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President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney dueled for the White House on Tuesday in a tight-to-the-finish election shadowed by a weak economy and high unemployment that crimped middle class dreams for millions.

Voters also chose a new Congress to serve alongside the man who will be inaugurated president in January, Democrats defending their majority in the Senate, and Republicans in the House. Eleven states picked governors, and ballot measures ranging from gay marriage to gambling dotted ballots.
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Walking a careful line, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Friday he had wanted an openly gay spokesman who resigned from his campaign this week to stay on. Hours later, he worked to court the party’s conservative wing by meeting with former rival Rick Santorum.

In an interview with Fox News, Romney said his campaign hires people “not based upon their ethnicity, or their sexual preference or their gender but upon their capability.” He called the former spokesman, Richard Grenell, a “capable individual” and said many senior campaign aides urged him not to leave.
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Kicking off his Virginia campaign, Republican Mitt Romney says he’ll do “the opposite” of what Democratic President Barack Obama has done to help the economy.

Romney campaigned Wednesday in the Washington suburbs of Northern Virginia, a region of a key swing state that will be critical for Romney. Obama won Virginia in 2008 after back-to-back Republican victories by George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004.
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The Republican presidential nomination all but in hand, Mitt Romney is refocusing his efforts on challenging President Barack Obama, raising cash for the battle ahead and reconciling with onetime primary rival Rick Santorum.

“Tonight is the start of a new campaign,” the former Massachusetts governor said Tuesday night as he celebrated a sweep of five primaries. He blasted Obama as a man whose time in office has been marked by “false promises and weak leadership” in a time of economic struggle.
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AP/The Modesto Bee

A California school teacher has quit his job and left his wife and kids to move into an apartment with an 18-year-old student less than half his age.

The Modesto Bee says the teen’s mother, Tammie Powers, has waged a Facebook campaign against the teacher since her daughter moved out of the family’s home last week and into a Modesto apartment with 41-year-old James Hooker. View full article »

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As the White House prepares for a tough reelection race amid difficulty working with Congress to correct a slow economy, Bill Daley, President Obama’s chief of staff, is resigning his post to return to Chicago and serve as co-chairman of Obama’s 2012 campaign team.

White House budget chief Jack Lew will take Daley’s place, Obama said in a State Dining Room announcement Monday that did not acknowledge Daley’s new role.

Calling Daley’s decision to depart “difficult for me,” Obama said Daley wanted to return home to Chicago to spend time with family, and now was the right time.  View full article »

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Michele Bachmann suspended her 2012 presidential campaign Wednesday after finishing at the bottom of competitors in the six-way Republican caucuses in Iowa and finding she didn’t have the campaign infrastructure, cash or momentum to go on.

But the Minnesota congresswoman said she will continue to make her case against Obama administration policies that she says bring the U.S. closer to the point of no return unless they are stopped. View full article »

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