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The Democrats like the reports of Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital paper trail at the Securities and Exchange Commission. They’ve produced 30 seconds on it — just the right size clip for a TV ad — at BarackObama.com: The video plays...
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The hedgehog knows one big thing, and the fox knows many. But a hedge fund means many things to many people, to borrow from the Greek poet Archilochus. Kind of. And President Barack Obama, an arch fox, is subtly suggesting...
Read more »President Barack Obama has gained an advantage over Republican Mitt Romney in a Pew Research Center Poll showing public confidence in either one’s handling of the economy shifting toward the president in the past month. Obama leads Romney by 50...
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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden at Joint Base Andrews.
After offering lunches, dinners and ballgames with the presidential candidates, the campaigns of President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney are now offering chances to meet their running mates. It’s part of their effort to woo small donors, the people...
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Gymnastics US Olympic Trials in San Jose.
The U.S. Olympic Committee “should be ashamed of themselves” for commissioning uniforms made in China, said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who told reporters the outfits American athletes are to wear while being introduced in London should be put in...
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Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. after a House Democratic caucus meeting.
The revelation that the month-long disappearance from Capital Hill of Illinois Democratic Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is due to treatment for a “mood disorder,” which an aide said yesterday was not for alcohol or drug addiction, has prompted some public...
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President Barack Obama at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
President Obama now flies Air Force One with two spokespeople aboard — White House press secretary Jay Carney and campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki. So should he also be juggling two podium placards? Carney’s West Wing predecessor, Robert Gibbs, told CBS...
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Religious Jews with the Book of Lamentation during Tisha B'av on Jerusalem's Old City.
It seemed like such a good idea at the time. Mitt Romney travels to Israel, for a two-day visit packed with fundraisers for supporters abroad and photo-ops with which to woo Jewish voters back home in the States. But nothing...
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An anti-Obama sticker in Golden, Colorado.
An intriguing coincidence: On the same day the pro-Republican nonprofit Crossroads GPS detailed where it will air $8-million-worth of new ads hammering President Barack Obama, congressional Democrats launched their latest effort to force such groups to reveal their donors. We...
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An inflatable eagle at the Rick Perry Buick GMC dealership in La Salle, Illinois.
That’s the Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index for political Independents in the week ended July 8. The index, produced for Bloomberg by Langer Research Associates, asks people to rate the national economy, the buying climate and their personal finances on a...
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