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Higher gas prices cloud Obama's re-election hopes
By News on Feb 23, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Soaring gasoline prices are threatening to undercut President Barack Obama's re-election prospects and offering Republicans an easy target. With prices pushing $4 a gallon and threatening to go even higher, Obama sought Thursday to confront rising public anxiety and strike back at his GOP critics....
Romney pounces on Santorum's Senate compromises
By News on Feb 23, 2012
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MILFORD, Mich. (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney tried to upend Rick Santorum's image as a principled defender of conservative ideals Thursday, telling voters in Arizona and Michigan that the former senator is just another give-and-take politician....In battered Syrian city, cries of `tragic' plight
By News on Feb 23, 2012
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BEIRUT (AP) -- Medics stitch wounds with thread used for clothing. Hungry residents risk Syrian government sniper fire or shelling to hunt for dwindling supplies of bread and canned food on the streets of the besieged city of Homs....Obama: Drilling alone is not an energy plan
By News on Feb 23, 2012
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MIAMI (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Thursday assailed Republicans for what he described as a flawed and dishonest strategy for reducing gas prices, predicting his rivals would offer nothing but more drilling and political promises of $2-a-gallon gas. Said the president: "The American people aren't stupid."...Poll: Millionaire tax popular, spending cuts too
By News on Feb 23, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An Associated Press-GfK poll shows that President Barack Obama's proposal to make millionaires pay a significant share of their incomes in taxes is widely popular. But the plan is not shaking the public's embrace of spending cuts as the best way to balance the budget....
