Obama's Run Documented in HBO's 'By the People'
"Running for president is like being an astronaut. You can go in the simulator all you want but until you're orbiting in, you don't really know what it's going to be like." -- David Axelrod, Senior Advisor to Barack Obama and former chief strategist during the 2008 election Putting aside ideological politics for a minute (we know it's hard, but try), the act of running for president, with 24-hour cameras and a grueling, unending schedule of handshakes, smiles and stump speeches, must wear on...

AFP: Obama warns of more US jobs losses ahead
Washington — President Barack Obama said Monday that the US economy will continue to lose jobs in coming months despite exiting a Recession, striking a cautious tone on Unemployment. "We anticipate that we're going to continue to see some job losses in the weeks and months to come," Obama said ahead of the release of Unemployment figures for October on Friday. Economic Indicators released last week indicated that the United States exited its Recession this summer, but Obama emphasized...

Sales of Guns and Bullets Shoot Up Nationwide, For Now
As the Washington Post reported on Tuesday, money spent by Americans on Guns and ammunition is set to a reach record-high level this year. Demand is so high that many Gun shops have reported severe ammo shortages. The usual culprits behind rising Gun sales--increased rates of Violent Crime and/or restrictive new Gun control legislation--are nowhere to be found. Rather, it is the threat of what "Obama might do" to Gun Rights that seems to be keeping sales aloft. To their credit, many in the...

Races an early test of Obama influence
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's political influence a year after his Election is being tested as voters cast ballots in Virginia and New Jersey, two states he's worked hard to keep in Democratic hands. A handful of congressional and mayoral races and a same-sex union initative also are among the featured face-offs this Election Day. Obama has sought to ensure that Democrats not only win the Governor's races but also pick up a GOP-held congressional seat in upstate New York. In...

Republican wins Virginia governor seat: TV networks
Washington (Reuters) - Republican Bob McDonnell, who had led in public Opinion Polls, won the election for Virginia Governor on Tuesday, U.S. television networks projected. His win is sure to bolster opponents of President Barack Obama as they portray the loss of Democrat Creigh Deeds as a referendum on the Democratic president's policies. (Reporting by Tabassum Zakaria ; Editing by Philip Barbara)

GOP wins Va. gov race a year after Obama won state: PHOTO
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CBS's Schieffer Denies Vote a Referendum on Obama, Compares Conservatives to McGovern: PHOTO
Shortly before the polls closed, CBS's chief Washington correspondent, Bob Schieffer, rejected any effort to tie President Barack Obama to two the Democratic gubernatorial candidates for whom Obama campaigned, i nsisting on Tuesday's CBS Evening News that the contests were more about local issues and so “I don't think they had much to do with anything but New Jersey and Virginia.” Citing the special congressional race in New York, Schieffer rued “this third-party conservative who...

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Anti-Obama paranoia is good for at least one American business.
In recent months, there has been a lot of talk about what historian Richard Hofstadter called the " the paranoid style in American politics." To believe the Glenn Becks of the world, the Democrats and their Commie, tree-hugging comrades are going to take a

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Not About Obama: PHOTO
The exit polls are very clear and, when you think about it, it makes perfect sense. A reader writes: How in the world can the pundits (even Megan or Marc, both of whom I like) honestly take results tonight as a referendum on Obama when: 1, Different people showed up to vote today than in 2008. It's apples to oranges to judge whether people like Obama's proposals compared to last year, when the number of young people, minorities etc voting is down. They don't like Deeds or Corzine...

Election 2009: Test of Obama clout in NJ, Virginia
President Barack Obama 's political clout was on the line Tuesday as Virginia and New Jersey chose governors in contests that could serve as warning signs for Democrats about the public's mood heading into an important midterm election year. Elsewhere, Maine voters weighed in on same-sex marriage in a closely watched initiative, and New York and California picked congressmen for two vacant seats. A slew of cities selected mayors, and Ohio voted on allowing casinos. One year after Obama won the...

Republican wins Virginia; NJ too close to call: PHOTO
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Republican Bob McDonnell has easily won the Virginia Governor's race just a year after the state went overwhelmingly for President Barack Obama and the Democrats. Unofficial results show the former Attorney General defeating Creigh Deeds and returning a Republican to the Governor's office for the first time in eight years. This race and the contest for Governor of New Jersey are viewed as the first referendum on the president and the Democratic Congress before the 2010...

Obama urges new effort on climate
President Barack Obama has said it is "imperative" the US and EU re-double efforts to achieve success at next month's climate summit in Copenhagen.

Light turnout in Va. for closely watched gov. race
RICHMOND, VA. — Voters cast their ballots Tuesday for a New Virginia Governor in a closely watched race that has focused on promises of jobs and critiques of President Barack Obama's policies a year after he won the state. Turnout in the race between Democrat R. Creigh Deeds and Republican Bob McDonnell was light to moderate across the state. The Elections of Governors in Virginia and New Jersey are viewed by many as the first voter verdicts on Obama and on a Democratic Congress heading...

Book: Obama seriously considered Hillary for VP
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WHO WON THE DAY?: Joshua Green on Today's Election
Today's off-year Elections are local in scope but Superbowl-like in their ability to grab national attention. Predicted consequences for Republicans include a nationally divided GOP , a strengthened GOP , a dire populist surge , and a coming Republican wave. (Not to mention predictions for the impact on President Obama's agenda and the 2010 midterm Elections.) But The Atlantic's own Joshua Green knocked some sense into the ever-excitable political punditry with his declaration late Monday, " It...

Obama’s half brother recalls their abusive father
President Barack Obama’s half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel – the semi-autobiographical story of an abusive parent patterned on their late father, the mostly absent figure Obama wrote about in his own Memoir.

Utah tribes hoping White House delivers at conference
Washington » President Barack Obama on Thursday will host leaders of the nation's Indian tribes for a White House conference on Native American issues, the highest-level meeting in 15 years for descendants America's earliest inhabitants. The agenda, tribal officials say, could run the gamut from broken treaty promises decades, if not centuries old, and more modern concerns such as crime, Poverty and Health Care. Representatives of all seven of Utah's Indian tribal governments are invited...

Obama's Had Year We Can Believe In
There's been plenty to quibble about over the last year, but a look at the big picture shows that President Obama has been changing the world just as he was elected to do, writes Eugene Robinson. Obama's biggest accomplishment has been averting another Great Depression, Robinson notes in the Washington Post . The president has also made historic strides in many other areas, from appointing the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice to embracing multi-lateralism and accepting scientific consensus...

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Obama's half brother recalls their abusive father
GUANGZHOU, China — President Barack Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel - the semi-autobiographical story of an abusive parent patterned on their late father, the mostly absent figure Obama wrote about in his own Memoir. In his first interview, Mark Ndesandjo told The Associated Press that he wrote "Nairobi to Shenzhen" in part to raise awareness of Domestic Violence. "My father beat my mother and my father beat me, and you don't do that," said...

Obama Hasn't Talked With Lieberman Since Filibuster Threat
President Barack Obama has not reached out to Sen. Joseph Lieberman in the week since the Connecticut Independent announced that he would potentially Filibuster Health Care reform. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, in response to a question from the Huffington Post, told reporters on Tuesday that he was aware "of neither meetings nor phone calls" between "the president and Senator Lieberman." Last Tuesday, Lieberman told reporters that he would side with Republicans in sustaining a Filibuster of...

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