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Star Tribune
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney have this in common when it comes to Florida: They're both worried about the biggest election battleground prize. The president has an edge here, but Democrats fear the advantage may be fleeting and...
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CNN
| 8 months ago
Is Romney's path to the White House now more difficult?...And some of them paint a picture that looks more favorable to President Barack Obama than to Republican nominee Mitt Romney...They're all of the smaller pool of likely voters and all were...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
New York Mitt Romney and Barack Obama delivered convention speeches that were more negative than usual, according to a new study. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Barack Obama and Mitt Romney 's acceptance speeches at the Democratic and Republican...
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Star Tribune
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama is adding Wisconsin to the list of states where he will campaign next week. It's a sign that Obama's re-election campaign may be concerned about his prospects in the battleground state. Obama won Wisconsin in 2008 by 14...
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Newsbusters
| 8 months ago
Senate, Barack Obama has had a penchant for creating straw men out of his opponents' policy ideas and then arguing against his fictictious version of their viewpoints. He's been very careful to do this of late in the area of taxes. While he likely...
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Truthdig
| 8 months ago
His foreign policy must have been seen by enemies of the United States as weak and feckless, because these enemies became emboldened. Mideast terrorists staged a brutal, bloody attack in which innocent Americans were killed. The president's response...
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The New York Times
| 8 months ago
With the killings of four United States diplomats in Libya thrusting foreign policy to the forefront of the race, Mr. Romney sought to broaden his indictment of Mr. Obama's approach to the world a day after he was roundly criticized for his initial...
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International Business Times
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama widened his lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney to 7 percentage points in a Reuters/Ipsos poll of likely voters released Thursday, the latest survey to show him ahead. The daily online poll asked 990 likely voters over...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Va. (AP) Republican Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama on Thursday of "failing American workers" by ignoring Chinese trade violations, and seized on new Federal Reserve attempts to boost the economy as proof the administration's policies are...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 8 months ago
National polls may show that the presidential race remains close though lately, President Obama appears to have opened up a slight lead.
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The New York Times
| 8 months ago
Recent Posts September 13 In the next week or so, it may be hard to discern what polling effects reflect momentum from the conventions and what are a response to the fallout from Libya. September 13 Mitt Romney's advantage in polls of likely voters,...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
The U.S. federal budget deficit increased by $191 billion in August and has topped $1 trillion for the fourth straight year. The deficit for the first 11 months of the 2012 budget year totaled $1.16 trillion, the Treasury Department said Thursday.
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
Four years ago, President Obama won Nevada in a blowout, carrying the battleground state by 12 percentage points over Arizona Sen. John McCain . Few are ready to predict anything approaching that lopsided result this time. But Obama has opened up a...
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NY Daily News
| 8 months ago
Voters in the solidly blue Empire State prefer Obama to Mitt Romney by a nearly two-to-one margin, a new Quinnipiac University poll has found . The president has the support of 62 percent of likely voters, while Romney was favored by just 34 percent.
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Asia Times Online
| 8 months ago
In its recently publicized official foreign-policy platform, the US Republican Party, which fields former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney as its presidential candidate, mentions at length Taiwan, traditionally by far the most prominent pawn in the...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
Mitt Romney has yet to begin receiving the security briefing typically afforded presidential nominees, his campaign said Wednesday. The absence of a briefing is conspicuous at a time when foreign policy has emerged as a the focal point of the...
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Kansas City Star
| 8 months ago
Republican challenger Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama's administration on Wednesday of showing weakness in the ferocious events that left four U.S. diplomats dead in the Middle East and jolted the race for the White House. Obama retorted...
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Vanity Fair
| 8 months ago
T here is a good reason why The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage calls unprecedented a dangerous word that should be avoided. There is really nothing new under the sun, except, perhaps, the Internet. So for much of this year, when even some...
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USA Today
| 8 months ago
The murderous attacks on American consulates in Libya and Egypt temporarily shift the focus of the presidential campaign from President Obama 's record on the economy to his stewardship of foreign policy, giving Republican Mitt Romney potential risks...
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Adweek
| 8 months ago
Now Newsletter Subscription Get our free newsletters that cover the intersection of media, marketing and technology...Yes, 7-Eleven's politically themed promotion is back, letting shoppers enjoy their coffee in blue cups bearing the name of the...
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News 24
| 8 months ago
Americans are becoming more optimistic about the direction of the country, giving a boost to President Barack Obama in the final stretch of the race for the White House, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Wednesday. The telephone poll, conducted from 7-...
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Kansas City Star
| 8 months ago
After spending $56 million on a TV advertising barrage unprecedented in North Carolina political history, the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are preparing for a two-month sprint for the states 15 electoral votes.So far...
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PRWeb
| 8 months ago
The end of the political conventions marks the true beginning of the presidential campaign. September 12, 2012 Romney-Democrats believe that the themes presented at both conventions confirm their support of Mitt Romney. The GOP stressed bi-partisan...
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International Business Times
| 8 months ago
For months, Republican Mitt Romney's presidential campaign has been built on broad themes: cut taxes, repeal and replace Democratic President Barack Obama 's healthcare overhaul, increase defence spending...The calls for a change in strategy have...
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USA Today
| 8 months ago
Mitt Romney and Barack Obama pulled campaign ads from television Tuesday, in deference to the 11th anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks, but that is likely to be the last day of quiet before the election. Presidential candidates and supporting...
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Truthdig
| 8 months ago
Remember that national debate on the issues the selection of Paul Ryan heralded, which was supposed to spare us further discussion of President Barack Obama's alienation from Americans and Mitt Romney's tax returns and mode of transporting his dog?
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The Hill
| 8 months ago
President Obama and Mitt Romney entered the conventions statistically tied in the polls. Romney didn't receive much of a bump following the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., late last month, and while Obama is enjoying a modest boost,...
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The Hutchinson News
| 8 months ago
The presidential race has been stable for months, but not in a way favorable to Mitt Romney...More money has been spent on TV ads in the general election so far this year than during the entire 2008 presidential election. More money was spent this...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
If you could split two political campaigns down the middle and have the best of both worlds, what would it be? You'd have former Governor Mitt Romney 's strong jaw line and President Obama's wit and charm. You'd have Obama's moves under the basket...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney plan a low key day devoted to the memory of the Sept. 11 attacks, playing down politics as much as possible despite the heated presidential campaign. This morning, hundreds of White House staff...
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USA Today
| 8 months ago
but not all Updated Post-convention polls continue to roll in, and most are good news for President Obama -- though Mitt Romney can take heart from at least one of them. A Washington Post /ABC News poll gives Obama only a 49%-48% lead over Romney,...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
Barack Obama claimed the early momentum in the US presidential election last night (Monday) as he pulled clear of Mitt Romney in three polls and even managed to raise more money than his Republican rival for the first time in months. Each of the...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Tuesday could be the only day before Nov. 6 without explicit partisan rancor. Both President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney plan to take down their negative ads in honor of the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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The Herald
| 8 months ago
And Obama and groups that support him have been outspending Romney and Republican-leaning independent groups here all summer, outpacing the GOP $2 million to $1 million last week alone. That's despite Romney having tapped into his general election...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama gets a hug from Scott Van Duzer, owner of a pizza parlor in Florida. Photograph: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP President Obama has gotten a bounce in the national tracking polls taken in the aftermath of the Democratic national...
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CNN
| 8 months ago
Noting that "forward" is Obama's campaign slogan, Romney said to cheers that "forewarned" would be more appropriate. "We know what would happen if he were re-elected," Romney shouted. "We'd see more years of high unemployment...We'd see more years of...
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Aim Veron
| 8 months ago
The economy has improved here, and so has President Barack Obama's standing, putting pressure on Republican Mitt Romney in a state critical to his presidential hopes. No Republican has won the White House without winning Ohio, and Romney hopes to...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
President Obama's speech which capped Thursday final session was cited as a highlight by 16% of those surveyed, followed closely by his wife, Michelle. Of those who watched at least some of the minutely scripted conventions, six in 10 rated the...
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Money Morning
| 8 months ago
Now that both the Republican and Democratic national conventions are over, one key question remains: Which side has the best liars? If America's two major political parties have anything in common, it's the ability to fold, twist and mutilate the...
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Hollywood Reporter Music
| 8 months ago
PDT 9/10/2012 by Erin Carlson share We already know that President Obama remains a fan of Clint Eastwood , despite the actor-director's much-mocked RNC speech substituting a chair for the commander-in-chief. our editor recommends As for Nicki Minaj --...
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International Business Times
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign raised $114 million last month, narrowly beating his Republican challenger Mitt Romney for the first time in four months. Obama' s total -- the largest haul brought in by either candidate during the 2012...
