ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Like him or not, his supporters are passionate, devoted and courageous and I don't see Ron Paul going anywhere any time soon. In a report from USA Today, readers can see the chart showing how consistently Rep. Ron Paul sees more results in fundraising than other candidates. This time, in North Dakota, he even beat out President Barack Obama. Overall, on the same chart, Paul outperforms Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum.

AP - Long expecting to face Mitt Romney in the fall, President Barack Obama's campaign team has shifted gears in recent days to consider the possibility his GOP opponent will instead be Rick Santorum.

AP - Two powerful House Republicans accused President Barack Obama of jeopardizing Israel's security with a "record low" budget request for a cooperative U.S.-Israeli missile defense program. The election-year claim fails to take into account the billions the administration wants in aid for the Mideast ally and ignores a few Washington realities.

AP - President Barack Obama says the painful restructuring of America's manufacturing base means a lot of jobs are gone forever, but not that Americans must "settle for a lesser future."

AP - The $143 billion payroll tax cut won by President Barack Obama may be the last significant measure he receives from a deeply divided Congress that promises to only get more polarized as Election Day approaches.

AP - President Barack Obama pulled in $29.1 million for his re-election campaign and the Democratic Party in January, raising his total for this election cycle to about $250 million.

AP - President Barack Obama on Friday called for more steps to help U.S. companies compete overseas, standing in front of an enormous Boeing Dreamliner to summon a bright future for American manufacturing and exports.

AP - President Barack Obama pulled in $29.1 million for his re-election campaign and the Democratic Party in January, raising his total for this election cycle to about $250 million.

ContributorNetwork - The political climate is becoming sunnier for President Barack Obama, according to a new CNN/ORC International poll.

AP - Congress swiftly approved legislation Friday renewing a payroll tax cut for 160 million American workers and jobless benefits for millions more, backing the main items on President Barack Obama's jobs agenda in a rare burst of Washington bipartisanship.

AP - Congress has passed legislation renewing a payroll tax cut for 160 million workers and jobless benefits for millions more, backing the main items on President Barack Obama's jobs agenda in a rare burst of Washington bipartisanship.

AP - Two Air Force F-16 fighters intercepted a privately owned Cessna airplane that entered the same Los Angeles airspace as Marine One on Thursday as the helicopter was ferrying President Barack Obama.

ContributorNetwork - KABC followed President Barack Obama on his fundraising trip through the Southland. Stops included affluent coastal communities, such as Corona del Mar, and the Westwood district's exclusive Holmby Hills. From there, here will travel on to the Bay Area, where supporters are planning fundraising events for his re-election campaign. How are the president's fundraising efforts going in the Golden State?

Reuters - Two U.S. F-16 fighter jets intercepted a small plane that infringed on restricted airspace around President Barack Obama's helicopter on Thursday in the vicinity of Los Angeles International Airport, a military spokesman said.

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | President Barack Obama is considering making the gamble of following the E.U. in the pursuit of either knocking Iran out of SWIFT or forcing the financial clearing house to place restrictions on the nation over their nuclear program, according to Fox News. I see a success for the president over Iran as the worst nightmare for Republicans right now. Getting Iran to back down from their nuclear program is the strongest slim chance the president has.

AP - President Barack Obama is preaching an economic message aimed at the 99 percent and raising campaign cash among the 1 percent, walking an election year tight rope complicated by the need for hundreds of millions of dollars at a time of high unemployment.

Reuters - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama's campaign sparred on Thursday over whether the White House is too weak on China, a hot topic that is gaining prominence ahead of November's U.S. election.

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | While Catholics continue to sauté Barack Obama in the contraception mandate frying pan, a certain Tweet -- fired off by his campaign manager, Jim Messina -- has landed the already scorched president smack in the middle of a "chimichanga" fire.

AP - Mitt Romney says they're "job creators" and vows to come to their aid as president. Newt Gingrich visited them on his "jobs and growth" bus tour. President Barack Obama calls them "the engine of our economy."

Reuters - President Barack Obama urged lawmakers on Thursday to grant him the power to reform and consolidate federal agencies, sending a bill to Congress that would help him fend off election-year charges by Republicans that he favors big government.

AP - President Barack Obama and former first lady Laura Bush will celebrate the groundbreaking for a new national museum showcasing black life, art and history on the National Mall.

Reuters - President Barack Obama traveled to California on Wednesday in the wake of an anti-piracy fight that pitted Hollywood against Silicon Valley, looking to smooth feathers and charm both sectors that are vital to his re-election campaign.

When Barack Obama won in 2008, the minority share stood at 26 percent, more than double. How much more it grows, if at all, looms as one of the critical variables for 2012. The Obama camp is beginning to zero in on its projection.

President Barack Obama recently assured El Salvador that the United States would not deport the more than 200,000 Salvadorans residing illegally in the United States. As the election nears, and the president looks to court Hispanic voters, he has also created a new position of “public advocate” for illegal immigrants, whose duties would appear to be advocating that millions circumvent, rather than follow, current federal law.

The administration has also said it will focus its enforcement only on those who have committed crimes — with the implicit understanding that it is no longer a crime to illegally enter and reside in the United States. Obama has caricatured those supporting completion of a fence on the border as wanting to place alligators in the Rio Grande.

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