Daily Political Wire

George Wenschhof

Obama Campaign Responds To Romney Welfare Attacks, Releases New Ad



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Obama Campaign Releases Ad on Romney's Refusal To Release Taxes


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Obama's Lead Grows in New Polls - a Fox News poll has it Obama 49%, Romney 40% and a CNN/ORC poll has it Obama 52%, Romney 45%.  Obama is picking up support among Independents and men.  You can read more here.

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Romney Tax Plan Won't Fix Deficit - Erskine Bowles; co-chair of the federal commission on the debt says President Obama offers a more balanced approach to stabilizing the nation's debt.  You can read more here.

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Pelosi and Hoyer Leading Democratic "Drive for 25" to Retake House - House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calf.) and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) are spending August campaigning across the country in competitive districts.  Political analysts mostly agree the Democratic effort to regain a majority in the House will fall short by about a dozen seats.  You can read more here.

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Details Emerge of Upcoming Democratic Convention - early next month, in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Democratic National Convention will be held and details of the theme are beginning to emerge.  On efocus will be showing how President Obama has helped real people.  You can read more here.

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U.S. Set To Impose New Sanctions on Syria - this comes as government forces have retaken a dristrict of Aleppo, previously held by rebels.  You can read more here.

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