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Romney was asked about the bill this week and said he had not read it.

Much of Mr Romney's fortune, which some estimate at $250m, is thought to come from his stint in private equity, but no one knows how much.

ODDLY for such a champion of family values, Mitt Romney once threw stones at his wife.

Romney continues to have advantages over his rivals in terms of fundraising and a national campaign organization.

Most of the rest, including Mitt Romney, the only viable moderate among them, were happy to put the boot in.

One person beginning to articulate this idea is Mitt Romney, one of the frontrunners to be the Republican presidential candidate.

Lately, Mr. Romney cannot stop talking about how much he wants to work with Democrats.

One of his main Republican rivals, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, is also getting ready to unveil a plan.

Throughout the evening, Mr. Romney escaped Mr. Obama's attempts to pin him down on which deductions he would eliminate in his tax proposals.

The Associated Press reported October 6 that Romney already has lent $17. 5 million to his own campaign, and stands ready to spend more.

But, for the time being at least, the Republican front-runner Mitt Romney seems to rely more on realists than neocons.

Mitt Romney is the only "full-spectrum" conservative; at least, he claims to be.

You think you know that the candidates will be Barack Obama and Mitt Romney or perhaps one of the non-Romneys such as Newt Gingrich.

As critics have alleged, Mr Romney is something of a political weathervane.

"When I read the Romney economic plan, " he wrote in an e-mail, "it seemed to me that it was basically the Bush plan. "

Republican candidate Mitt Romney said the president has exhibited weakness in his outreach to the Muslim world.

Yet Mr Romney's plan at least offers specifics with which to argue, even if it is short on vision.

Like the majority of Cuban-Americans, Armando Alba said he strongly supports Mitt Romney for president.

Mr Romney, no doubt sensitised by his background in private equity, wants green cards "stapled" to advanced science degrees.

"I knew from the very beginning, to get anything done I had to reach across the aisle, " Mr. Romney said on Monday.

And I'm going to ask Governor Romney - in fact, I already did - if he would spend time traveling around the country with me.

As Molly Ball of The Atlantic pointed out, Mr. Romney "described conservatism as if it were a disease. " Indeed.

The key to a strong economy says Obama is to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U. S. and he says Romney is the wrong person to do it.

The US President highlighted what he said were differences between him and his rival , Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

Perry, Bachmann and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney appear to be the top choices for Republicans at the moment.

And you know, this is the kind of thing that I would expect from Mitt Romney or Rudy Giuliani, where we start playing with numbers. . .

Mark Mazer, whose teeth-whitening firm is doing well, said he thought Mr Romney would be best for small businesses.

While campaigning in New Hampshire, Romney said, "The president's actions make reaching a long-term solution more difficult. "

"I thought Romney was a shoo-in, " he said. "Something is way wrong. It may take a revolution to straighten out our government. "

Earlier, in Iowa Romney talked agriculture, he said the incumbent had done little to grow agriculture related jobs in the last four years.

Mr. Romney said U. S. leaders have been 'played like a fiddle' by Chinese leaders, something he said he would stop as president.

Any poll will ratify the significance of that insight: Romney is the front-runner, and Huntsman is languishing in single digits.

Mr. Romney said his defeat hurt his standing in the party, but he said he would nonetheless seek a role helping Republicans bounce back.

Campaigning in the northeastern state of New Hampshire, Romney continued to criticize the president's economic policies.

Mr Romney maintained a tough stance on China in the Republican primary contest, vowing to brand it a "currency manipulator" .

It may well help former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the perceived front-runner, by allowing him to stay out of the line of fire longer.

'Cancel your Christmas vacation, ' Mr. Romney said he would counsel the president.

This year, however, Flip, the talking dolphin who opposed Mitt Romney for his changing positions, did not make an appearance.

Romney has not stopped running since 2008 and tends to have the most establishment support in the party.

The former Arkansas governor won five southern states on Tuesday and is third place in the delegate count behind McCain and Romney.

It is possible that some of the views that were offered by likely nominee Mitt Romney could be consequential.

Mr Romney will see a lot of stones whizzing his way in the coming months, and the people throwing them will not be little boys.

At the time, a certain Mitt Romney called it "a tax cut for fat cats" .

But Mr Romney responded to Mr Obama's assertiveness in kind, with plenty of interruptions, finger-pointing and denunciations of his own.

"I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear the names are people from the White House or the Obama campaign, " Mr. Romney said.

But can Utah's impressive ex-governor catch up with the front-runner for the Republican nomination, his fellow-Mormon Mitt Romney?

He was an adviser to President Bush and advised Mitt Romney in his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.

Though Mr. Romney has had no role in Bain's operations since 1999, his fortune is still closely linked to the company.

Mr. Romney said Thursday that he expected Mr. Obama to offer empty promises during the speech and did not plan to watch.

This week a poll showed him in a dead heat with Mitt Romney, the Republican front-runner.

"This kind of assault on religion will end if I'm president of the United States, " Mr Romney said.

Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney says at least one portion of the closed tunnels is expected to reopen late this weekend.

So do politicians in Utah. Mitt Romney, still a star there, endorsed him for a fourth term.

No, President Obama isn't someone who "began his presidency by apologizing for America, " as Mr. Romney declared, yet again, a week ago.

Mr Romney, who has a holiday home there, seems to be focusing on it this time.

In short, though Mr Perry may have looked a touch less poised than Mr Romney, the debate did not render a decisive verdict.

High on the list, by the way, is coal-fired electricity generation, which the Mitt Romney-that-was used to stand up to.

But there was little doubt that he was referring to Mr. Romney, whom he views as one of his top rivals.

Former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson finished in third place in South Carolina, narrowly ahead of Mitt Romney.

Romney, a wealthy venture capitalist and former governor of Massachusetts, did not disclose his Iowa outlay.

If conservatives were to rally around a single alternative candidate, they could quite probably supplant Mr Romney with one of their own.

With 22% of the votes, Mr Romney's second place in the CPAC poll put him far ahead of the rest of the field.

In fact, it's very similar to the plan Mitt Romney introduced in Massachusetts just a few years ago.

Unfortunately for Mr Romney, Mr McCain beat him among the swelling number of voters who think the economy is in trouble.

Many conservatives still loathe MrMcCain, and Mr Romney at least currently pretends to believe most of the cornerstone conservative dogmas .

But in an unusual move, Romney said Monday that he agrees with the president that low student loan interest rates should be extended.

only that the magical properties Mr Romney ascribes to it should be treated with a dose of scepticism.

Nobody can accuse Mr Romney of failing to think hard about this question.

Still, Mr. Romney gets in a few pointed jabs. His favorite centers on the president's campaign slogan, "Forward! "

Former Bush administration official Tony Fratto also said Romney's aggressive stance toward China looked to be a case of posturing.

A wealthy businessman, Romney spent millions from his own pocket to finance the race.

Romney offered a broader critique of the president in an interview earlier in the week with conservative radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt.

"A storybook marriage? No, not at all, " Mrs. Romney said. "What Mitt Romney and I have is a real marriage. "

So it is not at all fantastical to think that if Mr Romney secures the nomination a more authentic conservative will decide to go it alone.

Mitt Romney, still a star there, endorsed him for a fourth term.

If you're an American down on your luck, Mitt Romney has a message for you: He doesn't feel your pain.

Most countries would prefer to see Barack Obama re-elected as President rather than Mitt Romney, a global poll has found.

As the fortunes of his various potential challengers have waxed and waned, Mr Romney has maintained a statesmanlike indifference.

Incidentally, during Tuesday's debate, Mitt Romney named Harvard's N. Gregory Mankiw as one of his advisers.

Romney said he has never supported a deadline, and he asked why McCain raised the issue just days before the Florida primary.

Romney pushed various food items upon his traveling press: including pastry, Panera! "high end stuff" according to Romney, and beef jerky.

That Mitt Romney is changing tells us that the popular mood towards China in the United States is now very hostile.

Obama lost the thread of his narrative of hope and change, and Romney never developed one, even on his supposed specialty, the economy.

Brown says the president holds a small lead over the current Republican frontrunner, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.

During his campaign stops, Romney stays away from attacks on his opponents and focuses instead on his own background.

Romney has dominated early polling in New Hampshire, where he has a summer home and has devoted much of his campaigning so far.

It is thus ironic that the single greatest risk to gold at the moment is probably a Romney victory in next week's presidential elections.

After all, that health reform Mr. Romney wants us to forget followed a blueprint originally laid out at the Heritage Foundation!

On Iran, Mr. Romney said that the president's sanctions had failed to slow its march to a nuclear weapon.

There was no immediate word from the Romney camp on the reported results.

This time, will Romney be Romney? If he were, he would stand a chance.

Rival Mitt Romney said the recovery is weak and blames Obama's economic policies.

It shows Hillary Clinton with a narrow lead on the Democratic side, with Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney in a virtual tie among Republicans.

Mr. Romney did not attend the first Republican debate earlier this month in South Carolina.

Within the G. O. P. , willful ignorance has become a litmus test for candidates, one that Mr. Romney is determined to pass at all costs.

In 2008 Mr Romney failed to win the Republican nomination even after spending $45m of the personal fortune he made in venture capital.

In foreign policy as in so much else, Mr Romney's instinct is to cling to the middle, play safe and avoid controversy.

"He thinks he is destined by God to be president, and I find that blasphemous, " says Cliff Newman, a Romney supporter.

We contacted the Romney campaign for comment, but they did not return our calls.

I have no idea whether Romney will be the next president of the United States.

Unlike some of his rivals (Mr Giuliani embraced the plan; Mr Romney fudged), Mr McCain told Mr Crist to get stuffed.

With January's primaries just around the corner, Mr Romney is ahead in New Hampshire by a more than 2: 1 margin.

So far Mr Romney is not connecting with the middle class. But he can at least be commended for trying.

It is no secret that Obama doesn't like Romney, but after the first debate he might admit that Romney is a formidable opponent after all.

Mr. Romney's spokeswoman declined to say what the former governor thought of the congressional proposal.

The Romney campaign is firing back with a video of its own defending his record.

Candidates with the prominence and fund-raising prowess of Mr Romney and Mr Perry can afford to shrug off the results of the straw poll.

Most, including the presumed frontrunner, Mitt Romney, appear to be captive to the far right of the Republican party.

What did Romney actually say? Plenty that revved up the young crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

Governor Romney said Obama's economic record has been poor and would not improve in a second term.

Mr Romney then won Wyoming two days later, but since the other candidates barely contested that state, his victory generated little buzz.

Romney's win follows his decisive victory in Florida Tuesday, and was his third in the presidential party preference votes.

When Mr. Romney started out in 2007, few voters knew who he was and he registered in the single digits in national polls.

Later, after a campaign appearance in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Mr. Romney was asked whether the president deserved some credit.

The Journal's write-up of that meeting would later glibly refer to Mr. Romney as "Consultant in Chief. "

And, each form has a role to play in message delivery, said the Romney campaign's Digital Media Director, Zac Moffat.

Mitt Romney, the Republican establishment's choice for the presidency, is fond of describing Barack Obama as an apologist for America.

Mr. Romney, if you don't know your own position on abortion, how are we supposed to understand it?

The survey put Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential front-runner, running neck-and-neck with the president at the election.

Four years ago Mr Obama promised to do just as Mr Romney now demands, and label China a currency manipulator.

Romney's critique was quickly dismissed at the White House by presidential spokesman Jay Carney.

Mr Romney has two selling points, both of which he stressed at the launch of his campaign in Michigan on February 13th.

Instead, Mr Romney takes the coherent (if somewhat silly) federalist position that healthcare reform ought to take place at the state level.

On Friday, Mr. Romney urged his supporters in Ohio to vote early. More than thirty states offer some form of early voting.

Just before the end of the debate, Rick Perry tried to contrast his record of creating jobs in Texas, with one last jab at Romney.

Mr McCain said his margin of victory was not big enough for him to brag about, nor for Mr Romney to despair.

Mitt Romney's health care plan became a tyrannical assault on American freedom when put in place by that man in the White House.

Mr Romney says China cheats by manipulating the value of its currency against the US dollar - and he'll crack down.

As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney once proposed a foolproof death penalty law that guaranteed only the guilty could be executed.

DEBT Mr. Romney blames Mr. Obama for annual trillion-dollar deficits adding to what is now a $16 trillion national debt .

US Republican White House contender Mitt Romney has pulled off a double win in the Michigan and Arizona primaries.

Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee came in a surprisingly close second to Mitt Romney in the Iowa straw poll on Saturday.

In his second bid for the Republican nomination, Mr. Romney is taking a different approach, adopting a low-key style steeped in discipline.

Romney programmed himself into a robot, so he wouldn't boil over with opinions and convictions, like his more genuine dad.

Romney says he and his running mate, Representative Paul Ryan, gave their all in the campaign and he thanked their supporters.

Like former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Huntsman also faces a serious problem due to some of his positions on health care.

It is a fair bet that most bankers and investors will be rooting for Mitt Romney to move into the White House next year.

Romney also won victories in his home state of Massachusetts, plus Virginia, Vermont and Idaho.

"One hopes Romney recognizes, " Mr. Will said, "that judicial deference to elected representatives can be dereliction of judicial duty. "

But Gov. Mitt Romney directed municipal clerks not to give licenses to out-of-state couples, citing the 1913 law.

But Romney's assertive debate performance against a tired-seeming Obama rallied Republicans again to his side.

Mr. Romney once delivered partisan-tinged zingers about how President Obama takes inspiration from socialist Democrats in Europe.

Mr Romney favours sanctions so tight that Iranian leaders would start to feel like those who upheld apartheid in South Africa.

And Mitt Romney prepared to outline his plans for health care.

Mr Romney promises to set a floor for the defence budget of 4% of GDP, and plough any efficiency savings back into the armed forces.

That liberal group of Americans for Tax Fairness Action Fund is now calling on Romney to release his gift tax returns.

Romney has said, if elected, his first foreign trip would be to Israel. He suggested Obama has alienated the Jewish state.

In Mr Romney's favour, Americans probably feel it is time to have someone competent in the White House.

The latest polls show only Mitt Romney comes close to defeating President Obama if the election were held today.

Romney said in a radio interview on Wednesday that he would fire the agents involved.

A recent opinion poll suggests the president is trailing Mitt Romney in support among whites and among independent voters.

Mr Giuliani, Mr Romney and Mr McCain all cite the recent fall in violence there as evidence that the "surge" of American troops is working.

Still, Mr. Romney's advisers see it as a chance at a fresh start.

Mitt Romney, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, speaks loftily of another American century.

During his concession speech, Romney congratulated McCain, but tried to draw a contrast between their two candidates.

Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney got an enthusiastic welcome Saturday at a campaign rally in southern New Hampshire.

The last polygamist in Romney's direct ancestry was his great-grandfather Miles Park Romney, who had three wives.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney renewed his promise to try to repeal the law.

The Potomac Eagle train, passing Eagle Rock along the south branch of the Potomac River near Romney, W. Va.

Mr. Romney's strategy, in short, is to pretend that he shares the ignorance and misconceptions of the Republican base.

Earlier Monday, Mr. Romney accused the president of being a weak leader, especially with regard to the Middle East.

Governor Romney is referring to the remarks of Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has called for the destruction of Israel.

For Mr Romney and his party the danger is clear: the Republicans' intolerant obstructionism could drive independents away.

After the Romney campaign heard about McNamara they came calling, and she agreed to host a Romney rally at her furniture plant.

Standing at the head of this queue, flush with cash and experience, is Mitt Romney.

President Obama and his republican Challenger Mitt Romney are back on the campaign trial after their dramatic debate last night.

But some political analysts say that Romney and other Republican candidates advocate restricting access to abortion and contraception.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he will not serve anyone, religion, group or cause if he's elected.

Still, I believe Mr. Romney when he says he isn't concerned about the poor.

President Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney got different reactions after their first presidential debate.

In the past an assured performance like the one Mr Romney gave in Denver has had an effect.

Everything a Man Needs Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney visits a hardware store in Goffstown, New Hampshire.

Just 14% of registered voters said they would vote with enthusiasm for Gingrich if he were the GOP nominee, compared to 12% for Romney.

Mitt Romney said that President Obama, does not understand that the president doesn't create jobs.

Romney, whose father sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1968, would be the first Mormon president.

On Wednesday, while campaigning at a rally here, Mr. Romney took it further, calling for "bold, aggressive change. "

Mr Romney has also won three races, but two (Wyoming and Nevada) were in states that his rivals barely contested.

In New Hampshire, polls say Huckabee currently trails former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and Arizona Senator John McCain.

By Mr. Romney's telling, the president has a "strange" and "foreign" political philosophy.

Mr. Romney still builds a forceful case against the president. But he is noticeably gentler.

That would allow him to eat into Mr Romney's base as well as Mrs Bachmann's.

U. S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has accepted his party's nomination, pledging to "restore the promise of America. "

Mr. Romney said during the 2008 campaign that his trust's manager would 'endeavor to make my investments conform to my positions. '

Romney's position on abortion as governor of Massachusetts took a similar stance toward state's rights.

"This man will not fail. This man will not let us down, " Ms. Romney said. "This man will lift up America. "

The leading Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, said Mr. Obama's policies have prevented a true economic recovery.

Mitt Romney says that he wants the 21st century to be American too. That seems a little greedy.

The Potomac Eagle runs along the south branch of the Potomac River, near Romney, W. Va.

Romney hailed McCain as uniquely qualified to lead the war on terror as president.

Santorum continues to target conservative voters who remain skeptical of Romney's commitment to conservative causes.

Heading into the final phase of their advertising war, Mr. Romney and Mr. Obama have contrasting imperatives.

"China's one-child policy is gruesome and barbaric, " former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a 2012 contender, said Tuesday in a statement.

Team Romney has every reason to be shellshocked. Its candidate, after all, resoundingly won the election of the country he was wooing.

In postdebate appearances on Wednesday, both the president and Mr. Romney seized on what they saw as their opponents' deficiencies.

Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney leads the field in most national polls. He formally announced his candidacy last week.

Q: US Republican presidential candidate Romney reportedly accused China as both economic and cultural threats to the US.

Romney expects to rack up wins in Massachusetts, Vermont and Virginia while Santorum looks for victories in Oklahoma and Tennessee.

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney also condemned the assassination during a campaign stop in New Hampshire.

In actuality, the only real "loser" last night was Mitt Romney.

In the Republican race, Mr Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, has fallen behind John McCain, the veteran Arizona senator.

Exit polls in Florida gave Mr Romney the edge among voters who think the economy is in reasonable shape.

Unlike Mr Romney or Mrs Palin, he is still running a state.

Mitt Romney addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference Friday morning.

Mr Romney launched his first television spot attacking Mr Huckabee in Iowa this week, accusing him of being soft on illegal immigration.

I am proud to introduce to you the next president of the United States of America, Mitt Romney!

Even the pontificating of Republican non-Romney of the Month, Newt Gingrich is irrelevant.

Fellow student Rebecca Rutekovsky said the economy is her top issue and she is voting for Romney.

Yet Mr. Romney believes that giving veterans vouchers to spend on private insurance would somehow yield better results. Why?

Mitt Romney is otherwise a strong candidate.

Now, however, she's back in the game, fundraising for Romney.

While introducing him, Romney's wife, Ann, said she hoped her husband would be elected.

Romney, although ahead of the others, still has less than half the 1, 144 delegates needed to secure the nomination.

But Mr. Romney had a more comfortable 20-point lead when the field was narrowed to the most likely five contenders.

Mr Romney's focus on the plight of the middle class is good politics and could potentially turn into good economics.

Mitt Romney's campaign for the Republican presidential nomination got a big boost by winning the endorsement of Chris Christie.

Mister Obama has dismissed Mister Romney's claim that his years at Bain make him the right person to fix the economy.

Romney's conspicuous avoidance of the topic reveals the difficulty he will face if he runs for president again in 2012, as is expected.

President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney are crisscrossing the country.

Indeed, whenever any candidate has defended evidence-based science, they have suffered a backlash: witness the travails of Mitt Romney.

Former governors Mitt Romney of Massachusetts and Mike Huckabee of Arkansas are also in contention in Florida.

TAXES Mr. Obama says Mr. Romney's tax plan would cut taxes further for the wealthy and increase them for everyone else.

Mr Romney visited Poland over the summer and met Cold War hero Lech Walesa, whom he says he admires.

Mitt Romney, a Republican presidential aspirant, called it "an unconscionable abuse of power" .

In either case, there is expected to be widespread violence and rioting if either Romney or Obama win.

So when you hear people scoff that there's no real difference between Obama and Romney, don't believe them.

Two former governors - Jon Huntsman of Utah and Mitt Romney of Massachusetts - clashed over Afghanistan.

Romney has a chance to reintroduce himself at the Republican convention in Tampa, says analyst Norman Ornstein.

Mitt Romney has excited conservatives with his choice of Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan as his running mate.

Romney was magnanimous, issuing a statement claiming that Perry had "earned a place of prominence as a leader in our party" .

China seeks hegemony, but Mr Romney will use carrots and sticks to guide it towards responsible global citizenship.

President Obama and challenger Mitt Romney are offering competing recipes for economic growth.

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney won the five presidential primaries held on Tuesday.

But I remember something that Mitt Romney told me at Bain.

Romney is running about even in public-opinion polls with Rick Santorum, who hopes to appeal to working-class concerns here.

Romney spoke to supporters at his campaign headquarters in Massachusetts.

The Romney campaign made McNamara's story the topic of a TV political ad.

Former Massachusetts Governor Romney, speaking to supporters in Boston, conceded the election a short time earlier.

There are plenty of ways out of the hole Mr Romney has dug for himself.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney opposes using embryos from fertility clinics.

It was unclear whether Mr. Romney's new strategy is advantageous, given the reaction.

In Indonesia, where Mr. Obama spent four of his boyhood years, he was favored, 59 percent to 3 percent, over Mr. Romney.

When Mr Romney was a governor it was not yet heretical for a conservative to propose compelling citizens to buy insurance.

Anyway, it would have made little sense for Mr Romney to build a big national network until he had clinched the nomination.

But Obama's lead in the presidential race is being challenged, as most recent polls show Romney is closing the gap somewhat.

'We can't just sit back and let China run all over us, ' Mr. Romney said last month. 'They're stealing our jobs. '

He says knocking on doors for Mr Romney is easier than winning converts for his church.

He praises Mr Romney most for understanding that it isbusinesses, especially small ones, that create jobs.

But Romney is pressing for Obama to take the official step of labeling China a currency manipulator.

Mitt Romney is 65, is married to his wife Ann since 1969, and they have five sons.

"We can't just sit back and let China run all over us, " Mr. Romney said, calling for tariffs on Chinese goods.