In high school, a young Barack Obama was promiscuous with the Kellis. At least with his phone number. With Time magazine’s publication of Obama’s prom pictures and a flirty note he wrote to his best friend’s date, we now have...
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A young Barack Obama in this undated photo made available to the media on Feb. 12, 2008.
Young Obama Gave Ladies His Digits
Kirk Backs Pritzker After Call From Donor
Sen. Mark Kirk, an Illinois Republican, yesterday announced his support for Penny Pritzker, the Chicago businesswoman, philanthropist and Hyatt Hotels heiress who is President Barack Obama’s nominee for Commerce secretary. Kirk said he and Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, will introduce Pritzker...
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Free Syrian Army fighters take a break from the front line in Aleppo, Syria.
Senators Take Up Bill to Arm Syrian Rebels
As frustration mounts over the war in Syria, senators will prod President Barack Obama to do what he has resisted: arm the rebels. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee takes up a bill today that would authorize the president to provide...
Read more »Alabama Joins States Pursuing Differing Paths on Gun Control
The firearm regulation debate spurred by December’s massacre of 20 first-graders and 6 adults by a young gunman at a Connecticut elementary school ultimately may be remembered for heightening the divide between Democratic-leaning “blue” states and Republican-prone “red” states. A bill that cleared...
Read more »Reignited Benghazi Debate Doesn’t Sway Public Opinion
Congressional Republicans’ renewed focus on the 2012 attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, has yet to transform the matter into a dominant public concern, according to two new polls. The surveys show limited interest in what some Republicans are calling...
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Technicians stand in front of a large television screen as it displays footage of cookies bearing the image of President Barack Obama prior to an election night rally in Chicago, Illinois, on Nov. 6, 2012.
Obama, Romney Vote Totals Still Changing
Six months after the 2012 presidential election, you’d think we’d know for sure how many votes President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney received. It turns out, though, that exact numbers are still elusive because of late revisions to...
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A bilingual sign stands outside a polling center in Texas.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 48%
That’s the share of eligible Hispanics who voted in the 2012 presidential election. The voter turnout rate among Hispanics — a burgeoning bloc that leans Democratic — fell from 49.9 percent in 2008, when President Barack Obama won his first...
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Eileen Woofford, 84, waited in line to cast her vote at Cleveland Avenue Baptist Church on November 6, 2012 in Kansas City, Missouri.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 66.2%
That’s the share of black voters eligible to vote in the 2012 presidential election who cast a ballot. Blacks outvoted non-Hispanic whites, who had a 64.1 percent turnout rate, according to a Census Bureau report released yesterday. It’s the first...
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Pedestrians carry shopping bags on Market Street in San Francisco.
Political Independents Finally Lose Recession Blues
Looking at consumer confidence, political independents are in a Christmas holiday mood — if we look back to 2007. Sentiment among those without a party affiliation climbed last week to the highest level since the week ended December 23, 2007,...
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Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx greets President Barack Obama as he arrives at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, N.C. on March 7, 2012.
Washington Daybook: Traveling
President Barack Obama will nominate Charlotte, North Carolina, Mayor Anthony Foxx, a Democrat, to lead Transportation Department, Bloomberg News reported. The Consumer Federation of America today releases a report on the status of progress toward an auto fuel-economy standard of...
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