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President Barack Obama’s economic advisers have argued over everything from the size of the stimulus package to prop trading at the biggest banks. But there’s another topic they debate after hours: Was that ball in or out? Of the original...
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President Barack Obama at a campaign fundraiser at the Oregon Convention Center on July 24, 2012 in Portland.
President Barack Obama maintains a narrow electoral advantage over Republican challenger Mitt Romney, according to the latest run of a Moody’s Analytics’ model for the election. The model, based on state economic data and past voting behavior, projects the incumbent...
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Mitt Romney hosts a small-business roundtable in Costa Mesa, Calif.
Instant replay can be a game-changer. “Okay fans, let’s go to the fumble of the week,” American Crossroads announces in a video-cast worthy of ESPN SportsCenter. “Barack Obama drops the ball on his own one yard line.” The super-PAC is...
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George Soros, founder of Soros Fund Management LLC.
Wealthy donors whose net worth begins with a “B” and whose politics are “D” have emerged. A trio of billionaires contributed more than $3 million in June to a super-PAC supporting President Barack Obama. Their checks accounted for half of...
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Rep. Barney Frank, center, walks down the aisle with his husband, Jim Ready, during their wedding ceremony in Newton, Mass., on July 7, 2012.
Democrats such as Barney Frank, the retiring congressman from Massachusetts who recently celebrated his wedding with Jim Ready, aren’t the only ones promoting gay marriage as a political cause. The campaign for ballot measures in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington...
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Crossing the London Bridge as the Olympic Rings hang from Tower Bridge.
Reporting from London: (with an update at 10:55 am EDT) Mitt Romney arrived in London this morning for a trip which aides hope will remind voters of his work rescuing the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics from financial disaster. Allies...
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A Barack Obama campaign event at the Music Hall in Cincinnati.
A handful of states are going to determine who wins the 2012 presidential election. And among those 10 or so battleground states are 50 counties that will determine which way those states “swing.” In the first of our series, “Bellwethers: A...
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Mitt Romney during the 113th National Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars on July 24, 2012 in Reno, Nevada.
When presumed Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney delivered a foreign policy broadside against President Barack Obama today, the word that generated the most heat was one that he never uttered. A preliminary transcript of Romney’s roughly 27-minute speech to the...
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President Barack Obama speaks with US military veterans at the Gateway Breakfast House in Portland, Oregon, on July 24, 2012.
Marv Self stopped in at the Gateway Breakfast House in Portland, Oregon, to kill some time while President Barack Obama’s motorcade jammed local traffic. Instead, the motorcade came to him. On the way to a campaign fundraiser, Obama’s entourage pulled...
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An Italian tourist with American flags she bought in Times Square.
Here’s a new economic indicator: the lost-and-found in Times Square. Inside the New York Marriott Marquis at Times Square, that is — where a pile-up of used clothing is shining a light on a “bright spot” in the U.S. economy....
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