“The polling is with the president on this,” one media commentator says. The president campaigned on this, another says of President Barack Obama’s plan to tax the wealthiest Americans more — “the clear mandate of this election.” While Republican leaders...
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President Barack Obama gets a hug after speaking at the Rodon Group, which manufactures over 95% of the parts for K'NEX Brands toys, on Nov. 30, 2012, in Hatfield, Pa.
Obama’s ’12 (Fiscal Cliff) Campaign
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Jim Messina, center, campaign manager for the re-election of President Barack Obama, talks with reporters during a tour of the re-election headquarters in Chicago.
Messina: Romney’s Chrysler Ad One of Campaign’s Biggest Missteps
President Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign manager, Jim Messina, said one of the campaign’s biggest missteps by Republican Mitt Romney’s campaign was a controversial ad suggesting that Chrysler Group LLC is moving Jeep productions to China. “They were spending the last...
Read more »Alzheimer’s Association Wants Disease Discussed on Campaign Trail
The Alzheimer’s Association is pushing for candidates in Iowa to talk about the need for more research funding even as the discussion on the campaign trail often reverts to the opposite — cutting federal spending. The group has budgeted $100,000...
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US President Barack Obama is picked up by Scott Van Duzer, owner of Big Apple Pizza and Pasta Italian Restaurant during a visit in Fort Pierce, Florida
Obama’s Florida Pick-ups: `It’s Me’
If President Barack Obama was looking for a lift from his convention speech in North Carolina, he found one in Florida instead. On the second day of his post-convention Sunshine State tour, the president stopped at a Fort Pierce pizza...
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Demonstrators at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Tampa on Aug. 27, 2012.
Americans More Interested in Platforms Than Speeches
Some sobering news today for soon-to-be-Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, counting on his acceptance speech to introduce himself to voters who are just now starting to pay attention to the race. A poll by the Pew Research Center for the...
Read more »Romney: Still the Boss — Day-Two on the Road with Ryan
Mitt Romney and his campaign team are basking in the praise of Republican leaders and commentators who argue his selection of Paul Ryan as a vice presidential running mate was a bold move that showed the courage to put controversial...
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President Barack Obama with supporters after delivering remarks during a campaign event in Orlando on August 2, 2012.
Obama’s 51st Birthday Wish: Florida’s 29 Electoral Votes
The crowd at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, took the cue. Before winding into his standard campaign speech, President Barack Obama took note of an upcoming event. “It’s true that I’m going to be — what am I going...
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An Obama 2012 election campaign app.
App World 2012, Obama-Style
“Put down the clipboard” says the video pitch to supporters, and that pretty much sums up the latest wave in grassroots campaign organizing. The Obama campaign today is launching a smartphone app that lets users: *Access lists of voters in...
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President Barack Obama at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Obama’s Podium: ‘Gov’t Property’
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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The media exit a house net to President Barack Obama's SUV as he meets with Jason McLaughlin, principal of Center Point-Urbana High School, his wife, Ali, an account manager for a document scanning company, and their 4-year-old son Cooper, on middle class tax cuts at their home in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on July 10, 2012.
Iowa Gets Taste of Obama’s Power
President Barack Obama is wielding the power of incumbency. With no official business on his agenda, the president landed aboard Air Force One in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and treated local residents to the full experience of a presidential motorcade rolling...
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