With 60 percent of Americans surveyed voicing a favorable view of President Barack Obama at the start of his second term, his popularity is at its highest since his first year in office, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll....
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An attendee holds an American flag with an image of President Barack Obama before the start of the presidential inauguration in Washington on Jan. 21, 2013.
Obama More Popular than Bush — Less than Clinton, Reagan, at Second Start
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An attendee looking at a Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. semi-automatic assault rifle for sale at the Rocky Mountain Gun Show in Sandy, Utah, on Jan. 5, 2013.
Gun Controls Approved in Polls — Difficult at Best in Congress
Most Americans hold a favorable view of the measures that President Barack Obama proposes for curbing gun violence in America, following the slaying of 20 first-grade children at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, last month. So shows the polling...
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton takes her seat on on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Jan. 23, 2013, prior to testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the deadly September attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
Hillary Clinton Not Going ‘Gently From the World Stage’
Updated at 11:05 and 11:20 am EST Hillary Clinton is taking what could be her final public stage for a few years, today facing questions about what she knew and when she knew it about the attacks on the U.S....
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A student looks for a place to leave flowers at a makeshift memorial for the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting at the entrance of Newtown High School on Dec. 18, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 47
That’s the percentage of Americans who said the Dec. 14 shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, “reflect broader problems in society,” according to a poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Forty-four percent described the shootings instead...
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In a private Senator's Only room in the Capitol, Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), center, is surrounded by her fellow women Senators, Senators Lisa Murkowski (I-AK), Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Claire McCaskill (D-MS), in celebration of her record years of service as the longest serving female lawmaker in Congress, on March 20, 2012.
Women Would Have Fixed It By Now — Senate’s Female Class of ’12 Says
If the women of the House were in charge, this cliff business would be taken care of already. That’s the message from the women of the Senate — with a record-setting 20 ready to take office in January — who...
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Marine pilot Maj. Aric Liberman, second from left, poses for photos with, from left, Gen. James Amos, Commandant of the Marine Corps, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, and U.S. Sen John McCain on Nov. 20, 2012 after delivering a second F-35B Joint Strike Fighter at the conclusion of a re-designation ceremony for Marine Attack Fighter Squadron 121.
Jan Brewer: Where in the World?
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who left her state for an undisclosed destination on Dec. 2, is visiting Arizona soldiers in Afghanistan, according to a person familiar with the governor’s schedule. The Republican governor’s absence was noticed yesterday when she didn’t...
Read more »Jill Kelley on `Inviolability’
Updated at 1:25 pm EST What’s in a title? For Jill Kelley, the Tampa socialite who embraced the world of the top brass at U.S. Central Command, it’s not only a license plate. It’s also “inviolability.” Kelley, whose e-mails complaining...
Read more »Paul Ryan: No Obama Mandate — Romney’s Loss `Bit of a Shock’
Paul Ryan, the budget-cutting congressman from Wisconsin who ran with Mitt Romney on the Republican presidential ticket, maintains that the re-elected President Barack Obama is carrying no mandate for tax increases. “I don’t think so, because they also reelected the...
Read more »Obama-Romney: Breaking the Tie
Neither President Barack Obama nor Republican Mitt Romney ever drew more than 50 percent of the likely voters surveyed by ABC News and the Washington Post since early July. Neither slipped below 46 percent in four months of a campaign...
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Mitt Romney, Republican presidential candidate, left, and U.S. President Barack Obama arrive to participate in a presidential debate at the University of Denver in Colorado.
Obama-Romney: Tied for 10 Days
For the 10th consecutive night in ABC News/Washington Post tracking polls, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney are virtually tied among likely voters — today, it’s 49 percent Obama, 48 percent Romney, a statistical tie in a survey with...
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