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Poll: Obama And Mitt Romney In Dead Heat In Florida And Ohio

The Huffington Post | Sam Stein | Posted 05.03.2012

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President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are virtually tied in two of the quintessential swing states, a new poll finds. Obama leads Romney by a relativ...

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Obama Kisses Random Supporter

Posted 01.20.2012

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A photo snapped Thursday appears to show President Obama planting a mouth-to-mouth kiss on a random woman during a campaign stop at Disney World in La...

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Obama Shares Round Of Beers With Unemployed Construction Workers

AP | By DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 12.11.2011

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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP/The Huffington Post) -- President Barack Obama has joined four unemployed construction workers in Florida for a round of beers on a ...

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The Most Isolated GOP Governor?

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The theatrics of Wisconsin's ongoing budget protests have left the impression that there is no more isolated governor in the country tha...

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Florida Health Care Decision: Judicial Activism on Steroids

Ethan Rome | Posted 05.25.2011

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We won't allow the courts or Congress to bring us back to the time when insurance companies could exclude people from care, drop people for getting sick, or let benefit caps force people with serious diseases into bankruptcy.

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Behind-The-Scenes White House PHOTOS: Florida Trip, PDA & More

Posted 05.25.2011

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Sound the Style alarms! The White House Flickr has made its twice-monthly update with new pics of what the First Family has been up to. There's a few ...

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PHOTO: Obama Goes For A Swim

Posted 05.25.2011

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We'd been holding our breath all day, waiting to see if President Obama would go for a swim during his Gulf vacation...and finally, all of our questio...

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Henrietta Hughes Given Home After Telling Obama She Was Homeless (VIDEO)

Katharine Zaleski | Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE 2/12: Henrietta Hughes and Chene Thompson talk about the new house Hughes is living in: Henrietta Hughes appeared on CNN's American Morning T...

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Henrietta Hughes: Obama Asked For Help At Town Hall (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama went to Fort Myers, Florida Tuesday to highlight the desperate need for an economic recovery package. Unemployment in the area is up t...

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Obama selling himself in push to revive economy

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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FORT MYERS, Fla. — President Barack Obama has gone from worrying about bipartisanship to worrying about re-election. He was on the road again T...

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Florida Democrats Infighting But Eyes on 2010

Ron Levitt | Posted 05.25.2011

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After back-slapping because the state's 27 electoral votes went for President-elect Barack Obama, not-all-too-polite political activity became the norm in the Peninsula State.

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Early Florida Voting Drove Obama's Win

AP | JENNIFER KAY | Posted 05.25.2011

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MIAMI — More Floridians voted for John McCain than Barack Obama on Election Day, but the Democrat sealed his victory in the state by winning mor...

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The Bigotry of Hope

David Paul Appell | Posted 05.25.2011

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You'd think if anyone would appreciate that civil rights are civil rights, it's black Americans. And that's what makes the support of some among them of such bigotry particularly appalling.

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Florida For Obama

Bill Marovitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Come the evening of November 4th, we will be on a new path to change the direction of our country and tell the whole world that the America they used to respect is back.

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Phone Banking For Obama In Florida: Enthusiasm And Racism

Salon | Posted 05.25.2011

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In recent weeks, a calm certainty seems to have settled over most of the liberals I know. After the last two elections, I can't convince myself to be ...

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Obama Launches Final Attack on McCain (Breaking in FL)

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

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On this last day before the election, Sen. Barack Obama is urging voters to relive some humiliating history. Speaking in Jacksonville, Florida, Obama...

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Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick Hits Miami to Help Americans "Take Back the Country"

John Hood | Posted 05.25.2011

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MIAMI--Pulling up to the North Dade Regional Library in the inner city suburb of Miami Gardens for one of Florida's numerous early voter rallies, the ...

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Much Ado About Nothing

Rep. Robert Wexler | Posted 05.25.2011

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Don't let scurrilous emails, ugly insinuations and wishful thinking distract you from the larger reality: the Jewish community is behind Barack Obama.

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McCain-o-ween!

Joshuah Bearman | Posted 05.25.2011

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As 20,000 Obama supporters streamed into the BankAtlantic center to see Obama's aptly titled Sunrise Rally, a small but valiant detachment of McCain...

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Obama Office in Tampa Draws Volunteers from Around the World

The Ballot Box | Posted 05.25.2011

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**By Insiyah Seeed** WEST TAMPA, Fla., 12:35 a.m. -- Part of Obama's grassroots strategy in Florida is to get minorities -- especially the Latino com...

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Jewish Democrats Make Last Push For Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jewish Democrat officials are making a late election push to ensure that Barack Obama secures the large percentages of Jewish community support that p...

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"Seinfeld" Actor Jason Alexander Rallies Jewish Voters in Crucial Swing-State Florida

John Hood | Posted 05.25.2011

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MIAMI --- George, er, Jason isn't joking around -- Jason Alexander, that is, the funny man who will forever be mostly known as George Costanza. Not th...

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Obama Camp Giddy Over Early Voting Extension In Florida

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Obama campaign is, not surprisingly, ecstatic with the decision by Florida's Republican Gov. Charlie Crist to extend early voting hours in his sta...

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Florida's Early Voting Process Seems Rife For Another Challenge If Election Close

Brian Ross | Posted 05.25.2011

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Most of the poll workers are elderly, and not particularly adept at using the computers. My agent took almost five minutes to find me in the system and issue me a ballot. One woman who exited the polling place after half an hour was apparently dead, even though she looked quite well.

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If You Experience An Election Lasting More Than...

Alison Teal | Posted 05.25.2011

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The debates are over but the campaign goes on and on... and on. We need it to be over, but there's still so much to be done. And will it even be over when it's over?

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