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Democrats target Romney, draw from Bush vs. Kerry (AP)

FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2011, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at a fundraiser in St. Louis.  Democrats in and around Obama’s campaign are targeting Republican Mitt Romney by drawing on lessons from the 2004 campaign run by Republicans and President George W. Bush against Sen. John Kerry seven years ago. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)AP – A beleaguered president seeks re-election. His challenger, a candidate with Massachusetts roots and a presidential demeanor straight out of central casting, has to fight through a primary contest fending off charges of flip-flopping. In the end, the challenger’s strength also proves his vulnerability.


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Romney on middle ground: I can work with Democrats (AP)

Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry, left,  speaks to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, right, as businessman Herman Cain, center, listens during a Republican presidential debate at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., Tuesday night, Oct. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)AP – Presidential challenger Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama of failing to lead in a time of economic peril but sounded less conservative than his Republican rivals in their debate Tuesday night, defending the 2008-2009 Wall Street bailout and declaring he could work with “good” Democrats.


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Romney in debate: I can work with ‘good’ Democrats (AP)

Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, makes a point as Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum listen during a presidential debate at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Toni Sandys, Pool)AP – Presidential candidate Mitt Romney took some less staunchly conservative stands than his rivals in their debate Tuesday night, declaring he can work with “good” Democrats and positioning himself closer to the center in line with his claim that he can draw crucial independent voters in next year’s general election.


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Senate Democrats add millionaire tax to jobs bill (AP)

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid of Nev., left, accompanied by Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., speak about the President Barack Obama's jobs bill during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday Oct. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP – Struggling to deliver the big jobs package proposed by President Barack Obama, Senate Democrats are using the issue to force Republican senators to vote on tax increases for millionaires, picking up on a White House theme that the nation’s wealthiest Americans aren’t paying their fair share.


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Senate Democrats rewrite part of Obama’s jobs bill (AP)

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid of Nev., left, accompanied by Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., speak about the President Barack Obama's jobs bill during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday Oct. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP – Senate Democrats are rewriting portions of President Barack Obama’s jobs bill to include a new 5 percent tax on income above $1 million — a proposal that is sure to be blocked by Republicans.


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Democrats want debt-cutting panel to address jobs (AP)

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky speaks with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011. He is joined at right by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP – Democrats on a special congressional debt-reduction supercommittee want it to include jobs creation as part of its work, a task that would complicate the newly created panel’s already formidable assignment.


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2 Wisconsin Democrats keep their Senate seats (AP)

FILE - In this July 19, 2011 photo, Democratic Sen. Bob Wirch of Pleasant Prairie talks with a colleague before debate begins on redistricting in Madison, Wis. Wirch, a lifelong resident of Kenosha in southeast Wisconsin, faces Republican attorney Jonathan Steitz in the recall elections on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011,  a newcomer to the state who's running his first campaign. Wirch served four years in the state Assembly in the 1990s and has been in the Senate since 1997.   (AP Photo/Scott Bauer, File)AP – Both of the Democratic Wisconsin state senators up for recall elections have survived.


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