President Barack Obama, Congress and Washington regulators take stock of the damage cause from disasters both natural and man-made today. Obama travels to New York City to assess the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and the progress of recovery. The “superstorm”...
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Obama’s New Libyan Defense Chief: Bush’s Paul Wolfowitz, on Benghazi
Update at 5 pm EST, Nov. 8 After a day paling around in Hurricane Sandy disaster areas with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, President Barack Obama got an unexpected defense today from an even more surprising corner of the Republican...
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President Barack Obama comforts Hurricane Sandy victim Dana Vanzant as he visits a neighborhood in Brigantine, New Jersey, on Oct. 31, 2012.
Obama’s Hurricane Response: 78-Percent Positive in Tracking Poll
While the presidential election, nationally, remains a virtually tied contest, likely voters of all political stripes have blessed President Barack Obama’s response to the storm that lashed the Northeast this week. The ABC News/Washington Post daily tracking, for several days...
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Damage in the Rockaway neighborhood, on Oct. 31, 2012, where the historic boardwalk was washed away during Hurricane Sandy in the Queens borough of New York City.
`Frozen’ Presidential Race Thaws, Heating up for Homestretch
Superstorm Sandy “tended to freeze” the presidential race while Americans focused on the storm, President Barack Obama’s strategist David Axelrod said on a conference call with reporters today. Axelrod, saying he was reluctant to discuss the political impact of an...
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Aerial views of the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy to the New Jersey coast taken during a search and rescue mission by 1-150 Assault Helicopter Battalion, New Jersey Army National Guard on Oct. 30, 2012.
Christie: `Jersey Shore Gone’ — Obama in Garden State Today
“I don’t give a damn about Election Day after what has happened here,” New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie wrote in one of the many Twitter messages issued by the governor of the Garden State yesterday. “I am worried about the...
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FEMA workers load food for affected areas onto waiting trucks at Republic Airport in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 30, 2012 in Farmingdale, New York.
Biden: FEMA ‘Doing One Helluva Job’
Vice President Joe Biden says, as best as he can tell, FEMA is doing “one helluva of a job.” That could be a risky comment, so early in the federal response to Hurricane Sandy’s flooding and devastation in New Jersey...
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Mitt Romney accepts a food donations from a supporter during a Kettering Storm Relief event on Oct. 30, 2012 in Kettering, Ohio.
Romney’s Storm Relief Rally — Struggling for Perfect Sandy Pitch
With a storm still pummeling the eastern United States, Mitt Romney struggled to strike the right tone before supporters in Kettering, Ohio, today. Standing in front of tables loaded with diapers, canned goods and bottled water, Romney jettisoned his standard...
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks at Anglesea Fire House in North Wildwood N.J.
Chris Christie: Obama Doing `Great Job’
Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey, delivered the keynote address at Republican Mitt Romney’s presidential nominating convention. Christie has served as a surrogate for Romney on Sunday talk shows. So when Christie says — on FOX News — that President...
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A view of a flooded plaza along Water Street after Hurricane Sandy left most of lower Manhattan without power on Oct. 30, 2012.
Gallup Suspends Tracking for Sandy
For month after month, through bad economic news and good economic news, through debate after debate, Gallup has been tracking public opinion of President Barack Obama and then his Republican rival for the White House, Mitt Romney. That stops tonight,...
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Mitt Romney listens in on a conference call with advisors aboard his campaign bus en route to a campaign rally at Avon Lake High School on Oct. 29, 2012 in Avon Lake, Ohio.
Romney Resets for Sandy, Questions — Adviser: `I Don’t Have a Clue’
In the final days of a presidential campaign, nothing is left to chance. Motorcade rides, rallies and the rest are choreographed down to the minute by fleets of radio earpiece-wearing staffers. So when Hurricane Sandy prompted Romney to jettison his...
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