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Candidates names: Mitt Romney, Barack Obama

Current governmental or other position activities: Mitt is the governor of Massachusetts and Barack Obama is the President of the United States.

Political parties: Mitt Romney is a republican and Barack Obama is democrat

Home states: Mitt Romney was born in Michigan and Barack Obama was born in Hawaii

Brief Bio: Mitt Romney Is the Governor of Massachusetts, he was the 70th governor, he was born in Detroit, Michigan March 12, 1947, he is a Republican, and a American business man he is running to become president in 2012. Barack Obama is the Current president of the United States He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii August 4, 1961 he was the first African American president, He is a democrat, He is trying to be re elected in 2012 to become president again.

Positions on five key points **Guns**: Obama Not pushed for stricter gun laws as president. Romney opposes stricter gun control laws. **Foreign Policy**: Obama Wont strike Iran unless they show major threat. Romney wants to send troops to stop there nuclear production. **Debt**: Obama Fourth Straight year of trillion-dollar deficits is projected. Romney Defended 2008 bailout of financial institutions as a necessary step to avoid the systems collapse opposed to the auto bailout. **Economy**: Obama A deep recession that started in previous administration and gradual recovery. Romney lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budget, more trade deals to spur growth. **Education:** Obama Approved waivers of freeing states from the bush-era no child let behind grant. Romney Supported no child left behind grant.

Obama wants more government control and Romney wants more government control. Obama is placed more on the liberal side and Romney is placed more on the conservative side.

Obama has support from From Woman, Gays, minorities. Romney has support from the NRA, people that don't like abortion, middle class.

OpEd: Stimulus vote turned GOP into "party of No". (Sep 2010) New york times in response of Obama. In early January 2009, Mr. Obama [|began to lay out his plans] for a massive economic [|stimulus package], a bill meant to pump money into the economy to make up for the sudden, sharp contraction of spending by consumers and businesses. His initial outline called for a package in which about 40 percent of the total cost was devoted to tax cuts, an amount criticized by Senate Democrats as too high and by Congressional Republicans as too low. The plan included tax cuts for Americans making less than $200,000, a proposal that had been a centerpiece of Mr. Obama's campaign.

Romney Qoute on voting //"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what.""// //In return from ABC// "So our message of tax cuts doesn't connect. He'll be out there talking about tax cuts for the rich. I mean, that's what they sell every four years.

Interesting facts about Obama 1.Obama doesn’t like ice-cream. He worked in Baskin-Robbins as a teenager. That’s where his distaste for ice-cream comes from. 2.Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii but went to live in Indonesia with his mum when the [|parents] divorced. There he was introduced to dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper. 3. Obama is bi-racial. He was born to a [|Kenyan father and a white American mother]. In his book //Dreams From My Father// he writes that he barely noticed the racial difference between his mum and dad in his young age.

Interesting facts about Romney 1. He is a Mormon 2. Romney has promised to donate his salary to charity if elected president. 3. His first name is Willard

Romney in a speech:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMuU-EwcIzs Obama in a speech:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd8MFmUDbg4

Recent articles on Mitt Romney: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-01/mitt-romneys-missed-opportunity http://articles.cnn.com/2012-01-31/opinion/opinion_haynes-romney-learned-lesson_1_mitt-romney-palmetto-state-voters-cruise-control?_s=PM:OPINION http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/primaries/candidates/mitt-romney

Recent articles on Obama: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/03/us/politics/obama-plays-to-win-in-politics-and-everything-else.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/obama-thinks-war-avoided-american-idol-front-article-1.1183906

Articles on both: http://www.policymic.com/articles/17843/latest-presidential-polls-2012-obama-leads-romney-in-the-only-poll-that-matters

Polling for both candidates: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/president/

Obama's chances of winning: The analysis by political observers says Obama has a 79% chance of winning the election Romney's chances of winning: The analysis by political observers says Romney has a 21% chance of winning the election Even though the chances are bad for Romney to win the popular vote is thought to end up like in 2000 with one candidate getting more popular votes than the other but losing the election.