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Analysis: Obama as war candidate

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 07:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As slogans go, President Barack Obama's promise of the "light of a new day" in Afghanistan isn't nearly as catchy as the "Mission Accomplished" banner on the USS Abraham Lincoln the day President George W. Bush announced the end of major combat operations in Iraq in 2003....

Analysis: Obama as war candidate

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 07:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As slogans go, President Barack Obama's promise of the "light of a new day" in Afghanistan isn't nearly as catchy as the "Mission Accomplished" banner on the USS Abraham Lincoln the day President George W. Bush announced the end of major combat operations in Iraq in 2003....

Detroit unions ponder illegal strike

DETROIT — Unions angry that Detroit is trying to put its financially battered books back in order by laying off hundreds of workers and imposing steep contract concessions on those who remain are considering an illegal strike.

Several Detroit municipal union leaders said striking has been one of several options ...

Obama calls on lawmakers to end gridlock

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 07:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is calling on Congress to end partisan gridlock and pass proposals he says would put Americans back to work....

W.Va. Gov. Tomblin keeping Obama at arms' length

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 07:40
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin joined U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin on Wednesday in the list of top West Virginia Democratic officeholders keeping their distance from President Barack Obama, saying that neither the Democratic incumbent nor the presumed Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, has earned his vote....

W.Va. Gov. Tomblin keeping Obama at arms' length

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 07:40
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin joined U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin on Wednesday in the list of top West Virginia Democratic officeholders keeping their distance from President Barack Obama, saying that neither the Democratic incumbent nor the presumed Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, has earned his vote....

W.Va. Gov. Tomblin keeping Obama at arms' length

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 07:40
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin joined U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin on Wednesday in the list of top West Virginia Democratic officeholders keeping their distance from President Barack Obama, saying that neither the Democratic incumbent nor the presumed Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, has earned his vote....

Theme of Wis. recall turns from unions to jobs

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 07:40
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- When Wisconsin Democrats launched their recall drive against Republican Gov. Scott Walker last year, it was all about unions. They wanted Walker to pay with his job for pushing legislation that stripped almost all public workers of nearly all their collective bargaining rights....

Obama attends 2 high-dollar fundraisers

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 07:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is mingling with donors at two high-dollar fundraising events, aiming to raise about $2 million toward his re-election effort....

Obama attends 2 high-dollar fundraisers

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 07:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is mingling with donors at two high-dollar fundraising events, aiming to raise about $2 million toward his re-election effort....

Obama attends 2 high-dollar fundraisers

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 07:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is mingling with donors at two high-dollar fundraising events, aiming to raise about $2 million toward his re-election effort....

Obama raises $44 million for campaign, Dems in May

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 07:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama raised a combined $43.6 million in April for his campaign and the Democratic Party....

Obama, Dems redoubling money efforts to keep edge

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 07:40
DENVER (AP) -- His cash advantage threatened, President Barack Obama and his party are redoubling their fundraising efforts after robust hauls by Republican rival Mitt Romney and a slew of GOP-leaning super PACs that are raking in cash from the party faithful highly motivated to topple the Democrat....

Obama attends 2 high-dollar fundraisers

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 07:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is mingling with donors at two high-dollar fundraising events, aiming to raise about $2 million toward his re-election effort....

Obama attends 2 high-dollar fundraisers

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 07:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is mingling with donors at two high-dollar fundraising events, aiming to raise about $2 million toward his re-election effort....

Analysis: Obama as war candidate

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 07:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As slogans go, President Barack Obama's promise of the "light of a new day" in Afghanistan isn't nearly as catchy as the "Mission Accomplished" banner on the USS Abraham Lincoln the day President George W. Bush announced the end of major combat operations in Iraq in 2003....

Pro-Romney group readies 9-state ad buy

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 07:40
NEW YORK (AP) -- An independent group backing Republican Mitt Romney's presidential candidacy has placed a $4.3 million advertising buy in nine battleground states....

Pro-Romney group readies 9-state ad buy

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 07:40
NEW YORK (AP) -- An independent group backing Republican Mitt Romney's presidential candidacy has placed a $4.3 million advertising buy in nine battleground states....

Pro-Romney group readies 9-state ad buy

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 07:40
NEW YORK (AP) -- An independent group backing Republican Mitt Romney's presidential candidacy has placed a $4.3 million advertising buy in nine battleground states....

Pro-Romney group readies 9-state ad buy

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 07:40
NEW YORK (AP) -- An independent group backing Republican Mitt Romney's presidential candidacy has placed a $4.3 million advertising buy in nine battleground states....
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