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10:50: PBO meets with the 2012 Intel Science Talent Search finalists.
11:10: PBO will deliver a statement in the Rose Garden about a new effort to enforce U.S. trade rights with China.
1:00: Jay Carney briefs the press.
4:15: Michelle Obama hosts a mini-Olympics competition in celebration of the 2012 London Summer Olympics.
4:20: PBO and Prime Minister Cameron leave the W.H. for Andrews Air Force Base.
4:35: PBO and Cameron depart for Dayton, Ohio.
5:55: PBO and Cameron attend an NCAA Tournament game (live on truTV)
9:00: PBO and Cameron depart Ohio for D.C.
10:35: PBO and Cameron arrive back at the White House.
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Bloomberg: The U.S. public’s economic outlook is turning from fear to hope with the presidential election campaign under way. More than twice as many Americans view the economy’s prospects as brightening as see them darkening, a reversal from nine months ago, when more people expected deterioration ahead, according to a Bloomberg National Poll conducted March 8-11.
“It’s starting to get better,” says survey respondent Kelsey Simeon ….. “Strip malls that were empty are starting to fill up. Everyone’s going out to eat more. People are spending more money on non-necessities…. ”
More Americans now say they are personally better off since President Barack Obama took office than worse off, the first favorable reading for the president on that question since Bloomberg began asking in December 2010.
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Washington Post: How much does the president have to do with the price of gasoline?
A lot, say American voters. According to oil experts and economists, not so much - at least in the short term.
Today’s oil prices are the product of years and decades of exploration, automobile design and ingrained consumer habits combined with political events in places such as Sudan and Libya, anxiety about possible conflict with Iran, and the energy aftershocks of last year’s earthquake in Japan.
“This notion that a politician can wave a magic wand and impact the 90-million-barrel-a-day global oil market is preposterous,” said Paul Bledsoe, strategic adviser to the Bipartisan Policy Center and a former Clinton administration official.
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Steve Benen: Mitt Romney called in to a popular sports talk show in Alabama yesterday, a day ahead of the state’s Republican presidential primary. As interviews go, this seemed like a fairly easy one…. it’s not like Romney would go on the show, repeat his mistake from two weeks ago, and talk about being friends with millionaire team owners again, right? Wrong:
At one point, Mr. Finebaum asked Mr. Romney, as a New England Patriots fan, where he thought Peyton Manning should go as a free agent, and the candidate highlighted his friendship with football team owners - echoing comments in which he explained his affinity for Nascar by noting he knew the owners of Nascar teams.
“I’m surprised to hear that Denver’s thinking about him,” Mr. Romney said. “I don’t want him in our neck of the woods, let’s put it that way. I’ve got a lot of good friends, the owner of the Miami Dolphins and the New York Jets, both owners are friends of mine,” he added. “But let’s keep him away from New England.”
Romney really is approaching self-parody here….
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Morning everyone ;-)
