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Rep. Todd Akin leaves a news conference after he announced his plans to stay in the race for the U.S. Senate.
Though disavowed by many in his own party for his comments about “legitimate rape,” Missouri Republican Todd Akin is hoping for some reconciliation with the GOP. In an interview on Fox Business Network tonight, the Senate candidate, who is trying...
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A delegate holds a UAW sign during day two of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Charlotte.
“Don’t bet against the American worker, don’t bet against the American people,” President Barack Obama is seen saying on the mammoth video screen behind the stage of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. Cheers from the convention floor. A second-generation...
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Former President Bill Clinton hugs President Barack Obama after addressing the Democratic National Convention.
Written with John McCormick Bill Clinton will deliver the address nominating Barack Obama for re-election tonight. And Obama will be here. The president plans to watch the former president’s speech on the blue-carpeted stage of the Time Warner arena in...
Read more »Updated at 9:15, 9:23 and 9:35 p.m. Long lines of people are waiting to enter the Time Warner Arena to see and hear the speakers on the second official night of the Democratic convention in Charlotte. But not everyone is...
Read more »Updated at 8:30 pm EDT Written with Jonathan Salant and Jim Rowley President Barack Obama personally intervened today in amending his party’s platform to recognize Jerusalem as the rightful capital of Israel, in an effort to have the platform better...
Read more »So the Democratic Party is the Hollywood party, right? Clint Eastwood and Jon Voight notwithstanding. So this is a party not to be outdone by the surprise cameo appearance of Eastwood at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, where he...
Read more »For a guy whose vice president “invented” the Internet, Bill Clinton isn’t so savvy with social media: He doesn’t have a personal Twitter account. When the former president takes the stage tonight, it’ll be up to the millions of Twitter...
Read more »Fact checkers for news organizations worked overtime at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, where Paul Ryan’s speech accepting his party’s vice presidential nomination contained at least seven inaccurate, incomplete or otherwise truth-challenged statements. The Democrats have not been without...
Read more »President Barack Obama “put a floor under the crash” and started the “long, hard road to recovery,” former President Bill Clinton says in making a case at his party’s national convention that re-electing Obama will be better for the nation’s prosperity....
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Mitt Romney, Ohio Republican Senator Rob Portman, center, and Ohio Governor John Kasich during a campaign stop at Tom's Ice Cream Bowl in Zanesville, Ohio, on August 14, 2012.
Mitt Romney is holed up in Vermont practicing for October’s presidential debates with Senator Rob Portman of Ohio as a rheorical sparring partner. Romney, when asked how his debate preparations were going, said, ”I’m just glad I won’t be debating Rob...
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