All-nighters, early morning campaigning in Tampa. It’s like deja vu all over again. President Barack Obama, making a 48-hour, nonstop tour of swing states and stopping at home-town Chicago today to vote early, opened a campaign rally at Centennial Park...
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President Barack Obama gets a hug from a firefighter at Station 14 during a stop in Tampa, Fla. on Oct. 25, 2012.
Obama’s All-Nighter: Tampa Deja Vu
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Mitt Romney, left, Rep Paul Ryan greet supporters during a Victory Rally at the Daytona Beach Bandshell on Oct. 19, 2012 in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Romney, Ryan: Fireworks, Fly-Away
In the early Florida light, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan lingered on the tarmac as they said their goodbyes this morning, after a wild Friday night rally in Daytona Beech, a city that’s witnessed its share of passing ships. Last...
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Vice President Joe Biden and Paul Ryan will debate tonight.
Vice-Presidential Debates Replayed (Part 2)
Vice President Joe Biden and Republican Rep. Paul Ryan meet tonight at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, for their only debate, continuing a tradition of one No. 2 encounter every four years. Our retrospective of previous vice-presidential debates focuses on...
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Vice President Joe Biden and Republican Rep. Paul Ryan meet tomorrow at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky for their only debate, continuing a tradition of just one encounter between the major party nominees for vice president. Our retrospective of previous...
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President Barack Obama during a presidential debate with Mitt Romney at the University of Denver.
Obama’s Rocky Mountain High? — Gore Suggests, It Was the Altitude
Al Gore, who famously had his own problem with presidential debates that became fodder for Saturday Night Live in 2000, thinks he may be on to President Barack Obama’s problem at the debate with Mitt Romney in Denver last night....
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President Barack Obama at the Iowa State Fair on Aug. 13, 2012, in Des Moines.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 9.5
That was President Barack Obama’s margin of victory by percentage points in the 2008 election in Iowa, where he’s campaigning on a bus tour for three days this week. Today the president visits the communities of Oskaloosa, Marshalltown and Waterloo....
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Cass Sunstein, Director of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget.
Sunstein’s Solution for Simplified Federal Forms: Focus Group Them
The government is taking another stab at making the complex more simple. Cass Sunstein, leaving his office today as the nation’s top regulatory official in President Barack Obama’s White House, issued an order to federal agencies to simplify government forms...
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Mitt Romney and his wife Ann attend the opening ceremony at the Olympic Stadium on July 27, 2012 in London.
Romney’s Gaffes, Quayle’s `Potatoe’ – Hall of Blooper Fame
Was this Mitt Romney’s “potatoe” moment? The presumed Republican presidential nominee’s brief stay in London came off more like a blooper reel than a statesman’s first audition on the international stage. The visit recalled candidate slip-ups of years past — from Dan Quayle’s...
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Marc Benioff, chief executive officer of Salesforce.com Inc.
Obama Co-Chair Supports Obama-Critic Ryan — `I’m an American’
One of President Barack Obama’s campaign co-chairmen also is a political donor to Representative Paul Ryan, one of Obama’s most prominent critics and a top surrogate for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Marc Benioff, chief executive officer of Salesforce.com, the largest...
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Mariela Castro, white shirt, celebrates the 3rd anti-homophobia festival in Havana, Cuba on May 16, 2009.
Rubio Protests Mariel Castro Visa
In the volatile world of Cuban-American exile community politics, it doesn’t take long for a fire to spread. The medium of the message, in this case, is a sign of the times: Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, a rising Republican...
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