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Election 2012: Romney backs Olympics moment of silence to honor Munich victims

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07/23/2012

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 backs Olympics moment of silence to honor Munich victims

LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney, about to visit the London Olympics and Israel, said for the first time on Monday that he supports an official minute of silence at Friday's opening ceremony for the Games to honor Israeli athletes killed at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

Massachusetts Republicans Brown, Romney share staff - and not much else

PLYMOUTH, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Outside a sweltering campaign office where the air conditioner was broken, Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown boasted to supporters about the reach of his re-election campaign against Democrat Elizabeth Warren, a consumer advocate and Harvard law professor.

Obama campaign keeps ads off Colorado airwaves all week

AURORA, Co. (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's re-election team, maintaining an unofficial time-out on full-scale campaigning following a deadly shooting at a movie theater, said on Sunday it will keep its advertisements off the airwaves in Colorado for the rest of the week.

After Colorado shootings, Romney cautiously returns to campaign trail

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney gingerly returned to the presidential race on Sunday, telling a San Francisco fundraiser that he would not be "as partisan."

As election approaches, candidates beef up spending

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Less than four months until the U.S. presidential election, Republican candidate Mitt Romney's campaign is beefing up on personnel and investing more cash internally as outside groups pour millions into television ads to help him counter Democratic President Barack Obama's messaging over the airwaves.

George W. Bush will not attend Republican convention

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President George W. Bush will not attend the Republican convention next month, his office said on Friday, skipping Mitt Romney's expected coronation as the party's White House nominee.

Scott Brown's latest channels poet Langston Hughes

Scott Brown, locked in a tight race to hold onto his Senate seat from Massachusetts, has become the second Republican in the current election cycle to channel Langston Hughes, the African-American social activist poet with Communist sympathies who is also regarded as a literary hero by many in the gay community.