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SEAL commando’s book on killing Bin Laden ignites new election battle
NEW YORK — US Navy SEALs are used to bullets and bombs, but a book by one of the commandos who killed Osama bin Laden has deployed the secretive unit into the even bigger electoral battle for the White House. “No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account Of The Mission That…
Study: 2012 campaign ‘nastier than normal’
President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are both being portrayed in an overwhelmingly negative light as they battle each other in America’s 2012 presidential election, a new survey of media coverage has revealed. The result has been one of the most negative electoral contests in recent memory in…
Obama: Akin ‘somehow missed science class’
President Barack Obama on Wednesday mocked Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), saying that he had “somehow missed science class” after the congressman suggested that victims of “legitimate rape” could not get pregnant. “Recently some of you have been paying attention to the commentary about the senator [sic] from Missouri,” the president…
Presidential race tightens in Florida and Wisconsin: poll
President Barack Obama clearly leads his Republican rival Mitt Romney in the battleground of Ohio but the race has tightened considerably in two other key states ahead of the November 6 elections, a new poll said Thursday. Obama continues to enjoy a six-point advantage in Ohio with 50 percent compared…
Romney promises more oil drilling on land and offshore
White House hopeful Mitt Romney will unveil an energy plan Thursday that would empower US states to control drilling on federal lands he says could raise trillions of dollars in government revenue. The proposal, which repeats Romney’s call for energy independence by 2020, envisions “aggressively” opening new offshore areas for…
Obama says tells fundraising audience and Michael Jordan that his opponents ‘play a little dirty’
President Barack Obama at a fundraising event with Michael Jordan likened his re-election campaign to a basketball game in which one’s opponents use gamesmanship, but fail to triumph regardless. “We are in the fourth quarter. We are up by a few points, but the other side is coming strong and…
Jerry Springer: Obama is running against Paul Ryan
Television host Jerry Springer said Wednesday night that President Barack Obama was actually running against Mitt Romney’s running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). “This election is between Barack Obama and Paul Ryan,” he said on CNN. “Romney is almost irrelevant to it, because Paul Ryan is the budget that this…
Election model with 100 percent success rate for past 30 years predicts Romney victory
If the economy remains the same between now and November, Mitt Romney will win the 2012 election, according to a model that correctly predicted the last eight presidential elections. The election model, created by University of Colorado political science professors Kenneth Bickers and Michael Berry, predicts that if the election…
CBO: Plans to slash deficit will send U.S. into double-dip recession
The US Congress’s budget analysts said Wednesday that current plans designed to slash the budget deficit after January 1 will plunge the country into recession and push up joblessness. The Congressional Budget Office said the poison-pill political deal on the budget last year — sharp cuts to spending and tax increases that will hit…
Republican judge in Texas warns of ‘civil war’ if Obama reelected
A Republican judge in Lubbock, Texas told a reporter on Tuesday that he and other officials are making plans for the possibility of “civil war” if President Barack Obama is reelected, warning that should the president cede control of the country to the United Nations, he’d prevent troops from entering…
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