Political News
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2012 Presidential Race Costs Big Bucks
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President Barack Obama in Chapel Hill, N.C, and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in Charlotte, N.C.
The battle between President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney will be the most expensive presidential contest ever — by a long shot.
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Pool Access for the Disabled Sparks Controversy
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The swimming pool at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana on April 28, 2010.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is sidestepping an election-year confrontation with the hotel industry and other pool owners to give them more time to comply with access rules for the disabled.
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Texas Senate Race a New Test for GOP
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:06AM May 25, 2012 Comment
Dallas, Texas
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The story line on the Republican Senate race in Texas is a now familiar one: A veteran politician supported by the GOP establishment is challenged by a young insurgent backed by national conservative groups.
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Romney Wrong About Obama's Love for Unions
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks in Washington.
When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney decried President Barack Obama as beholden to the nation's teachers' unions and unable to stand up for reform, he glossed over four years of a relationship that has been anything but cozy.
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Romney promises world's strongest military
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:59PM May 28, 2012 CommentSAN DIEGO (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney promised Monday to maintain an American military "with no comparable power anywhere in the world."
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Obama says Vietnam veterans too often 'denigrated'
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:09PM May 28, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama paid tribute Monday to the men and women who have died defending America, pointing to Vietnam veterans as an under-appreciated and sometimes maligned group of war heroes who remained true to their nation despite an unwelcome homecoming.
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Campaigns dig through online data to target voters
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:32AM May 28, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Voters who click on President Barack Obama's campaign website are likely to start seeing display ads promoting his re-election bid on their Facebook pages and other sites they visit. Voters searching Google for information about Mitt Romney may notice a 15-second ad promoting the Republican presidential hopeful the next time they watch a video online.
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GOP ties Obama to NH student debt, ignores origins
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:35AM May 28, 2012 CommentCONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire isn't just first in the nation when it comes to hosting presidential primaries. It also ranks first in student-loan debt, and now the winner of the state's Republican presidential primary is seizing on that fact to argue that President Barack Obama has let down students.
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Warning signs for Obama on path to electoral votes
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:36AM May 28, 2012 CommentPresident Barack Obama faces new warning signs in a once-promising Southern state and typically Democratic-voting Midwestern states roughly five months before the election even as he benefits nationally from encouraging economic news.
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Polls on gay marriage not yet reflected in votes
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:35AM May 28, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Poll after poll shows public support for same-sex marriage steadily increasing, to the point where it's now a majority viewpoint. Yet in all 32 states where gay marriage has been on the ballot, voters have rejected it.
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Polls on gay marriage not yet reflected in votes
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:20AM May 27, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Poll after poll shows public support for same-sex marriage steadily increasing, to the point where it's now a majority viewpoint. Yet in all 32 states where gay marriage has been on the ballot, voters have rejected it.
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CIA remembers those lost in covert war on terror
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:18PM May 26, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA is remembering those lost in the hidden, often dangerous world of espionage, adding a new star to the intelligence agency's memorial wall and more than a dozen names to its hallowed Book of Honor.
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Obama on the defensive on spending, debt
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:59PM May 26, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Government spending and debt are emerging as a campaign tug-of-war, with Mitt Romney blaming President Barack Obama for a "prairie fire of debt" and Obama calling the charge a "cowpie of distortion." House Speaker John Boehner is talking about a debt ceiling that is still more than eight months away.
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Biden says end to wars gives US new flexibility
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:39PM May 26, 2012 CommentWEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden said Saturday that the United States can now focus on new global challenges after a long decade of war in an election-year commencement address to jubilant graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
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Warning signs for Obama on path to electoral votes
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:36PM May 26, 2012 CommentPresident Barack Obama faces new warning signs in a once-promising Southern state and typically Democratic-voting Midwestern states roughly five months before the election even as he benefits nationally from encouraging economic news.
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Obama honors veterans during Memorial Day weekend
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:31AM May 26, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is paying tribute to veterans during Memorial Day weekend, honoring those willing to sacrifice their lives for their country.
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Obama, Romney try to play it safe in 2012 gamble
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:42AM May 26, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — In the risky business of running for president, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are largely playing it safe.
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FACT CHECK: Obama off on thrifty spending claim
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:35AM May 26, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is aggressively pushing the idea that, contrary to widespread belief, President Barack Obama is tightfisted with taxpayer dollars. To back it up, the administration cites a media report that claims federal spending is rising at the slowest pace since the Eisenhower years.
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House experience a minus for some Senate hopefuls
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:47PM May 25, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. House members who are trying to make the step up to the Senate this year are finding themselves on the defensive about Washington experience that traditionally has been a big asset.
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FACT CHECK: Obama off on thrifty spending claim
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:41PM May 25, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is aggressively pushing the idea that, contrary to widespread belief, President Barack Obama is tightfisted with taxpayer dollars. To back it up, the administration cites a media report that claims federal spending is rising at the slowest pace since the Eisenhower years.
