Posts Tagged ‘Barack Obama’
Friday, May 11th, 2012
Some African Americans will think twice about voting for President Obama in November after he declared his support for gay marriage, according to Republican Rep. Allen West of Florida.
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Tags: Allen West, Barack Obama, black churches, black community, Black Voters, gay marriage, gop, homosexual marriage, same-sex marriage
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Monday, May 7th, 2012
Six months out, it’s a tie.
The first USA TODAY/Gallup Swing States Poll since the GOP settled on a presumptive nominee shows big challenges for each side: Mitt Romney in generating enthusiasm and a personal connection with his supporters, and Barack Obama in convincing Americans he should be trusted to manage a fragile economy.
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Tags: Barack Obama, Elections 2012, Gallup Poll, Mitt Romney, swing states, swing voters, usa today poll
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Saturday, May 5th, 2012
Only a few years ago it would seem strange that the United States presidential election would pair off a candidate fathered by an African against another condemned as un-Christian.
FILE – This combination of 2012 file photos shows U.S. President Barack Obama, left, and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in Boulder, Colo. and Cape Canaveral, Fla. How unthinkable it was, not so long ago, that a presidential election would pit a candidate fathered by an African against another condemned as un-Christian. And yet, here it is: Barack Obama vs. Mitt Romney, an African-American and a white Mormon, representatives of two groups and that have endured oppression to carve out a place in the United States. How much progress has America made against bigotry? (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, Charles Dharapak)
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Tags: Barack Obama, Faith and Race in American Political Life, minorities, Mitt Romney, Nancy Wadsworth, race, religion
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
Once thought to be solidly behind President Barack Obama, younger voters burdened by a bleak employment picture, high gas prices and student loan debt are being aggressively wooed by the Democrat and his likely Republican challenger, Mitt Romney.
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Tags: Barack Obama, change, Elaine Chao, Generation Opportunity, hope, reelection 2012, Voters, White House, youth vote
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Saturday, April 21st, 2012
Three more Secret Service officers resigned Friday in the expanding prostitution scandal that has brought scorching criticism of agents’ behavior in Colombia just before President Barack Obama’s visit for a summit meeting last week. Agency Director Mark Sullivan came to the White House late Friday to personally brief Obama in the Oval Office.
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Tags: Barack Obama, Cartagena, columbia, Mark Sullivan, prostitution scandal, Secret Service agents, Summit of the Americas, White House
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Saturday, April 14th, 2012
Pressuring Mitt Romney on taxes, President Barack Obama’s campaign re-released more than a decade of tax records Friday, a political maneuver designed to pressure the Republican presidential candidate to divulge tax records beyond two years and to stop “hiding” details of his huge personal wealth.
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
President Barack Obama weighed in Monday on last week’s Supreme Court arguments about health care reform, saying he expected the justices to rule the act is constitutional.
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Tags: 2010 Affordable Care and Prevention Act, americans, Barack Obama, constitutional, healthcare, healthcare law, unconstitutional
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Monday, March 12th, 2012
President Obama’s re-election prospects are getting a boost from the plunging unemployment rate and the pickup in the economy and financial markets this year, economic and political analysts say.
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Tags: Barack Obama, economic improvement, economy, jobs report
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Saturday, January 28th, 2012
President Barack Obama fired a warning at the nation’s colleges and universities on Friday, threatening to strip their federal aid if they “jack up tuition” every year and to give the money instead to schools showing restraint and value.
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Tags: Barack Obama, college, Congress, federal aid, tuition, universities
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
When Mattie Lawson’s husband, Michael, suggested in 2003 that they consider hosting a political fundraiser at their lavish Los Angeles estate for a new up-and-comer in the field, she immediately said no.
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Tags: African-Americans, Angela Bassett, Barack Obama, Cookie Johnson, Cornel West, Courtney Vance, Diahann Carroll, hollywood, Magic Johnson, Mattie Lawson, Michael lawson, reelection, reelection 2012, samuel l jackson, tavis smiley
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