BOSTON (AP) — Barack Obama’s re-election campaign kept up pressure against Republican rival Mitt Romney on two fronts Friday, launching a new ad defending the president’s record on Medicare while challenging Romney to release at least five years of tax returns. The TV advertisement, accusing Romney and running mate Paul Ryan of undermining the health […]
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Report: Obama’s campaign more wired than Romney’s
WASHINGTON (AP) — Four years ago, then-Sen. Barack Obama got a head start on Arizona Sen. John McCain when it came to reaching voters online, on their mobile phones and on social media. Young voters, the group most likely to tune in digitally to the presidential campaign, broke overwhelmingly for Obama, giving him the biggest […]
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Obama attacks Romney on wind-power in Iowa
OSKALOOSA, Iowa (AP) — President Barack Obama assailed rival Mitt Romney’s opposition to tax supports for wind power, delivering an Iowa-specific critique Tuesday on the Republican challenger in that crucial Midwestern state. Obama’s deputy criticized GOP budget plans to overhaul Medicare, cut trillions of dollars from social programs and lower taxes on high-income taxpayers. Iowa […]
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Disaster relief sought for New England fishermen
BOSTON — Members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation are calling on the Obama administration to issue a disaster declaration for the New England commercial fishing industry after regulators warned of severe reductions in catch limits next year. Sen. John Kerry says the potential impact of the cuts would be “absolutely devastating” on fishermen and the […]
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B. Huot: Democrats pick wrong target
This is in response to John Kelly (July 24). The last time I checked, former President George W. Bush is not running for president, so why do Democrats always have to play that card? Did President Ronald Reagan ever harp on President Jimmy Carter, or any Republicans for that matter? The job growth isn’t keeping […]
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R. Bechard: Open your eyes, Americans
Once again, President Barack Obama and the far-left liberals are telling the working class and the small businesses of America that they don’t care what the American working people say. Sixty-four percent of Americans don’t want Obamacare because taxpayer dollars are going to help illegal aliens and the 50 percent of people who don’t pay […]
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J. Albrecht: Where are Romney’s solutions?
President Barack Obama wants to examine Mitt Romney’s qualifications but has been stonewalled, just as Romney’s Republican primary opponents were in the spring. Bain Capital is a private corporation with very limited reporting requirements. We know that Romney was the creator, sole owner, CEO, president, and sole decider until February 1999. After that, the story […]
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Offshoring debate phony
The following editorial appeared on Bloomberg View: The presidential campaign seems to have time-traveled back to 1992, when independent candidate Ross Perot thought he heard the “giant sucking sound” of American jobs moving to Mexico. Perot lost his presidential bid, along with the argument against globalization. The winner, Bill Clinton, went on to sign the […]
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LePage offers statement on “Gestapo” comment
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — With a well-earned reputation for blunt rhetoric, Maine Gov. Paul LePage stirred outrage again when he likened the Internal Revenue Service to the Gestapo, prompting calls for a public apology. The governor made the remark in his weekend radio address as he assailed the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld President […]
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Obama administration announces policy granting certain immigrants immunity and work permits
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding lives. The election-year initiative addresses a top priority of an influential Latino electorate that has been vocal in its opposition to administration deportation policies. The […]