A new minute-long Republican Party ad opens with former President Jimmy Carter in the Oval Office initiating “an upleasant talk” with the American people: Gas prices doubling, trade deficit growing, too many unemployed, federal spending taking a growing portion of...
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks at a rally at the University of North Carolina in this Nov. 3, 2008 file photo.
South Gone Republican Flirts Purple
The Old South era of segregation, poverty, agrarian and small-town industry long ago yielded to a march of events ranging from the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling to the rise of the Research Triangle in North Carolina in...
Read more »Carter Video-Addressing Democrats
This is how a president appears without drawing too much attention: Former President Jimmy Carter will be one of the speakers at next month’s Democratic National Convention — addressing the gathering by satellite on the opening night, Sept. 4. The...
Read more »Obama vs. Romney in Florida: `Disappointment’ vs. `Hope’
As President Barack Obama campaigns today in Florida, Mitt Romney’s campaign welcomed him with an ad about “what a disappointment” he’s been. Obama carried the state with 51 percent of the vote in 2008, nearly three points ahead of Republican...
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Demonstrators during a fundraiser for Mitt Romney in Southampton, N.Y.
Romney’s Resume: Left Bain When?
Updated at 3:55 pm and 6 pm EDT What role did Mitt Romney play at Bain Capital and when did he play it? The Boston Globe today has raised a question about Romney’s insistence that he left the private equity...
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