…ure the candidates will oblige by keeping their answers concise and on point.” It was revealed from CNN timekeeping on the debate, that Barack Obama had spoke for three extra minutes The President got 44:04 minutes of speaking time, while Romney got 40:50. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney had both revealed their concern over Candy Crowley ahead of tonight’s second presidential debate because she…
41% (567,679 votes) Barack Obama 58% (815,227 votes) Delaware (3 electoral votes) Mitt Romney 40% (165,476 votes) Barack Obama 59% (242,547 votes) District of Columbia (3 electoral votes) Mitt Romney 7% (17,337 votes) Barack Obama 91% (222,332 votes) Florida (29 electoral votes) Mitt Romney 49% (4,083,321 votes) Barack Obama 50% (4,129,360 votes) Georgia (16 electoral votes) Mitt Romney 53% (2,05…
ok and they would read together and discuss writers into the night. Like Alexandra McNear, Genevieve Cook was attracted by the “mental exhilaration” of his intellect, marveling at how mature he was at 22, but dismayed by his remoteness and wariness about commitment. Needless to say, Barack Obama was as self-obsessed as ever. When Genevieve Cook told him that she loved him, Barack Obama’s response…
nbsp; A poll of more than 570,000 people across the globe has revealed non-Americans want Barack Obama to remain President of the United States Argentina: 83 % Obama, 17 % Romney Austria: 93 % Obama, 7 % Romney Belgium: 93 % Obama, 7 % Romney Brazil: 90 % Obama, 10 % Romney Canada: 83 % Obama, 17 % Romney Chile: 80 % Obama, 20 % Romney China: 48 % Obama, 52 % Romney Colombia: 77 % Obama, 23 % Rom…
n Dunham, who was white with various European ancestry. The two men share the common bond of their father, Barack Obama Sr., but even that was not very strong because of their age gap. Barack Obama is 50-years-old while George is only 30-years-old, and Barack Sr died in a car accident just six months after George was born. The President reportedly has seven half-siblings on his father’s side…
Edward Klein’s book, The Amateur, claims that Michelle Obama prepared divorce papers to separate from Barack Obama in 2000 following his disastrous attempt to win a House seat in Chicago. When Barack Obama lost miserably, the future First Lady was supposedly disgusted that her husband had ignored her warnings not to take on the four term incumbent Bobby Rush. Their marriage – in its eighth…
aratchiks in the post-debate spin room in Florida on Monday – he told the crowd that a vote for Mitt Romney would plunge Americans back to the early 1960s. “You can choose to turn the clock back 50 years for women and immigrants and gays,” he said. “Or in this election you can stand up for the principle that America includes everybody. We’re all created equal – black, white, Hisp…
ts say Barack Obama will be re-elected while 57% of Republicans think he’ll be voted out of office. Among those Republicans who think Barack Obama may pull out a victory is Catherine Shappard, a 78-year-old from Dallas. Catherine Shappard said all of her friends agree that Mitt Romney would be a better president, yet she’s alarmed to hear even conservative commenters say Barack Obama h…
voters feeling alienated. Within an hour of the Gallup survey being released, the Obama campaign – which recently mocked Republicans for questioning poll methodology, went on the offensive against the 75-year-old polling firm. Reporters were sent a memo from Barack Obama pollster Joel Benenson. In it, Joel Benenson said: “The latest Gallup/USA Today Battleground survey showing President Obama and…
voters feeling alienated. Within an hour of the Gallup survey being released, the Obama campaign – which recently mocked Republicans for questioning poll methodology, went on the offensive against the 75-year-old polling firm. Reporters were sent a memo from Barack Obama pollster Joel Benenson. In it, Joel Benenson said: “The latest Gallup/USA Today Battleground survey showing President Obama and…
…ck Obama in 2008, but is now firmly up for grabs. As they did four years ago, the Democrats will take the event outside the convention centre for the president’s prime-time speech, taking over a 74,000-seater stadium in Charlotte for the final night of speeches – despite a poor weather forecast. …
pen question but the Romney campaign thinks so. “What’s going on here is when you have intensity and momentum,” said the Romney adviser. “You ask voters who they’re voting for and they say 48, 47 points Obama. And then you look at the people who are eight, nine,10 on the intensity scale, Republicans have a high single digits to low double digits advantage. “That’s what you see in…
…Florida on 22 October. As he battles for a second term, the Democratic president has been trying to hold on to dwindling leads in the nine key swing states that are expected to decide the election on 6 November. In the town hall-style forum at Hofstra University on Long Island, both men freely roamed the stage, circling, interrupting and at times heckling one another as they took questions from a…
…econd term as president. The risk is the political blowback that can come if he is seen as crossing a line into politicizing national security. “Sad,” said a Mitt Romney spokeswoman. “Shameless,” said 2008 Barack Obama election foe John McCain. Joe Biden even combined the killing of the Al Qaeda leader and Barack Obama’s support for a failing auto industry into what he called a re-election b…
…e claims are likely to feed the image of Michelle Obama as an “angry black woman”, a label she herself dismissed earlier this year. They could also reopen questions about the Obama’s marriage of 20 years as in the past they reportedly rowed a lot and came close to splitting up. In his book, The Amateur, journalist Edward Klein claims that Michelle Obama’s “obsessive” behavior is the talk of…
n their share of the US population. 2. The ethnic vote Barack Obama overwhelmingly won the black vote with 93%, a sliver lower than four years ago. Latinos also voted strongly for the Democrat – 71% in total and probably made electoral differences in Colorado and Nevada. Latinos or Hispanics made up 10% of total voters in the US, up one percentage point from 2008. President Obama lost some o…
…laza Hotel, Barack Obama scheduled a visit to the World Trade Center site The intimate dinner at the house of Sarah Jessica Parker and her actor husband Matthew Broderick banked about $2 million, with 50 people paying $40,000 each to attend. Speaking in a dimly-lit, art-filled room, Barack Obama told supporters they would play a critical role in an election that would determine a vision for the na…
US President Barack Obama’s annual vacation in Hawaii in 2011 is likely to be his most expensive ever – or rather the taxpayer’s most expensive. President Barack Obama and his family travelled separately this time because he wanted resolve the payroll tax cut issue before leaving Washington. First Lady Michelle Obama didn’t not want to hang around waiting. His round trip flight…
…#8221; after his passive showing in the first debate. The rivals will take questions on domestic and foreign policy from an audience of 80 undecided voters at a town hall-style forum in New York. With 21 days to go until the election, the race is essentially deadlocked. As he battles for a second term, the Democratic president is trying to hang on to narrow leads in many of the nine key swing stat…
Barack Obama appeared relaxed on the Jay Leno Show but gave Mitt Romney an opening when he quipped that he struggled with mathematics beyond the Seventh grade at the age of 13. President Barack Obama was taking about helping his daughters with their maths homework when he said that “the math stuff I was fine with, up until 7th grade” but he was “pretty lost” after that. In times of economic prosp…
ink of anyone, period, who had such great style potential at 14. “She has all the elements that make a great fashionista. It’s really exceptional.” Malia Obama, standing nearly as tall as her 5-foot-11 mother, now carries herself with confidence, striding alongside her mother like two-peas-in-a-poised-pod. Unlike many teens unused to their new height, she shows no trace of awkwardness or…
o bolster morale within the company and strengthen the Obama administration’s argument that its bailout of the industry was worthwhile. G.M. was the world’s largest automaker for more than 70 years before Toyota surpassed it in 2008. — Nick Bunkley, reporter On the day I took office, our auto industry was on the verge of collapse. Some even said we should let it die. With a m…
…ressive 25. “I thought it wouldn’t be good to show off the first lady so I stopped,” quipped Ellen DeGeneres after quitting. “I thought this looks bad that I’m going to beat her. I’m 54 and you’re 48.” First Lady Michelle Obama was challenged to a push-up contest on Ellen DeGeneres show during her California tour for promoting her health agenda During the show, Michelle O…
…e thing and now suggest they’d do something else, then I’d go ahead and let them explain it.” Ryan Zinke, a former Commander in the US Navy who spent 23 years as a SEAL and led a SEAL Team 6 assault unit, said: “The decision was a no brainer. I applaud him for making it but I would not overly pat myself on the back for making the right call. “I think every president would have done the…
times. Brendan J. Doherty, who has compiled statistics about presidential travel and fundraising going back to President Jimmy Carter in 1977, found that Barack Obama had held 104 fundraisers by March 6th this year, compared to 94 held by Presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush Sr., Bill Clinton and George W. Bush combined. Since then, Barack Obama has held another 20 fundraisers, brin…
Rome: Thousands rally to oppose Italy's austerity measuresThousands of protesters, led by trade unionists, have rallied in Rome against the policies of Italy’s new coalition government. Wielding red flags and placards, they urged…
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Cannes Film Festival 2013: $1 million Chopard jewels stolen from Novotel hotel roomMore than $1 million (777,000 euros) worth of Chopard jewels have been stolen from Novotel hotel in Cannes, French police say. The jewels were to be loaned to stars…
Pope Francis condemns money cult in his first major speech on financial crisisIn his first major speech on the financial crisis, Pope Francis has called on world leaders to end the "cult of money" and to do more for the poor. Free market economics had…
Milos Zeman: Czech president drunk at public display of crown jewelsA video footage shows the new Czech president, Milos Zeman, clearly worse for wear, propping himself up against a wall at a public event, struggling to negotiate a step and…
France enters its second recession in four years France has entered its second recession in four years after the economy shrank by 0.2% in the first quarter of 2013, according to official figures. The country’s economy…
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