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AP Top Political News At 12:32 p.m. EDT
Updated: 12 years 20 weeks ago

Lugar loss has stark lessons for Obama, Romney

Thu, 2024-11-07 10:44
VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP) -- President Barack Obama and his presumptive Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, can take a few lessons from veteran Sen. Richard Lugar's loss in Indiana's GOP primary....

Lugar loss has stark lessons for Obama, Romney

Thu, 2024-11-07 10:44
VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP) -- President Barack Obama and his presumptive Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, can take a few lessons from veteran Sen. Richard Lugar's loss in Indiana's GOP primary....

Lugar loss has stark lessons for Obama, Romney

Thu, 2024-11-07 10:44
VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP) -- President Barack Obama and his presumptive Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, can take a few lessons from veteran Sen. Richard Lugar's loss in Indiana's GOP primary....

Lugar loss has stark lessons for Obama, Romney

Thu, 2024-11-07 10:44
VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP) -- President Barack Obama and his presumptive Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, can take a few lessons from veteran Sen. Richard Lugar's loss in Indiana's GOP primary....

Lugar loss has stark lessons for Obama, Romney

Thu, 2024-11-07 10:44
VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP) -- President Barack Obama and his presumptive Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, can take a few lessons from veteran Sen. Richard Lugar's loss in Indiana's GOP primary....

Romney stands by his opposition to gay marriage

Thu, 2024-11-07 10:44
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Mitt Romney on Wednesday reaffirmed his view that marriage should be restricted to one man and one woman, highlighting a sharp contrast with President Barack Obama....

Romney stands by his opposition to gay marriage

Thu, 2024-11-07 10:44
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Mitt Romney on Wednesday repeated his view that marriage should be restricted to one man and one woman, highlighting a sharp contrast with President Barack Obama....

Obama voices his support for gay marriage

Thu, 2024-11-07 10:44
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Equivocal no longer, President Barack Obama declared his support for gay marriage on Wednesday in a historic announcement that instantly elevated a polarizing social issue to a more prominent role in the 2012 race for the White House....

Analysis: Obama gambles with gay marriage move

Thu, 2024-11-07 10:44
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's embrace of gay marriage is a political gamble that seeks to fire up young and liberal voters at the possible expense of alienating undecided voters in swing states such as North Carolina and Florida....

AP-GfK Poll: Afghan war support drops to new low

Thu, 2024-11-07 10:44
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Support for the war in Afghanistan has hit a new low and is on par with support for the Vietnam War in the early 1970s, a bad sign for President Barack Obama as he argues that to end the war responsibly the United States must remain in Afghanistan another two years....

NAACP launches voter registration push in Georgia

Thu, 2024-11-07 10:44
ATLANTA (AP) -- Saying it won't let recently enacted voter ID laws suppress turnout, the NAACP on Wednesday launched a nationwide drive to register thousands of mostly minority, student and elderly voters before the Nov. 6 elections....

AP-GfK Poll: Women, blacks, help Obama in new poll

Thu, 2024-11-07 10:44
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's popularity among women, minorities and independents is giving him an early edge over his likely GOP rival, Mitt Romney, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll....

Lugar's legacy in Senate: Cooperation and security

Thu, 2024-11-07 10:44
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Far from politics, six-term Sen. Richard Lugar is considered a visionary who looked beyond U.S. exuberance over the end of the Cold War and saw the dangers and opportunities in the collapse of a nuclear-armed Soviet Union....

Lugar's legacy in Senate: Cooperation and security

Thu, 2024-11-07 10:44
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Far from politics, six-term Sen. Richard Lugar is considered a visionary who looked beyond U.S. exuberance over the end of the Cold War and saw the dangers and opportunities in the collapse of a nuclear-armed Soviet Union....

Lugar's legacy in Senate: Cooperation and security

Thu, 2024-11-07 10:44
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Far from politics, six-term Sen. Richard Lugar is considered a visionary who looked beyond U.S. exuberance over the end of the Cold War and saw the dangers and opportunities in the collapse of a nuclear-armed Soviet Union....

Lugar's legacy in Senate: Cooperation and security

Thu, 2024-11-07 10:44
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Far from politics, six-term Sen. Richard Lugar is considered a visionary who looked beyond U.S. exuberance over the end of the Cold War and saw the dangers and opportunities in the collapse of a nuclear-armed Soviet Union....

Lugar's legacy in Senate: Cooperation and security

Thu, 2024-11-07 10:44
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Far from politics, six-term Sen. Richard Lugar is considered a visionary who looked beyond U.S. exuberance over the end of the Cold War and saw the dangers and opportunities in the collapse of a nuclear-armed Soviet Union....

Milwaukee mayor will try again to beat Walker

Thu, 2024-11-07 10:44
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Democrats' hope for ousting Scott Walker is a low-key, well-liked Milwaukee mayor whose last brush with fame came when he interceded in a fight outside the Wisconsin State Fair and got badly beaten with a tire iron....

Milwaukee mayor will try again to beat Walker

Thu, 2024-11-07 10:44
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Democrats' hope for ousting Scott Walker is a low-key, well-liked Milwaukee mayor whose last brush with fame came when he interceded in a fight outside the Wisconsin State Fair and got badly beaten with a tire iron....

Wis. recall leaders struggle to gain momentum

Thu, 2024-11-07 10:44
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Amid signs that the effort to oust Republican Gov. Scott Walker is losing ground, Wisconsin Democrats and union leaders are preparing a fundraising and get-out-the-vote push to regain momentum in the final weeks before the June recall election....