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Mitt Romney apologized Thursday for “stupid” high school pranks that may have gone too far and moved quickly to stamp out any notion that he bullied schoolmates because they were gay. His swift response reflected the Republican presidential candidate’s recognition that his record on gay rights is under heightened scrutiny following President Barack Obama’s embrace […]
Sorry, Mr. President. After nearly single-handedly pushing gay marriage to the forefront of the presidential campaign and inadvertently pressuring President Barack Obama to declare his support for same-sex unions, there was only one thing left for Vice President Joe Biden to do: apologize. Biden’s mea culpa came Wednesday in the Oval Office, shortly before the […]
President Barack Obama wasted little time casting his historic embrace of same-sex marriage as a political wedge issue Thursday, telling a Hollywood fundraising crowd that it shows how his vision of the country differs from Republicans. Speaking at a dinner at the home of George Clooney, Obama raised the issue gay marriage obliquely, saying simply […]
More than a year after President Barack Obama released his long-form birth certificate that proves he’s a U.S. citizen and therefore qualified to be president of the United States, some Republicans still can’t let it go. A bevy of GOP congressional candidates in North Carolina are going birther, repeating some of the same old suspicions […]
Police say a New York man who refused to pay a $12 taxi fare was carrying more than $5,000 when the cabbie drove him around looking for cheap cigarettes. The Post-Standard of Syracuse reports that a 68-year-old man had the driver take him to two stores on Monday. Each time he came out empty-handed, saying […]
A former speechwriter for John Edwards testified Tuesday that the onetime presidential candidate acknowledged knowing that a wealthy donor was secretly supporting his pregnant mistress as he sought the White House in 2008. Wendy Button testified at Edwards’ corruption trial that she helped him in the summer of 2009 to draft a public statement admitting […]
Filmmaker George Lucas appears to be moving forward with plans to build low-income housing on the Marin County property where he originally proposed erecting a new film studio. Lucas abandoned the studio plans last month following opposition from some neighbors who complained about its size and raised concerns about traffic. But the San Francisco Chronicle […]
WASHINGTON (AP) – TITLE: “Go” LENGTH: 60 seconds AIRING: Broadcast and cable TV stations in Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia, all key swing states. KEY IMAGES: The year 2008 flashes across the screen followed by a series of grim images from that year: People waiting in line with […]
@BarackObama is on Twitter. So is @MittRomney. And so are all the voters following the 2012 presidential contest, whether they know it or not. Candidates, strategists, journalists and political junkies have flocked to Twitter, the social networking hub where information from the mundane to the momentous is shared through 140-character microbursts known as tweets. While […]
The Washington Post recently published a story (“Voter registration down among Hispanics, blacks” May 4th, 2012) that inaccurately claimed that the number of African American and Hispanic registered voters has fallen sharply since 2008; it has not. One of the most important successes of the historic 2008 campaign was the Obama-Biden ticket’s ability to expand […]
Carolina has long prided itself on its moderate politics dating to the civil rights era, as well as its place as a New South leader and a hub for high-tech, banking and higher education. Even though the state backed Democrat Barack Obama for president in 2008, it has maintained a socially conservative streak. North Carolina […]
Mitt Romney says he learns about what it’s like to struggle in a difficult economy by sitting down to chat with regular people. But the Republican presidential candidate doesn’t want anybody to see it — and his campaign won’t say who he meets with or when the meetings occur. In interviews and on the campaign […]
