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Dem Says Obama Won't Move on Keystone Pipeline Until After Election
Tweet Share on Facebook May 15, 2012 Comment (1)A former Democratic senator who supports the controversial Keystone Pipeline XL project says it will eventually be approved by the Obama administration.
Byron Dorgan, a former senator from North Dakota who served on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, now works for the K Street firm Arent Fox. Dorgan said during an American Petroleum Institute forum on energy politics and the 2012 presidential election Tuesday that while the decision is rife with politics, the pipeline will eventually win approval.
"I assume it's going to be debated substantially on the campaign trail," he said. "[But] at the end of the day, this country will have a Keystone Pipeline."
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New Romney Video Focuses on Stories of Unemployed
Tweet Share on Facebook May 15, 2012 Comment (1)Ahead of what's being billed as a major policy address Tuesday in Iowa that will focus on debt and the deficit, Mitt Romney's campaign released a four-minute web video highlighting the stories of some of the 23 million unemployed Americans.
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Obama, Romney Campaigns Trade Steel Ads
Tweet Share on Facebook May 14, 2012 Comment (1)The American worker is center stage in the 2012 presidential race, as both campaigns Monday tried to portray opposing images of Mitt Romney's private sector business experience.
Mitt Romney's presidential campaign released a web advertisement on Monday touting the role Romney's old private equity firm Bain Capital had in helping fund a struggling steel company. The warm and fuzzy ad was distributed after the Romney campaign was knocked on their heels by a documentary-style web and television advertisement, also launched Monday, by the Obama campaign.
That ad depicted Romney favoring personal profits over worker well-being by highlighting Bain's role in a failed steel company whose workers were laid off and had their pensions and health plans reduced while Bain profited.
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Ron Paul Will Stop Actively Campaigning
Tweet Share on Facebook May 14, 2012 Comment (4)After sticking with his hopes for a shot at the Oval Office, it looks as though Texas Congressman Ron Paul is dialing down his campaign for president in 2012.
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How Obama's Support for Gay Marriage Will Affect the Blue Dogs
Tweet Share on Facebook May 11, 2012 Comment (11)President Barack Obama's recent announcement that he supports gay marriage provided a major bump for his campaign. [Read: Obama: I support gay marriage.]
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Poll Shows Florida Voters Warming to Obama
Tweet Share on Facebook May 10, 2012 Comment (5)President Obama has bolstered his standing with voters in a key swing state against Republican rival Mitt Romney, according to a recent poll.
Obama leads Romney 46 percent to 45 percent, according to a Suffolk University-WSVN-Miami poll released Wednesday.
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Rumors Swirl About Obama's Stance on Gay Marriage
Tweet Share on Facebook May 9, 2012 Comment (2)Amid rumors that President Obama will clarify his position on same-sex marriage during an interview Wednesday with ABC's Robin Roberts, the White House has announced it has canceled their daily press briefing.
No reason was given for the announcement, but earlier this week White House press secretary Jay Carney endured repeated questions from reporters about Obama's stance. The questions were prompted by a recent statement by Vice President Joe Biden that he is "entirely comfortable" with gay marriage, while the president's most recent statement on the issue, delivered in 2010, was that while he opposes gay marriage, his position is "evolving."
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NC Voters Support Gay Marriage Ban, Romney Cruises
Tweet Share on Facebook May 9, 2012 CommentVoters in Indiana, North Carolina and West Virginia took to the polls Tuesday, weighing in on the presidential primaries and in North Carolina, a hot-button social issue.
By a wide margin—61 percent to 39 percent—North Carolinians made theirs the 30th state to pass a constitutional ban on gay marriage, reinforcing a state law that already banned the practice. While supporters of the measure celebrated, opponents lamented that it would also outlaw civil unions between gay couples, something many voters in the state may not have been aware of.
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GOP Official: Romney 'Still Deciding' on Immigration Stance
Tweet Share on Facebook May 8, 2012 Comment (4)The national Republican Party's effort to highlight their Hispanic outreach operation was derailed Tuesday when a top official said she doesn't know what presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney's position on immigration is.
Bettina Inclan, the director of Hispanic outreach for the Republican National Committee, offered the statement during a briefing with reporters when responding to a question about how she would motivate Latino voters to support Republicans given Romney's conservative stance on the hot-button issue.
"As a candidate, to my understanding, he's still deciding what his position on immigration is, so I can't talk about what his proposal is going to be, because I don't know," she said. "He's talked about different issues and what we saw in the Republican primary is that there is a very diverse opinion on how to deal with immigration. I can't talk about something that I don't know what the position is."
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Santorum Sneaks In Endorsement of Romney
Tweet Share on Facebook May 8, 2012 Comment (3)In the dark of night, former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum sent an E-mail out to supporters with his endorsement of Mitt Romney – in the 13th paragraph.
The tepid support offered up by Romney's strongest primary rival, who continued to galvanize blue collar and evangelical Christian voters as the months went on, is emblematic of the endorsements Romney has received from other top Republicans.
