Apr 30, 2012 — The video titled “Forward” distills much of Obama’s argument for his re-election. It opens with news footage meant to recall how truly perilous was the state of the economy leading into his election, then leads into his achievements in office A video released Monday by President Obama’s re-election campaign looks a [...]
Malaysia will introduce its first minimum wage to benefit an estimated 3.2 million workers, joining neighbors Thailand and Vietnam in strengthening support for low-income households as elections approach in Southeast Asia’s third-largest economy. “The lowest-paid will now be guaranteed an income than lifts them out of poverty and helps ensure that they can meet the [...]
While polls show the economy as the top concern of voters, a review of political attack ads suggests a different issue dominates: energy. Americans for Prosperity, an organization backed by oil interests, last week began airing its third television commercial since November, a campaign worth $6.1 million, attacking Obama’s green energy policies. The latest round [...]
Elizabeth Warren pushes back on “Native American” questions, Obama’s half-sister is out with a memoir, Mitt Romney says anyone would have killed bin Laden and Bristol Palin says her mother did a great job, thank you very much. Make sure to sign up to get “Afternoon Fix” in your e-mail inbox every day by 5 [...]
The fund-raising apparatus powering President Obama’s re-election effort has struggled to attract the big-money donors who contributed to Mr. Obama’s record fund-raising haul in 2008. Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee, faces the mirror-opposite problem: the bulk of his campaign’s war chest has been built big check by big check, while small donations — defined [...]
Malaysia will introduce its first minimum wage to benefit an estimated 3.2 million workers, joining neighbors Thailand and Vietnam in strengthening support for low-income households as elections approach in Southeast Asia’s third-largest economy. “The lowest-paid will now be guaranteed an income than lifts them out of poverty and helps ensure that they can meet the [...]
President Barack Obama officially kicks off his re-election campaign Saturday, May 5, with rallies in two competitive swing states, Ohio and Virginia. The race between Mr. Obama and his expected Republican opponent, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, is already well underway. With just more than six months to go until Election Day, the Republican strategy [...]
The one-year anniversary of Navy Seals’ successful raid on the Osama Bin Laden compound has yielded sourness rather than celebration and charges that President Obama is “spiking the football.” Romney “Even Jimmy Carter would have given that order,” Republican nominee-in-waiting Mitt Romney said on Monday. Romney was reacting to the Obama campaign’s use of a [...]
rEVOLution in Massachusetts Reports International Business Times: Ron Paul’s 2012 delegate strategy made gains in Massachusetts and Alaska in recent days, further demonstrating the tactic’s ability to have an impact on the Republican presidential primary race. The Ron Paul 2012 presidential campaign has been slowly and quietly working this year to gather the support of delegates to the [...]
The White House Office of the Press Secretary President Barack Obama today announced the designation of a Presidential Delegation to Canberra and Brisbane, Australia for ceremonies commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea from May 3-5, 2012. The Honorable Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security will lead the delegation. Members of [...]
