Articles filed under Barack Obama
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Fact check: Stumbles in latest presidential debateOct 16, 2012 10:40 pm - In the rough-and-tumble of a town hall-style debate, not all of the presidential candidates’ claims stood up to scrutiny Tuesday night. Yet again, President Barack Obama...
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Gasps, applause: What you didn’t see on TVOct 16, 2012 10:38 pm - HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Most voters watching the debate from home didn’t get to see what happened before and after President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney...
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Face to face: Obama, Romney in crackling debateOct 16, 2012 10:13 pm - HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — An aggressive President Barack Obama accused challenger Mitt Romney of favoring a “one-point plan” to help the rich in America and playing politics wit...
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Face to face: Obama, Romney in crackling debateOct 16, 2012 8:00 pm - HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — An aggressive President Barack Obama accused challenger Mitt Romney of peddling a "sketchy deal" to fix the U.S. economy and playing politics with the...
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Eyes are on the voters in town hall-style debatesOct 15, 2012 9:13 pm - WASHINGTON — The every-four-years ritual of a national “town hall” style debate began as a nerve-racking experiment in live television. Moderator Carole Simpson was so n...
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Obama embraces economic record in new commercialOct 15, 2012 7:25 pm - WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — 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 ...
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VP debate tees up closing issues for Romney, ObamaOct 12, 2012 8:31 am - DANVILLE, Ky. — In a spirited debate that laid out stark choices, Joe Biden and Paul Ryan teed up pointed arguments on the economy, social policy and America’s place in ...
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Team Obama hopes veep debate halts GOP momentumOct 11, 2012 9:04 am - DANVILLE, Ky. — Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Paul Ryan pull up a couple of chairs for a vice presidential debate that has mushroomed in importance since Mitt Romney...
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For Obama, this time, it is ‘grind it out’ modeOct 10, 2012 11:08 am - COLUMBUS, Ohio — The last campaign got the glory. This one is the grind. For all the many ways that President Barack Obama’s bid for a second term is different from his ...
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Democrats on edge amid Obama debate falloutOct 10, 2012 8:55 am - WASHINGTON — It’s more than President Barack Obama’s lackluster debate performance that has some Democrats on edge a month from Election Day. Party loyalists, in Washing...