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Obama significantly widens leads in major battleground states
US President Barack Obama has widened his lead in the two main battleground states in the 2012 White House race as well as in Pennsylvania, according to a new opinion poll released Wednesday. The Quinnipiac University/New York Times/CBS News poll put Obama ahead of Republican challenger Mitt Romney 53% to…
Obama is pulling ahead in the battleground state of Wisconsin. Here’s why.
Why Obama is pulling ahead in the battleground state of Wisconsin The independent voter, perhaps upset by Mitt Romney’s recent remarks and his attacks on President Obama, appears to be behind a shift in polling numbers in Wisconsin that indicate Mr. Obama is pulling ahead there. Wisconsin is among a…
Voters say they’re worse off than four years ago
Voters say they're not better off than four years ago. Trouble for Obama? (via The Christian Science Monitor) A majority of voters in battleground states say they are not better off than they were four years ago, according to a USA Today/Gallup swing-states poll released Monday. Ever since candidate Ronald…
Romney lines up bus tour of swing states
WASHINGTON — Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney will head out on a bus tour across battleground states in mid-August in the run up to the party convention in Tampa, Florida, his campaign said Tuesday. Details were still being worked out, but an official in the campaign told AFP that…
Jobless rate falls in 36 states
WASHINGTON — Unemployment fell in 36 states last month, the US Labor Department said Tuesday, with 2012 election battleground states South Carolina, Michigan and Minnesota seeing significant drops in joblessness. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that Michigan and Minnesota — key targets for President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign —…
At fundraisers, Obama says 60 percent of promises kept
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – President Barack racked up cash for his re-election campaign at fundraisers in Nevada and California on Monday, declaring that he had kept 60 percent of the promises he made as a candidate in 2008. Obama is in the middle of a three-day swing through battleground states…
Hard-hit Nevada will be key battleground in 2012
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – A Republican debate will play out in one of this city’s glittering casinos, but the real battleground for next year’s U.S. presidential election lies in the foreclosure-racked neighborhoods that sprawl beyond the Las Vegas Strip’s bright lights. Few U.S. cities have been hit harder by the…
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