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Better off 4 years later? A mixed bag of answers
It's a staple of every presidential election, a single question that puts the incumbent's record on trial and asks American voters to be the jurors. "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" Ronald Reagan asked in 1980 at the end of a...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Unemployment Benefits, Arthritis, General Motors Corp., Mitt Romney
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Florida Travel Tips & Deals
Special CorrespondentCheck this list often as new tips, events and deals around Florida come in: Partnership for cruise line The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), founded nearly 200 years ago to advance geographical science, is to...Tags: Nautica, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth II, Radio, Virgin Group, Ltd.
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Obama and Romney race in 'The Center Holds' by Jonathan Alter
Among several persistently wrongheaded beliefs about the 2012 election, none beats the claim, heard even in the campaign's closing weeks, that President Obama faced a desperately bad situation and had a high probability of losing. That zombie idea...Tags: Parties and Movements, The New York Times, Productivity, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Periodicals
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Obama tells America the Jersey Shore is open for business
TRENTON, N.J. — President Barack Obama and New Jersey's Republican governor, Chris Christie, strolled along the Jersey Shore boardwalk like old friends on Tuesday, a political odd couple just hanging out together. The two men had a common purpose:...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Hurricane Katrina (2005), Executive Branch, Government, Internal Revenue Service
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For Republicans like Rand Paul, the 2016 campaign has begun
Reuters* With no clear front-runner, Republicans jockey for position * Senator Paul seeks to show his appeal is broad enough * For Republicans, generational and ideological change looms By Samuel P. Jacobs CONCORD, New Hampshire, May 24 (Reuters) - Seeking...Tags: Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Hillary Clinton, Rand Paul, Regional Authority
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IRS probe ignored most influential groups
IRS probe ignored most influential groups KEN THOMAS,Associated Press STEVE PEOPLES,Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — There's an irony in the Internal Revenue Service's crackdown on conservative groups. The nation's tax agency has admitted to...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Literature, Carl Levin, U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Mitt Romney
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COLUMN: For Obama, 2014 is his number
WASHINGTON — Thirty-one months ago Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell affronted the media and other custodians of propriety by saying something common-sensical. On Oct. 23, 2010, he said: "The single most important thing we want to achieve is...Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Immigration, Culture, Arts and Culture, Mitt Romney
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2012 elections boost TV stations; L.A. market reaches $1.4 billion
Politics may often seem like a dirty business, but for local TV stations it's also a very good business. Political advertising helped propel a 13.2% growth in television station revenue last year, allowing the broadcast industry to regain much of the...Tags: Barack Obama, Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, Elections, Television Industry, Online Advertising
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GOP moves to plug technology gap with Democrats
WASHINGTON (AP) — Embarrassed by how the last presidential election exposed their yesteryear technology, Republicans are turning to a younger generation of tech-savvy social media experts and software designers to improve communications with voters,...
Tags: Parties and Movements, eHarmony, Board of Directors, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama
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It's a Gray Area: Muslims are the latest targets of discrimination
In so many ways, one of the biggest civil rights issues of our day is the way we treat Muslims in our country. Yes, 9/11 was an act of war against the United States, and yes, it was carried out by radical Muslims. But it is our obligation to realize...Tags: Judges, Islam, U.S. Congress, Iran, Religion and Belief
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Why annihilate the GOP?
Still reeling from the Republican defeat in the 2012 presidential election, House Speaker John Boehner warned in a Ripon Society speech the other day that the re-elected Obama administration is now out to kill off their party. The embattled speaker...
Tags: Assault, U.S. House of Representatives, Immigration, U.S. Congress, National Rifle Association of America
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