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__Barack Obama __


 * President of the United States
 * Democrat
 * Born August 4, 1961in Waikiki, Hawaii

Barack Obama attended Occidental College and earned his bachlor’s from Columbia University and a law degree from Harvard University. He served in Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004 and was elected to the U.S Senate in 2005. He was named 44th president of the U.S in 2008, and became the first African-American U.S president in the history of the United States.

Key Issues:
 * Abortion (Protects a woman’s right to choose)
 * He is for the right to bear arms, but not war weapons being open to the public.

Political spectrum:
 * Liberal

Base of Support:
 * African Americans

Oppositions: NRA (national rifle association) []

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• He would have liked to have been an architect if he were not a politician • His favourite book is Moby-Dick by Herman Melville • He is left-handed – the sixth post-war president to be left-handed




 * Former governor of Massachusetts, now U.S candidate running for president
 * Republican
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Born March 12, 1947 in Detroit Michigan

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Mitt Romney was founded the investment firm Bain Capitol and later ran for the Massachusetts Senate in 1994 but was overruled by Ted Kennedy. Mitt took over the Salt Lake Organization a 2002 Olympic games. He became the governer of Massachusetts in 2003 and made a run for Republican nomination in the 2008 election, but lost to candidate John McCain. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Key Issues: <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Political Spectrum: <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Base of Support: <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Oppositions: <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Recent Quotes: <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Interesting Facts: <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Current polling: <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Links:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">He is focusing on helping to improve small businesses
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Romney being against abortion
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">He wants to keep the right to bear arms.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Conservative
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">NRA (national Rifle Association) Supports Mitt Romney
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Bank of America
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Wells Fargo
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">African Americans (mostly support Barack Obama)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> Hispanics
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">“America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.” **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">“When it comes to pinning blame, pin the tail on the donkeys.” **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">“Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.” **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">No one ever asked to see his birth certificate
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">He doesn’t hunt big game, but he loves hunting small game.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Mitt Romney refused to take his father’s trust fund money, he financed his way through college, and he donated his father’s inheritance to charity.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Has a 7 point lead over obama.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">54%-55%

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