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Election 2012: Romney apologizes for bullying incident at school

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05/10/2012
Reuters Election 2012 Daily round-up of the day's top news from the campaign trail, the White House and all the politics in between
Romney apologizes for bullying incident at school
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting Mitt Romney apologized on Thursday for high school pranks that may have hurt others, after a report that he and other students at a Michigan school bullied a student who was presumed to be gay.
Insight: Super PACS: Follow the money - if you can
LAWRENCEVILLE, Georgia (Reuters) - December 2011 was a busy month for supporters of presidential candidate Newt Gingrich. The former speaker of the House had surged ahead of his Republican rivals in several polls. Suddenly he was being barraged by negative TV ads produced by Restore Our Future, a Super PAC for rival candidate Mitt Romney.
GM, Chrysler would have sunk under Romney: Obama
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama dismissed Mitt Romney's comments this week claiming credit for the recovery of the U.S. auto industry, saying his Republican rival's plan would have sunk General Motors Co and Chrysler Group LLC.
Obama to bring in millions at Clooney fundraiser
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fresh from declaring his support for same-sex marriage, President Barack Obama heads west on Thursday for a political fundraising spree that will culminate in a multi-million dollar extravaganza at the home of Hollywood star George Clooney.
Same-sex couples should be able to marry: Obama
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After years of "evolving" on the issue, President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he believes same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, a stance that is likely to please his political base and complicate efforts to attract some independent voters.
For Obama, potential good news in Indiana, less so in North Carolina
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For Democratic President Barack Obama, Republican-leaning Indiana suddenly might be a little more winnable in the November 6 election.
Obama wins, but Texas felon steals spotlight in West Virginia primary
NEW YORK (Reuters) - How popular is President Barack Obama in West Virginia? Just slightly more so than federal Inmate No. 11593-051, who received nearly 43 percent of the vote in West Virginia's Democratic primary on Tuesday.
Lugar defeat underscores vanishing U.S. political middle
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The landslide defeat of U.S. Senator Richard Lugar in Indiana sent an ominous message to Washington: unprecedented partisan gridlock in Congress likely will worsen next year and make difficult efforts to cut the record U.S. debt even tougher.
Veteran Republican Senator Lugar defeated in Indiana
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Senator Richard Lugar, a 35-year veteran of the Senate and leading foreign policy voice, was defeated in the Indiana Republican primary by a Tea Party-backed challenger on Tuesday, the first Senate incumbent ousted in the 2012 election year.
Obama reaches out to Asian Americans ahead of November election
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, whose campaign has focused heavily on courting Hispanic voters ahead of the November 6 election, reached out to another important and sometimes overlooked voting group on Tuesday: Asian Americans.
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