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Saturday, Nov 03, 2012 06:56 PM PDT

Romney enters the final stretch emotional, but upbeat 
Saturday, Nov 03, 2012 06:56 PM PDT
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.â€"Mitt Romney isn't known for his dramatic entrances, but in the campaign's final stretch, he's stepped up his game. As several thousand people waited for the Republican presidential nominee at an airplane hanger here on Saturday afternoon, a campaign aide switched on the soundtrack to the film, "Air Force One, " known for [...]
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Obama leads Romney 47-42 percent among likely voters in Iowa 
Saturday, Nov 03, 2012 05:25 PM PDT
U.S. President Barack Obama during a campaign rally in DubuqueDUBUQUE, Iowa--President Barack Obama leads Republican challenger Mitt Romney by five percentage points among likely voters in Iowa, according to a poll released Saturday by the Des Moines Register. Forty-seven percent of likely Iowa voters who participated in the survey said they're supporting Obama, compared to 42 percent who plan to support Romney. The survey [...]
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Obama knocks Romney over Mass. health care law 
Saturday, Nov 03, 2012 05:10 PM PDT
DUBUQUE, Iowa--In one of his final campaign speeches in Iowa before Election Day, President Barack Obama hit the major themes from his normal stump speech but also took a quick shot at Mitt Romney for the health care law he championed while governor of Massachusetts. Obama has made it a staple of his campaign address [...]
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The most indebted man in the world owes former employer $6.3 billion 
Saturday, Nov 03, 2012 03:17 PM PDT
Former financial arbitrage trader Jerome Kerviel is the most indebted man on the planet, owing his former employer $6.3 billion. The amount Kerviel owes to French bank Societe Generale for fraudulent trades made in 2007 and 2008 would make Kerviel one of the 50 richest people in America if those debts were assets. But Kerviel [...]
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Florida bomb squad detonates ‘suspicious packages’ found outside early voting site 
Saturday, Nov 03, 2012 01:43 PM PDT
A Florida bomb squad has detonated two suspicious packages that were discovered outside one of the state's early voting stations on Saturday morning. Voting was suspended until 2 p.m. on the final day of early voting, with a long line of reportedly upset voters waiting to cast their ballots. Early voting has been popular in [...]
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Obama ‘revenge’ comment referred to Romney ‘scare tactics’ in Ohio: Campaign 
Saturday, Nov 03, 2012 09:10 AM PDT
MENTOR, Ohioâ€"A campaign aide moved to explain President Barack Obama's comment in which he referred to voting as "the best revenge," saying that Obama was referring in part to a television ad Mitt Romney's campaign released that suggested Chrysler was planning to ship manufacturing jobs out of Ohio to China. Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki [...]
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Sorry, Kentucky, South Carolina: No booze with your ballots 
Saturday, Nov 03, 2012 08:33 AM PDT
Let's say the 2012 campaignâ€"the flood of attack ads, the torrent of junk mail, the mere trickle of inspiring proposalsâ€"has you reaching for an Election Day drink. Tough luck, voters in Kentucky and South Carolina: No booze for you! Eighty years after Prohibition's repeal, those states are the only ones holding on to bans on [...]
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#HashOut On Location: What is the best reason to vote for Barack Obama on Election Day? 
Saturday, Nov 03, 2012 08:18 AM PDT
Election Day is just three days away, so the HashOut team headed to the battleground state of Ohio to hear what voters are thinking. First stop: Cleveland. We walked around a very windy and cold downtown (temperatures dipped into the 40s), which is just beginning to recover from Hurricane Sandy. As we looked for voters, [...]
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With three days to go, Romney calls his campaign a ‘movement’ 
Saturday, Nov 03, 2012 06:52 AM PDT
PORTSMOUTH, N.H.â€"Mitt Romney kicked off a whirlwind weekend of campaigning across the country in the state where he launched his bid for the presidency, expressing confidence that he will win the election. "New Hampshire won me the Republican nomination, and New Hampshire is going to get me to the White House," the Republican nominee said [...]
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