Updated at 11:51 am EDT In that bid for the female vote, particularly the young female vote, the first words from this famous young supporter of the president are attention-getting — she’s not talking about what it sounds like she...
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Filmmaker and actress Lena Dunham in New York City.
First-Time Advice: Not Just Anybody
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Pro-life and pro-choice activists outside the U.S. Supreme Court.
Obama’s Second-Term Agenda, Brinkley’s Historical Perspective
The rest of the Rolling Stone interview with President Barack Obama — the one in which the president refers to his Republican rival as “a bull-shitter” – focuses on the president’s view of the meaning of his first term and...
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The conclusion: ”Five reasons we can’t afford four more years of Barack Obama.”
Romney Ad: `The Obama Plan’
Republican Mitt Romney has spent a lot of time in debate and on the campaign trail talking about the last four years. Now, in the final weeks of the contest, the Romney campaign is airing an ad talking about the...
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A doctor visits an elderly patient in her home.
Obamacare Bonuses May Be Improving Medicare Advantage Plans
The Obama administration’s bonus system for insurers participating in Medicare Advantage, the private-market alternative to the government’s traditional health insurance program for the elderly, has been criticized by Republicans as a political giveaway and by the Government Accountability Office as...
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Social Security checks are printed at the U.S. Treasury Philadelphia Finance Center in Pennsylvania.
Social Security Checks: 1.7% Bump — Critics: Seniors Falling Behind
Updated at 10 am EDT More than 55 million Social Security beneficiaries will receive a 1.7 percent cost-of-living adjustment next year, the government said today. The increase will be less than half of the 3.6 percent boost recipients received this...
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People listen as Republican Vice Presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan speaks during the Victory Rally in Florida at Town Square, Lake Sumter Landing on August 18, 2012 in The Villages.Ryan spoke about his family's reliance on Medicare.
Study: Medicare Premiums Would Rise for 59% With Ryan Plan
Elderly people in Florida would have paid more than $200 extra for traditional Medicare if a system similar to Paul Ryan’s proposed overhaul of the program had been in place in 2010, according to researchers at the nonprofit Kaiser Family...
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Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman who heads the Tea Party Caucus, citing MSNBC host Ed Schultz in a campaign commercial? Bachmann’s newest TV spot uses footage from Schultz’s “The Ed Show” on Aug. 17 to tie Jim Graves, a Democratic...
Read more »Obama-Romney Super-PAC Duel
Mitt Romney will pay for running mate Paul Ryan’s budget, if the super-PAC backing President Barack Obama has anything to say about it. President Barack Obama will pay for his health-care act, if one of the super-PACs backing Romney has...
Read more »Obama Unwinds Romney Debate — `President with Character’ Needed
The Obama campaign, working to recover from a presidential debate last week which critics and the polls alike handed to Mitt Romney, is challenging the Republican rival’s “character” with a rebuttal of Romney’s claims on stage. “When the cameras rolled,...
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With a broadcast of the presidential debate reflected in a mirror above the bar, customers at the Havana Social Club in Seattle watch President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney debate.
Obama-Romney Debate: Health Care
“Obama-care,” Republican Mitt Romney said, has made business owners hesitant to hire new people. “Let’s focus on getting the cost down for people,” he said. “We did work on this, alongside of working on jobs,” President Barack Obama said, embracing...
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