“Our sense is, we’re going to have clarity tonight,” says David Plouffe, President Barack Obama’s chief election strategist.Plouffe, architect of the president’s first election campaign and a senior adviser in the re-election effort, predicts a fairly even break of the...
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"We’re going to have clarity tonight,” says David Plouffe, Obama's chief election strategist.
Obama’s Plouffe: `Clarity Tonight’
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Employees prepare chairs to be sprayed at a furniture manufacturing facility in Lakewood, NJ.
Obama’s GDP Growth Lowest of Six — Some Re-Elected, Some Not
The nation’s Gross Domestic Product has grown less during President Barack Obama’s term than during the first terms of two Bush presidencies, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan. Of course, it started off in a trough during Obama’s first...
Read more »Ohio: Test of Forces at Work Nov. 6
There’s a reason that Ohio is a bellwether. Since last Wednesday’s debate, Mitt Romney has gotten a boost in the polls. He has taken a marginal lead in national surveys and has narrowed a gap with President Barack Obama in...
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President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are seen at the Lavanderia coin laundry during their televised debate on October 3, 2012 in Miami.
Debates: 67 Million Watch, Fox No. 1
Updated at 6:15 pm EDT: With 67.2 million people tuning in to the presidential debate last night, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney drew an audience 28 percent bigger than the first face-off between then-candidate Obama and challenger John...
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Reverend Jeremiah Wright, senior pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on April 28, 2008.
Anatomy of a Political `News’ Hit
In the afternoon before the first of three presidential debates, the Drudge Report, a Web site with a large following, announced that a problematic videotape was coming. Stay tuned. Near the start of the evening newscasts, Drudge reported that FOX...
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Joe Scarborough and co-host Mika Brzezinski host the 'Morning Joe' show.
Scarborough to Romney: Comfort? — `Go Back to Boston’
Joe Scarborough: former Republican congressman from Florida, co-host of the most popular morning cable news show, “Morning Joe.” And for months now: one of the most vocal critics of his party’s candidates for president. Today, on MSNBC, Scarborough was on...
Read more »Obama’s Audience Off from 2008 — Romney Competed with Eastwood
President Barack Obama drew a bigger national television audience at his convention than Republican nominee Mitt Romney did at his, the ratings show. Yet TV viewership this year was off from 2008, according to Nielsen Media Research. Fox News ruled...
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Balloons and confetti during the 2004 Democratic National Convention.
Obama’s Speech: Hold the Balloons
There was one thing missing in a Charlotte convention hall filled with excitement for the somewhat ad-lib, 48-minute speech of former President Bill Clinton and his hug with President Barack Obama onstage afterward: The rafters of the Time Warner Cable...
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President Barack Obama speaks to troops at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, on Aug. 31, 2012.
Obama: `Battle-Tested,’ Saying So
There was no talk of the war in Afghanistan in Republican Mitt Romney’s speech accepting his party’s presidential nomination. There will be plenty of talk about war, and peace, in Charlotte this week. ”You’re going to hear about it from...
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Playing `Hardball’ With Right Party
Judging from cheers pouring from a crowd packed into a courtyard in Charlotte to see MSNBC’s Chris Matthews “play Hardball” on an outdoor stage, it could be that the cable network will have a better time here than it did...
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