President Barack Obama raised a combined $43.6 million in April for his campaign and the Democratic Party as he faces a unifying Republican effort around Mitt Romney for the White House.
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Obama raises $44 million for campaign, Dems in May
A coordinated attack by Democrats on Mitt Romney’s plan to “get rid of” Planned Parenthood to help balance the federal budget is part of a larger campaign to ensure that Romney and other Republicans lose credibility with female voters.

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Democrats ride Romney’s Planned Parenthood remark
AP – A Washington state victory in hand, Mitt Romney is looking ahead to Tuesday’s 10-state bonanza that features contests from Alaska to Ohio to Massachusetts, millions in campaign spending and the largest single day of voting yet in the Republicans’ topsy-turvy primary race.
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Republicans start final push toward Super Tuesday
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AP – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney tried to upend Rick Santorum’s image as a principled defender of conservative ideals Thursday, telling voters in Arizona and Michigan that the former senator is just another give-and-take politician.
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Romney pounces on Santorum’s Senate compromises
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Reuters – A local sheriff resigned as a co-chair of Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s campaign in Arizona on Saturday after he was accused of threatening a former male lover with deportation to Mexico if he talked about their relationship.
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Arizona sheriff quits Romney campaign amid accusations
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The Christian Science Monitor – Mitt Romneyâs win in the Maine caucuses, announced Saturday evening, gives an added boost to what already was a good day for him. Earlier, he won the CPAC straw poll vote of conservative activists.
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Maine caucus win gives Romney new momentum
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AP – Long skeptical of Mitt Romney, tea party activists are either warming up to the GOP presidential front-runner or reluctantly backing him after abandoning hope of finding a nominee they like better.

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Tea party: Warming or resigned to Mitt Romney?
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