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Green Party hopeful blast Romney, Obama on climate as Hurricane Sandy hits
WASHINGTON — The White House hopeful of the Green Party on Monday accused President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney of failing to address climate change as Hurricane Sandy battered the East Coast. “The Republicans and Democrats each talk about the election of the other party as the end…
Working class voters: Why America’s poor are willing to vote Republican
Tracey Owings is fighting hard to keep the home that has been in his family for 34 years. In 2000 his mother refinanced. In 2006 she died. In 2009 he lost his job and had no paid work for nine months. He fell behind with the mortgage. The bank moved…
Sen. Grassley promotes new unemployment report conspiracy
Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa suggested on Monday that the U.S. Department of Labor might delay releasing its October jobs report to help President Barack Obama. After rumors circulated that the Labor Department might be forced to delay releasing the report because of Hurricane Sandy, Grassley said the bureau…
Trump insists effort to extort Obama for charity has ‘tremendous momentum’
For some reason, “Fox & Friends” actually wanted to know on Monday what President Barack Obama’s response has been to Donald Trump’s attempt at extortion. There’s of course been no response, but that didn’t stop them from asking. “First of all, I have to tell you there’s tremendous momentum,” he said.…
Union members campaign for Obama in battleground state Ohio
There are few places in America where the dividing line in the 2012 election is as clear-cut as the desolate stretch that is Harrison Avenue on the outskirts of Canton, Ohio. On one side of the street is the massive, smoke-belching Timken steel plant, its owners generous contributors to the…
Ohio papers report dead heat between Obama and Romney
VANDALIA, Ohio — After trailing President Barack Obama for months in the most crucial battleground of the US election, Republican Mitt Romney has drawn even with his rival in Ohio, newspapers in the state said Sunday. “49-49: Dead Heat,” the Cleveland Plain Dealer front page headline blared, citing the latest…
Hurricane Sandy has Obama campaign worried: Axelrod
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama’s campaign is concerned that Hurricane Sandy could hurt the president’s re-election chances by keeping voters from going to the polls, a top strategist said Sunday. Republican challenger Mitt Romney has surged in the polls since an October 3 televised debate, eroding Obama’s slender lead in key…
Romney, Obama target women’s issues as election nears
WASHINGTON — Women could well swing the outcome of the US presidential election, and both candidates know it, playing up issues like healthcare and abortion in the countdown to November 6. Women make up 53 percent of the electorate in the United States and they vote in greater numbers than…
White working-class men could decide Obama’s fate
WASHINGTON — A blend of young voters, women, African Americans and Hispanics propelled Barack Obama into the White House in 2008, but white working-class males could decide whether he gets to stay. The coalition that powered Obama’s historic candidacy four years ago is still broadly supportive of the president, but…
Obama paints Romney as a governor who broke his pledges
President Barack Obama, campaigning in tiny New Hampshire Saturday, slammed his Republican rival Mitt Romney’s record as governor of neighboring Massachusetts, saying he is a man voters can’t trust. Just 10 days out from the November 6 presidential election, Obama was in the small US state for the second time…
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