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President Barack Obama at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
Florida remains a battleground state, and Orange County is one of the 50 or so counties nationally which will determine which way key states “swing” in the 2012 presidential election. In part two of our series, “Bellwethers: A 50-County Election,”...
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U.S. gymnast Alexandra Raisman performs on the beam during the women's team final of the artistic gymnastics event of the London Olympic Games.
This is about the power of the pulpit. Why it’s fun to run for the White House from the White House. “I want to congratulate Michael Phelps — most medals we’ve ever seen,” President Barack Obama told a crowd at...
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President Barack Obama prepares to board Air Force One to Ohio for campaign stops in Mansfield and Akron.
In Ohio, where President Barack Obama is campaigning for reelection today and where a new poll shows him holding an advantage over Republican Mitt Romney, there is room to move between now and November. While 87 percent of the likely...
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Demonstrators on the steps of the Supreme Court protest against the Affordable Care Act in Washington.
The Congressional Budget Office’s new estimates of the budgetary impact of the Affordable Care Act, made in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling last month, glides right by one obvious fact: the budget analysts really have no idea how...
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A campaign sign in Orange, Texas, for Republican congressional candidate Steve Stockman.
Representative Steve LaTourette of Ohio is leaving Congress just as another member of the iconic House Republican Class of 1994, Steve Stockman of Texas, is on his way back after a 16-year absence. Hours after LaTourette revealed his surprise exit yesterday, Stockman was...
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President Barack Obama greets supporters during a campaign event in Mansfield Central Park in Mansfield, Ohio, on August 1, 2012.
That’s the share of the 48,438 presidential campaign television ads in the past seven days that carried a negative tone, according to New York-based Kantar Media’s CMAG, which tracks advertising on local broadcast and national network and cable stations. About 72...
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Volunteers for the Obama 2012 campaign are instructed on how to interact with residents in a Tampa neighborhood as they prepare to canvass the area.
President Barack Obama holds an advantage over Republican Mitt Romney in three swing states critical to the outcome of the presidential election, according to a poll conducted by Quinnipiac University, CBS News and the New York Times. The survey of...
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President Bush, right, is followed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, left, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, center, prior to making a statement to reporters at Al-Asad Airbase in Anbar province, Iraq, in this 2007 file photo.
President Barack Obama has talked about the mess he inherited. Now he’s talking about that mess in the context of the candidate who wants to replace him as president: “You watched and worried — two wars, tax cuts for millionaires,...
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Mitt Romney with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie during a rally in Exeter, New Hampshire.
As Republican Mitt Romney heads to Denver this week, with speculation stirring about his choice of a running mate, Republican governors will be meeting about three hours west. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will join Virginia’s Bob McDonnell, South Carolina’s...
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President Barack Obama speaks at the National Urban League convention in New Orleans on July 25, 2012.
The Obama campaign lately has issued a lot of e-mails about the urgency of contributing money to the president’s re-election drive. Looks like Obama read them. The president cracks open a laptop. ”I’m not just talking the talk — I’m...
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