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Supporters with President Barack Obama in Sandusky, Ohio.
Updated at 7:05 am EDT As the “fiscal cliff” approaches at year’s end, President Barack Obama and surrogates plan a coordinated campaign to extend the Bush-era tax cuts for American families earning less than $250,0oo a year. The push for...
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Protestors from MoveOn.org, the Occupy Movement and the Long Island Progressive during a fundraiser for Mitt Romney on July 8, 2012, in Southampton, N.Y.
Protesters unfurled a “Koch Kills” banner and shouted “shame on you” as wealthy donors to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney rounded a corner in Range Rovers, Denalis and other dark-colored luxury vehicles on their way to a fundraiser at...
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Mitt Romney with his famiy on Lake Winnipesaukee in Wolfeboro, N.H.
As the thermometer reached 106 in Washington, we couldn’t help but think of vacations. And how, with an election four months out, certain plans are changing. We had caught word of President Barack Obama’s plans to abandon what was becoming...
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Rep. Barney Frank and his partner Jim Ready in Newton, Mass.
Wedding bells rang for Barney Frank this weekend. The first sitting member of Congress to have a same-sex marriage called for a unique celebration. Nancy Pelosi dancing to ZZ Top’s “Sharp Dressed Man” qualifies as unique. (And here’s a sign...
Read more »President Barack Obama’s television barrage against Republican Mitt Romney continued today with two new ads attacking his opponent on job “outsourcing” and abortion. The outsourcing ad, called “The Problem,” aims at Romney’s background as a private-equity executive at Bain Capital....
Read more »As the U.S. winds down its war in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama has effectively removed two long-running wars from this year’s election debate. And Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who was Obama’s most threatening election challenger in 2008, is nearing...
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President Barack Obama speaks at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on July 6, 2012.
President Barack Obama is running campaign ads portraying his rival, Republican Mitt Romney, as the outsourcer-in-chief. “I know that sometimes modern campaigns aren’t pretty to watch, because basically so much of it involves millions of dollars on television,” Obama told...
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The cast of 'The Jersey Shore' in Los Angeles.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie brags about once asking New York counterpart Andrew Cuomo to take back the cast of MTV’s “Jersey Shore” because of their obnoxious behavior. Christie got into the act himself last night. Shortly after ordering an...
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A welder works on the deck component of a petroleum tanker at the Aker Philadelphia Shipyard.
“Inch by inch, yard by yard, mile by mile,” the economy is starting to come back. That’s President Barack Obama’s word on the economic recovery this afternoon. The president was addressing an audience at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh near the...
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Mitt Romney in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.
The Obama campaign isn’t letting “Cookiegate” go. An e-mail circulated to reporters covering the president’s two-day bus tour of Ohio and Pennsylvania announced that cookies from Pennsylvania’s Bethel Bakery would be awaiting them at Carnegie Mellon University for the president’s...
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