The federal report out Friday on January’s employment data contains good news — including for President Obama’s chances at re-election. But, despite the addition of 243,000 new jobs last month and another drop in the nation’s unemployment rate, many — not even all of whom are political opponents of the president — see a long way yet to go. “Today’s jobs report is encouraging, but we should judge it against the overall sluggishness of the economic recovery and a...
With details soon to become public about a settlement between state attorneys general and big banks implicated in the huge, national “robo-signing” scandal, President Obama should make clear the deal can’t amount to less than $300 billion from the banks, a prominent homeowner- and corporate-accountability advocate says. All 50 state attorneys general have been seeking a settlement with the nation’s five largest banks to address their foreclosure practices, such as the filing of thousands of false sworn statements with...
President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night should “help him a lot” in his fight for re-election this year, according to longtime Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg, citing results of a focus group of swing voters held during the speech. The themes the president laid out during his annual televised address to a joint session of Congress cut across party lines and provide a “powerful framework for having an election,” Greenberg says in a briefing with reporters held...
Rep. Gabby Giffords was in the spotlight last night at the State of the Union address as President Obama stopped to hug her on his way to the podium to make his address. Giffords cast her last vote in the House today, “for legislation she and Flake introduced this week, her office said in a statement.” The Christian Science Monitor reports, “The bill Giffords and Flake introduced would levy new penalties on people who use small, low-flying aircraft to...
A former White House adviser during the Clinton administration is striking back at Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s assertion that “any president would have done” the operation President Obama ordered last year which resulted in the death of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. The former Massachusetts governor last month argued: “With regards to Osama bin Laden, we’re delighted that gave the order to take out Osama bin Laden, any president would have done that. But this one did...
The petroleum industry is pushing hard on President Obama to give the green light to a controversial transnational pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast. The head of the oil and gas industry’s influential Washington lobby group, the American Petroleum Institute (API), is warning of political consequences should Obama deny approval for the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline. Congressional Republicans forced Obama to make a quick decision about the project as part of last month’s short-term compromise over extensions of...
If Facebook users decided the election, President Obama would be easily winning a second term in the White House. Meanwhile, heading into Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary, traffic on the social media website appears to indicate the GOP nomination coming down to a three-man race among Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum. This is according to an analysis and research of Facebook usage from Dec. 10 through Jan. 8 by Socialbakers, a social-media analytics company. Among candidates, the president...
Mitt Romney’s paltry 8-vote win Tuesday in the Iowa caucuses is “an indictment” against the Republican presidential hopeful, a top Democratic operative says. Romney barely squeaked past the late-surging Rick Santorum in the nation’s first 2012 presidential race, reportedly the closest margin in Iowa history. He won with barely 25 percent of the vote. The former Massachusetts governor also received fewer votes this year than he did back in his first White House run in 2008. Following Romney’s seeming...
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