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…
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…
ated from Chicago to California to help bolster her ailing OWN network. After its blockbuster launch in January which saw one million people tune in, ratings for OWN have tumbled and now average about 300,000 in prime time and 150,000 in the day. Oprah Winfrey also recently discovered she had a half sister she did not know about for more than half a century. Patricia Winfrey was given up for adopt…
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…
…s it difficult to discuss things with her husband, as he has so many other things on his mind. Michelle Obama told Oprah Winfrey: ”I’m stockpiling a list of issues that I’d like to discuss with him in 2016.” …
…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…
…very hard to be real”. “I truly do believe he has a fear and dislike for anyone who has less than 99,000,000 [dollars],” she wrote. “He just can’t relate and obviously Queen Ann is the same.” A 2005 Boston Globe article reported that Maureen Stemberg received nearly 500,000 shares of Staples stock in the divorce, but sold half before the company went public, missing out on a huge windfall….
…#8221; he said. The speeches followed a roll-call of party delegates and a lively voice poll in which state delegates called out their team’s allocation of votes. Altogether, Mitt Romney secured 2,061 votes, bringing him comfortably over the crucial 1,144 delegates needed to clinch the nomination. Vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan was also given the Republican party’s official stam…
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was Mitt Romney’s first choice as a running mate before he had a sudden change of heart and dumped him for Paul Ryan. Chris Christie was miffed by Mitt Romney’s decision, particularly because he was led to believe in the weeks leading up to Paul Ryan’s introduction that he would be joining Romney on the Republican presidential ticket, Politico reported, citing c…
…Allred said. “She needs to be able to speak.” Gloria Allred argued that Maureen Stemberg is “denied her first amendment right” by the court in the “most comprehensive gag order I have ever seen in my 36 years of law”. Judge Jennifer Ulwick responded that Maureen Stemberg should file her own modification to the gagging order, rather than it be dealt with today, meaning she cannot yet speak out. Th…
…and forth to treatment.” His adviser, Ron Kaufman said: “Is he disappointed? Of course he’s disappointed. He’s like 41.” The reference is to President George H.W. Bush, who lost his reelection bid in 1992 to Bill Clinton. “Forty-one would hate to lose a game of horseshoes to the gardener in the White House, and Mitt hates to lose. He’s a born competitor.” Mitt Romney has ruled out taking up anot…
logize, after the president said Mitt Romney’s time at Bain should be scrutinized. The timing is key because between 1999 – when Mitt Romney said he left the company he founded – and 2001, Bain was responsible for closing down American firms and shipping jobs overseas. Speaking to WJLA-TV a few hours before Mitt Romney’s own media appearances, President Barack Obama said th…
ersuasion than men. This makes female voters, particularly the blue-collar “waitress moms” whose families have been hard-hit by the recession and unemployment, the most-prized group of swing voters in 2012. Celinda Lake, a veteran Democratic pollster, told USA Today: “In every poll, we’ve seen a major surge among women in favorability for Romney” since the Denver debate. “Women went into the…
…Ohio was important because no Republican nominee has taken the White House without winning the Midwestern bellwether state in the general election. Of the 66 delegates on offer, Mitt Romney took home 35 compared to Rick Santorum’s 21, the Associated Press reports. Rick Santorum began the race in Ohio with a big lead in the opinion polls, but Mitt Romney’s well-funded political machine…
addresses the rumors and speculation surrounding Houston’s death.” Before the interview at 7:00 p.m., OWN will re-air its special, Remembering Whitney: The Oprah Interview, which features the singer’s 2009 interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show and Oprah Winfrey’s own personal memories of the star. Oprah Winfrey has snagged an exclusive interview with Bobbi Kristina Brown for Oprah’s Next Chapter ai…
Bobbi Kristina Brown, the only child of the late Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, is speaking out for the first time since the superstar’s passing in an interview with Oprah Winfrey airing Sunday, March 11 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on OWN’s “Oprah’s Next Chapter.” According to TMZ, friends close to Bobbi Kristina say she is doing the interview because she trusts the talk sh…
…r by accepting the nomination that he was overwhelmingly awarded on Tuesday by thousands of delegates at the gala in Tampa. It secured him the position that eluded him in his first presidential bid in 2008, when Arizona Senator John McCain became the Republican nominee. “I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed,” Mitt Romney said, in a speech that was watc…
early 90,000 workers. Tom Stemberg was one of the speakers who praised Mitt Romney last August at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida. The transcripts of his evidence run to more than 300 pages of complicated financial questioning and will surely be scrutinized in the next few days. Yet there is apparently nothing to damn the Republican rival, or instantly back up the claims of Gl…
…oval rate has hit 50% for the first time since March. In addition, the poll put the president ahead of Mitt Romney by 5% among likely voters polled across the nation. The poll had a margin of error of 3.6%. On David Letterman’s show, Barack Obama said he told the US on election night in 2008 he would work for everyone, including those who did not vote for them. “One thing I’ve le…
ce it was first asked in 1984,” says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. While nearly half of debate watchers said the showdown didn’t make them more likely to vote for either candidate, 35% said the debate made them more likely to vote for Mitt Romney while only 18% said the faceoff made them more likely to vote to re-elect the president. More than six in ten said that president did…
…concerned about the growing number of people who are dependent on the federal government, including the record number of people who are on food stamps, nearly one in six Americans in poverty, and the 23 million Americans who are struggling to find work,” spokeswoman Gail Gitcho said in a statement. A secretly filmed video has emerged showing Mitt Romney disparaging Barack Obama voters at a…
k Obama in November. “I am honored that Americans across the country have given their support to my candidacy and I am humbled to have won enough delegates to become the Republican Party’s 2012 presidential nominee,” Mitt Romney said in statement. As polls closed, the former Massachusetts governor was attending a fundraiser in Las Vegas with real estate tycoon Donald Trump. He sp…
…ational poll just hours after the final presidential debate in Boca Raton One contest Barack Obama undoubtedly won was that of loquaciousness – the President spoke for 41 minutes and 42 seconds, 35 seconds longer than Mitt Romney. The Democratic candidate had the majority of speaking time in all four presidential or vice-presidential debates this year. It was Barack Obama who appeared to be…
…the economy, tax and foreign policy. But the former Massachusetts governor accused Barack Obama of broken promises and a record of failure. They will meet for a final pre-election debate 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…
ersuasion than men. This makes female voters, particularly the blue-collar “waitress moms” whose families have been hard-hit by the recession and unemployment, the most-prized group of swing voters in 2012. Celinda Lake, a veteran Democratic pollster, told USA Today: “In every poll, we’ve seen a major surge among women in favorability for Romney” since the Denver debate. “Women went into the…
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North Korea fires short-range missiles from its east coastNorth Korea has launched three short-range missiles from its east coast, South Korea's defence ministry said. Two missiles were fired on Saturday morning and one in the…
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