2012 Election: voting results so far Alabama (9 electoral votes) Mitt Romney 61% (1,245,221 votes) Barack Obama 38% (787,027 votes) Alaska (3 electoral votes) Mitt Romney 55% (120,329 votes) Barack Obama 41% (90,743 votes) Arizona (11 electoral votes) Mitt Romney 55% (896,302 votes) Barack Obama 43% (707,744 votes) Arkansas (6 electoral votes) Mitt Romney 60% (631,244 votes) Barack Obama 37% (38…
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…
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. The research, conducted across 36 countries outside the US, revealed 81% were in favor of Barack Obama spending another four years in office. And only 19% preferred his Republican challenger Mitt Romney, according to the findings from MSN. Interestingly, the o…
George Obama, US President Barack Obama’s half-brother, is making his film debut in a documentary where he talks about his non-existent relationship with his relative who is the most powerful man in the world. George Obama, 30, lives in Nairobi, Kenya and first came into the public eye in 2008 when his half-brother was a rising presidential candidate. At the time, he was living in a hut in…
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…
tack the challenges facing the middle class all over the country.” After resisting for months calls to draw up a plan for a second term, this week Barack Obama tore down a small rainforest by printing 3.5 million copies of a 20-page booklet entitled “A Plan for Jobs and Middle-Class Security”. But there was nothing new in the booklet and was rushed out just two weeks before election day and the mo…
unemployment figures from each state to predict a Republican win come November. Political science professors Kenneth Bickers and Michael Berry’s study predicts 218 electoral votes for Barack Obama and 320 for Mitt Romney with the Republican candidate winning every seat currently considered to be on the fence. The prediction model uses economic data from all 50 states and the District of Columbia,…
…ichelle Obama jogged to a stage to the sound of a marching band that played the University of Florida flight song. She told the crowd: “I’m so excited. I am thrilled to be here on London for the 2012 Olympic games. I am proud to be leading the U.S. delegation to the opening ceremony.” Olympic gold-medal sprinter Carl Lewis signed autographs at the event while ex-NBA star Dikembe Mutombo offe…
…bama has made an impassioned speech backing her husband, President Barack Obama, for another four-year White House term In a speech roundly welcomed by a hyped-up crowd, she shared memories from their 23-year relationship, and noted that she had found a “kindred spirit” in a man whose values were similar to hers. “Barack and I were both raised by families who didn’t have mu…
The White House has announced today that First Lady Michelle Obama will lead the official U.S. delegation to the opening ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London. It has become somewhat of a tradition for first ladies to lead the U.S. delegation. Laura Bush performed the duty at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy, and Hillary Rodham Clinton headed up the delegation at the 1994…
…ini-dresses, laughing and waving to photographers. President Barack Obama playfully put on McKayla Maroney’s trademark scowl for a photo with the gold medalist It’s not the first time the 2012 U.S. Women’s Olympic team have had personal interaction with President Barack Obama however. Barack Obama expressed his admiration for the team after their gold medal win in August, voicin…
h to identify states such as Nevada which Romney probably won’t win. If we look at the 2008 electoral college map, when Barack Obama beat Senator John McCain by an electoral college landslide of 365 to 173 (and seven percentage points in the popular vote), we can view the terrain on which the 2012 contest is being fought. The distribution of electoral college votes (which are based on congre…
In the weeks since election night, the emerging styles of the Obama daughters, and especially Malia, has taken center stage – the 14-year-old blossoming from the President’s wide-eyed “baby” into a self-assured young woman who has inherited her mother’s confidence, bold fashion sense and looks. Wearing a shiny blue full skirt from ASOS with a neon pink Zara belt, and J. Crew fla…
female vote (56%). However, there was a division between married and unmarried women: 53% of married women voted for the Republican candidate, while Barack Obama won unmarried women two-to-one: 67% to 31%. Overall, women make up more of the electorate – 53% – slightly more than their share of the US population. 2. The ethnic vote Barack Obama overwhelmingly won the black vote with 93%,…
…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…
…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…
…veniencing a lot of commuters”. She added: “There has to be a better way to go about it rather than putting out how many thousands of riders out of commission, and having to find another way home.” In 2004, Democrats criticized George W. Bush for combining fundraisers with official duties, and Republicans have responded in kind this year. Barack Obama has been furiously fundraising ever since a Su…
…ger period away from the White House had there not been a stalemate in Washington D.C. over the payroll tax cut. Barack Obama certainly made up for lost time as, within an hour of arriving on December 23, he took wife Michelle out for dinner at one of their favorite hotspots, Morimoto Restaurant. Then, on Christmas Eve, they spent some family time together with daughters Sasha and Malia in the mor…
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…
…the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Libya. During a question about security at the Benghazi consulate, where four American officials were killed, including the ambassador Chris Stevens, on September 11, Barack Obama said he was ultimately responsible as commander-in-chief. Mitt Romney then questioned whether Barack Obama had called the consulate attack an “act of terror” in his Rose Garden addre…
…his tax proposals. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney’s sit-down Thursday was expected to be their most extensive private meeting to date. The two men had only a handful of brief exchanges before the 2012 election. Even after their political fates became intertwined, their interactions were largely confined to the three presidential debates. Mitt Romney has virtually disappeared from politics fol…
While ordinary Americans get only a few days off for Christmas, President Barack Obama has announced his Christmas vacation to Hawaii – for a staggering 17-day trip. Barack Obama, who visited Hawaii just two weeks ago for an economic summit, will head to Honolulu on Saturday December 17 until Monday January 2. The American president, who was raised in Hawaii until he was six, will be joined by hi…
e, we lost nearly 4 million jobs. And we lost another 4 million before our policies were in full effect. Those are the facts. But so are these: In the last 22 months, businesses have created more than 3 million jobs. (Applause.) Last year, they created the most jobs since 2005. American manufacturers are hiring again, creating jobs for the first time since the late 1990s. Together, we’ve agree…
Barack Obama has already held more re-election fundraising events than every elected president since Richard Nixon combined, according to figures to be published in The Rise of the President’s Permanent Campaign by Brendan J. Doherty. Barack Obama is also the only president in the past 35 years to visit every electoral battleground state in his first year of office. The figures, contained in The…
…Room designed to highlight the “gutsy call” made by the President. Barack Obama used a news conference yesterday to trumpet his personal role and imply that his Republican opponent Mitt Romney, who in 2008 expressed reservations about the wisdom of sending troops into Pakistan, would have let Osama bin Laden live. “I said that I’d go after bin Laden if we had a clear shot at him, and I did,”…
Jorge Rafael Videla: Argentina’s former military leader dies in prison aged 87General Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentina’s former military leader, has died aged 87 while serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity. Jorge Rafael Videla is…
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Fistfights in Venezuela's parliament over disputed presidential electionSeveral opposition MP’s are reportedly being injured during a brawl that have broken out in Venezuela's parliament over the recent disputed presidential…
Venezuela election final result shows narrower victory for Nicolas MaduroVenezuela's electoral council has amended the final result of the April 14 presidential election for Hugo Chavez’s successor after finishing counting votes cast…
IDMC: Colombia tops internally displaced people list in 2012The annual report by the Norwegian Refugee Council suggests almost 29 million people lived in internal displacement in 2012, with 6.5 million newly displaced just in the past…
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