Dec 31
>Writing by Cynthia Johnston: Editing by Alex Dobuzinskis |Reuters |12-31-2011|
- President Barack Obama, striking a hopeful note in a year-end weekly address, hailed foreign policy milestones while keeping pressure on Congress to further extend payroll tax cuts through the end of 2012.
The president, on a week-long vacation in Hawaii, praised …
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Dec 31
By David Rothschild | The Signal | 12-31-2011|
As of December 31, 2011 the likelihood of the Democrats retaining the Presidency is 53.7 percent, retaining the Senate is 20.7 percent, and taking the House is 32.7 percent. This is compiled from Betfair, Intrade, and Iowa Electronic Market prediction market data.
The chart shows how these …
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Dec 31
>Tom Blackwell Dec 30, 2011 – 10:55 PM ET | Last Updated: Dec 31, 2011 12:41 AM ET |
As Abe Lincoln geared up for his re-election campaign in 1864, the Republican unceremoniously jettisoned his first-term vice-president and picked Andrew Johnson, a southerner from the rival Democratic Party, as his surprising running mate.
Lincoln hoped …
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Dec 31
>By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE |December 30, 2011, 8:42 pm |[All of the GOP Hopefuls aren’t suited to run this country in my book – Romney is a flip-flopper, Paul is a racist, Gingrich is a racist and women nicer with two failed marriages, Bachmann is Batshit crazy/idiot and Perry is a religious nut /idiot and …
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Dec 31
>By EMMARIE HUETTEMAN |December 31, 2011, 6:00 am|
Today’s Times:
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Dec 31
>By Amie Parnes – 12/31/11 07:00 AM ET
President Obama’s campaign will be ramping up its grassroots machine in Iowa this weekend as it prepares for the rival it has long expected in 2012: Mitt Romney.
Obama’s team in Chicago has been fixated on Romney in recent months, as the former Massachusetts governor was long …
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Dec 31
>By Peter Modigliani – 12/29/11 02:08 PM ET | [They will do everything not to give Barack Obama a second term to clean this mesh-up! A third Party, at this time, would cause the Republicans to win and take over the Presidency! And that my friends should not happen – than you would see this …
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Dec 31
>By Alicia M. Cohn – 12/30/11 11:16 AM ET| [Oh, now they want to tell the President what to do and what a President should be able to tell the public! Are you kidding me? It should be that these congressional lawmakers should tell the public what they will do to improve their standing with …
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Dec 31
>By MARK LANDLER | Published: December 30, 2011 |
HONOLULU — President Obama has long relied on his oratorical gifts to ease him through tricky political situations. But on the emotionally charged issue of gay rights, Mr. Obama has been content recently to let his lieutenants do the talking. And they have said some striking …
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Dec 31
Congressional Black Caucus| Dec 1, 2011| Re-post |
Washington, DC – Today, Members of the Congressional Black Caucus sent the following letter to the House Leadership urging them to extend current federal unemployment insurance programs through 2012. Currently overall unemployment continues to hover around 9% and African American unemployment continues to float in the double …
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Dec 29
2011: The Right-Wing Media Witch Hunt Against Obama Administration Officials Continues >Media Matters Research| December 26, 2011 10:09 am ET |[What do you think?]
Since President Obama took office, the right-wing media have engaged in a smear campaign against Obama administration officials as well as people Obama has nominated for spots in the judiciary. This …
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Dec 28
>Stewart J. Lawrence |Founder and managing director, Puentes & Associates, Inc.; journalist and public policy analyst
Posted: 12/28/11 01:11 PM ET| [Millennial are smarter than we give credit and they know that the Republicans are only interested in the numbers at the polls and that is all! They know what we stand for as Americans, …
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