Charlotte, Sept 6 (Scout Tufankjian for Obama for America)
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The University of Iowa, Sept 7
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Videos of today’s speeches in New Hampshire and Iowa at C-Span
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Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Sept 7
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Portsmouth International Airport, N.H.
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President Obama holds baby Ethan Muhire, B.R. Miller Middle School, Marshalltown, Iowa
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Children greet President Barack Obama’s motorcade as it passes through Tama, Iowa
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The Nelson Pioneer Farm & Museum in Oskaloosa, Iowa
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Visiting the Heil family farm in Haverhill, Iowa
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President Obama orders muffins at the Coffee Connection in Knoxville, Iowa
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B.R. Miller Middle School in Marshalltown
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Next up:
8:45 (?): President Obama delivers remarks at the Waterloo Center for the Arts in Waterloo, Iowa
C-Span * CBS 1 * CBS 2 * CNN * KWWL
Streaming has started at KWWL, so tune in now!
More poor quality video, with abysmal sound/vision synching - it might be better to close your eyes and listen :???:
Ricky Martin introduces President Obama at a campaign event at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York, May 14
Eva Longoria watches as President Obama speaks during a campaign fundraiser at the Rubin Museum of Art
5:05: President Obama delivers remarks at a campaign event at the Rubin Museum of Art (but these things sometimes start early!)
Coverage has started at CBS live streaming (second CBS link here) and at CNN live streaming
President Barack Obama tours the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., with Sara Bloomfield, museum director, and Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor, April 23, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
President Obama hugs Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel before he speaks at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC on April 23
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President Obama hugs Elie Wiesel after speaking at the Holocaust Memorial Museum
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“It’s an honor Mr President ….. I will vote for you.”
President Obama sits on the famed Rosa Parks bus at the Henry Ford Museum following an event in Dearborn, Mich., April 18 (Pete Souza)
“I just sat in there for a moment and pondered the courage and tenacity that is part of our very recent history but is also part of that long line of folks who sometimes are nameless, oftentimes didn’t make the history books, but who constantly insisted on their dignity, their share of the American dream.”
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Detroit Free Press: The good economic news has been stacking up for Michigan.
On Wednesday, the state reported that the unemployment rate fell to 8.5% for March, a level not seen since August 2008 and down 2 percentage points from a year ago. The jobless rate in metro Detroit fell to 9.4%, down 2.3 percentage points from a year ago.
…. And a PNC Bank survey of small companies in Michigan found that 35% plan to hire full-time or part-time employees sometime in the next six months …. worker rolls have increased across various industries, with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting 22,000 more workers in southeast Michigan this year than last year.
…. That increase in workers is partly responsible for a first-quarter, 47% increase in housing starts in southeast Michigan when compared with the same three months last year….
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Today:
2:20: PBO welcomes the BCS National Champion University of Alabama Crimson Tide to the White House to honor their 14th championship
4:20: PBO attends a campaign event in DC (closed press)
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National Journal: A big lead among women voters is fueling a slight advantage for President Obama in the early phase of his contest with likely Republican nominee Mitt Romney, according to a poll published Thursday morning by Quinnipiac University.
In line with other national polls published this week, the new Quinnipiac poll showed Obama with a narrow lead over Romney, in this case, 46 percent to 42 percent. Among women, Obama’s enjoys a yawning lead of 49 to 39 percent….
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ThinkProgress: As part of his attempt to appear more relateable, presumed GOP nominee Mitt Romney sat with a handful of regular, working Americans in Pennsylvania today to discuss their plight in the struggling economy. But the Romney campaign may not have vetted the attendees to make sure they were sufficiently anti-tax before giving them access to the candidate and his picnic table full of lemonade and pretzels.
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Charles Pierce: Things In Politico That Make Me Want To Guzzle Antifreeze, Part The MCLIV
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Business Insider: Despite the ground Mitt Romney has gained in recent polls, he will be in the record books for a statistic he would probably rather forget.
Romney is the least likable presidential candidate in 30 years, according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll. Since Walter Mondale. And he is the first candidate ever that more people view unfavorably than favorably.
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Morning everyone ;-)
President Obama at a fundraiser at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, April 18
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Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport
President Barack Obama kisses a well-wisher upon his arrival in Detroit
Washington Post: President Obama raised $53 million last month for his reelection, a substantial increase from the month before.
In February, Obama raised $45 million from 348,000 donors. This month he upped his total by $8 million, and increased his donor pool to 567,000.
…. Ninety-seven percent of donations to Obama’s re-election effort were for $250 or less, the Obama campaign said. The average contribution was $50.78.
As of mid-March the president’s campaign had close to $85 million in cash on hand, according to FEC filings.
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President Obama arrives at the White House from a summit with leaders from the Americas in Colombia, early Monday, April 16
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Buzzfeed: Former Governor Mitt Romney is already offering top donors access to a special “Presidential Inaugural retreat,” planned on the assumption that he will be elected president this November.
The offer, in a fundraising email circulated by a top Georgia supporter to fellow Republicans and obtained by BuzzFeed, is one of several goodies offered to those who contribute more than $50,000 to the joint fundraising committee known as “Romney Victory”….
Those donors will be named “Founding Members” of Romney Victory and invited to a California retreat with Romney and offered “yet to be determined access at the Republican National Convention in Tampa in August.”
They will also “have preferred status at the first Presidential Inaugural retreat,” the email says.
More here
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A visitor pretends to talk on a phone alongside a wax figure of US President Barack Obama on the opening day of the new Madame Tussauds exhibition in Sydney on April 16
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ET: The rivalry continues! First Lady Michelle Obama and Ellen DeGeneres continued their playful trash talking after their highly publicized push-up contest.
….. Their lighthearted back-and-forth took place via satellite, as the First Lady sat in an audience of 600 military families and their daughters in Jacksonville, Florida while Ellen reached them from her studio in Burbank, California.
…. You can see their entire exchange on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Monday, April 16. Check your local listings.
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Morning everyone ;-)
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