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Mitt Romney campaigns in Las Vegas Tuesday. Photo by: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images With little fanfare, Willard Mitt Romney crossed an important threshold Tuesday. The 65-year-old former governor of Massachusetts clinched enough primary delegates to earn the Republican Party's nomination to…

// With polls showing two-thirds of Latino voters supporting President Barack Obama for re-election, the Republican Party faces an uphill battle to capture the Hispanic electorate in November. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Telemundo poll released last week shows that less…

Mitt Romney campaigns on Memorial Day in San Diego. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Texas, home to the last two Republican presidents, will be the state that pushes Mitt Romney across the 1,144 delegate threshold Tuesday. The presumptive Republican nominee…