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David Axelrod: Barack Obama's street fighter | Observer profile
via The Guardian
Birthday boy: President Obama plays golf, heads to Camp David to celebrate as he turns 51
(Susan Walsh / AP)
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama celebrated his 51st birthday Saturday with a round of golf and plans for a quiet weekend at Camp David, taking a break from campaigning three months before Election Day.
The 3 questions whose answers should evict Obama from the White House
via The Astute Bloggers
Sunday Talk Shows (8/5/12): 2012 elections, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Meet the Press, Face the Nation, GPS and more
It’s campaign central on the Sunday talk shows with appearances from Priebus, Wasserman Shultz, Axelrod and Gibbs.
Congress breaks for 5 weeks, leaving work on some big issues unfinished in an election year
WASHINGTON — Congress’ performance matches its approval rating — abysmal.
Obama, Romney seek foothold from better-than-expected jobs report; campaign messages unchanged
WASHINGTON — Sputtering along, the economy on Friday offered some hope but no illuminating help to voters who are mired in a weak jobs recovery and flooded with familiar promises from President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney. The new employment snapshot seemed too mixed and middling to jolt a consistently close race.
In a vicious campaign year, apologies are in the air
(Jim Cole / AP)
In a hotly contested campaign during which insults seem to outpace deliberate thought, apologies are in the air.
US economy generates 163K jobs in surprising sign of resilience as rest of world slows down
(Spencer Platt / GETTY IMAGES)
WASHINGTON — U.S. employers added 163,000 jobs in July, a hopeful sign after three months of sluggish hiring.
Romney says he has paid ‘a lot of taxes,’ has never had a year without them
NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney declared Friday that he has “paid taxes every year — and a lot of taxes” as he rejected an anonymous claim that he hadn’t paid taxes for a decade on his vast personal wealth.
No, Obama doesn’t necessarily have to `defy history’ to win
What history really tells us.
Obama, Romney seek foothold from better-than-expected jobs report; campaign messages unchanged
WASHINGTON — Sputtering along, the economy on Friday offered some hope but no illuminating help to voters who are mired in a weak jobs recovery and flooded with familiar promises from President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney. The new employment snapshot seemed too mixed and middling to jolt a consistently close race.
Obama and Romney’s political gymnastics
(Pete Ellis for The Washington Post / PETE ELLIS FOR THE WASHINGTON POST)
Obama and Romney’s campaign gymnastics.
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