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Romney claims economy recovering 'in spite of' Obama
CRAIG, Colo. — Campaigning in coal country, Mitt Romney argued Tuesday that President Obama’s administration is hostile to business in general and the energy industry in particular, favors government workers over the private sector and claimed...
Tags: Energy, Donald Trump, Coal, Mitt Romney, Politics
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$55 million for conservative campaigns -- but where did it come from?
WASHINGTON — The financial firepower that fueled the rise of a network of conservative advocacy groups now pummeling Democrats with television ads can be traced, in part, to Box 72465 in the Boulder Hills post office, on a desert road on the...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Parties and Movements, Republican Party, Bruce L. Braley, Lobbying
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Obama urges Congress to extend clean-energy tax credits
NEWTON, Iowa — From a wind-power factory in this battleground state, President Obama urged Congress to extend tax credits he said would save jobs in the field of clean-energy production.
Obama said continuing the production tax credit would save...Tags: Energy Saving, Solar Energy, Parties and Movements, Republican Party, Taxation
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Election decision may force disclosure of secret donors
WASHINGTON — Advocacy groups spending millions of dollars to influence the 2012 election now face the prospect of having to reveal their secret donors, after a federal appellate court panel refused to block a lower-court order requiring the...
Tags: U.S. Elections, Christopher Van Hollen Jr., Justice System, Charity, Judges
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Court ruling may force advocacy groups to disclose secret donors
WASHINGTON -- Advocacy groups spending millions of dollars in the 2012 campaign are now faced with the prospect of having to reveal the donors who have been secretly financing their efforts after a federal appellate court panel refused to block a lower...
Tags: U.S. Elections, Christopher Van Hollen Jr., Justice System, Charity, Judges
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McManus: Lies, damned lies and political advertising
The television commercial is designed to spark outrage. "Billions of taxpayer dollars spent on green energy went to jobs in foreign countries," it intones. "The Obama administration admitted the truth — that $2.3 billion of tax credits went...
Tags: Waste Management and Pollution Control, Freedom of the Press, Parties and Movements, Republican Party, Taxation
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The strange, intimate emails of the Obama campaign
This time of year, email boxes fill up with all sorts of unsolicited appeals from politicians, always in the service of fundraising. Most pitches have straightforward subject lines: “Stand with Me,” urged recall target Scott Walker, the...
Tags: Newt Gingrich, Joe the Plumber, Republican Party, Scott Walker, Sarah Palin
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Obama campaign's $25-million ad buy is biggest to date
The Obama campaign has put an eye-popping figure behind its new television ad blitz: $25 million. That would make it the biggest campaign ad buy thus far in an already-expensive presidential race, and an early show of the Chicago-based campaign's sizable...
Tags: Politics, David Axelrod, Republican Party, Elections, Mitt Romney
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Obama campaign ad tags Mitt Romney with Swiss bank label [Video]
The Obama campaign Tuesday launches a tough new hit on Mitt Romney's record on jobs and his personal wealth, raising for the first time in paid advertising the fact that the Republican had assets in a Swiss bank account. The ad buy, which a campaign aide...
Tags: Politics, UBS AG, Republican Party, Finance, Economy, Business and Finance
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Obama attacks Romney on exported jobs, Swiss bank accounts
Hot on the heels of its idiotic attempt to use the Osama bin Laden killing as fodder for an attack ad on Mitt Romney, the campaign to reelect President Obama started running ads Tuesday criticizing Romney for outsourcing jobs and having a Swiss bank...
Tags: U.S. Elections, China, Companies and Corporations, Osama bin Laden, Republican Party
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Outside groups flood swing states with ads targeting candidates
WASHINGTON — A hard-hitting commercial blasting President Obama's stimulus spending as a "failure" flooded television sets last week in eight swing states that will be decisive in November's presidential election. It was not the product of...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Parties and Movements, Labor Day, Republican Party, Haley Barbour
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Oil- and coal-backed groups far outpace Obama, allies on energy ads
WASHINGTON -- Energy has become a touchstone issue in the presidential race, and groups backed by oil and coal dollars have spent far more money on ads bashing the president’s record than the Obama campaign and its allies have spent defending it,...
Tags: Energy, Natural Resources, Energy Resources, American Petroleum, Karl Rove
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