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Election 2012: Romney birth certificate remark rekindles Obama controversy

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08/24/2012
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 birth certificate remark rekindles Obama controversy
COMMERCE, Michigan (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney took a dig at President Barack Obama on Friday over his birth certificate in comments that re-ignited a controversy over the Democrat's eligibility to be president.
Analysis: Would a second term mean "Obama Unleashed" on world stage?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Imagine it's November 7, President Barack Obama has won a second term and he now looks abroad, ready to pursue his foreign policy vision essentially free of electoral constraints.
Feds warn anarchists aim to disrupt political conventions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal authorities have circulated a bulletin warning that "anarchist extremists" are preparing to use "violence and criminal tactics" - possibly including homemade bombs - to disrupt the Republican and Democratic national conventions.
Romney says tithing makes him hesitant to release tax returns
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said his charitable giving to the Mormon Church, a practice known as tithing, makes him uneasy about revealing more of his tax returns as demanded by Democrats, according to an interview in Parade Magazine.
Romney highlights Bain experience in WSJ op-ed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney attempted to turn the national conversation back to his record as a business executive in an op-ed published on Friday in the Wall Street Journal.
In Romney plan, oil drilling unfettered by politics
(Reuters) - In unveiling his energy policy on Thursday, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney tapped into the oil industry's giddy optimism about shale drilling to paint a rosy picture of U.S. economic renaissance fueled by hydrocarbons.
In Montana Senate race, the personal and the partisan collide
BILLINGS, Montana (Reuters) - Jon Tester, the Montana senator whose surprise 3,500-vote victory in 2006 tipped the chamber to the Democrats, would seem to have a lot going for him as he seeks reelection this fall.
Missouri conservatives rally to Akin, blast Republican "establishment"
ST CHARLES, Missouri (Reuters) - Missouri conservatives say they are rallying around U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin despite his controversial comments about rape because they are outraged that "establishment" Republican Party leaders tried to railroad him out of the race.
At fundraiser, Romney says "big business is doing fine"
MINNETONKA BEACH, Minnesota (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney appeared on Thursday to parrot a line used by President Barack Obama that Romney has repeatedly targeted on the campaign trail.
Under fire, Akin gets help from social conservatives
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Under fire from his own party for controversial comments on rape, U.S. Republican Representative Todd Akin won the support on Thursday of social conservatives in his effort to stay in Missouri's U.S. Senate race.
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