Category Archives: Elections

Obama pushes campaign themes in Arizona and Iowa

By doris | Published: January 26, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — President Barack Obama on Wednesday launched a three-day visit to five battleground states in the November election by pressing State of the Union themes of core American values and having the wealthy pay more taxes. At an Iowa manufacturing plant that he said represented the kind of job creation [...]

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Weekly addresses preview State of Union

By doris | Published: January 21, 2012

Full Story at PoliticalTicker.blogs.CNN.com (CNN) – Three days before the State of the Union address, President Barack Obama and Texas Rep. Jeb Hensarling on Saturday offered what could be previews of their parties’ messages next week. In the GOP weekly address, Hensarling bashed the record of Obama’s three-year administration, criticizing the state of unemployment, gas [...]

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Obama to visit swing state Ohio to talk economy

By doris | Published: January 14, 2012

Full Story at NBCPolitics.msnbbc.msn.com President Barack Obama will visit the political battleground state of Ohio next week, ushering in the 2012 election year with a speech focused on the economy, the White House said on Thursday. Obama will visit Cleveland on Wednesday, just after he returns from a more than week-long vacation in Hawaii, White [...]

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Cain to make ‘major announcement’ Saturday

By doris | Published: December 3, 2011

Full Story at FirstRead.msnbc.msn.com Alfredo Ortiz, a Georgia-based press secretary with the Herman Cain campaign, tells NBC News that Herman Cain will make a “major announcement” tomorrow in Atlanta at his new campaign office in DeKalb County. Ortiz would not allude to the nature of the announcement other than to say it is a “major [...]

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Iowa caucuses to be held January 3

By doris | Published: October 17, 2011

Full Story at PoliticalTicker.Blogs.cnn.com Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) – The Iowa Republican Party on Monday made official what had been expected, announcing that its caucuses will be held on Tuesday, January 3. The state party’s central committee on Monday night officially signed off on the date. The caucuses were originally going to be held in [...]

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Just how important is Ohio in 2012? Very!

By doris | Published: September 20, 2011

Full Story at PoliticalTicker.blogs.CNN.com (CNN) – How important is Ohio to the Obama White House? Vice President Joe Biden heads there Tuesday, the fourth visit to the crucial battleground state by President Barack Obama or Biden since Labor Day. And Obama will be there again on Thursday to lobby for his jobs package. Ohio’s 18 [...]

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Democrats fall short in Wisconsin recall elections

By doris | Published: August 11, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com Democrats failed late Tuesday in their effort to gain control of the Wisconsin state senate as Republican incumbents won four of six recall elections. The outcome was a big setback for Democrats, organized labor, and progressive groups who’d sought retribution against six GOP allies of Gov. Scott Walker, who earlier this [...]

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