Emmanuel Dunand / AFP – Getty Images Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney supporters attend a campaign rally at Lake Sumter Landing in The Villages, Florida, Jan. 30, 2012. Mitt Romney could reassert his status as the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination with a win Tuesday night in Florida, where the former Massachusetts governor has waged a pitched battle against Newt Gingrich.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA – Florida’s first military governor and America’s seventh president, Andrew Jackson, never lived in this city named to honor his military exploits that forced Spain to cede the territory to the United States. His influence on the city’s political nature is evident, however. The old Jacksonian Democrats are today’s independent voters — opposed to heavy-handed government, supportive of states’ rights. Center-right nationally, they have no problem voting for a Democrat if the timing and issues are right.
By NBC’s Jamie Novogrod and msnbc.com’s Michael O’Brien Newt Gingrich threatened Monday to skip any debate as the Republican nominee versus President Obama that is moderated by a member of the media. “As your nominee, I will not accept debates in the fall in which the reporters are the moderators,” Gingrich stated at a rally in Pensacola. “We don’t need to have a second Obama person at the debate.” The threat is in keeping with the scorn with which the ...
IN THIS issue we launch a weekly section devoted to China. It is the first time since we began our detailed coverage of the United States in 1942 that we have singled out a country in this way. The principal reason is that China is now an economic superpower and is fast becoming a military force capable of unsettling America. But our interest in China lies also in its politics: it is governed by a system that is out of ...
Other political news of note NBC/Marist poll: Romney leads Gingrich by 15 in Fla. Mitt Romney may be on his way to a decisive victory in the Florida GOP primary Tuesday, according to a new NBC News-Marist poll. Updated 14 minutes ago 1/29/2012 6:42:59 PM +00:00 GOP tries new strategy to get Canada pipeline Santorum cancels events to be with sick daughter Surprise: Cain endorses Gingrich in GOP race Romney uses ‘history,’ surrogates against Gingrich ...
The latest economic data make it clear that President Obama’s policies aren’t helping the country get stronger. Rather, they are smothering what should have been a solid recovery. Real GDP climbed a less-than-expected 2.8% in final quarter of 2011, and just 1.7% for the entire year, down from 3% in 2010. The trend of subpar growth under Obama continues. To get a better sense of how bad Obama’s recovery is, think about this: Under Obama, real GDP has climbed a ...
Emmanuel Dunand / AFP – Getty Images Mitt Romney greets supporters after holding a veterans rally in Pensacola, Fla., on Saturday. PENSACOLA, Fla. — Flanked by a pair of prominent Republican veterans and one sinister tv villain, Mitt Romney on Saturday morning promised this heavily military community that he would keep the armed forces strong and stop planned reductions in military spending.
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ANN ARBOR, MI — The White House insists that the three-day, five-state tour upon which President Obama embarked on Wednesday was intended to sell his State of the Union message, and was not directed toward campaign purposes. But a speech by Obama at the University of Michigan on Friday seemed to undercut that claim, with its rally-like atmosphere and warm welcome for the president. Prefaced by the University of Michigan pep band, surrounded by bunting and in front of an ...
U.S. President Barack Obama steps on stage to deliver remarks on American manufacturing in front of an Intel plant under construction in Chandler, Arizona January 25, 2012. President Barack Obama was returning Thursday to two says key to his re-election, Nevada and Colorado, promoting his energy agenda while grabbing some of the political spotlight ahead of his Republican rivals.