President Barack Obama and fellow Democrats have tapped the 37-year-old mayor of San Antonio to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte on Sept. 4. While no one’s counting on Texas to turn blue this year, the...
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Democrats Plan First Latino Keynote
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An Obama 2012 election campaign app.
App World 2012, Obama-Style
“Put down the clipboard” says the video pitch to supporters, and that pretty much sums up the latest wave in grassroots campaign organizing. The Obama campaign today is launching a smartphone app that lets users: *Access lists of voters in...
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Pres. Bill Clinton plays saxophone with other musicians at the DC Armory Ball during inaugural week in 1993.
Bill Clinton’s 66 percent Approval: Like 1993 All Over Again, Man
Bill Clinton is back. Back to where he stood in the public’s eye at inauguration. Two-thirds of Americans surveyed have a favorable opinion of the 42nd president of the United States, the Gallup Poll has found – and that 66 percent...
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Super-PAC Named `Mom:’ $215,000
Laura Ruderman has a very close ally lending big bucks to an outside effort to help her win a U.S. House seat in Washington state. Mom. Margaret Rothschild has donated at least $215,000 to a super political action committee, Progress...
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Mitt Romney and his wife Ann with former Polish President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Walesa during a meeting at Artus Court, in Gdansk.
Romney ‘Fumbled Foreign Policy,’ Obama Campaign says of Rival’s Trip
Updated at 5:45 pm EDT Republican Mitt Romney pledged not to criticize President Barack Obama while traveling abroad — but the Obama White House made no such pledge back home. (Then again, Romney managed to work some criticism in along...
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FBI agent covers the broken window of the apartment of James Holmes, the suspect who opened fire in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.
Post-Colorado Shooting: Gun Control Sentiment no Stronger Than Before
The gun-slaying of 12 people in Aurora, Colorado, has barely moved the needle on public opinion about gun control in America. Forty-seven percent of those surveyed by the Pew Research Center say it is more important to control gun ownership,...
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Vice President Joe Biden in Exeter, N.H.
Obama’s `Blunt’ Campaign Appeal: `The Only Way’ the President Loses
”This will be blunt,” the Obama campaign appeal says. “If we don’t win this election, it will be because we didn’t close the spending gap when we could,” the fundraising appeal from Vice President Joe Biden goes, on the eve...
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Rubber Obama head banks are lined up for sale near the Oregon Convention Center in Portland on July 24, 2012, where President Obama was scheduled to appear.
Romney Plays Obama vs. Obama – Obama Replays Romney Singing
Mitt Romney’s new ad opens with Barack Obama. Barack Obama’s now-old ad features Mitt Romney all the way through. In running 98 percent negative, the opponent, it seems, is the most potent weapon. “Just like we’ve tried their plan, we’ve...
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Sarah Palin speaks to a crowd of about 1,000 Ted Cruz supporters on July 27, 2012 in The Woodlands, Texas.
Texas Senate Runoff Leads Spate of Congressional Primaries
Long overshadowed by the high-profile presidential election, congressional primaries will soon attract more attention. After no House or Senate primary or runoff election in three of the past four weeks, there will be at least one such contest in each...
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Mitt Romney arrives with former Olympic figure skating medalist Kristi Yamaguchi to speak at the start of 'A Tribute to Salt Lake 2002 featuring Stars on Ice,' in Salt Lake City on Feb. 18, 2012.
Yamaguchi: Romney `Brought Hope’ — Adelson Brought $10 Million to the Ads
Restore Our Future, a super-PAC supporting Republican Mitt Rommney’s bid for the presidency, has reported raising $82.2 million for the 2012 elections through June. Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and his wife contributed $10 million of that. The Romney-allied super-PAC, raising...
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