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When stupid attacks—bad electoral outcomes result

First, the nation elected, or actually didn't, George W. Bush.Then the nation reelected, or actually didn't, George W. Bush.By the end of that, the elites that made up the base of George Bush's supporters, had...
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Jay-Z To Work For Obama?

According to the New York Post, Jay-Z may replace National Economic Council Director, Larry Summers for President Obama’s 2012 campaign push.“I can’t believe you’ve finally heard the chatter about hi...
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Michelle Obama Helps Raise $400,000 for Democrats

First Lady Michelle Obama returned to her hometown Chicago Wednesday to help raise nearly $400,000 for the state’s Democratic congressional candidates and to cast her early votes for the Democrat seeking to fill her husband’s former Senate seat. “I’m thrilled to be back in my hometown, Chicago,” she told a crowd of 200 donors at Chicago’s University Club attending a fundraiser for Democrat Alexi Giannoulias. “I get to sleep in my own bed tonight.” Giannoulias is vying for President Barack Obama’s old Senate seat, which is currently occupied by Sen. Roland Burris. Burris, who was appointed by controversial ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich, opted not to run for a full term in 2010. Michelle Obama’s swing through Illinois as part of the Democrats' "Blue Illinois 2010" push was her first day on the first real aggressive campaign/fundraising tour she’s been on in the White House. “This is my first day out on the campaign trail,” she said. “This is not something I do very often.”
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Obama to pitch plan on colleges at economy meeting

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will announce new initiatives to encourage partnerships between private industry and community colleges when he meets with a panel of economic advisers on Monday, U.S. off...
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Obama apologizes to Guatemala for US human experiments

Barack Obama personally apologized to his Guatemalan counterpart for a US-led study conducted in the 1940s, in which hundreds of people in the Latin American state were deliberately infected with sexually-trans...
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Obama urges new ways to tackle poverty

Late Wednesday afternoon, U.S. President Barack Obama told a special United Nations conference on poverty and other social and economic issues that the key to successfully lowering poverty across the globe wa...