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1. Passed Health Care Reform: After five presidents over a century failed to create universal health insurance, signed the Affordable Care Act (2010). It will cover 32 million uninsured Americans beginning in 2014 and mandates a suite of experimental measures to cut health care cost growth, the number one cause of America’s long-term fiscal problems. 2. Passed the Stimulus: Signed $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009 to spur economic growth amid greatest recession since the Great Depression. Weeks after stimulus went into effect, unemployment claims began to subside. Twelve months later, the private sector began producing more jobs than it was losing, and it has continued to do so for twenty-three straight months, creating a total of nearly 3.7 million new private-sector jobs. 3. Passed Wall Street Reform: Signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (2010) to re-regulate the financial sector after its practices caused the Grea

During the 2008 Presidential Campaign, there were rumors Barack Obama was a Muslim. Obama denied these rumors and claimed he is a Christian. He did attend a Chicago church led by the radical Rev. Wright for 20 years. There was a strong attempt to debunk the "Obama is a Muslim" rumor. During this time period, AP ran a story supporting Obama's claim to be a Christian and identifying his Paternal Grandmother as a Christian. Obama's grandfather had converted to Islam from Roman Catholicism and taken the name Hussein, Sarah Obama said, but his children had inherited only the name, not the religion. Each person should be able to choose how they worshipped, she said. Now, we learn Obama's Grandmother has arrived in Saudi Arabia for the 'Hajj.' The 'Hajj' is a holy pilgrimage to Mecca all Muslims are required to make and is one of the five pillars of Islam. Mecca, 25 Nov. (AKI) - The grandmother of US president Barack Obama has arrived in Saudi A

President Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney are tied with only a week left before election day, according to the latest Washington Post /ABC News daily tracking poll. The new poll finds each candidate receiving support from 49 percent of likely voters. That represents a 1-point bump for the president, who trailed Romney 49-48 in Sunday’s numbers. Romney also has the edge among independent voters who back him 53 to 43 for the president. http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/polls/264743-poll-romney-obama-locked-in-49-49-tie ELECTION 2012 TRACKING JavaScript required to view full data. Oct 22-28, 2012 – Tracking suspended as of Monday, Oct. 29 due to effects of Superstorm Sandy REGISTERED VOTERS CHANGE Obama 48% - Romney 48% +1 LIKELY VOTERS CHANGE Romney 51% +1 Obama 46%   - http://www.gallup.com/poll/election.aspx  

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President Barack Obama picked up the endorsement of The New York Times on Saturday, a decision the paper's editorial board said was due to administration policies that have placed the economy on the path to recovery, the passage of landmark health care reform, the advocating of women's rights and a foreign policy agenda that has kept unstable regions from combustion -- all accomplished, the board argues, in the face of an "ideological assault" from the Republican Party. The endorsement is hardly unexpected but is significant nonetheless coming from one of the most influential papers in the United States. The Times' liberal-leaning editorial page backed Obama in 2008 and has, throughout the 2012 cycle, painted a stark contrast between the president's vision and the policy proposals of his opponent, GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. That choice is emphatically laid out in Saturday's editorial, "Barack Obama for Re-Election," in which the Ti