Obama Rerun

Recently, both the president and the first lady have described their family’s average-Joe struggles.

Research suggests the Obama campaign might be better off focusing on the Dow than the unemployment rate.

Obama's campaign said Santorum would have to shut down the government to match Obama on deficit reduction

President Obama's fortunes have improved, but the election will be determined in 12 swing states with troubled economies.

President Obama started, ended and filled his day Thursday with fundraising stops in California. 

SAN FRANCISCO — President Obama had a chance to use his pipes and sing another Al Green tune at a fundraiser Thursday night but he passed up the opportunity.

Obama — who made headlines last month for singing the first line of Green's popular hit "Let's Stay Together," at the famed Apollo Theater in New York — could have sung a duet with Green, who attended a fundraiser here on Thursday night.

The nod by Team Obama gave a clarion call of sorts to donors, who signaled they would be more than happy to contribute.

The improving economy has turned President Obama's fortunes around in New Hampshire, according to a new WMUR Granite State Poll.

Some 51 percent of respondents now approve of Obama's job performance, up 10 points since October. Good news on the economy seem to be driving the change, with the percentage of people who think the country is on the wrong track dropping from 70 percent to 50 percent.

That shift translates to votes: Obama would beat New Hampshire primary winner Mitt Romney by 10 points, according to the poll. Obama would beat Ron Paul by 8 and Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum by more than 20.

The poll of 527 adults was conducted Jan. 25 through Feb. 2, before Friday's jobs numbers came out showing a dip in the unemployment rate for the fifth month in a row, down to 8.3 percent.

President Obama is taking subliminal shots at Mitt Romney, over and over again.

President Obama said Tuesday night that he is convinced the nation is on the right track but the road to his reelection will be a "tough" one. 

The president said his campaign would be challenged by the "economic reality" but "not because of the ideas of the other side."

Speaking to an intimate crowd of donors who paid more than $35,000 per couple to attend the fundraiser, Obama acknowledged that many Americans have gone through "three years of really tough times."

"They don't experience the economy in some abstract way,” Obama said, speaking at the Maryland home of Stewart Bainum, the chairman of Choice Hotels International. “They experience it in terms of not being able to find a job, or their house being underwater, or their kids having to come back, even after they've gotten a college education, in tens of thousands of dollars in debt and still not being able to find a job.