38 PM PST
The Ticket - DERRY, New Hampshire—Mitt Romney attracted his biggest crowd on the campaign trail in weeks, as more than 600 people showed up for an early Saturday morning rally here in the gym of a local private high school. For weeks, Romney has been campaigning in cities where the President Obama spoke four years ago as an [...] Full Story | Top |
In debate prep, student stand-ins for candidates resemble real thing
Sat,7 Jan 2012 01:31 PM PST
The Ticket - MANCHESTER, N.H. — Saint Anselm College is still on winter break, and most of the campus is empty and quiet. But one cluster of brick buildings near the campus's southern edge is dotted with TV trucks, lights and crew. The debate is still 24 hours away, but on the stage inside [...] Full Story | Top |
Gingrich's latest Romney slam: He taxed the blind
Sat,7 Jan 2012 06:59 AM PST
The Ticket - NASHUA, N.H. -- Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has added a new item to his repertoire of attacks against Mitt Romney since his decision to turn up the heat on the former governor, telling a local Republican group on Friday that Romney raised taxes on the blind. "Governor Romney ... promised that he wouldn't raise [...] Full Story | Top |
Man calls 911 after gluing plastic cups to head
Fri,6 Jan 2012 03:03 PM PST
The Sideshow - A man who "accidentally" glued five plastic cups to his head put in a desperate call to 911 seeking medical attention. But that's just one of the more ridiculous non-emergency calls being highlighted in the Shields region of England. The Shields Gazette has posted a list of the more unusual Northeast Ambulance Service (NEAS) calls [...] Full Story | Top |
Pittsburgh Zoo hosting "Adults Only" Valentines Day event
Fri,6 Jan 2012 02:21 PM PST
The Sideshow - The Pittsburgh Zoo is hosting a Valentines Day dinner that promises to reveal "the intimate secrets of exotic animal mating." It sounds like the ideal romantic date! As the zoo's website explains: Join us for dinner, cocktails, and an adults-only presentation by Henry Kacprzyk, who will reveal the intimate secrets of exotic animal mating. From [...] Full Story | Top |
Romney faces great expectations (and lackluster crowds) in New Hampshire
Fri,6 Jan 2012 08:49 PM PST
The Ticket - PETERBOROUGH, New Hampshire—Virtually everyone thinks Mitt Romney will win New Hampshire's Republican presidential primary next Tuesday. The big question is how large his margin of victory will be. Romney has led the polls here by 20 points or more for months—a product of the fact he's a former governor of a neighboring state and, now, [...] Full Story | Top |
Utah woman uses fake mustache to rob neighbors
Fri,6 Jan 2012 12:57 PM PST
The Sideshow - A 31-year-old woman in Salt Lake City has been charged with two counts of burglary after she allegedly used a fake mustache to disguise her appearance as she robbed her neighbors. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the unnamed woman's neighbors first noticed that several thousand dollars were missing from a security box inside their [...] Full Story | Top |
Marine biologist could get 20 years in prison for feeding whales
Fri,6 Jan 2012 11:23 AM PST
The Sideshow - A California marine biologist is facing up to 20 years in prison and half a million dollars in fines for allegedly feeding a group of killer whales and then altering footage of the incident and lying to authorities. In addition to her carrying out maritime research, Nancy Black operates the popular Monterey Bay Whale Watch [...] Full Story | Top |
Amid tensions, U.S. Navy rescues Iranians from Somali pirates
Fri,6 Jan 2012 10:33 AM PST
The Envoy - Just days after Iranian and American military officials traded warnings over a U.S. Navy vessel's departure from the Persian Gulf, the United States Navy has rescued 13 Iranian fishermen and their fishing dhow from Somali pirates in the north Arabian sea, the Pentagon said Friday. And in a side irony that punctuates the rare instance [...] Full Story | Top |
Mitt Romney opens a major lead in South Carolina
Fri,6 Jan 2012 10:21 AM PST
The Ticket - MANCHESTER, New Hampshire—Until recently, Mitt Romney had invested little time or effort in South Carolina, focusing instead on states like New Hampshire and Florida in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination. But it may not matter. A new CNN/Time Magazine poll of likely Republican voters in the state finds the former Massachusetts governor with [...] Full Story | Top |
Pakistan's former U.S. envoy now fears for his life
Fri,6 Jan 2012 10:15 AM PST
The Envoy - Former Pakistani ambassador to Washington Husain Haqqani has been caught in a showdown between Pakistan's army and civilian leaders, and now says he fears for his safety. Haqqani was recalled to Islamabad in November amid accusations by a Pakistani-American businessman of involvement in the delivery to American officials of a memo accusing the Pakistani military of [...] Full Story | Top |
Fox News hires Liz Cheney; NBC fires back at Page Six over report about Chelsea Clinton
Fri,6 Jan 2012 09:24 AM PST
The Cutline - Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, is joining Fox News as a contributor, a network spokeswoman confirmed to Yahoo News. The news was first reported by Politico's Playbook. Cheney's hire continues the flurry of politicians' daughters landing television jobs. Late last year, former first daughter Chelsea Clinton was hired by NBC News [...] Full Story | Top |
Did Mitt Romney really win the Iowa caucuses? Vote counter Edward L. True claims miscount
Fri,6 Jan 2012 09:15 AM PST
The Ticket - According to Edward L. True, Rick Santorum actually won the Iowa caucuses Tuesday night. True took part in the caucus for his Washington Wells precinct in Appanoose County--and helped count the ballots afterward. He claims the state Republican party miscounted his precinct's totals. True contends that the allegedly miscalculated Washington Wells total delivered 20 extra [...] Full Story | Top |
Homeless Woman Becomes Twitter Celebrity & Finds a Home
Fri,6 Jan 2012 08:48 AM PST
Trending Now - "Like" us on Facebook.com/TrendingNow and follow me on Twitter @Knowlesitall! Have you ever met someone whose life was changed by social media? Well you're about to. Allow me to introduce AnnMarie Walsh of Chicago, who credits Twitter for helping her escape homelessness. After being homeless for more than four years, Walsh started tweeting from a [...] Full Story | Top |
Liberal groups plan ad buy against local Republican during GOP presidential debates
Fri,6 Jan 2012 08:20 AM PST
The Ticket - CONCORD, N.H.--Two liberal groups are teaming up for an ad buy in New Hampshire that will air during the Republican presidential debates this weekend, singling out Rep. Charlie Bass for his support of a Republican Medicare overhaul plan last year. Sponsored by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy for America, the 30-second spot, which [...] Full Story | Top |
Thief drops stolen coin collection into Coinstar machine
Fri,6 Jan 2012 04:48 PM PST
The Sideshow - Police in Oregon are searching for a suspect who allegedly stole a rare coin collection from his own father and traded it in for pennies on the dollar at a local coin-counting machine. On Christmas day, Dan Johnson Jr. and two friends allegedly broke into a shed on his father's property, where the coin collection [...] Full Story | Top |
Gingrich: Obama will laugh at Romney if they debate
Fri,6 Jan 2012 07:14 AM PST
The Ticket - CONCORD, N.H.--Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said during an appearance on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Friday that if Mitt Romney wins the GOP nomination, President Obama would laugh at him when they debate later this year. "Obama's going to laugh at him," Gingrich said. "Obama's going to say, 'I developed Obamacare based on Romneycare, [...] Full Story | Top |
Santorum does not have a "Google Problem." He has a civil rights problem.
Fri,6 Jan 2012 06:32 AM PST
The Signal - If you type the word "Santorum" into any major search engine, the first result you'll get is to Spreading Santorum, a site created by sex-columnist Dan Savage whose mission is to redefine the candidate's last name as a sex act--or rather, a graphic description of the result of one--and catalog his extreme position on sexual morals. If you [...] Full Story | Top |
Like Iowa's, New Hampshire's economy among the nation's strongest
Fri,6 Jan 2012 06:25 AM PST
The Ticket - By Zachary Roth and Daniel Gross With the Republican presidential nominating fight moving from the frigid chill of the Midwest to the, uh, frigid chill of Northeast, the struggling economy remains a major theme. Which is ironic, given that the first two contests take place in states that, while hardly booming, are doing far better [...] Full Story | Top |
Newt Gingrich, Mr. Fast Learner
Fri,6 Jan 2012 04:18 AM PST
The Ticket - CONCORD, N.H.--On Wednesday, at his first townhall meeting in New Hampshire after the Iowa caucuses, Newt Gingrich called on an elderly war veteran to ask the first question of his primary campaign swing across the Granite State. Wearing a Veterans of Foreign Wars cap, the man stood and spoke of the plight of veterans in [...] Full Story | Top |
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