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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Washington Barack Obama, who surprised campaign volunteers in Virginia on Sunday, will try to be 'firm but respectful' in the debate, a spokeswoman said. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Barack Obama 's campaign team Monday promised that a...
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BBC
| 7 months ago
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are hunkered down with advisers ahead of Tuesday's debate, with the US president under pressure to bounce back after a languid first performance. Mr Obama is at a debate camp in Virginia, while Mr Romney is preparing in...
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The Daily Herald
| 7 months ago
While the unemployment rate announced last week fell below 8 percent for the first time in nearly four years, the true level of unemployment (the percentage of Americans who are unemployed, involuntarily working part-time or have given up looking for...
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Los Angeles Times
| 7 months ago
As a flurry of recent polls confirms, the presidential race has returned to the situation that prevailed before the party conventions -- nearly a dead heat -- as Mitt Romney 's strong performance in the first debate with President Obama largely...
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The Tribune
| 7 months ago
Associated Press President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney practiced for their second debate as the economy posted another set of positive numbers just over three weeks from Election Day...After months of firing up core supporters, the two...
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Canadian Free Press
| 7 months ago
Mr. Obama not only is not deterring our enemies, he is legitimating, enriching and emboldening them...Here's how he can do that: One obvious way is to pick up on the success his partner, Rep. Paul Ryan, had in exploring the run-up to, the events of...
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The Hill
| 7 months ago
Spokeswoman Jen Psaki would not get into the specifics about Obama's expected tone, but promised Obama would be forceful on Tuesday night. Obama is looking for a strong performance after the first debate, when he was criticized for giving a...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 7 months ago
Counting down to national, state and local elections on Nov. 6, 2012 Republican Mitt Romney has taken a slight lead in North Carolina, according to the latest Public Policy Polling survey. The former Massachusetts governor is the choice of 49 percent...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 7 months ago
He's got to try to perform differently than he did in their first clash in Denver , after all...At times, Mr. Obama was so reserved it seemed as if he didn't even want to be there.
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United Press International
| 7 months ago
President Obama holds a 1 percentage point lead over Republican rival Mitt Romney , but Romney's likability numbers are rising, a Politico poll indicated. In the Politico-George Washington University Battleground Poll of likely voters, Obama leads...
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United Press International
| 7 months ago
Mitt Romney could work with Democrats to strike a tax deal with a 20 percent individual rate reduction, Republican vice presidential hopeful Paul Ryan says. However, Ryan said it's sufficient for the GOP standard-bearer to provide only general...
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Greensboro News and Records
| 7 months ago
Want to catch up on the backstory between the presidential candidates. Visit news-record.com/links to watch the first debate between President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney, watch the past vice presidential debate between Vice President Joe Biden...
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USA Today
| 7 months ago
President Obama's campaign has a new ad in which business people say that things are getting better. "When you look at the president's plan I don't think there can be any question that we're on the right course for today's economy," says one...
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Kansas City Star
| 7 months ago
With the economy showing some signs of improvement three weeks before Election Day, President Barack Obama on Monday laid down a full embrace of the economic record many Republicans say is his biggest weakness.The president's first act in this...
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Newsbusters
| 7 months ago
Last week, Chuck Todd came in for criticism at NewsBusters for sniffing off a Rasmussen poll favorable to Mitt Romney as "slop." But has yesterday's slop become today's sirloin for the NBC political director? Sure looks like it. In a remarkable...
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Aim West Milford
| 7 months ago
Governor Christe Governor Christie said a few days before the last presidential debate that GOP hopeful Mitt Romney would score a decisive victory and turn around the trajectory of the presidential campaign, a prediction that largely came true after...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 7 months ago
As the US election race enters its final lap with President Barack Obama and his challenger Mitt Romney almost tied in latest opinion polls, the two are pinning on the second presidential debate to gain a decisive edge. After an uncharacteristically '...
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Fox News
| 7 months ago
FoxNews.com We saw Governor Romney sort of serially walk away from his own proposals and certainly the president is going to be willing to challenge him, on it, as we saw the vice president challenge Paul Ryan. -- David Axelrod , senior political...
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Kansas City Star
| 7 months ago
WASHINGTON A study out Monday says most Medicare recipients - 59 percent - would pay higher premiums under a hypothetical privatized system, with wide regional differences leading to big hikes in some states.In the senior-rich political swing state...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Latest first Oldest first Auto update: On Off Updates: A cracking op-ed piece by Rebecca Solnit A letter to my dismal allies on the US left is carried over here at Cif America : One manifestation of this indiscriminate biliousness is the statement...
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The Globe & Mail
| 7 months ago
Vice-President Joe Biden, left, makes a point in front of Republican vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan and moderator Martha Raddatz during a debate in Danville, Ky., Oct. 11, 2012...Vice-President Joe Biden, left, and Republican vice-presidential...
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International Business Times
| 7 months ago
First lady Michelle Obama will attend a campaign event in Delaware, Ohio, before visiting Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland. - A new Washington Post/ABC national polls shows Obama with a three-point lead over his Republican challenger, Mitt...
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International Business Times
| 7 months ago
Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, pictured, has condemned the use of his son's name in the presidential campaign, saying the issue doesn't belong there. In an interview with Bloomberg published on Sunday, Jan, who is preparing for his son's memorial...
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United Press International
| 7 months ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has a 3 percentage point lead over President Obama, the latest United Press International poll indicated Monday. Forty-nine percent of likely voters said they would vote for Romney and 46 percent said...
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United Press International
| 7 months ago
Obama, Romney in virtual tie President Barack Obama walks on the South Lawn of the White House after returning from a trip to Miami Oct. 11, 2012...President Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney were in a virtual dead heat heading into this week's...
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Chicago Tribune
| 7 months ago
Obama must remain presidential, while also showing some of the fire and flash that was missing at the first debate in Denver. Romney, who has been cast in advertisements by the Obama campaign as a wealthy and heartless chief executive, must show that...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
The new US envoy to Tripoli vowed on Monday to follow the line of murdered Ambassador Chris Stevens and support Libya as the two states work to bring the militants behind the September 11 attack to justice. Veteran diplomat and Arabic speaker...
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Newsbusters
| 7 months ago
It's always wise to look inside the paper for the real news when The Washington Post reports on improving polls for Republicans. The headline in Monday's paper is GOP's zeal for Romney grows, but adds underneath Race is still close after 1st debate;...
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Fox News
| 7 months ago
Associated Press President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney remain holed up with advisers Monday, the incumbent determined to bounce back in the coming debate from a poor performance in the first confrontation and the challenger hard at work...
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USA Today
| 7 months ago
The father of U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens, who was killed in an attack on the consulate in Libya last month, says his son's death shouldn't be made into a political football in the presidential race. Jan Stevens told Bloomberg News that "it...
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Canadian Free Press
| 7 months ago
Get Ready for the O'Romney Factor' The Obama Team is signaling that aggressive is the operative word to describe tomorrow night's presidential debate. The mainstream media's still smarting from Obama the pussy without claws at the first televised...
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News 24
| 7 months ago
Three weeks before election day, the White House race between US president Barack Obama and his Republican foe Mitt Romney remains statistically tied, with Obama maintaining just a slight advantage, a new opinion poll found on Monday. The latest ABC...
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Miami Herald
| 7 months ago
Just one week.What a difference it has made in the race for the White House between President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney. Not long ago, pundits and polls were saying Obama was on the verge of pulling away. Speaking in Charlotte on Sunday,...
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The Bellingham Herald
| 7 months ago
Pizza Hut is rethinking its contest daring people to ask "Sausage or Pepperoni?" at the presidential debate Tuesday. After the stunt triggered backlash last week, the company says it's moving the promotion online, where a contestant will be randomly...
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Asian Tribune
| 7 months ago
00 editor The next presidential debate points to a rough and tumble toe to toe match-up between President Obama and challenger Mitt Romney. Obama's handling of Benghazi deaths would be Romney's trump card while Obama would come down heavily on...
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Zee News
| 7 months ago
With the race for the White House becoming closer than ever, both Democrats and Republicans are focusing on Tuesday's second encounter between President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
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Daily News & Analysis
| 7 months ago
Barack Obama's hopes of reviving his flagging re-election campaign received a boost yesterday (Sunday) after a series of polls showed the president leading in the must-win battleground state of Ohio. As both Mr Obama and Mitt Romney, his Republican...
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Daily Nation
| 7 months ago
Top Democrats accused Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney on Sunday of "cravenly" politicizing the deadly attack on the US consulate in Benghazi to further his presidential ambitions. The fallout from the attack has developed into a toxic...
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The New York Times
| 7 months ago
Republican rival, Mitt Romney, here with his wife, Ann, on Sunday in Belmont, Mass., also spent the weekend preparing for the debate. But as Mr. Obama huddled with close aides on the spectacular resort grounds of what was the Kingsmill Plantation in...
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The Daily Herald
| 7 months ago
It would really be abhorrent to make this into a campaign issue, Jan Stevens, 77, said in a telephone interview from his home in Loomis, Calif., as he prepares for a memorial service for his son next week. Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee, has...
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Washington Post
| 7 months ago
The preparations in Williamsburg have taken on an urgency in the aftermath of Obama's seemingly lethargic performance in that debate, which was widely panned and prompted a surge for Romney in numerous national and swing-state polls. Although Obama...
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The New York Times
| 7 months ago
Caught in the uneasy nexus between politics and foreign policy, the debate over the violence in Benghazi, Libya, that claimed four American lives turned angry on Sunday as Republicans said it reflected a dangerous failure by the Obama administration...
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The Daily Star
| 7 months ago
Republicans on Sunday kept the heat on President Barack Obama over the Sept. 11 killing of four Americans in Libya, with a senior senator saying the attack supported the Romney campaign's claim that Obama's foreign policy is "unraveling." Republican...
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United Press International
| 7 months ago
President Obama's senior campaign adviser Sunday criticized Mitt Romney for politicizing the attack that killed the U.S. ambassador in Libya. Romney, speaking Friday at a rally in Richmond, Va., said the vice presidential debate Thursday raised new...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Yuri Gripas/Reuters With their proxies dispatched to do battle on the weekly round of political talks shows, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney went to ground on Sunday to swot up ahead of a crucial second presidential debate in the still tight electoral...
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Guardian Unlimited
| 7 months ago
New York Mitt Romney campaigns in front of The Golden Lamb Inn and Restaurant in Lebanon, Ohio on Saturday. Photograph: Charles Dharapak/AP A senior adviser to Barack Obama has accused the president's Republican challenger Mitt Romney of attempting...
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The Hill
| 7 months ago
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) made the charge when discussing his panel's probe of the Sept. 11 attack this year on the U.S...Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead. We believe...
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The Hill
| 7 months ago
Obama was widely seen as badly losing the Oct. 3 debate, and many Democrats were dismayed that he failed to challenge what they consider Romney's shift away from conservative positions. I think he is going to make some adjustments on Tuesday, Axelrod...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 7 months ago
In the brutal cut and thrust of the final month of the US presidential campaign, it is no surprise that Mitt Romney's wife, Ann, is hitting the hustings as an impassioned advocate for her husband. But Mrs Romney is also playing a key behind-the-...
