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(10/08/12 2:37pm)
TOP STORY — A veep debate that could really matter
The vice presidential debate on Thursday night has new significance after President Barack Obama’s subpar debate performance last week. Politico reports: “Obama’s Denver dud, and specifically his refusal to go after Mitt Romney on some of the GOP nominee’s most glaring vulnerabilities, has officials in both parties anticipating an aggressive, hard-hitting Biden showing up to try to put Democrats back on the offensive.”
(10/01/12 2:25pm)
TOP STORY — US military deaths in Afghanistan hit 2,000 after 11 years of war
The Associated Press reports: “The toll has climbed steadily in recent months with a spate of attacks by Afghan army and police — supposed allies — against American and NATO troops. That has raised troubling questions about whether countries in the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan will achieve their aim of helping the government in Kabul and its forces stand on their own after most foreign troops depart in little more than two years.”
(09/24/12 3:04pm)
TOP STORY — Republican poll analysis: Romney winning with middle-class families
Politico reports that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney holds a 14-point advantage in the latest Politico-George Washington University Battleground Poll among middle-class families, “which comprise about 54 percent of the total American electorate and usually split in their vote behavior between Republicans and Democrats.”
(09/21/12 2:58pm)
TOP STORY — Romney campaign hits a financial snag
While Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s campaign spent about $67 million last month and had about $50 million cash on hand at the start of September, President Barack Obama’s campaign had nearly $90 million on hand going into September despite spending a higher amount — $83 million — in August.
(09/17/12 1:51pm)
TOP STORY: Ambassador Susan Rice: Libya Attack Not Premeditated
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said the attack on the American consulate in Libya was a spontaneous response to protests in Cairo, Egypt in an interview with ABC News Sunday.
(09/10/12 2:41pm)
TOP STORY: Senate tossup
Republican strategists now say there’s a 50-50 chance their party will obtain a majority in the U.S. Senate after this November’s elections.
“The same three battleground states poised to determine the presidency — Virginia, Ohio and Florida — are likely to tip control of the upper chamber. And like the race for the White House, Republicans trail — albeit by a smidgen — in all three.”
(08/27/12 2:16pm)
TOP STORY — Poll: Obama, Romney neck-and-neck ahead of party conventions
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows Romney at 47 percent among registered voters and Obama at 46 percent — barely changed from the deadlocked contest in early July. The economy is still likely to be the dominant issue in the 2012 election, as 72 percent of voters say the president’s handling of the economy will be a “major factor” in their vote this November.
(08/24/12 2:39pm)
TOP STORY — Armstrong facing loss of 7 Tour de France titles
Cyclist Lance Armstrong could lose his seven Tour de France titles as soon as today after a protracted and bitter fight with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. Though the USADA treated Armstrong’s decision not to pursue arbitration in the drug case against him as an admission of guilt, he called the investigation an “unconstitutional witch hunt.” “There comes a point in every man’s life when he has to say, ‘Enough is enough.’ For me, that time is now,” Armstrong said Thursday night, hours before the deadline to enter arbitration.
(01/12/11 10:46pm)
The nation continues to recover from the shocking shootings in Tucson, Ariz. that left six people dead and 14 injured, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
(01/12/11 3:31am)
The 112th U.S. Congress convened Jan. 5 with Republicans pledging to reverse the political and economic direction, forming a divided government that threatens gridlock.
(10/13/10 8:39pm)
First it was the Rock the Vote campaign founded in 1990.
(10/04/10 8:42pm)
With the midterm elections less than a month away, candidates are preparing their eleventh-hour attempts to secure voters’ approval.
(09/27/10 9:10pm)
Incumbent Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski is trying to win re-election as a write-in candidate. The problem, besides the fact that write-in candidates have a slim chance of winning, is that Alaska requires voters to spell the name of the write-in candidate correctly for the vote to count.