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Obama Can Only Say Factory Jobs Return Still Being Offset

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Obama Can Only Say Factory Jobs Return Still Being Offset
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-06-28/obama-can
-only-say-factory-jobs-return-still-being-offset

excerpt:
To be sure, ending this long-term hemorrhaging of U.S. jobs would be an economic plus, even if the number of jobs returning to the U.S. remains limited. Yet at the current pace, it would take another 25 years for the U.S. to regain all the factory jobs lost in the past dozen years.

Entry #2,005

Ohio secretary of state: Why is the Obama campaign only suing us?

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Ohio secretary of state: Why is the Obama campaign only suing us?
http://blogs.reuters.com/talesfromthetrail/2012/07/19/ohio
-secretary-of-state-why-is-the-obama-campaign-only-suing-us/

excerpt:
A senior Democratic official in Ohio called the ban voter suppression but rejected the idea that the lawsuit is meant to bolster the Obama campaign’s “72-hour strategy,” which was key to Obama’s turnout operation four years ago, when he won Ohio by 4 percentage points.

In 2008, Democrats bussed voters to polling sites, and on the weekend before Election Day, long lines formed at the Board of Elections building in the Democratic stronghold of Cuyahoga County, as described in The Plain Dealer, a Cleveland newspaper.

Entry #1,994

Poll finds McCaskill, Obama both down in swing-state Missouri

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Poll finds McCaskill, Obama both down in swing-state Missouri
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/polls/240859-poll-mccaskill
-trailing-gop-challengers-in-missouri-senate-race

excerpt:
A new Mason-Dixon survey, conducted for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and News 4, finds presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney leading President Obama 51-42 percent among registered voters.

In the Senate race, the poll finds incumbent McCaskill trailing all three GOP primary contenders. McCaskill would lose a head-to-head matchup by nine points to businessman John Brunner (R), 52-41 percent, by eight points to former state Treasurer Sarah Steelman (R), 49-41 percent, and by five points to Rep. Todd Akin (R), 49-44  percent

Entry #1,993