Topic: Barack Obama

Obama ratings down but Gingrich worse: poll

US President Barack Obama's overall popularity has slipped to a new low but his approval ratings are still ahead of current Republican frontrunner Newt Gingrich, a poll showed Wednesday.The ABC News/Washington Post poll said the "unfavorable" views of Obama hit 49 percent, ...

Big U.S. deficit-reduction bill needed: Boehner

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said on Wednesday that one of his top wishes for the new year is to help win passage of a bill to cut the record - and still mounting - U.S. debt.Having tried ...

Gingrich surges ahead in Republican race: NBC/WSJ poll

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has taken a commanding lead in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, hitting the 40 percent mark for the first time in the campaign, according to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released on ...

Obama campaign shifts, targets barbs at Gingrich too

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - So much for that focused anti-Mitt strategy.President Barack Obama's campaign signaled on Tuesday it would attack the new Republican presidential front-runner Newt Gingrich just as hard as Mitt Romney, the longtime leader in the race, and forecast - to ...

Tea party group drops depiction of Obama as skunk

KANSAS CITY, Mo (Reuters) - In the wake of criticism, a Kansas tea party group has removed from its web site home page a comparison of President Obama to a skunk.The Patriot Freedom Alliance, based in Hutchinson, Kansas, posted a photo of ...

Rick Perry Criticizes Obama On DADT Repeal

Rick Perry on Friday criticized President Barack Obama on repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'Rick Perry on Friday criticized President Barack Obama on repeal of “Don't Ask, Don't Tell,” the recently ended policy that for 18 years banned gay and bisexual troops ...
Struggling Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman lashed out Thursday at his top two rivals for the nomination and took a swipe at US President Barack Obama, saying all of them lacked solutions.Suffering from a drag that has him polling in the single ...

Republicans block Obama's consumer nominee

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republicans on Thursday beat back Democratic President Barack Obama's pick to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and each party accused the other of holding consumers hostage to politics.Democrats were able to muster only 53 of the ...

Lawmakers rush to broker spending bill

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top lawmakers are aiming to forge a deal to keep the government operating beyond next week, even as Republican measures to restrict funding for abortions and the Obama administration's health care act threaten to derail it.If Congress fails to ...

In Hispanic-heavy Colorado, Obama must work to win

DENVER (Reuters) - Though demographic trends lean in his favor, President Barack Obama has work to do in Colorado to woo Hispanics, the voting bloc that holds the key to victory in this battleground state and, potentially, nationwide.Strong support from Latinos helped ...