Amsellem Tells of Corruption & Deception in Shas
Rabbi Chaim Amsellem, who broke away from Shas and launched his Am Shalem Party interviewed with Israel’s TV’s Ulpan Shishi program which was aired on Friday night. The program was of course videoed during the week.
The rav explained how Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita is kept in the dark by those who run the party, addressed widespread corruption in Shas and proudly spoke of his platform, one that includes teaching chareidim the ‘core subjects’ to permit them to one day earn ...
Obama, Romney Virtually Tied 8 Days Before Election
President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney were virtually tied in a Reuters/Ipsos tracking poll released on Monday, with the Democrat leading by a single percentage point eight days before the Nov. 6 U.S. presidential election.
Obama leads Romney 48 percent to 47 percent, a 1 percentage point drop for Obama and 1 percentage point rise for Romney from Sunday's tracking poll - still within the daily online survey's 3.9 percentage point credibility interval for likely ...
Election 2012: Latest Ohio Poll: Romney 50 Percent Obama 48 Percent
The race for Ohio’s Electoral College votes remains very close, but now Mitt Romney now has a two-point advantage.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Ohio Voters shows Romney with 50% support to President Obama’s 48%. One percent (1%) likes some other candidate, while another one percent (1%) remains undecided.
Ohio remains a Toss-Up in the Rasmussen Reports Electoral College Projections. Based on the current projections, Romney would have to win Wisconsin if he ...
Two Top Posts In U.S. Law Enforcement Await Decisions By Obama Or Romney
The winner of the U.S. presidential election will have an opportunity to remake law enforcement with his choices for two top jobs - attorney general and FBI director - which could become vacant within months of each other in 2013.
Attorney General Eric Holder has not publicly ruled out serving at least part of a second term if President Barack Obama wins re-election on Nov. 6 and wants to keep him in place. Obama was to have filled the FBI job in 2011 but postponed the appointment, ...
Obama Campaign Fears Impact of Hurricane Sandy
A top aide to Barack Obama voiced fears Sunday that Hurricane Sandy could hurt the president's re-election chances by reducing turnout, as the impending storm forced both candidates to cancel campaign stops.
Republican challenger Mitt Romney received good news in two key swing states, winning the endorsement in Iowa of the main newspaper, the Des Moines Register, and tying Obama in a newly-released poll in all-important Ohio.
But nine days out from the nailbiter November 6 election, all eyes ...
Big Storm Scrambles Presidential Race Schedules
The big storm taking aim at the East Coast a little more than a week before the election has scrambled campaign plans, with Mitt Romney ditching Virginia to campaign Sunday with running mate Paul Ryan in Ohio and President Barack Obama moving up his departure for Florida.
In an extraordinarily tight race, Hurricane Sandy has forces the campaigns to toss out carefully mapped-out itineraries as the candidates work to maximize voter turnout while avoiding any suggestion they were putting ...
Obama Cancels Campaign Events to Monitor Storm
The White House says President Barack Obama is canceling campaign appearances in Northern Virginia on Monday and Colorado on Tuesday so he can monitor Hurricane Sandy. The storm is currently forecast to make landfall along the Eastern seaboard at that time.
Obama is still scheduled to make campaign visits to Orlando, Fla., and Youngstown, Ohio Monday before returning to the White House. Other changes to the campaign schedule will be announced as warranted.
The White House says Obama is ...
Rabbi Eliezer Melamed: Vote for Romney in US Presidential Election
Rabbi Eliezer Melamed of Yishuv Har Bracha, a prominent rabbinical voice in the dati leumi torani community is using his weekly column in the B’Sheva newspaper to call on persons eligible to vote in the United States presidential election to cast a vote for Governor Mitt Romney. He uses his column to detail the disappointment with President Barak Obama.
“There were tears in my eyes when I saw a picture of African Americans standing up with dignity at the avenue leading to the White ...
Gallup: Obama's Job Approval Drops 7 Points in 3 Days
In the most precipitous decline it has seen in more than a year, President Barack Obama's job approval rating has dropped 7 points in three days, according to Gallup.
In the three-day period ending on Oct. 23, says Gallup, 53 percent said they approved of the job Obama was doing and 42 percent said they did not.
On Oct. 24, that dropped to 51 percent who said they approved and 44 percent who said they do not.
On Oct. 25, it dropped again to 48 percent who said they approved and 47 percent ...
Romney Woos Florida Early Vote; Obama Eyes NH
Juggling politics and storm preparations, Mitt Romney dangled a plea for bipartisanship before early voters in Florida on Saturday as Barack Obama worked to nail down tiny New Hampshire's four electoral votes. Both campaigns scrambled to steer clear of a most unlikely October surprise, a superstorm barreling up the East Coast.
With just 10 days left in an extraordinarily tight race, Hurricane Sandy had both campaigns ripping up carefully mapped-out itineraries as they worked to maximize ...
Poll: U.S. Presidential Race Remains Effectively Tied
President Barack Obama holds a narrow lead of 1 percentage point over Republican Mitt Romney as the race for the White House remains effectively tied less than two weeks before the Nov. 6 election, according to a Reuters/Ipsos daily tracking poll released on Friday.
Obama leads Romney among likely voters by 47 percent to 46 percent, well within the online survey's credibility interval. Neither candidate has held a clear lead since shortly after their first presidential debate on Oct. ...
Presidential Election To Pass $2B Fundraising Mark
The 2012 presidential campaign was expected Thursday to pass the $2 billion mark in fundraising, according to accounting statements submitted to the government, thanks to an outpouring of cash from both ordinary citizens and the wealthiest Americans hoping to influence the selection of the country's next leader.
The eye-popping figure puts this election on track to be the costliest in history, fueled by a campaign finance system vastly altered by the proliferation of "super" political ...
Detroit News Editorial: Mitt Romney for President
Americans will be making two choices when they cast their presidential ballots on Nov. 6. They will be selecting the individual who will lead the nation over the next four years, a period that promises to be every bit as challenging as the past four. They also will be charting a long-term course for America.
It's a big deal decision between two honorable men with starkly different roadmaps.
President Barack Obama came into office in 2009 riding a wave of hope and change. Unfortunately, he ...
Obama Assails Romney in Bid for Women's Vote
A scratchy-voiced President Barack Obama powered through a sleepless drive to get his supporters to vote Thursday and planned to set an example by becoming the first president to cast his own ballot ahead of time.
With a new Associated Press-GfK poll showing that Republican Mitt Romney has erased Obama's 16-point advantage among women, the president tried to keep a GOP abortion controversy alive. The risers behind him stacked with female supporters, Obama made a veiled reference to Indiana ...
Again: Colin Powell Endorses Obama
Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell on Thursday endorsed Barack Obama in his bid for re-election, citing the Democratic president's efforts to wind down the war in Afghanistan and tackling terrorism.
"And so I think we ought to keep on the track that we are on," the Republican, who also backed Obama in 2008, told "CBS This Morning."
The move comes just days after Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney clashed over foreign policy in the third and last presidential debate ahead ...
President Obama Offers Glimpse of a Second Term
President Barack Obama predicted passage of immigration reform and a deficit-reduction deal, in a fresh glimpse of his second-term agenda, even as he fights for votes in the final stretch of the tight race before the Nov. 6 election.
In a newspaper interview released on Wednesday ahead of an eight-state campaigning blitz, Obama suggested Republicans were bolstering his re-election effort by alienating Hispanics.
He told the Des Moines Register he was confident that comprehensive ...
Obama Talks 2nd Term; Romney Zeroes In On Economy
President Barack Obama is confidently predicting speedy second-term agreement with Republicans to reduce federal deficits and overhaul immigration laws, commenting before setting out Wednesday on a 40-hour campaign marathon through battleground states that could decide whether he'll get the chance. Republican Mitt Romney looked to the Midwest for a breakthrough in a close race shadowed by a weak economy.
Romney declared, "We're going to get this economy cooking again," addressing a ...
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