Articles filed under Barack Obama
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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...
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In close race, Obama and Romney showing confidenceOct 09, 2012 8:43 am - SAN FRANCISCO — Exactly one month from Election Day, Republican Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama are both declaring they will win a race for the White House that r...
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Obama, Romney trying to leverage momentumOct 07, 2012 5:00 pm - WASHINGTON — Fresh off his strongest fundraising month this year, President Barack Obama is looking to raise millions of dollars from celebrities and wealthy donors in C...
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Jobs report gives Obama much-needed boostOct 05, 2012 9:00 am - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama celebrated much-needed good economic news Friday as the unemployment rate dropped to its lowest level since he took office. "We are m...