The exclusive story published by Breitbart News today about a 1991 booklet released by Obama’s literary agent that falsely claims the President was born in Kenya, is about many things NOT having to do with where our President was born. And one of those things is the abject failure of the mainstream media to vet properly the man they so desperately [...]
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Mitt Romney swung through Florida on Wednesday, picking up more than $2 million in political contributions while bashing President Barack Obama as an ineffective leader. Romney pointed out that, earlier in the day, the Senate scuttled the president’s budget. “The number of Senators who voted for the Obama budget was zero. He has shown a [...]
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President Barack Obama’s April fundraising total dropped almost 20 percent from the $53 million scored in March, falling to only $43.6 million. That jarring drop helps explain why Obama has curbed his criticism of Wall Street donors, and increased his efforts to spur donations from gay supporters. On May 9, he announced his support for [...]
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An Important change is happening in the presidential race — the belief that Mitt Romney could actually win is spreading. There is a growing confidence among his supporters, and the polls are starting to pick up a shift in his favor. There is another indicator, however, and it is far more reliable. The left-leaning media [...]
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Last week, the presidential hopeful told Fox News host Neil Cavuto, “I know many gay couples that are able to adopt children — that’s fine. But my preference is that we … continue to define marriage as the relationship between a man and a woman.” Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) takes [...]
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Most polls, Rasmussen excepted, continue to show that neither presidential candidate is pulling away from the other and that close Senate races have shifting leads. Primary elections, however, are showing a very different situation — and it is voters who turn out in elections, not random Americans called by pollsters, who determine the winners and [...]
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President Obama is attending a fundraiser today in New York City that will be hosted by Hamilton E. James, the chief operating officer and president of Blackstone. The financial firm Blackstone is “one of the world’s largest private equity fund businesses,” according to its website. But ironically, Obama today is using Mitt Romney’s background in private [...]
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A super PAC supporting President Obama is out with its own ad attacking Mitt Romney’s business record, spending $4 million on a swing state TV campaign. Priorities USA Action, founded by veterans of the Obama and Clinton administrations, is hitting on themes already being sounded by the president’s re-election campaign. The new ad also focuses [...]
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The week began here on Swampland with Mark Halperin’s optimistic dispatch from Chicago, “Why The Obama Campaign Is Confident About Beating Romney.” So perhaps it is appropriate that the week get bracketed by a report by William Galston, a Democratic strategist who has worked for Bill Clinton, Al Gore and Walter Mondale, among others. His [...]
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Mitt Romney and his top aides are building a strategy, partly by design and partly because of circumstance, around what they consider John McCain’s disastrously run campaign in 2008. The strategy: whatever McCain did, do the opposite. Many of the current strategy discussions are centered on not falling into the traps McCain did: looking wobbly as [...]
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Gallup released their annual state-by-state presidential approval numbers back in January 31, 2012, and the results should have 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue very worried. If President Obama carries only those states where he had a net positive approval rating in 2011 (e.g. Michigan where he is up 48 percent to 44 percent), Obama would lose the 2012 election [...]
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As Mark Finkelstein previously noted, Goldberg began her Romney attack on Up with Chris Hayes by saying, “It can’t only be me that maybe initially saw Ann Romney as maybe a sympathetic or neutral figure but who is increasingly seeing her as someone who is kind of insufferable because of the way she’s milking this thing.” This “thing” as [...]
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On the upper eastern edge of Ohio lies a valley built on the sweat of the working class, where steel mills sit mostly shuttered but a once-struggling Chevy plant endures. It is a place filled with union halls and blue-collar families for whom the auto bailout meant survival, delivered by a president many here see [...]
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President Barack Obama’s endorsement Wednesday of same-sex marriage may benefit Mitt Romney by provoking a strong pro-Romney turnout at the polls by once-skeptical evangelicals and other social conservatives, The Washington Post reports. “So many people were rather lukewarm toward Governor Romney and were really looking for some more tangible reasons to support him,” Phil Burress, president of [...]
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For President Barack Obama, Mitt Romney is an obvious throwback to another era — a stiff Father Knows Best-type who straps the dog to the station wagon and marries his high-school sweetheart. But Romney is pursuing his own strategy to puncture Obama’s next-generation cool and paint the president as a retread, comparing him to Jimmy Carter and his fuzzy-headed [...]
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