A new minute-long Republican Party ad opens with former President Jimmy Carter in the Oval Office initiating “an upleasant talk” with the American people: Gas prices doubling, trade deficit growing, too many unemployed, federal spending taking a growing portion of...
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Time Warner Cable Arena has been transformed with $7 million for the Democratic National Convention.
Charlotte, host to this week’s Democratic National Convention, has been growing quickly the last decade, ranking 13th among the fastest-growing 50 U.S. metropolitan areas, according to the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce. To adapt to its success, the city now works...
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Sharon Winesberry, left, and Gus Mansour, delegates from Washington state, on the floor at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte.
The main super-PAC aiding President Barack Obama — Priorities USA Action – raised $10 million last month, its biggest haul in the 2012 election cycle. The figure comes from a person familiar with the committee’s fundraising who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly...
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Mitt Romney at a rally at the Union Terminal in Cincinnati, Ohio, on September, 1, 2012.
President Barack Obama deserves an “A” for honesty for once again giving himself a grade of “incomplete” for his record on the economy. But to his detriment, Mitt Romney strategists no doubt are giving Obama high marks for setting them up...
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Residents of the District of Columbia watch a "fashion show" demonstrating proper work and interview attire during U.S. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton's 15th annual job fair.
Written with Steve Matthews Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said last week that he believes the weak growth and high unemployment that the economy has witnessed since 2008 can be mostly fixed by monetary policy. He told his audience...
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Pins during CarolinaFest 2012 ahead of the Democratic National Convention.
Updated at 2:55 pm EDT President Barack Obama is relying on the argument that the economy could have been worse, except for his policies. It’s a case that doesn’t lend itself to 30-second campaign ads or quick explanations. It can work,...
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A U.S. Army gunner in the turret of an armoured vehicle scans the surrounding grounds during a mounted patrol in the village of Sanjeray in Kunar's Pech Rive Valley.
The United States would be in “very dire straits” and forced to redraw its national security strategy, if the Pentagon’s budget is cut by $500 billion over the next decade, according to Michele Flournoy, an Obama campaign adviser. President Barack...
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Secret Service agents stand guard as Mitt Romney walks to his car after services at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Sept. 2, 2012 in Wofeboro, N.H.
It’s the week after Labor Day during a tight presidential race, so one might expect the newly nominated Republican presidential standard bearer to be barnstorming through swing states pressing to win over undecided voters and his rival’s disaffected backers. So...
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A welder in Owensboro, Kentucky.
As Democrats gather in Charlotte to nominate President Barack Obama for a second term, a pillar of the economic recovery showed some cracks. The Institute for Supply Management said today American factories pulled back in August for a third consecutive...
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Job seekers meet prospective employers at an employment fair sponsored by National Career Fairs in San Diego.
The government’s two major budget agencies are taking opposing positions on the long-term impact of the 2007-2009 recession and sluggish recovery on the economy, Bloomberg BNA’s Jonathan Nicholson reports. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, in its updated economic and budget forecast issued...
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