Monday, April 16, 2012

Obama 2012

  • WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obamas re-election campaign and Democratic groups affiliated with it raised more than $53 million in March, showing a jump in fundraising over the previous month as the general election gets under way.
  • (Reuters)
  • Two years after President Barack Obama vowed to eliminate the danger of financial institutions becoming "too big to fail," the nation's largest banks are bigger than they were before the credit crisis.
  • (Businessweek)
  • President Obama and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are it again, this time over international negotiations concerning Irans nuclear program.
  • (USA Today)
  • Carter makes the point that it is time for the Obama campaign to decide how best to attack Mitt Romney. Is he an extremist or a flip-flopper? All Democrats want all Republicans to be wild extremists. It is what Democrats choose to believe.
  • (Washington Post)
  • Yet Mr. Obama's aides said in interviews that they thought it was possible they could move the needle of history by winning in 2012 a state that analysts believe is heading Democratic in national elections, but may not be there yet.
  • (New York Times)
  • The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the federal workforce (minus the Postal Service) was 2.062 million in January 2009, when Obama became president. As of March 2012, the number of federal employees stood at 2.208 million.
  • (Washington Post)
  • President Obama's campaign and the Democratic Party raised $53 million in March as the Republican primary wound down, Mr. Obama's campaign manager announced in a video Monday morning.
  • (New York Times Blogs)
  • Good morning from The Oval, on a day when President Obama has nothing on his public schedule -- but is likely to speak out again on the Buffett Rule.
  • (USA Today)
  • But when Kiedis took a break during the show, he stumped for President Barack Obama. He urged a voter registration push and said he supported Obama, a message Cowell has worked to promote for years.
  • (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

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