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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Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama following a presidential debate at the University of Denver.
Obama, Romney: `Hot and Cold’ — Web-Fun ala Katy Perry
Web-guys know how to have fun. Fadi Saleh, creator of @BaracksDub, has had some fun on YouTube with the first presidential debate in a take-off on Katy Perry’s “Hot and Cold.” As another debate nears, at 9 pm EDT, this...
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Romney's "mom jeans." Not cool but, evidently, ok.
Romney’s Not Cool And That’s OK
Mitt Romney wears “mom jeans.” He listens to music that running mate Paul Ryan says he’s heard in hotel elevators. And he thought the Twilight series was “fun.” Who’s conjuring this dweeby image of the Republican candidate for president? Fellow...
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Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign rally at SeaGate Convention Centre as a national debt clock runs in the background on Sept. 26, 2012 in Toledo, Ohio.
Obama-Romney: Middle Class Voters All a-Twitter
“The middle class has been crushed in the @BarackObama economy,” Republican Mitt Romney’s campaign writes on Twitter today. “We #CantAfford4More” It draws followers to the new Web Video: “Couldn’t Say it Better” — featuring Vice President Joe Biden saying what...
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Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives to deliver keynote address on "Perspectives on Inter-American Relations" during the 16th annual conference of Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) in Washington, DC, on September 06, 2012.
Jimmy Carter to Video-Hunting anti-Romney `Partisan’ Grandson: `Extraordinary’
Don’t mess with Georgia. There’s a certain rough justice in the fact that Republican Mitt Romney has made former President Jimmy Carter a whipping boy in his campaign against President Barack Obama, only to find Carter’s grandson taking credit for...
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Social media tweets are shown during the Republican National Convention.
Obama v. Romney: Followers Like It
Social media demand, well, an audience. And President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney have them. Yet, when it comes to YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, the president has a bigger following. Obama had 224,581 YouTube subscribers, picking up more than...
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Jimmy Carter Offered a President Sharing `Your Dreams:’ It’s Obama
The party would not have him in person. But it would have him in video. Jimmy Carter, the Democrat elected president in 1976, is addressing the 2012 Democratic National Convention by video. “I said then that America needs a president...
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Barack Obama delivers the keynote speech during the DNC in Boston in this 2004 file photo.
Obama’s Keynote: Standard for Measure of Promises and Progress
A certain keynote speech at a Democratic National Convention once proved to be historic. “I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of those who came before...
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President Barack Obama on his BlackBerry.
Obama Outruns Romney 29-1: Twitter
President Barack Obama “holds a substantial lead” over Republican Mitt Romney — in the campaign mastery of digital technology. Romney has worked to close “the digital gap,” but has more work do do. These are the conclusions of a Pew...
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President Barack Obama walks to Marine One prior to departing to Florida and Virginia to attend campaign events.
No. 1 Political Web Video: Obama’s
In the YouTube campaign, the president has taken a wide lead. No. 1 in the top-trending English-language political videos last week: President Barack Obama’s Web-ad about “The Choice:” 1.958 million hits. “It’s a choice between two very different plans for...
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