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A cutout of President Barack Obama during day one of the Democratic National Convention.
President Barack Obama arrives at his convention upside down. More voters held an unfavorable opinion of Obama than a favorable one going into the Democratic National Convention that opened in Charlotte, North Carolina, tonight. This includes his lowest ratings among...
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The party would not have him in person. But it would have him in video. Jimmy Carter, the Democrat elected president in 1976, is addressing the 2012 Democratic National Convention by video. “I said then that America needs a president...
Read more »Updated at 8:32 p.m. Missouri Republican Todd Akin is trying to cash in on former Florida Governor Charlie Crist’s speech tomorrow at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. The Republican Senate candidate, who is trying to oust freshman Democrat Claire...
Read more »Democratic strategist Paul Begala climbed atop a table at a Charlotte restaurant tonight and addressed President Barack Obama’s super-donors this way: “I don’t want you to give until it hurts. I want you to give until it feels good.” He...
Read more »“My family’s story isn’t special,” Democratic National Convention keynote speaker Julian Castro plans to say tonight in Charlotte. “What’s special is the America that makes our story possible.” And Castro’s story is one the Democratic party seeks to highlight as...
Read more »Democrats are showcasing some candidates for Congress tonight as their national convention begins in Charlotte, North Carolina. In most cases, the candidates are running in Democratic-friendly areas where an association with President Barack Obama or the national party isn’t a...
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First Lady Michelle Obama during a sound check at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte.
This is first lady Michelle Obama’s night on stage. This also is a convention at which Mayor Julian Castro of San Antonio, Texas, will deliver the keynote address. So the Democratic Party is playing a political two-fer with a Web...
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A poster of President Barack Obama, reading 'Yes we can', endorsing a two-state solution based on the borders of 1967 as a peace solution between Israel and Palestine, during a peace demonstration in Tel Aviv.
The Democratic Party platform does not state that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, an omission that’s likely to inflame critics who say President Barack Obama has taken too weak a position towards a stalwart American ally. “President Obama and...
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Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin campaigning at the Northwest Missouri State Fair in Bethany, Mo., on Aug. 30, 2012.
Missouri U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill still has a competitive re-election contest even after Republican officials shunned Representative Todd Akin, a top Democratic Senate campaign strategist said. “It is still a competitive race” and the contest will “stay relatively close” through...
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June Jacobs-Cuffee and her son share $120 a month in food stamps in New York City.
An issue that spiked during the Republican presidential debates is back: President Barack Obama’s role in the growing participation in the food-stamp program. Food-stamp use reached a record 46.7 million people in June, the government said today, prompting a fresh...
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