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President Barack Obama walks to Marine One prior to departing to Florida and Virginia to attend campaign events.
In the YouTube campaign, the president has taken a wide lead. No. 1 in the top-trending English-language political videos last week: President Barack Obama’s Web-ad about “The Choice:” 1.958 million hits. “It’s a choice between two very different plans for...
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A New Progressive Party rally in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
A new Republican super-PAC will pay to deploy party activists and volunteers from states that aren’t politically competitive in the Nov. 6 election to states that are. Republican Union PAC, which filed organizing paperwork with the Federal Election Commission this...
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Mitt Romney supporters in Orlando, Fla.
As President Barack Obama campaigns today in Florida, Mitt Romney’s campaign welcomed him with an ad about “what a disappointment” he’s been. Obama carried the state with 51 percent of the vote in 2008, nearly three points ahead of Republican...
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A job fair at a state office building in Brooklyn, New York.
For a jump on the nation’s monthly unemployment and payroll figures, watch who walks a brown envelope from the Eisenhower Executive Office Building to the West Wing tonight. Caveat: You probably can’t get a good view, because you don’t have...
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Feel like you’re seeing a Barack Obama ad every time you turn on your local NBC station, but never on Fox? Ever wonder if Mitt Romney prefers advertising during Jeopardy! or Wheel of Fortune? Starting today, you can satisfy these...
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Shoppers browse a selection of ovens on display at Lowe's store in Atlanta.
“The economy is not just down-shifting,” says Mitt Romney’s adviser, Eric Fehrnstrom. “It is slipping into reverse.” Both President Barack Obama — campaigning in Florida and Virginia today — and Republican Romney — campaigning in Colorado — are courting voters...
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Members of Occupy Wall Street and various labor groups protesting Mitt Romney.
The Democrats can’t get Mitt Romney to open more tax returns. So they’re going after the one he has opened — the one showing a multi-millionaire paying 14 percent in taxes. “’You work hard,” the narrator of President Barack Obama’s...
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Mitt Romney's 'Believe in America' bus tour in Pennsylvania.
There is at least one Wal-Mart or Super Wal-Mart in more than half of all U.S. counties. And President Barack Obama ran stronger in those counties when he won election. In 2008, Obama won 62 million votes in the more...
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People arrive to attend a town hall meeting of Mitt Romney in Grand Junction, Colorado.
That’s the vote percentage that President Barack Obama received four years ago in Jefferson County, Colorado, where his Republican challenger Mitt Romney will be campaigning today. Jefferson, which includes Golden and other territory just west of Denver, came the closest...
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President George W. Bush with his Senior Adviser Karl Rove in this 2005 file photo.
History lessons can be useful, and also misleading. The 60-second spot which a youth-oriented subsidiary of American Crossroads has produced, a “primer” opening with the (nearly) $16 trillion debt of the United States, suggests that the current administration is responsible for...
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