Vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan criticized Barack Obama for not doing enough to help the economy. Photo: CBS News.
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney‘s running mate Paul Ryan mocked President Barack Obama‘s decision to publish a 19-page booklet highlighting the policies he will be pursuing if he is elected to serve a second term. The Wisconsin representative was addressing a 1,000-strong crowd in Bristol, Virginia, when he dismissed the president’s program.
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26 October, 2012
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Texas Congressman Ron Paul hopes that the official
unemployment numbers are not fooling anyone.
In a piece published on his website earlier on this week, Texas Congressman Ron Paul comments upon the job numbers published by the Department of Labor on Oct. 5 which showed that the official unemployment rate had fallen below eight percent (8%) for the first time since President Barack Obama took over from George W. Bush.
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18 October, 2012
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In his first interview following last week’s presidential debate, President Barack Obama told ABC’s World News Tonight that he does not believe his poor performance against former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has affected his chances of winning the Nov. 6 presidential election.
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11 October, 2012
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A new study conducted by The Commonwealth Fund, a New York-based private foundation working toward a high-performance health care system, has revealed that the number of uninsured Americans would skyrocket were Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney‘s health care overhaul be implemented.
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3 October, 2012
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The Obama campaign launched an attack against Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for holding shares in a Chinese company which has close ties with Iran. This information came to light when Mr. Romney released his 2011 tax return late last week.
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25 September, 2012
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President Barack Obama told CNN’s David Letterman on Tuesday that a U.S. president should work for every American, whether or not they voted for him. The president’s comments came in the wake of the release of a video showing Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney suggesting that Mr. Obama’s voters were freeloaders who believed that they were entitled to all the help they received from the government.
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President Barack Obama outraised Mitt Romney for
the first time in four months in August.
President Barack Obama outraised Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for the first time in four months in August, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on Monday.
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10 September, 2012
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Source: Rasmussen Reports, Sept. 2, 2012.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national poll published on Sunday shows that Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has overtaken his Democratic opponent, as he benefits from the usual convention ‘bounce.’ The GOP, which held its national convention last week, saw Mr. Romney‘s wife, Ann, give a speech about the ‘real Mitt.’Last Thursday, the former Massachusetts governor accepted his party’s nomination.
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President Barack Obama used his weekly radio and Internet address on Saturday to insist that the changes that he proposed for Medicare, the government-administered social insurance program for senior citizens, would benefit the elderly. In contrast, he said, the Republican proposal would “end Medicare as we know it.”
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25 August, 2012
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A new CNN / ORC survey conducted between August 7 and August 8 shows that American voters are divided about the situation in Syria and the potential steps that could be taken to tackle the bloody unrest in the Arab republic. Until recently, the Obama administration favored a diplomatic approach and supported the peace plan proposed by Kofi Annan, the former secretary general of the United Nations. Mr. Annan resigned as peace envoy two weeks ago after accepting that his plan had failed.
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15 August, 2012
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