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October 4, 2012 There was plenty of media spin and punditry in Wednesday's debate, not just in Denver but on Twitter. The candidates appeared to be lacking in real zingers. Instead, it turns out the real conversation was happening through social media.
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Romney Goes On Offense, Pays For It In First Wave Of Fact Checks
October 4, 2012 President Obama did some truth-stretching as well, say the nonpartisan watchdogs who parse candidates' words.
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Report: If Captured Alive, Obama Favored Putting Osama Bin Laden On Trial
October 3, 2012 President Obama told Vanity Fair he would have favored trying bin Laden in the federal court system. He told the magazine's contributing editor that he with the capture, he would have had the political currency to push for that approach.
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A Poll's Query About Partisan Bias Of Pollsters Finds The Tilt Is With Voters
October 2, 2012 In another demonstration of how different the partisan lenses are through which voters view the political landscape, a new poll finds most Democrats dismiss the notion of pollster bias in surveys showing President Obama ahead of Mitt Romney. Republicans, by and large, believe it.
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With First Debate This Week, We Really Are In Campaign's Final Stretch
October 1, 2012 Campaigns have many milestones. The debates mark the last. In just a little more than a month, the 2012 presidential campaign will finally be over.
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Presidential Debates: The One Area Where Campaigns Pitch Their Weakness
September 28, 2012 An oddity of presidential politics is that candidates and their campaigns spend nearly all their time telling voters how superior they are to their rivals in virtually every area: the wisdom of their policy proposals; the soundness of their judgments — everything, really. Except for debating.
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On Iran: Obama, Netanyahu In 'Full Agreement' About Goal, White House Says
September 28, 2012 The two leaders spoke by telephone today.
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In 1980s Romney Video From His Bain Days, Profits, Not Jobs, Were Focus
September 27, 2012 The newly unearthed video of Mitt Romney in 1985 explaining how Bain Capital hoped to "harvest" the firms it invested in seemed at odds with the Republican presidential nominee's suggestion on the campaign trail that creating jobs was a major aim in those days.
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Obama Invokes 'Economic Patriotism' As New Rallying Cry
September 27, 2012 President Obama has added the term "economic patriotism" to his campaign vocabulary. It's a criticism of GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, whose personal overseas investments are an issue in the campaign. But while some of what Obama means is clear, the term still raises questions.
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New Obama And Romney Ads Are Linked By Guilt
September 26, 2012 President Obama's new ad uses anticipatory guilt to try to get young voters who might not be as excited as they were four years ago to vote. Meanwhile, Republican Mitt Romney's new ad is born of the now-infamous video in which he is seen talking about the "47 percent."
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Romney's Nevada Problems Explained By A Political Scientist Who Voted For Him
September 26, 2012 Nevada political scientist Eric Herzik, who twice voted for Romney in caucuses, told NPR's Don Gonyea that Mitt Romney isn't doing as well in the state as might have been expected, despite Nevada's nation-leading unemployment rate. He's failed to personally connect with voters and hasn't given enough details about his economic proposals, Herzik says.
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Obama Talks Of Slavery, Romney Of Freedom At Clinton Global Initiative
September 25, 2012 President Obama and Mitt Romney took very different approaches in their speeches at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York. Obama focused on the scourge of human trafficking, while Romney proposed tying U.S. foreign aid to job creation and economic reforms in recipient nations.
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Obama Focuses On 'Outrage Of Human Trafficking'
September 25, 2012 It must be called by its true name, Obama says: "modern slavery." He's announcing several new initiatives aimed at battling it.
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Obama: Those Like Slain U.S. Ambassador Must Determine World's Future
September 25, 2012 President Obama this morning addressed the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly. His message: slain Ambassador Chris Stevens and others who build bridges, "not his killers," are the hope for the future.