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Obama and Romney race in 'The Center Holds' by Jonathan Alter
Among several persistently wrongheaded beliefs about the 2012 election, none beats the claim, heard even in the campaign's closing weeks, that President Obama faced a desperately bad situation and had a high probability of losing. That zombie idea...
Tags: Productivity, Newspaper and Magazine, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Elections, Hurricane Sandy (2012)
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2012 elections boost TV stations; L.A. market reaches $1.4 billion
Politics may often seem like a dirty business, but for local TV stations it's also a very good business. Political advertising helped propel a 13.2% growth in television station revenue last year, allowing the broadcast industry to regain much of the...
Tags: Online Advertising, Television Industry, Barack Obama, Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, Politics
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Think Lena Dunham didn't vote? Welcome to the steampunk corn maze
Lena Dunham did too vote, ya big meanies! Even if a New York politics blog thought it had uncovered proof that she didn't. "Hey kids, some people on the internet are saying I didn't vote. Some of them are still mad I used a sexy metaphor re: voting....
Tags: Tribeca, Voting, Barack Obama, Politics, Elections
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Marco Rubio, Rand Paul go head-to-head at CPAC conference
FORT WASHINGTON, MD -- High-profile speeches by a pair of Republican presidential possibilities suggested that noneconomic issues are likely to emerge as 2014 and 2016 campaign themes as the economy continues to recover. Beyond pocketbook concerns,...
Tags: Immigration, Conservative Political Action Conference, Michele Bachmann, State of the Union Address, Rand Paul
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2012 fashion and style around the globe
Special to the Los Angeles TimesLondon calling The queen's Diamond Jubilee was a chance to look back at 60 years of colorful suits and hats. And everyone seemed more than eager to hop aboard the royal train, including Pantone, which color-coded her highness' most iconic outfits, and...Tags: Marilyn Monroe, Ralph Lauren, Fashion Trends, Elections, Court Preliminary
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Goldberg: Leave liberal Hollywood to the liberals
"We need to buy a movie studio." Amid the conferences, panels, meetings and informal conversations in the wake of the presidential election, this idea has been a near constant among conservatives who feel like the country is slipping through their...
Tags: Abortion Issue, All in the Family (tv program) , Avatar (movie), Cinema Industry, The Wire (tv program)
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Obama calls for 'smarter' government in State of the Union
WASHINGTON – Declaring that the nation is stronger “after years of grueling recession,” President Obama advocated an array of modest second-term initiatives Tuesday night that he said wouldn’t bust the federal budget. There...
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It's official: Obama, Biden win second term
President Obama was declared the winner of the 2012 presidential election Friday in a special joint session of Congress, finally closing the book on the tumultuous and expensive campaign. Vice President Joe Biden, serving as president of the Senate,...
Tags: U.S. Electoral College, Sonia Sotomayor, Culture, Al Gore, U.S. Congress
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McManus: The worst job in Congress
Spare a little sympathy, if you can, for John A. Boehner of Ohio, speaker of the House of Representatives. On paper, he's the most powerful Republican in the land. In practice, he's caught between a cliff and a ceiling as the uneasy chairman of an...
Tags: John Campbell, U.S. Senate, Tea Party Movement, U.S. Congress, John Boehner
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McManus: The perils of political punditry
Back in 2011, at the dawn of a long presidential campaign, I established a fine baseline for my credentials as a political prognosticator: I told readers that Mitt Romney's strongest challengers for the Republican nomination would be Texas Gov. Rick Perry...
Tags: Immigration, Michele Bachmann, Personal Weapon Control, U.S. Congress, Government
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Maybe stalemate's latest victory means voters will finally win
WASHINGTON — For almost a generation, America's two major political parties have fought for supremacy in a fundamental debate over the size and scope of government. They have battled to a draw. On such questions as whether Americans should pay...
Tags: Immigration, Religion and Belief, Planned Parenthood, U.S. Congress, Brookings Institution
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If China voted, it would be Obama in a landslide, surveys show
World NowWhich candidate would the Chinese pick if they could vote at the U.S. polls? At least three surveys indicate that it would be President Obama by a landslide....
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