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North Carolina is considered a battleground state in the presidential election and the first lady's visit was expected to generate goodwill within a core Democratic party constituency as President Barack Obama seeks re-election this fall.
But the reason that the governor got into the race for President is because of the dismal state of the economy. Jobs and the economy is the message that carried him through the primaries.
by David Frum May 12, 2012 6:45 AM EDT AP Photo (2) President Obama first. He inherited the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
Scott Walker at their annual convention Saturday, vowing to do all it takes to ensure the first-term conservative survives a June 5 recall and provides momentum for the party heading in the November presidential election. With the recall election ...

Only months ago, it seemed uncertain whether Obama would get the same kind of loving embrace from Hollywood that he did in the 2008 campaign. Actor and former supporter Matt Damon in particular voiced his displeasure last year, saying the president had ...
Mitt Romney, the presumptive US Republican presidential nominee, drew rousing support Saturday at a conservative Christian university as he defended traditional marriage between a man and a woman.
Defense lawyers for John Edwards will ask a judge Friday to dismiss corruption charges against their client, arguing prosecutors failed to prove the former US presidential candidate intentionally violated the law. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome) A federal ...
Barack Obama meets supporters at a townhall meeting in Lynchburg, Virginia, during the 2008 presidential campaign. US conservatives are stepping up efforts to defeat Obama in Virginia, a state the first US black president carried four years ago.
President Obama officially kicked off his reelection campaign today with visits to Ohio and Virginia. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque Last week, President Barack Obama launched his re-election campaign in the university town of Columbus, Ohio.
During the 2008 campaign, President Obama announced his support for civil unions. Later, the President said his position was evolving.
President Obama's re-election campaign played right into that dynamic, therefore, with a web site to explain the administration's energy policy priorities that initially listed oil, natural gas, nuclear, solar, wind, biofuels and energy efficiency.
The May 18-19 visit was to have been Putin's first foreign trip since he returned to the Kremlin on Monday, a chance to begin putting US ties back on track after a growth in tension over missile defense, Syria and Russia's presidential campaign.
Matt Hilburn Asian-Americans have largely been ignored by US politicians, but they could provide a valuable edge in the upcoming presidential election, says new polling data. According to recently released census data, Asian-Americans are the fastest ...
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio (Reuters) - Last week, President Barack Obama launched his re-election campaign in the university town of Columbus, Ohio.
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio (Reuters) - Last week, President Barack Obama launched his re-election campaign in the university town of Columbus, Ohio.
The May 18-19 visit was to have been Putin's first foreign trip since he returned to the Kremlin on Monday, a chance to begin putting US ties back on track after a growth in tension over missile defense, Syria and Russia's presidential campaign.
This year's primaries, the 2008 primaries, the General Services Administration scandal, even the Secret Service and Donald Trump were targets for President Barack Obama's scattershot humor at Saturday night's... Carl Edwards thought the race was his to ...
Jae C. Hong/2008 AP Secret Service agents, surrounding Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign, have been held in high esteem because of their role in protecting dignitaries.
This year's primaries, the 2008 primaries, the General Services Administration scandal, even the Secret Service and Donald Trump were targets for President Barack Obama's scattershot humor at Saturday night's... Kyle Busch capped a perfect weekend ...
A high-profile campaign appearance in Pennsylvania with Mitt Romney. A major foreign policy speech.- 9:42 pm LeBron James took the fourth quarter off.
MICHELE SALCEDO | April 29, 2012 12:12 AM EST | AP WASHINGTON - This year's primaries, the 2008 primaries, the General Services Administration scandal, even the Secret Service and Donald Trump were targets for President Barack Obama's scattershot ...
By WILLIAM MARCH | The Tampa Tribune President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is focusing intensely on Florida and Tampa-area Hispanics.
... underscored that the campaign is ceding the cool-kid argument to President Obama, an issue that dominated part of the last two days after an American Crossroads video that paid homage to the John McCain "Celebrity" ad from 2008. "This election is ...
United States political consultant and gay rights (LGBT) activist Fred Karger of California took some time to discuss his Republican Party presidential campaign with Wikinews reporter William Saturn. Karger holds the distinction as the first openly gay ...
It was rough going, but Mitt Romney, having run the gamut of the US presidential primary process, has survived. He can now be considered the Republican party's presumptive nominee.
This year's primaries, the 2008 primaries, the General Services Administration scandal, even the Secret Service and Donald Trump were targets for President Barack Obama's scattershot humor at Saturday night's... Kyle Busch capped a perfect weekend ...
This year's primaries, the 2008 primaries, the General Services Administration scandal, even the Secret Service and Donald Trump were targets for President Barack Obama's scattershot humor at Saturday night's... High winds swept through a beer tent ...
April 27 (Bloomberg) -- With Mitt Romney raising private funds for the fall campaign, this year's presidential election will be the first since the Watergate scandal in which neither major party's nominee accepts federal funding.
Across France teams of Socialist activists are knocking on doors and talking to voters, in a door-to-door campaign inspired by US President Barack Obama's successful 2008 campaign. FRANCE 24 joined a small team of socialist party (PS) canvassers ...
The killing of Osama bin Laden, first presented as a moment of national unity by President Barack Obama, has become something else: a political weapon.
Then US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is reflected on a glass table as he appears on television screens at an electronics shop in Wheaton, Maryland, on October 29, 2008 during a live segment from Florida as he speaks in his 30-minute ...
President Obama's campaign has launched an interesting new line of attack on Mitt Romney - questioning whether the former Massachusetts governor would have killed Osama bin Laden.
... unqualified to be commander-in-chief and leader of the free world during the 2008 campaign, it would be an irony if they selected Marco Rubio, a former state legislator with merely two years in the US Senate, as vice president in the 2012 election.
Moreso, security chiefs have previously vowed that they will not salute any presidential election winner with no liberation war credentials, an apparent reference to Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T)'s Morgan Tsvangirai.
He was a campaign strategist and adviser to Barack Obama on his successful 2004 Illinois US Senate run and 2008 presidential campaign. Gibbs was White House Press Secretary from early 2009 to early 2011, when he became an outside adviser to Obama's ...
President Barack Obama, flashing his executive power in an election year, is promoting measures to safeguard veterans and members of the military against unscrupulous college recruiters.
By Eric Vician, Times Correspondent RIVERVIEW - At first glance, it appears President Barack Obama's re-election campaign will enter enemy territory when Organizing for America opens a campaign office at the Winthrop Town Centre this week.
Seven months before Virginia voters elect their next United States Senator, former Gov. Tim Kaine, the Democrats' choice for the slot, was rallying a college crowd here, trying to impress upon them the magnitude of the decision to come.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton will join President Barack Obama on Sunday to raise money for the Democrat's re-election campaign, the first time the two US political heavyweights have campaigned together in 2012.
| IndianaPOLIS (Reuters) - They disagreed as Republican running mates during the 2008 presidential campaign, and on Friday John McCain and Sarah Palin endorsed rival candidates in the tight Indiana primary to determine if US Senator Richard Lugar gets ...
Edwards, 58, is accused of directing ex-campaign aide Andrew Young to solicit nearly $1 million in illegal political contributions to conceal Edward's pregnant mistress during his failed 2008 bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
President Obama's re-election campaign is portraying his risky decision to go after America's top enemy as a defining difference with his Republican presidential opponent, suggesting Mitt Romney might not have had the guts to order a mission that put ...
The Supreme Court already has played a huge and direct role in US presidential politics. Its 5-4 ruling in Bush v. Gore settled the bitter 2000 contest by barring a Florida ballot recount, which Democrats hoped would prevent George W. Bush's election.
Former US House of Representatives speaker Newt Gingrich appears poised to drop out of the race for the US Republican presidential nomination, after front-runner Mitt Romney swept five state primary elections in one day Tuesday.
In Detroit, the city clerk warned last week that the Rust Belt city would have trouble holding the November 6 presidential election under a slimmed-down budget the mayor proposed to address years of deep financial problems. In Jefferson County, Alabama ...
5, 2008, US presidential election party in Brussels. This year, the electoral vote landscape could be more challenging for Mitt Romney than national popular vote polls might suggest.


 


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