Top 10 1. Barack Obama (REUTERS/Larry Downing)President, United States of America Age: 51 The decisive winner of the 2012 U.S. presidential election on all counts: Obama took the popular vote, the electoral college and 7 out of 7 toss-up states. Now he gets 4 more years to push his agenda past weakened congressional Republicans. Still, [...]
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(BBC) defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney. America’s first black president secured more than the 270 votes in the electoral college needed to win. In his victory speech before supporters in Chicago, Mr Obama said he would talk to Mr Romney about “where we can work together to move this country forward”. Mr Obama prevailed despite lingering dissatisfaction [...]
Continue reading …Mitt Romney has kid rock and Ted Nugent endorsing and campaigning for him but who needs those nutjobs when you have an endorsement from the “Boss” himself . . Read his letter to all voters this year below Dear Friends: The election is coming up on all of us and we all have strong feelings about it. I’ve been [...]
Continue reading …President Barack Obama will face former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for the second presidential debate of the election season. The politicos willanswer questions from undecided voters at a town hall-style debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., moderated by CNN journalist Candy Crowley. Watch the debate live below starting at 9 p.m. Eastern:
Continue reading …Disregard the 150mill figure reported by the Wallstreet Journal . Straight from the president’s twitter feed Some amazing news this morning: 1,825,813 people came together to raise $181 million for this campaign in September. Of the 1,825,813 people who donated in September, 567,000 were new to this organization—not having given before in 2008 or 2012.If [...]
Continue reading …WASHINGTON — The reelection campaign of Barack Obama is back in the lead on the fundraising front after raising $114 million in August. The total, which is a combination of funds raised by the campaign, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Obama’s victory committee, exceeds the $111.6 million the Romney campaign said that they [...]
Continue reading …When a Federal Way man accused of threatening to kill President Barack Obama makes a scheduled appearance in court Monday, the Secret Service in Seattle will likely be busy responding to new threats against POTUS, and others under their protection. According to the U.S. Secret Service field office in Seattle, agents here respond to multiple [...]
Continue reading …Minaj gave what seems to be an endorsement of the Republican presidential nominee on Lil Wayne’s Dedication 4, the recently released fourth installment in his mixtape series. During an instrumental on “Mercy,” the fifth track on the album, Minaj raps: “I’m a Republican voting for Mitt Romney, you lazy bitches are f—ing up the economy.” [...]
Continue reading …In an interview with Parade Magazine the President talks about how Being the First Black POTUS affects how he governs the country . If you were female, we would ask, “How has being female affected your ability to govern?” So, how has being black affected your ability to govern? PO: I’m sure it makes me [...]
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