Daily Political Wire

George Wenschhof

Obama Begins Bus Tour - of North Carolina and Virginia over the next several days to push for passage of components of The American Jobs Act. The president is now calling on Congress to pass a 35 million bill to put teachers and first responders back to work or to prevent lay-offs from local government. You can read more here.

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Obama Campaign Spending Big - the NY Times reported the combined expenditures of the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee for the year to date is 87 million. A figure which is just about equal to the amount raided by all of the Republican candidates to date. You can read the article here.

Time for true campaign finance reform?

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Who Is the Lords Resistance Army (LRA)? - a fair question considering 100 U.S. military advisers have been deployed to Uganda to combat them. The answer is not pretty; an organization that earned the label of a terrorist group back in 2001. TPM.com has a good read here.

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Washington Worse Than Wall Street - according to a new The Hill poll. The poll found 56% of likely voters blame Washington for the economy and one in three blamed Wall Street. TheHill.com has more here.

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PEW Study Finds Media Harsh on Obama - in spite of what Republicans may say, the study shows mainstream media has given President Obama negative press by a 4-1 margin over the last five months. Politico.com has more here.

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