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June 11, 2012
Just days after a new poll showed Virginia's U.S. Senate race in a near dead heat, Democrat Tim Kaine was on the campaign trail, talking about his plan to strengthen the economy.
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June 11, 2012
The campaigns of President Obama and Mitt Romney seem intent on fighting another round of the battle that began Friday when the president said during a White House press conference that "the private sector is doing fine."
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June 8, 2012
In this week's Doubleheader, syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks agree on one thing: Former Sen. Rick Santorum will not be on a short list (or long list) to join Mitt Romney's ticket. They also chatted about Mark's most recent column about businessmen presidents.
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June 8, 2012
Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks discuss the week's top political news with Judy Woodruff including Europe's growing debt crisis, President Obama's comments on the economic health of the American private sector and the takeaways from the Wisconsin recall election.
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June 8, 2012
Gwen Ifill muses about distractions on the campaign trail: 'Will this be a sober standoff over economic stress and solutions? Or are we just as likely to spend the rest of this year consumed with the latest utterances of Jeremiah Wright and Donald Trump?
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June 8, 2012
A TV ad released Friday by Mitt Romney's campaign goes right at the heart of President Obama's attack on his tenure as governor of Massachusetts, which frequently cites the statistic that the state dropped to 47th in job creation while he was in charge.
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June 7, 2012
After a stampede of surrogates left President Obama's talking points trampled by the wayside over the past few weeks, the president turned to the one person he knew he could trust to deliver his message to voters in the battleground state of Virginia: his wife Michelle.
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June 7, 2012
Two different worlds.
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June 7, 2012
From American Public Media's Public Insight Network, Conservative Moments: An Interactive Timeline charts political and cultural events in American conservatism, constructed from interviews and correspondence with hundreds of people across a wide spectrum of political thought.
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June 7, 2012
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a onetime rival to Mitt Romney for the Republican nomination who now serves as national co-chair for his campaign, speaks with Judy Woodruff about Romney's economic record and his stance on labor rights.
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June 7, 2012
President Obama's re-election campaign and the Democratic National Committee raked in more than $60 million in May, a product of some major fundraising contests and yet another sign that greenbacks will be flying at full speed for the next five months.
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June 6, 2012
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker scored a decisive victory Tuesday, becoming the first governor in U.S. history to successfully turn back a recall election, and bringing to an end 16 months of tumult in the state that followed his decision to cut nearly all collective bargaining rights for most public employees.
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June 5, 2012
After months of rallies, phone calls and door-knocking, Wisconsin voters went to the polls Tuesday as Republican Gov. Scott Walker hoped to avoid becoming only the third governor in U.S. history to be recalled. Gwen Ifill reports.
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June 5, 2012
Speaking with the PBS NewsHour's Judy Woodruff on Tuesday, former President Bill Clinton discussed whether it was fair for President Obama's campaign to criticize Republican challenger Mitt Romney over his role at Bain Capital. He also spoke about the Clinton Global Initiative's efforts to spur job creation.
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June 5, 2012
Headlines this past year running into Tuesday's recall election in Wisconsin, between Republican Gov. Scott Walker and Democratic Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, besieged every news medium. NewsHour's Storify sets the scene.
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June 5, 2012
Tuesday marks an exciting Election Day as voters in six states head to the polls to decide, among other things, whether Wisconsin should become the third state ever to recall a governor and if some members of Congress should go home for good.
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June 4, 2012
Jeffrey Brown reflects on his recent trip to Wisconsin: "Much is planned ahead of time for a reporting trip like this, but a good deal is left open in order to respond to developments as they happen. And some part of the whole experience is left to chance."
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June 4, 2012
In this week's Political Checklist, Political Editor Christina Bellantoni chatted with senior correspondent Gwen Ifill and special guest Jeff Brown about the historic recall election in Wisconsin.
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June 4, 2012
As Wisconsin voters prepare to head to the polls Tuesday to vote in the contentious recall election of their embattled Republican Gov. Scott Walker, high-profile national political figures have been arriving almost nonstop in an effort to make a late push for the candidates.
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June 4, 2012
President Obama's re-election team is investing heavily in a new television spot directly attacking Mitt Romney's core argument for the Nov. 6 contest: that he knows how to create jobs and as president he would revive the struggling economy.
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June 1, 2012
Gov. Bob McDonnell says Virginia can be a model for national economic success, a message he happens to be taking across his state just as Mitt Romney is considering his options for a running mate. McDonnell is showcasing Virginia's 5.6 percent unemployment rate while highlighting his own efforts to bring new jobs to the state.
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June 1, 2012
Summing up Thursday in politics: A guy who desperately wanted to be president upstaged another guy who wants the job, two former commanders in chief and the one currently living in the White House.
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May 31, 2012
A new poll from NBC-Marist finds President Obama and Mitt Romney deadlocked in Colorado, Iowa and Nevada. While voters in these three battleground states are more optimistic about the economy and believe the president inherited a fiscal crisis, the poll found Mr. Obama is harmed by a sense that the nation is on the wrong track.
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May 30, 2012
Mitt Romney's win Tuesday in Texas effectively sets up a two-man contest for the White House. As President Obama and his Republican challenger look to corral votes and money, Judy Woodruff, The Washington Post's Tom Hamburger and Politico's Kenneth Vogel discuss the role of campaign finance and super PACs this election season.
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May 30, 2012
In this week's political checklist , NewsHour's Christina Bellantoni and Judy Woodruff assess how Mitt Romney will woo voters now that he's clinched the Republican presidential nomination. His recent strategies have used the Internet and social media for a more grassroots approach to gaining support, they say.
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May 30, 2012
With little fanfare, Willard Mitt Romney crossed an important threshold Tuesday. The 65-year-old former governor of Massachusetts clinched enough primary delegates to earn the Republican Party's nomination to face President Obama on the Nov. 6 ballot.
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May 29, 2012
In Colorado, where Hispanics make up 20 percent of the population, presidential campaigning is increasingly being done in Spanish. And while immigration may not be the most important issue for Latino voters, it certainly is a defining one, according to Stanford University political scientist Gary Segura. Gwen Ifill reports.
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May 29, 2012
Mitt Romney was 58 delegates away from clinching the Republican nomination at the start of Tuesday, as Texas Republicans headed to vote in a primary likely to wrap up the GOP presidential race. Margaret Warner and The Boston Globe's Michael Kranish discuss Romney's path -- from a failed 1994 Senate run to his current campaign.
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May 29, 2012
With polls showing two-thirds of Latino voters supporting President Barack Obama for re-election, the Republican Party faces an uphill battle to capture the Hispanic electorate in November.
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May 29, 2012
Texas, home to the last two Republican presidents, will be the state that pushes Mitt Romney across the 1,144 delegate threshold Tuesday. The presumptive Republican nominee is 68 delegates shy of that mark with 152 up for grabs in the Lone Star State.