Obama declares emergency as storm heads for New Orleans AFP via Yahoo! Canada News Tue, 28 Aug 2012 01:11 AM PDT New Orleans on Tuesday braced for another hurricane as a strengthening Tropical Storm Isaac drew near, seven years after Hurricane Katrina left 1,800 dead in the fabled jazz city. | Ryan opposed new, Obama-backed disaster aid regime Seattle Times Tue, 28 Aug 2012 01:08 AM PDT As tropical storm Isaac bears down on the Gulf Coast, there should be plenty of money - some $1.5 billion - in federal disaster aid coffers, thanks, in part, to a new system that budgets help for victims of hurricanes, tornadoes and floods before they occur. | Reuters/Ipsos Poll: Romney faces headwinds in race against Obama Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News Tue, 28 Aug 2012 01:08 AM PDT TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Mitt Romney enters Republican convention week facing serious challenges in his drive to unseat President Barack Obama in the November 6 election, with the Democrat outscoring him on eloquence and likability, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Monday. But many factors weigh in the Republican's favor as he seeks a boost from his Tampa, Florida, convention. An ... | Barbara Bush set the stage for nominees' wives Seattle Times Tue, 28 Aug 2012 01:08 AM PDT Expecting Ann Romney and Michelle Obama to take the stage to assure Americans that their men are swell husbands and fathers may sound like a holdover from the 1950s, but it's a relatively recent political convention tradition. | Between convention speeches come the campaign ads Seattle Times Tue, 28 Aug 2012 01:08 AM PDT President Barack Obama is "taxing wheelchairs and pacemakers." Mitt Romney would bring "an end to the Medicare promise." The Democratic incumbent has "hurt" the middle class and hasn't done "what we need him to do." If the Republican challenger wins, "the middle class loses." | MARTIN SCHRAM: Lugar's expertise trashed by upstart on tea party wave Evansville Courier & Press Tue, 28 Aug 2012 01:00 AM PDT Two weeks before President Barack Obama issued the now-famous war-talk warning that any Syrian effort to deploy its chemical weapons would be a "red line for us," the U.S. Senate's most respected diplomat-without-portfolio arrived in Moscow hoping to head off a crisis | FACT CHECK: Anti-Obama film muddy on facts Erie Times-News Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:58 AM PDT "2016: Obama's America," a new conservative film exploring the roots of President Barack Obama's political views, took in $6.2 million to make it one of the highest-grossing movies of last weekend. | | |
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