Standing up for one’s opponent in public takes a certain, well, position. John McCain did four years ago. Mitt Romney didn’t today. It was in Lakeville, Minnesota, in 2008, when a woman wearing a McCain-Palin T-shirt at a rally for...
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Mitt Romney during a campaign rally at Cleveland State University's Cole Center on March 2, 2012 in Ohio.
Romney Passes on ‘Treason’ Remark — Until Later: `Of course not’
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International Brotherhood of Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa, right, with Vice President Joe Biden at the union's international convention in Las Vegas on July 1, 2011.
Teamsters Ride Again — for Obama
President Barack Obama, who hasn’t always seen eye-to-eye with organized labor, today picked up the support of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. “President Obama is the clear choice for working families in November,” Teamsters President James Hoffa said at the...
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New cars at the Port of Long Beach in California.
Bright Signs: Autos, Credit, Housing
Last week’s disappointing payrolls report prompted more talk that the American economy is headed for another slowdown, like the ones in the past two years. Last year, the economy was hit from all sides: rising oil prices, the European debt...
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A job fair in New York City.
Out of Work Forever: ‘Hysteresis’
Hysteresis: Something new to worry about. So many Americans have been jobless for so long that economists are on the lookout for signals that the longest recession since the Great Depression may cause permanently elevated unemployment. Never before in postwar...
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Supporters with President Barack Obama, who launches his 2012 re-election campaign, on May 5, 2012 in Richmond, Virginia.
Magic Number of the Day: 120
That’s the cumulative number of electoral votes in the nine states where President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign is airing a new campaign commercial that touts the administration’s accomplishments in national security and economic policy. The states are Florida (29 electoral...
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An anti-Obama sticker in Golden, Colorado.
Obama-Romney Tied Six Months Out
It’s close. Six months from Election Day, Nov. 6, the expected contest between President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney appears to be a dead heat. Slice it either way: Nationally, or in the...
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