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U.S. President Barack Obama appears on stage after being re-elected at McCormick Place in Chicago, Nov. 6, 2012.

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Presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks on election night in Boston, Mass., Nov. 6. Romney conceded the election to President Barack Obama.

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A couple reacts to President Barack Obama being re-elected at The Village Pour House in New York City, Nov. 6.

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Jon Angell, dressed as Captain America, salutes as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney concedes to re-elected U.S. President Barack Obama at the Minnesota Republican election headquarters in Bloomington, Minn., Nov. 6.

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People celebrate with a cardboard cutout of the President Barack Obama in front of the White House in Washington D.C., Nov. 7.

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Spectators react to President Obama's projected re-election displayed on large televisions, during Mitt Romney's campaign election night event in Boston, Mass., Nov. 6.

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In the final push in the 2012 presidential election, candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama make their last appeals to voters.

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Supporters listen to Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney during a rally at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Marion, Ohio on October 28, 2012.

Michael O'Brien of NBC News reports that auto industry politics is dominating the closing days of the campaign in the all-important battleground state of Ohio:

The Romney campaign circulated on Sunday several newspaper endorsements — the Des Moines Register and the Cincinnati Enquirer among them — to argue that the Republican ticket had made inroads in crucial swing states. The Obama campaign responded in kind by sending reporters endorsement editorials from the Youngstown Vindicator and the Toledo Blade, both of which referenced the 2009 auto industry bailout as a point in Obama's favor.

The auto bailout — which Romney had opposed, memorably, in a New York Times op-ed entitled "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt" — has assumed a central role in the closing days of the campaign, especially as the election plays out largely on a Midwestern, industrial and economically-battered playing field. Read the full story.

From tramping through cornfields to munching ice cream cones to holding babies – the time-honored traditions of the campaign trail leave President Barack Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney looking surprisingly alike.

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A young supporter of presidential candidate Mitt Romney is dressed as "Super Romney" at a campaign rally in Reno, Nevada, on Oct. 24.

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A supporter dressed in costume is seen cheering during a campaign event for President Barack Obama at City Park in Denver, on Oct. 24.

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President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney at the 67th Annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner in New York on October 18, 2012.

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Obama and Romney share a laugh with Cardinal Timothy Dolan, center.

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The lighthearted white-tie charity gala has long been a tradition of the presidential race.

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President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney took a break from their often rancorous campaigns to poke fun at each other and themselves at the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner in New York, Thursday night.

Romney told the formal white tie and gown crowd that, "it's nice to finally relax and wear what Anne and I wear around the house."

Through much of the evening, the two candidates sat just one chair down from each other. Only host Cardinal Timothy Dolan separated them, the Associated Press reported.

Romney told the crowd, "I was actually hoping the president would bring Joe Biden along this evening, because he'll laugh at anything." Read the full story.

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A man puts his arm around a life-size cutout of U.S. President Barack Obama as he poses for a photo beside a cutout of U.S. Republican presidential nominee and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, outside the site of the second U.S. presidential campaign debate in Hempstead, New
York on Tuesday.

Michael O'Brien, NBC News reports: President Barack Obama enters his second debate Tuesday against Mitt Romney looking to regain his footing and determined to prevent the Republican challenger from scoring another strong debate performance that could further revitalize the GOP presidential nominee's campaign. And, by all indications, both candidates are braced for a spirited encounter. Read the full story.

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A group poses with a life-size cutout of U.S. Republican presidential nominee and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.

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Mitt Romney supporters gather in a parking lot at Hofstra University on Tuesday.

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A group of U.S. President Barack Obama supporters hold up letters spelling out Obama's campaign slogan on Tuesday.

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Mid morning sun shines on Dalton-in-Furness, northwestern England on September 26, 2012. Relatives of U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney were born and bred here in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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A sign for Romney Road is seen on a street in Dalton-in-Furness. Not many people would associate Romney with Britain but it was in these rain-soaked plains of northern England that his ancestors lived for generations, converted to Mormonism and left for the U.S. in 1841 in search of the promised land.

Reuters reports from Barrow-in-Furness, England — Mitt Romney's fight to become America's next president has the backing of one enthusiastic group of supporters, although they don't actually have a vote: his relatives in England.

Few associate the Republican candidate with Britain but it was in England's industrial northwest that his ancestors lived for generations and converted to Mormonism before leaving for the United States in 1841 in search of the promised land.

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It was a bold escape for a family of lowly carpenters. By sailing for the New World they took a step that eventually brought the Romney clan to the fore of American politics.

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Jennie Iveson, aged 69, poses with family photographs inside her terraced home in Barrow-in-Furness. Jennie is Mitt Romney's fourth cousin.

Records show that Jennie Iveson is Mitt Romney's fourth cousin - they share a great-great-great grandfather, George Romney, who died in 1859. And now she can't help but notice that her distant American relative does bear a striking family resemblance.

"I saw him on the telly twice the other day, last week I think. He looks a bit like my brother," said Iveson, a retired factory worker, most of whose children have no jobs.

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"(My brother) looks quite like him. He had dark hair like him. It's all grey now. He (Romney) looks like our Mike. Same sort of face and everything." Read the full story.

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Jennie Iveson poses outside her terraced home in Barrow-in-Furness. Her distant cousin Mitt Romney is one of the wealthiest Americans ever to run for the White House. Today, Washington's backrooms of power and intrigue are as far removed from the daily grind of his distant kin in Lancashire as one can imagine.

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Simon Nash, his wife Maria and their 12-year-old daughter Sarah pose inside their home in Preston. Maria is Mitt Romney's fourth cousin, twice removed. Asked if she would like to meet Romney in the White House, Maria said "I think it would be very surreal. I would like to go there for a brew (cup of tea) if he ever got in there."

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An original baptism record shows details of some of Mitt Romney's clan who were born and bred in the parish of Preston.

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Mormons attend a service at a church beside the Preston England Temple in Chorley, Europe's biggest Mormon temple, September 26, 2012.

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Vice President Joe Biden reaches out to hold four-month-old Simon Hamill after Biden's campaign event Sept. 13, at the Zorn Arena on the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire campus.

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney reacts as he is presented with cake from a member of the media who celebrated her birthday on the campaign plane on the way to Long Island, N.Y., on Sept. 13.

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney holds a crying baby as he greets supporters at a campaign rally in Fairfax, Va., on Sept. 13.

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Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney laughs as he returns to the stage with his wife Ann as his running mate Paul Ryan waits for them at a Republican National Convention farewell victory rally at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport in Lakeland, Florida on Friday.

After accepting the Republican party's nomination for president, Mitt Romney celebrated and showed off his new wings - a new campaign plane. Painted along the side of the plane is his campaign's motto, 'Believe in America,' and website, along with his "R" logo on the tail.  The customized jet is a McDonnell-Douglas 83. Apparently, his running mate, Paul Ryan, has a similar plane, a DC-93.

His first trip aboard the the aircraft is to New Orleans where he will view damage caused by Hurricane Isaac. 

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Mitt Romney is joined by vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan and their wives at a campaign rally in front of their new campaign plane in Lakeland, Florida on Friday.

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Secret Service agents guard the campaign bus of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney during an RNC Farewell Victory rally on Friday in Lakeland, Florida.

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Republican presidenial nominee Mitt Romney and vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan (center, front) pose with members of their staffs in the convention hall before the final session of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, Aug. 30.

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (center left) and Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan (center right) pose with campaign staffers for a photo during the final day of the Republican National Convention, Aug. 30.

On the final day of the Republican National Convention, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan and their staffs got together to have a group picture made. I'm guessing the official photographer is the one up on the ladder and the other photographers are members of the press and other RNC attendees. As a former photographer, I know you have to take enough frames to be sure you've got one with everyone smiling, eyes open and all the faces clearly visible. With the size of this group, that can be challenging. Looks like Reuters photographer Mike Segar and Getty photographer Chip Somodevilla found a good vantage point as well. 

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Tonight Mitt Romney takes the stage to address the convention and has the chance to reshape the arc of the presidential campaign. When he accepts the party's nomination tonight on national television, he'll become the official GOP nominee.

Last night, Paul Ryan officially accepted the nomination to be the GOP nominee for vice president. 

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