Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney took his claim that President Barack Obama had stolen $716 billion from Medicare to the next level on Thursday and asserted that seniors “most likely” would not be able to see specialists if the president is re-elected. Throughout the last few months of the 2012…
Libertarian maverick’s message of small government and social tolerance thrills young voters and threatens president’s hopes Barack Obama is due to campaign in Boulder, Colorado on Thursday night to fire up this liberal bastion and try to snuff out a libertarian challenge which threatens to siphon crucial votes. The president…
There are 12 battleground states that deserve close attention as Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney go head to head in Tuesday’s historic election: Of note: this year’s major battlegrounds were swept by Obama in 2008. – THE BIG THREE – OHIO (18 electoral votes) Perhaps the crucial…
President Barack Obama and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie hold a press conference to discuss relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Watch live, broadcast via NBC News on Oct. 31. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…
A Texas pastor who believes Mitt Romney’s religion of Mormonism is a cult says that re-electing President Barack Obama is like allowing Adolf Hitler to come to power in the 1930s. First Baptist Church of Dallas Senior Pastor Robert Jeffress told religious leaders at WTBN Ninth Annual Pastors Appreciation Lunch…
The former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) during the bungled Hurricane Katrina recovery says that President Barack Obama should have delayed providing disaster relief assistance to the states hit by Hurricane Sandy because it could have benefited him politically. On Monday, Michael Brown, who now co-hosts a…
Fox News media analyst Bernard Goldberg on Tuesday accused mainstream media reporters of “wishing” that Hurricane Sandy had devastated swing states so that it would make President Barack Obama look more presidential. “Do you think that more than a few reporters are sort of wishing that the hurricane had not…
The Daily Caller’s Tucker Carlson is suggesting that voters will look at the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy and subconsciously blame President Barack Obama. “I think in general natural disasters have a greater capacity to hurt — for example, [Hurricane] Katrina — than they do to help,” Carlson told Fox…
Former president Bill Clinton on Tuesday lashed out at Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for using comments Barack Obama made about climate change as an applause line to mock the president. At a campaign event in Minnesota, Clinton pointed out that Romney’s climate change jokes seemed a lot less funny…
The presidential candidates have canceled all campaign events on Tuesday, but Republican New Jersey Chris Christie seemed to be stumping for President Barack Obama by appearing on several networks to praise the federal response to Hurricane Sandy. In an interview on NBC, Christie called Obama “outstanding” for expediting relief efforts.…
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