Written with Jonathan Salant Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire says opponents “can’t bully me into changing my vote” on background checks for gun buyers. The opponents in this case, she says, are New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and President...
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Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., waves as she ends her speech at the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., on March 15, 2013.
Ayotte in Crossfire: ‘Can’t Bully Me’
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Members of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America wait to enter the office of Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) at Russell Senate Office Building on April 17, 2013 in Washington, DC. The group held a 'Stroller Jam' event to call on senators to vote to strengthen gun regulations.
Kelly Ayotte Gets Her Gun Ads
There may be no one senator spotlighted so intensely about her vote against background checks for gun-buyers as New Hampshire’s Kelly Ayotte. Fifty percent of New Hampshire voters surveyed by Public Policy Polling after the vote said they would be...
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Voters fill the booths on Nov. 6, 2012, at the Stockton Community Center in Stockton, Minn.
Minnesota Tops in Voter Turnout (Again) — Obama Carried Top-Five
Minnesota is the nation’s undisputed champion when it comes to voter turnout. About 76 percent of Minnesota residents who were eligible to vote in the 2012 election cast a ballot, leading the nation for the eighth time in the past...
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Barack Obama, as a presidential candidate, campaigning in New Hampshire, 2008. Photograph by Keith Bedford/Bloomberg
Obama’s New Hampshire Win: Cities
President Barack Obama carried New Hampshire for the second straight election on Nov. 6 partly by maintaining his big margins from four years ago in the state’s three biggest municipalities. Obama beat Republican challenger Mitt Romney by 55-44 percent in...
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Richard Serino, Deputy Administrator, FEMA, left, and President Barack Obama, during a news conference on Hurricane Sandy at FEMA Headquarters, in Washington, D.C.
Sandy, Safety: Campaign Consensus
Updated at 7:20 am EDT Sandy has taken a toll on the campaign one week and a day from Election Day: No Ohio for President Barack Obama today. No more Florida either. No New Hampshire for Mitt Romney on Tuesday....
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Ann Romney on "Good Morning America" yesterday.
Ann Romney: On the Air Everywhere
Ann Romney was talking about “dancing horses and dancing stars, but not politics,” the network says, in her co-hosting of ABC News’ “Good Morning America” this week, and she was sharing her recipe for Ann Romney’s Welsh Skillet cakes —...
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A couple with their marriage license after their wedding ceremony at the Manhattan City Clerk's office in New York.
Obama Appeals to Gay Marriage Supporters in `Live-Free’ N.H.
“What are you going to tell them? You were too busy? You didn’t think it mattered?” a woman asks in an advertisement now playing on radios in New Hampshire. “Is that what you’re going to to tell your friends who...
Read more »Obama Tops Romney in TV Ads — New Hampshire in Particular
President Barack Obama’s campaign is running more television ads than Mitt Romney and his allies in key states, aided by a bigger campaign treasury than his Republican opponent’s and by rules allowing candidates to buy ads more cheaply than outside...
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A delegate sits in the Google Inc. photobooth during day two of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Charlotte.
Obama’s Google Edge on Romney — in Swing States: Six to Four
We noted last week that more people are Googling President Barack Obama than those searching for Mitt Romney online. Yet now a deeper-diving Bloomberg analysis of this 47-percent Google edge for the president is generating its own sort of Google...
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U.S. Rep. David Cicilline, left, and challenger Anthony Gemma participate in the 1st Congressional District primary debate at Rhode Island College.
Delaware, New Hampshire, Rhode Island Last to Vote Before Nov. 6
It’s primary election day in Delaware, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, the last states to select major-party nominees for Congress in the Nov. 6 general election. The top contest probably is in Rhode Island, where one-term Democratic Rep. David Cicilline is...
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