Articles filed under Barack Obama
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Nature slams campaigns into real worldOct 30, 2012 10:02 am - WASHINGTON — Suddenly, after drifting through months of confusing finger-pointing and iffy economic theory, the presidential candidates are getting walloped by an all-to...
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A week to go: Sandy disrupts presidential campaignOct 29, 2012 9:30 pm - WASHINGTON — Eight days before the election, President Barack Obama switched from campaigner to hands-on commander of the federal response to Superstorm Sandy as it barr...
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Hurricane Sandy upsets candidates’ campaign plansOct 28, 2012 7:26 pm - CELINA, Ohio — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama frantically sought to close the deal with voters with precious few days left in a...
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Advantage Obama in hunt for 270 electoral votesOct 28, 2012 6:30 pm - AMES, Iowa — President Barack Obama is poised to eke out a victory in the race for the 270 electoral votes needed to win re-election, having beaten back Republican Mitt ...
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Endorsement: The case for Mitt Romney for presidentOct 28, 2012 5:00 am - Here, finally, we are. After months of seemingly endless campaigning, we arrive at the last few days of the race for the White House. After all that campaigning, many ha...
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Romney closing argument focuses on the economyOct 26, 2012 9:29 am - DEFIANCE, Ohio — Mitt Romney is trying to close the deal with voters by focusing on their economic concerns, an area where polling shows the Republican nominee has an ed...
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Star-powered political rallies get party startedOct 26, 2012 9:29 am - WASHINGTON — Baseball great Hank Aaron is a Barack Obama guy. Golf legend Jack Nicklaus is in Mitt Romney’s camp. From athletes and astronauts to singers and Hollywood ...
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Campaigns deploy radio ads to gin up base votersOct 26, 2012 9:29 am - ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Drivers listening to adult contemporary radio along Interstate 4 in central Florida are hearing ads like this: “President Obama raised taxes on Fl...
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Presidential election to pass $2 billion fundraising markOct 25, 2012 9:23 pm - WASHINGTON — The 2012 presidential campaign was expected Thursday to pass the $2 billion mark in fundraising, according to accounting statements submitted to the governm...
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Obama flies in to vote earlyOct 25, 2012 4:00 pm - President Barack Obama has cast his ballot early, returning to Chicago to drum up support for early voting. The president says, “all across the country we're seeing a lo...