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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Election 2012: Presidential race now a dog fight as Romney surges

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10/10/2012
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
Presidential race now a dog fight as Romney surges
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The presidential race had seemed on the verge of slipping from Republican Mitt Romney's grasp a week ago, but now he has erased President Barack Obama's once-substantial lead in polls and made the race for the White House highly competitive once more.
Court clears South Carolina voter ID law for 2013
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new South Carolina law that generally requires voters to show photo identification does not discriminate against racial minorities but cannot go into effect until the start of next year, a federal court ruled on Wednesday.
Romney reveals he met former Navy SEAL killed in Benghazi
VAN METER, Iowa (Reuters) - A day after blasting President Barack Obama's handling of the deadly assault by militants on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya last month, Mitt Romney revealed on Tuesday that he had met one of the four Americans killed in the attack.
Obama and Romney now tied in presidential race: Reuters/Ipsos poll
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney has erased President Barack Obama's advantage in the race for the White House and the two candidates are now tied among likely voters, according to a Reuters/Ipsos tracking poll released on Tuesday.
Analysis: Romney spares details as he hits Obama on foreign policy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Monday ratcheted up his campaign to cast President Barack Obama as a weak steward of U.S. power, but offered few specific clues about how he would handle world crises differently.
Reagan tax model obsolete in fiscal cliff talks: Schumer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top Senate Democrat on Tuesday said new tax revenues should go to reducing the federal deficit, not cutting tax rates, dismissing as "obsolete" a Reagan-era model of tax reform.
Pressure is on Biden after Obama's lackluster debate performance
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - He has been stereotyped as the Obama administration's gaffe-prone sideshow.
Presidential race now a dogfight as Romney surges
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The presidential race had seemed on the verge of slipping from Republican Mitt Romney's grasp a week ago, but now he has erased President Barack Obama's once-substantial lead in polls and made the race for the White House highly competitive once more.
Pew poll finds Romney edges ahead of Obama after debate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's strong performance in last week's debate helped him pull ahead of President Barack Obama, a Pew Research Center poll showed on Monday.
Confident Obama encourages supporters to be "obsessive"
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama encouraged supporters on Monday to be "obsessive" about working for his re-election in the final weeks of the campaign, declaring himself confident that he would win on November 6.
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