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Report: Rubio Not Being Vetted For Veep Slot

Republican sources confirmed to ABC’s Jonathan Karl that Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., often mentioned as a top contender for the second spot on the GOP presidential ticket, is so far not being vetted by Mitt Romney’s vice presidential search team.  

It has been almost two months since Romney picked long-time aide Beth Myers to head his veep search. The fact that Rubio has not been asked to turn over any official documents to the campaign by now suggests that the senator is not on Romney’s short list.

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Romney’s Battleground Audition Tour: Every Veep Counts

FRANKENMUTH, Mich. – When Mitt Romney travels to Wisconsin, people tell him to choose the Badger State’s Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate.  In Ohio, they urge him to pick their senator, Rob Portman.

“I get a very biased audience depending on the state I’m in,” the presumptive Republican presidential nominee told reporters on a flight from Iowa to Michigan on the eve of the last day of his six-state “Every Town Counts” bus tour through key battleground states. 

Romney has campaigned with all four officials in the past, but not since the vice presidential vetting process has begun. On this tour, the scrutiny was intense and Romney’s bus companions played it safe. There was no going off script and no attempt to divert the spotlight from the man who may one day be their running mate.

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New Obama Ad Hits Romney on Massachusetts Record

 

 

In yet another television ad that hits the Republican on his record as governor, the Obama campaign says Massachusetts, with an $18 billion state debt, was first in per person debt on Romney’s watch.

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Poll: Obama Leads in Pennsylvania But Remains Vulnerable

President Obama holds a slight lead in the race for Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes, but Republican challenger Mitt Romney remains well within striking distance in the Keystone State, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released on Tuesday.

The poll shows Obama leading Romney, 46 percent to 40 percent. Nine percent of voters are undecided, while 5 percent would vote for another candidate or would not vote at all.

Obama captures 83 percent of Democrats, while Romney wins 80 percent of Republicans. Independents, who represent a smaller share of the electorate in Pennsylvania than in other states, tilt slightly toward Obama, 43 percent to 35 percent.

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Romney Strongly Defended Individual Mandate, Emails Show

When Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts and getting health reform passed there, emails demonstrate he strongly defended the individual mandate, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Republicans now criticize the much-hated requirement that everyone get health insurance and it’s the center of some of the strongest challenges to the 2010 health reform law. But the emails support the historical evidence that themandate was originally a Republican idea, one that President Obama only reluctantly embraced later.

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