Saturday, October 29, 2011

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Obama's team banks on his `regular guy' appeal (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 07:48 AM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2011 file photo a girl reacts after asking President Barack Obama about Justin Beiber as he visited with Bluestone High School students in Skipwith, Va. Barack Obama: Mr. Likable. At least that's what the president's advisers hope Americans who are frustrated by the sickly economy, and looking for someone to blame, will remember when they vote next November. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)AP - Barack Obama: Mr. Likable.

GOP rivals focus on flat taxes, smaller government (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 07:34 AM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 24, 2011 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney greets supporters outside the State House in Concord, N.H. They’ve rolled the dice. The top Republican presidential rivals are locked in a game of one-upmanship, each trying to outdo the other in offering the boldest economic plan for the party’s efforts to unseat President Barack Obama next November. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)AP - On jobs and taxes, the top Republican presidential rivals are locked in a fierce game of one-upmanship. They're all trying to outdo each other in offering the boldest economic plan for the campaign to unseat President Barack Obama next November.

Confident Cain plans to cut back campaign events (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 01:50 PM PDT

Republican Presidential candidate, Herman Cain campaigns in Talladega, Ala., Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - Presidential candidate Herman Cain is full of confidence about his 2012 prospects.

Iowa up for grabs 2 months before GOP caucuses (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 07:36 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2011 file photo Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks in Ames, Iowa. Iowa's presidential caucuses are any Republican candidate's to win. Just two months before the GOP nomination voting begins, Iowa Republicans aren't surging toward former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney even though he's essentially been running for president since losing here in 2008. And, this time, none of his opponents has emerged as the consensus candidate of conservatives — and, thus, Romney's chief challenger — the way Mike Huckabee did four years ago. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)AP - Iowa's presidential caucuses are any Republican candidate's to win.

Cain not running on empty; South could be pivotal (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 07:19 AM PDT

Republican Presidential candidate, Herman Cain campaigns in Talladega, Ala., Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - Herman Cain's rise in the polls appears to be no fluke.

Perry, Romney contrast in style, substance (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 05:18 AM PDT

Republican presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry fills out his papers to be on the New Hampshire's First-in-the-Nation presidential primary ballot, Friday, Oct. 28, 2011, at the State House in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)AP - Campaigning just five miles and a few minutes apart, Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Perry showed first-in-the-nation primary state voters just how starkly different they are.

Bachmann exaggerates directive in her criticism (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 04:47 PM PDT

AP - Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said Friday the Obama administration is striking all references to Islam from Justice Department training manuals, exaggerating a directive from federal officials to evaluate procedures for religious and cultural sensitivity.

Need a speaker? President Obama may be available (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 12:32 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2011 file photo, President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama walk off stage after attending a DNC fundraiser at Gotham Hall in New York. Looking for a big-name speaker? Now's the time to send President Barack Obama an invitation, especially if your group represents a key political constituency. With the 2012 election ramping up, he's making the rounds of awards dinners and black-tie galas for blacks, Hispanics, Jews, women, gays — Italian-Americans this weekend — as he looks to reach his voters any way he can. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)AP - Looking for a big-name speaker?

Ala. immigration battle recalls civil rights past (Politico)

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 01:15 PM PDT

Politico - The case has brought back ugly images from the state's days as a social battleground.

17 killed in Afghanistan (Politico)

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 06:31 AM PDT

Politico - Twelve Americans and a Canadian were among the dead.

Suicide bomber in Turkey kills 2, wounds 12 (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 05:48 AM PDT

AP - A female suicide bomber killed two people in Turkey's southeastern Kurdish region and wounded 12 others, authorities said.

Obamas hand out Halloween treats at White House (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 02:54 PM PDT

AP - President Barak Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are standing in the orange glow of the White House's northern portico on a snowy afternoon passing out Halloween treats to trick-or-treaters from capital area elementary schools and children of military families.

Obama uses language of Occupy Wall Street in weekly address (Daily Caller)

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 04:00 AM PDT

Daily Caller - President Barack Obama and Occupy Wall Street are speaking the same language.

Bieber: Sen. Klobuchar should be ‘locked up, and put away in cuffs’ for copyright bill (Daily Caller)

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 09:18 PM PDT

Daily Caller - Teen musician Justin Bieber declared during a radio interview Friday that Minnesota Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar should be "locked up, and put away in cuffs" as punishment for her bill to toughen copyright infringement laws.

Herman Cain Knows that His 'Place' is in the White House (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 02:08 PM PDT

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Proof positive came that the left cannot wrap its minds around the Herman Cain phenomenon when a Democratic strategist named Karen Finney explained the reason the "racist" tea party likes him is because he is a black man who "knows his place."

Rep. Trey Gowdy: I’m not a ‘tea party congressman’ (Daily Caller)

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 09:15 PM PDT

Daily Caller - South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy is pushing back on the notion that he is a "tea party congressman," while reaffirming his "unabashed" support for the movement.
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