Pennsylvania becomes major battleground for Obama in 2012
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 30th, 2011 5:34 am by HL
Pennsylvania becomes major battleground for Obama in 2012
The Obama campaign says it is working on an expanded electoral map in 2012, preparing for battle in so many places that it can afford to lose some of the big, traditional states he won four years ago. Pennsylvania is not one of those states.
As is clear from President Obama’s Wednesday visit to Scranton, some battlegrounds are more equal than others.
Contenders’ campaigns gain a new urgency
The up-in-the-air Republican presidential contest edged into a new phase Tuesday as the candidates returned to the campaign trail with the kind of urgency that accompanies this reality: In just five weeks, voters will begin to have their say.
The aspirants took their messages directly to voters across the crucial early voting states — Mitt Romney was in Florida, Newt Gingrich in South Carolina, and Rick Perry and Jon Huntsman campaigned across New Hampshire.
Federal government settles suit in fatal anthrax attacks
The U.S. government has agreed to pay $2.5 million to the family of a tabloid photo editor who died in the 2001 anthrax attacks, resolving a long-running lawsuit in which family members had accused the government of negligence.
In documents filed Monday in U.S. District Court in West Palm Beach, Fla., the Justice Department agreed to the settlement but did not admit liability in the death of Robert Stevens. Stevens, an employee of American Media, publisher of the National Enquirer and other tabloids, was exposed to the anthrax spores and died Oct. 5, 2001.
