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No recession here: Election spending sets records (AP)

September 7, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

AP – Turns out politics, for all its focus on the gloomy economy, is a recession-proof industry.

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Obama assails GOP, promotes new jobs program (AP)

September 6, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

AP – A combative President Barack Obama rolled out a long-term jobs program Monday that would exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways, and coupled it with a blunt campaign-season assault on Republicans for causing Americans’ hard economic times.

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As election season heats up, Democrats battle grim prospects (Exclusive to Yahoo! News)

September 5, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

Exclusive to Yahoo! News – Just how bad could things get for the Democrats when voters head to the polls in November?

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Can the president boost jobs and the economy between now and Election Day? (Exclusive to Yahoo! News)

September 4, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

Exclusive to Yahoo! News – With the Democrats’ prospects in the upcoming midterm elections sinking with the release of each new bit of bad economic news, President Obama was quick to concede that performance is “not nearly good enough.”

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Felon ex-pol with wild hair makes ballot in Ohio (AP)

September 1, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

AP – Outspoken former Democratic congressman Jim Traficant, who served time in federal prison for corruption, has fought his way back onto the Nov. 2 ballot to again run for a U.S. House seat — this time as an independent.

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Obama: US combat in Iraq over, ‘time to turn page’ (AP)

August 31, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

AP – Claiming no victory, President Barack Obama formally ended the U.S. combat role in Iraq after seven long years of bloodshed, declaring firmly Tuesday night: “It is time to turn the page.” Now, he said, the nation’s most urgent priority must be fixing its own sickly economy.

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Expectations low for round of Mideast talks (AP)

August 31, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

AP – After months of shuttle diplomacy, the Obama administration is set to plunge into a new round of Mideast peacemaking, bringing Israeli and Palestinian leaders together for face-to-face talks for the first time in nearly two years.

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