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SALT LAKE CITY -- A progressive political group is claiming Utah Attorney General John Swallow violated state election law.

SANFORD, Fla. - No longer does Mitt Romney tout himself as "severely conservative," as he did last winter and into the spring. And no longer does Romney hail his running mate, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (Wis.), as first and foremost a conservative icon.

It’s hard to believe this nasty and brutish presidential campaign is coming to an end. Through most of the race President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney were neck and neck when it came to misleading statements. But then in the final months of the campaign, Romney pulled ahead (so to speak) with a series of statements and commercials that stretched the limits. Obama’s bending of the facts also got worse - and was nothing to be proud of. (Among the primary aspirants, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., finished with the worst rating overall of any candidate.)

WEST ALLIS, Wis. - There was a familiar ring to the new speech in which Mitt Romney called Friday for a shared sense of purpose and promised an era of national healing.

It sounded very much like the themes Barack Obama ran on four years ago.

TAMPA - Mitt Romney tried to carefully strike a balance between acknowledging the suffering caused by Hurricane Sandy and the imperative of pressing ahead with his bid for the White House as he returned to the campaign trail here Wednesday morning.

HIGHLAND — A local businessman said his campaign signs urging voters to allow businesses to open on Sundays have been vandalized, a sign that the debate over the ballot issue may be getting heated.

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE - Welcome to the "Jen and Jay Show," the latest iteration of the White House news briefing.

Known as "gaggles" when they take place on Air Force One, the daily briefings became a two-person road show over the summer when President Barack Obama hit the campaign trail in earnest and petite, 33-year-old redhead Jennifer Psaki climbed aboard alongside Jay Carney to answer the growing volume of campaign-related questions coming from the press.