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On September 19, 2014, Obama and Biden launched 'It's On Us,' a national campaign asking young men to intervene to stop campus sexual assault.
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In January 2013, Joe Biden warned that Obama would act on guns with or without Congress, floating executive orders ahead of a victims' meeting.
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After the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre on December 14, 2012, an editorial: the gun lobby's arguments have run out, and the law must change.
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On Election Day 2012, a judge ordered a giant Obama mural covered at a Philadelphia polling place. Workers covered it only partly, leaving it visible.
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After the first 2012 presidential debate in Denver, even CNN's Van Jones conceded: 'Romney was able to out-Obama Obama' — the night Mitt Romney won.
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An Aurora shooting survivor publicly asked Obama and Romney to debate gun control in the 2012 campaign. The candidates grieved; neither answered.
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At a London screening in 2012, Brad Pitt broke with his mother Jane Pitt's pro-Romney letter: 'I am an Obama supporter' — and gay marriage 'is inevitable.'
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After Obama's Charlotte acceptance speech in September 2012, both parties had their nominees: the race was essentially tied, Gallup showing Obama 47, Romney 46.
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For the first time in 2012, Mitt Romney crossed 40% with 18–29-year-olds in a JZ Analytics poll — a warning sign for Obama’s youth-vote machine.
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Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan as his 2012 running mate — energizing the GOP base while handing Democrats the potent attack line of the Ryan Budget.
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The 2012 speculation that Obama might swap Biden for Hillary Clinton as his running mate — the electoral logic, the arguments against, and why it never
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April 2012 polls briefly showed Mitt Romney closing the gender gap with women voters. The movement, the spin, and what November actually delivered.
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The Washington Post's May 2012 report on Mitt Romney's Cranbrook hair-cutting incident raised questions about memory, cruelty, and what adolescence tells us
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Bundler Abake Assongba raised $50,000 for Obama's re-election — then was accused of defrauding a businessman of $650,000 and impersonating a bank official.
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When audience members fainted at Barack Obama's rallies, his response was unglamorous and dad-like: eat and drink before you come. Why the small moments worked.
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After the August 2011 debt-ceiling debacle, Obama's approval sagged — and Democrats in tough districts started keeping their distance.
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Sony set Kathryn Bigelow's bin Laden film for October 12, 2012 — weeks before the election — after hosting an Obama fundraiser.
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Boston Globe documents revealed Barack Obama Sr. was pushed out of Harvard in 1964 — complicating the family history the president had written about.
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Velma Hart told Obama at a town hall she was ‘exhausted’ defending him. Months later she lost her job. On what happened — and what didn’t get proven.
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Obama spent three days in India and skipped Pakistan. Islamabad's aggrieved reaction was equal parts theatre and genuine insecurity.
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Fresh off his midterm 'shellacking,' Obama landed in Mumbai in November 2010 — selling India to American business, and American business to himself.
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Does Barack Obama feel the economic pain of ordinary Americans? An editorial look at the empathy gap between his rhetoric and lived reality in 2010.
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