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The Xbox Microsoft booth during the E3 gaming conference.
Two institutions that have seen steep declines in popularity — Congress and Facebook — are being teamed up to make legislation fun again. Rocket Surgeon Entertainment executives head to Capitol Hill today to show off the start-up’s political Facebook game,...
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Former President Bill Clinton
President Barack Obama is turning to a familiar spokesman to make a direct appeal for his re-election in November: Former President Bill Clinton. The Obama campaign is releasing a new aTV ad today that features Clinton looking squarely into the...
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Protesters against the Affordable Care Act and calling for "Medicare for All" in front of the Supreme Court.
That’s the number of television ads mentioning Medicare that the presidential candidates and their allies ran between April 10 and Aug. 20, according to Kantar Media’s CMAG, which tracks advertising. It’s a small share of the 526,633 presidential election ads...
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Sandra Fluke introducing President Barack Obama during a campaign stop at the Auraria Events Center on August 8, 2012 in Denver.
Look who’s raising money for President Barack Obama: Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown Law graduate whom conservative talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh called a “slut” earlier this year for her advocacy of Obama’s mandate of insurance coverage for birth control. Fluke has introduced Obama...
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A lawsuit filed by a former Gallup Inc. employee and joined by the Justice Department says the venerable polling organization, billing itself as “the most trusted name in polling,” has been dishonest with the U.S. government. The suit in U.S....
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Soldiers of the 4th brigade combat team 4th infantry division of the U.S. Army dispose of waste left by mortar rounds at the Forward Operating Base Joyce, in the Kunar province in Afghanistan on August 20, 2012.
To solve a problem requires knowing that problem: analyzing it, diagnosing it and then treating it. Yet when it comes to the deficit, Washington is woefully ignorant. A Bloomberg Government study, “What Really Caused the Mounting Federal Deficit”, provides a...
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A real estate agent who specializes in distressed properties walks outside after checking a house in West Palm Beach, Fla.
A new group made up of frustrated homeowners who owe more on their homes than they are currently worth say that they could be a decisive vote in key swing states in November. “Underwater voters are the single most underestimated...
Read more »It has come to this in a campaign season awash with money from unknown sources: A secretly funded Democratic group is running a TV ad naming the Koch brothers as the secret donors of Republican groups. In a 30-second spot...
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John Zito looks at a rendering of the display screens on stage at the Republican National Convention at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Fla.
At 30 seconds a pop, and sometimes 60, it would take you more than six months to watch all 526,633 presidential election ads that have run on television since the general election began in earnest in early April. If you...
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President Barack Obama participates in an interview with YouTube and Google from the Roosevelt Room of the White House.
President Barack Obama’s effort to reach out to the high-tech community in order to make up for a drop-off in Wall Street campaign funding hasn’t really paid off. According to the latest analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics, a...
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