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Dems worry they can't fill BofA stadium for Obama
"It's always a concern about making sure there aren't empty seats, but this is different," said one Democratic official familiar with the convention plans."This is a different time than four years ago. It's a different convention. And the president is viewed differently."
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Obama goes political on Sikh shooting
President Barack Obama said on Monday that mass killings like the shooting rampage at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin were occurring with "too much regularity" and should prompt soul searching by all Americans, but he stopped short of calling for new gun-control laws.
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Geithner emails reveal 20k non-union Delphi retirees cut off by feds
Emails obtained by The Daily Caller show that the U.S. Treasury Department, led by Timothy Geithner, was the driving force behind terminating the pensions of 20,000 salaried retirees at the Delphi auto parts manufacturing company.The move, made in 2009 while the Obama administration implemented its auto bailout plan, appears to have been made solely because those retirees were not members of labor unions.
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Scary! Man busted with dozens of fake ids and uniforms
It was only the tip of the iceberg. Antigua, 52, had uniforms from NASA , U.S. Customs, the Navy, the CIA, the Secret Service and Homeland Security, The Tampa Bay Times reports. He also had dozens of military medals, a flight helmet and flight instructor badge and a Boy Scout troop leader uniform. "It's actually scary. You see these Boy Scout uniforms, who knows if he's been around young children and what his intentions were," an official tells MyFoxTampaBay.com.
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PPP: Obama weakening in liberal CT
The cross tabs reveal some numbers that should trouble Obama's reelection campaign: he has a 20-point lead among women but trails Romney by 6 points among men. Romney leads Obama, 47 percent to 40 percent, among independents. Further, Obama only gets 79 percent of the black vote and his approval rating is at 50 percent -- in liberal Connecticut.
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CATO: Stimulus spending at 2.5T since 2008
Left-leaning economists often argue that the $800 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was too small and that more stimulus is needed to get the economy going again. The real amount of fiscal stimulus pumped into the economy, however, may be much higher.Tom Firey of the libertarian Cato Institute estimates that the U.S. has dumped at least $2.5 trillion of fiscal stimulus into the economy since 2008.
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Roger Report Preview: Sheldon Adelson targeted by Obama DOJ
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Visiting with Martha Zoller for Congress
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