Jobs report crucial to presidential election outcome

Published By Guest Authors On Saturday, May 5th 2012. Under Politics

Jobs report crucial to presidential election outcome

(CNN) -- Hands down, it's the most important monthly economic report in the race for the White House. And April's numbers from the Labor Department didn't provide President Obama a lot to brag about. "After the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, our businesses have now created more than 4.2 million ... Read More

Race, religion collide in presidential campaign

Published By Guest Authors On Saturday, May 5th 2012. Under Politics

Race, religion collide in presidential campaign

How unthinkable it was, not so long ago, that a presidential election would pit a candidate fathered by an African against another condemned as un-Christian. Yet here it is: Barack Obama versus Mitt Romney, an ... Read More

France worries that unsavory presidential campaign has divided country

Published By Guest Authors On Saturday, May 5th 2012. Under Politics

France worries that unsavory presidential campaign has divided country

Nicolas Sarkozy's decision to play to the far right for votes in the presidential election has changed the French political landscape in a way many consider damaging. By Robert Marquand, Staff writer / May 5, 2012 A woman walks past official campaign posters for French President and UMP political party candidate Nicolas Sarkozy (r.) ... Read More

Republicans rally for upcoming presidential election – KKCO

Published By Guest Authors On Saturday, May 5th 2012. Under Politics

Republicans rally for upcoming presidential election – KKCO

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO)-- We’re still months away from the November presidential election, but spirited political rallies are already in full force. Friday, hundreds of tea partiers, a few big names and a host of conservative groups met in Lincoln Park, rallying Republican's to make sure they show up ... Read More

Presidential race wide open as Mamata drives a hard bargain

Published By Guest Authors On Saturday, May 5th 2012. Under Politics

Presidential race wide open as Mamata drives a hard bargain

M A I N N E W S Presidential race wide open as ... Read More

What They Said: India’s Presidential Race

Published By Guest Authors On Saturday, May 5th 2012. Under Politics

What They Said: India’s Presidential Race

By Diksha Sahni Raveendran/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Mrs. Patil at Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi, Feb. 14, 2008. The battle for Rashtrapati Bhavan, the residence of India’s President, is already heating up in political circles. The elections to the ... Read More

Jobs report crucial to presidential election outcome

Published By Guest Authors On Saturday, May 5th 2012. Under Politics

Jobs report crucial to presidential election outcome

(CNN) -- Hands down, it's the most important monthly economic report in the race for the White House. And April's numbers from the Labor Department didn't provide President Obama a lot to brag about. "After the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, our businesses have now created more than 4.2 million ... Read More

With meager jobs growth, ‘time running out’ for Obama

Published By Guest Authors On Friday, May 4th 2012. Under Politics

With meager jobs growth, ‘time running out’ for Obama

Evidence is mounting that the US economy has slowed in recent months, a development that, if it continues, may put voters in a sour mood as the clock ticks toward Election Day. Skip to next paragraph ... Read More

Stephen Colbert: Dog cruelty to be linchpin in presidential election

Published By Guest Authors On Friday, May 4th 2012. Under Politics

Stephen Colbert: Dog cruelty to be linchpin in presidential election

The 2012 presidential election will come down to one thing, according to Stephen Colbert, and it isn't money or even which candidate has better hair. As the host of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" told TODAY's David Gregory on Friday, "It comes down to who has been crueler to a ... Read More

Detroit budget debate: In presidential election year, will cuts threaten …

Published By Guest Authors On Friday, May 4th 2012. Under Politics

Detroit budget debate: In presidential election year, will cuts threaten …

AP Photo | Detroit NewsDetroit voter Danyel Harris fills out her ballot at a polling station in 2008.With contentious primary and presidential elections quickly approaching, the Detroit Department of Elections says that Mayor Dave Bing's proposed budget cuts may threaten the integrity of the election."Whatever you don't pay for on ... Read More

Expect a very close presidential election

Published By Guest Authors On Friday, May 4th 2012. Under Politics

Expect a very close presidential election

Six months from Sunday, Americans will choose between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. All signs are that it will be the third very close election in the last four presidential contests. ... Read More

Iranians Vote in Runoff That Could Shape Presidential Race

Published By Guest Authors On Friday, May 4th 2012. Under Politics

Iranians Vote in Runoff That Could Shape Presidential Race

Iranian voters are casting ballots in parliamentary runoff elections Friday that could shape the make-up of the 2013 presidential election.Sixty-five seats are at stake in Iran's 290 seat parliament, with 25 of those seats in the capital, Tehran. Conservative opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won a majority of seats in ... Read More

Presidential election: Left to consult ‘secular opposition parties’

Published By Guest Authors On Friday, May 4th 2012. Under Politics

Presidential election: Left to consult ‘secular opposition parties’

We have not zeroed in on any name: Bardhan Left parties on Friday decided to watch the unfolding scenario before finalising their stand on the presidential election, even as sources in the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) indicated that the party preferred Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to Vice-President Hamid Ansari. Leaders of ... Read More

Final polls suggest close result, Hollande win in French presidential election

Published By Guest Authors On Friday, May 4th 2012. Under Politics

Final polls suggest close result, Hollande win in French presidential election

The result will impact on Europe’s efforts to fight its debt crisis, how long French troops stay in Afghanistan and how France exercises its military and diplomatic muscle around the world.Sarkozy, disliked by many voters for his handling of the economy, promised he could come out victorious on Sunday. Speaking ... Read More

Early voting down in Indiana without presidential race – The Courier

Published By Guest Authors On Friday, May 4th 2012. Under Politics

Early voting down in Indiana without presidential race – The Courier

INDIANAPOLIS — Without the full-blown presidential campaigns of four years ago, many fewer Indiana voters are casting early primary ballots.Early voting for the state’s primary next week is down by nearly 40 percent from 2008 when Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were criss-crossing Indiana in their tight ... Read More

Presidential Election Campaign in Full Swing

Published By Guest Authors On Friday, May 4th 2012. Under Politics

Presidential Election Campaign in Full Swing

Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney greets supporters during a campaign event at Crofton Industries May 3, 2012 in Portsmouth, Virginia. During the event, Rep. Michele Bachmann, a former candidate for the Republican nomination, officially endorsed Romney's campaign. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) The 2012 general election campaign ... Read More

Iranians Vote in Runoff That Could Shape Presidential Race

Published By Guest Authors On Friday, May 4th 2012. Under Politics

Iranians Vote in Runoff That Could Shape Presidential Race

Iranians Vote in Runoff That Could Shape Presidential Race WEB: TYPE: CN )) Iranian voters are casting ballots in parliamentary runoff elections Friday that could shape the make-up of the 2013 presidential election. Sixty-five seats are at stake in Iran's 290 seat parliament, with 25 of those seats in the capital, Tehran. ... Read More

France Prepares for Final Round of Presidential Election

Published By Guest Authors On Friday, May 4th 2012. Under Politics

France Prepares for Final Round of Presidential Election

French voters go to the polls on Sunday to elect a president, with incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy fighting an uphill battle against the Socialist Party challenger, Francois Hollande.In many ways, political experts say Sunday’s run-off election is a classic right-wing/left-wing showdown in French politics. But Dominique Moisi, senior adviser to the ... Read More

Presidential Race Looks Different In Electoral College

Published By Guest Authors On Thursday, May 3rd 2012. Under Politics

Presidential Race Looks Different In Electoral College

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Elect-Your-Match: Computer-Dating Hits the Presidential Election!

Published By Guest Authors On Thursday, May 3rd 2012. Under Politics

Elect-Your-Match: Computer-Dating Hits the Presidential Election!

Co-authored by Danieli Evans Millions of Americans use on-line dating sites to search for their perfect mate: Are you a hiker or a homebody? A sports fanatic or a poetry fiend? After telling the dating service who you're looking for and what you're like, its computer matching program searches its data base ... Read More

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