Politics
Politics
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POLITICS
First lady sponsoring future Navy submarine
First lady Michelle Obama is sponsoring a future Navy submarine named after her home state.
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POLITICS
Obama says Vietnam veterans too often 'denigrated'
President Barack Obama paid tribute Monday to the men and women who have died defending America, pointing to Vietnam veterans as an under-appreciated and sometimes maligned group of war heroes who remained true to their nation despite an unwelcome homecoming.
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ELECTIONS
Hispanic boom may not shift Texas face in Congress
One is a black real estate agent and the other a white millionaire. For two new districts created to reflect Texas' soaring Hispanic population, they might be the representatives elected to Congress.
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PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Campaigns dig through online data to target voters
Voters who click on President Barack Obama's campaign website are likely to start seeing display ads promoting his re-election bid on their Facebook pages and other sites they visit. Voters searching Google for information about Mitt Romney may notice a 15-second ad promoting the Republican presidential...
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PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
GOP ties Obama to NH student debt, ignores origins
New Hampshire isn't just first in the nation when it comes to hosting presidential primaries. It also ranks first in student-loan debt, and now the winner of the state's Republican presidential primary is seizing on that fact to argue that President Barack Obama has let down students.
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POLITICS
Congressional Black Caucus rallies preachers to tackle voter-ID laws
The Rev. Dr. Franklyn Richardson longs for the old days, when all it took was Sunday sermons by African-American ministers to fire up their flocks to get registered and vote in local, state and federal elections.
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POLITICS
'Golfer-in-chief' Obama nears 100th round of his presidency
Theodore Roosevelt warned future presidents of the grave risks: "Fatal," he said. Harry Truman shunned it - "a political noose," in the words of one writer. John Kennedy strived to keep it as secret, or almost as secret, as some of his other diversions.
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PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Warning signs for Obama on path to electoral votes
President Barack Obama faces new warning signs in a once-promising Southern state and typically Democratic-voting Midwestern states roughly five months before the election even as he benefits nationally from encouraging economic news.
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PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
A state-by-state look at the road to 270
An analysis of the state-by-state race to 270 electoral votes, the total needed to win the presidency, and where Democratic President Barack Obama and probable Republican nominee Mitt Romney stand now. The numbers reflect electoral votes:
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POLITICS
McCain: Don't count on Russia to force out Assad
The U.S. can't count on Russia - a major arms supplier to Syria - to force President Bashar Assad from power, Sen. John McCain said Sunday, blaming President Barack Obama for embracing a "feckless" foreign policy and punting tough decisions until after the fall election.






