Margaret Talev
covers the White House for Bloomberg News and covered the White House for McClatchy Newspapers. She has covered California and Florida politics.
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Singer Meat Loaf performs during a rally for Mitt Romney at Defiance High School, in Defiance, Ohio, on Oct. 25, 2012.
Meat Loaf Serving Romney: `Ohio’
Mittloaf? Meat Loaf used to say he’d do anything for love, but he won’t do that. These days, he says, he’d do anything to get Mitt Romney elected president. The aging rocker, clad in bedazzled black, took the stage in Defiance, Ohio, tonight...
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President Barack Obama gets a hug by Scott Van Duzer, left, owner of Big Apple Pizza and Pasta Italian Restaurant during an unannounced stop in Ft. Pierce, Fla., in this file photo.
Bear-Hugged Obama, Pizza Guy: Rallying Floridians Post-Debate
Move over, Bill Clinton, the pizza guy is back. Who could forget Scott Van Duzer, the burly Republican pizza shop owner and Obama supporter from Fort Pierce, Florida, who lifted President Barack Obama off the ground in a bear hug...
Read more »Romney’s Revised Abortion Stance
In Iowa, where an adherence to “right to life” principles has helped candidates from Mike Huckabee to Rick Santorum gain a following in the Republican Party’s presidential caucuses, Mitt Romney said that his agenda includes no abortion legislation — softening...
Read more »Big Bird vs. Bernie Madoff: Sesame Street vs. Wall Street
Updated at 11:20 am and 12:05 pm EDT At a fundraising concert in San Francisco last night, President Barack Obama was still having fun with Republican Mitt Romney’s call in last week’s televised debate to cut funding for the Public...
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Jon Bon Jovi performs at an early vote event for Obama for America at the House of Blues inside the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino on the last day Nevadans are able to register to vote October 6, 2012 in Las Vegas Nevada.
Jon Bon Jovi Plays `Flawlessly’ — Obama: `Can’t Always Say the Same’
In public and private settings, President Barack Obama had some fun at his own expense. With his widely panned first-debate performance. “I’m a big believer in closing the deal,” Obama said last night at a campaign fundraiser with about 150...
Read more »Obama’s `Simple Math’ for Romney
Here’s the Obama campaign’s latest strategy for making the case that Mitt Romney’s tax plan is a $5 trillion proposition that can’t pay for itself regardless of what the Republican presidential nominee said in last week’s debate: The “back of...
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President Barack Obama at a campaign rally on October 4, 2012 at Sloan's Lake Park in Denver.
Obama: Who Was That Masked Romney?
“I met this very sprited fellow who claimed to be Mitt Romney,” President Barack Obama said of his Republican rival today, the morning after their first debate in Denver. “But it couldn’t have been Mitt Romney.” This is the president’s take...
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President Barack Obama visits the Hoover Dam, on Oct. 2, 2012 in Boulder City, Nev.
Obama the Sight-Seer: Hoover Dam
President Barack Obama, practicing for the first of the presidential debates tomorrow night, took some time off from his studies today in Henderson, Nevada, to go sight-seeing. Obama said he decided to go visit the Hoover Dam because “it’s spectacular...
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President Barack Obama carries boxes of pizza as he arrives for an unannounced stop at a campaign office October 1, 2012 in Henderson, Nevada.
Obama Doing `My Homework’
Swing states get curb service: President Barack Obama has delivered White House-brewed beer to a firehouse in Virginia, and today he took a break from debate preparation to deliver boxes of pizza to campaign volunteers in Nevada. “It’s really coming...
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Pakistani activists of the hard line Sunni party Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) beat a protrait ofPresident Barack Obama during a protest against an anti-Islam movie in Peshawar.
Obama: `Awful Things Every Day’
President Barack Obama managed to draw some actual laughs in an otherwise somber speech today to the United Nations General Assembly when he explained why the U.S. doesn’t ban videos such as the anti-Muslim screed that sparked attacks on U.S. embassies...
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