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‘Huge shift’ among female voters gives Obama lead in battleground states
There is often a gender gap between the two political parties, with woman voters tending to favor the Democrats while a majority of men support Republican candidates. In recent weeks, however, as the Republican Party has become embroiled in the contraception issue, that gap has widened into an abyss. A…
Howard Dean: Striking down individual mandate will help Obama
Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean (D) on Sunday predicted that if the United States Supreme Court strikes down a key part of President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, it could actually benefit him in the 2012 general election. Dean told Fox News host Chris Wallace that the Affordable Care…
Moyers guest: Obama needs to back up populist rhetoric
Community organizer George Goehl would be glad if there was a national leader who could pressure the big banks to pay their fair share of taxes and deal honestly with the mortgage crisis by writing down the principle for underwater homeowners. He wishes President Obama could be such a leader,…
Poll shows GOP primary slog helps Obama
As the Republican presidential primary drags on, President Barack Obama is only getting more popular, a new poll released Wednesday night (PDF) found. Worse still for Republicans, the poll also indicates that a large majority still blame former President George W. Bush for poor economic conditions. Overall, the president’s chief…
Stewart: ‘Mr. President, we can hear you capitulating to the Russians’
On Wednesday night’s edition of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart played back the now-infamous “hot mic” incident from President Obama’s trip to South Korea for a nuclear summit earlier this week. While Republicans were quick to attack the president for what they perceived as electoral hubris, Stewart sees another…
Lou Dobbs accuses Obama of encouraging Treyvon Martin controversy
A solicitation published this week to micro-blogging service Twitter by the Obama campaign, promoting Obama 2012 sweatshirts and other apparel, was seemingly too much for two Obama critics to endure without comment. Appearing on Fox Business last night, former CNN pundit Lou Dobbs accused President Barack Obama of creating and…
Obama hits back in Russia ‘hot mike’ row
US President Barack Obama Tuesday hit back at Republicans who pounced after he was overheard telling Russia’s leader he could be more flexible over a missile defence row following November’s election. Republicans said Obama’s comments in Seoul Monday to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev – picked up by a live microphone — suggested that he planned to cave…
Funny or Die’s Obama releases ‘Hipster Stimulus Plan’
The folks at the comedy website Funny or Die decided that the most important policy initiative that President Obama could create for America is addressing the nation’s growing hipster population. So with all that said, the “president” recently traveled out to Los Angeles to present his “Hipster Stimulus Plan.” And…
Gingrich claims ‘elite media’ helping Obama hide his ‘Muslim friends’
In a radio interview on Thursday, Newt Gingrich returned to one of his favorite recent themes, what he calls the “elite media” and their conspiracy to aid and abet the Obama administration. In an article at Huffington Post, the former Speaker of the House is quoted as saying to Sandy…
Romney and other Republicans hit ‘Obamacare’ on two-year anniversary
Republicans vented their frustration with President Barack Obama’s health care reform Friday on its second anniversary, with Mitt Romney blasting the law as an “unfolding disaster for the American economy.” Romney’s rival in the Republican presidential race, former House speaker Newt Gingrich, also weighed in, savaging the two-year-old law as…
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