Articles filed under Political Figures
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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...
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Post-debate: Romney basks, Obama challengesOct 04, 2012 9:30 am - DENVER — An invigorated Mitt Romney basked in rave reviews Thursday after his first face-off with the president, envisioning an inaugural celebration with conservative a...
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Obama to make push for early voting in WisconsinOct 04, 2012 9:30 am - MADISON, Wis. — President Barack Obama will fire-up his Democratic base during a rally Thursday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he’s expected to urge his s...
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Warnings, tweets, Jenga off-camera at debatesOct 04, 2012 9:19 am - DENVER — Most voters watched the debate on the television and didn’t get to see what happened before and after President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney took the stage. And...
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Social media renders rapid judgment on debateOct 04, 2012 9:19 am - WASHINGTON — Big Bird is endangered. Jim Lehrer lost control. And Mitt Romney crushed President Barack Obama. Those were the judgments rendered across Twitter and Faceb...
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Many watch debate; some are pleased, few are movedOct 04, 2012 9:00 am - Like so many other Americans, David Becker knew long before Wednesday night's debate whom he'd be supporting in the presidential election. And, like so many other Americ...
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In West Chicago, a quiet, somber view of the first presidential debateOct 03, 2012 3:07 pm - In a room set up to seat 40, nine people sat, for the West Chicago Library’s viewing party of the first presidential debate Wednesday evening. Patriotic napkins, bottles...
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Churches using ‘souls to polls’ to rally voteOct 02, 2012 10:29 am - MIAMI — It’s not just the collection plate that’s getting passed around this fall at hundreds of mainly African-American and Latino churches in presidential battleground...
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Judge halts Pa.’s tough new voter ID requirementOct 02, 2012 8:51 am - By Robert Barnes/The Washington Post A Pennsylvania judge Tuesday ordered state officials not to enforce the commonwealth’s tough new voter ID law in the November electi...