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Obama is still on top when it comes to homeowners, a recent survey found. When asked which presidential nominee they would vote for if the election were today, homeowners picked Obama over his GOP challengers with a wide margin, according to HomeGain’s 4th Quarter Home Values survey. A solid 41 percent of homeowners would vote [...]

President Obama cast himself as the savior of the middle class Tuesday in a policy and political battle with Republicans who, he said, want to let Americans “fend for themselves.” In a 56-minute speech rife with historical overtones, Obama said the rich are getting richer while the middle class is losing ground, leading to inordinate [...]

Portraying himself as a champion of the middle class, President Barack Obama invoked the threat of outsourcing to India and China to launch the populist themes of his 2012 re-election campaign. “Today, even higher-skilled jobs, like accountants and middle management can be outsourced to countries like China or India,” he said in Osawatomie, Kansas, Tuesday [...]

Stephen Harper heads to the White House on Wednesday to unveil a long-awaited border security agreement with U.S. President Barack Obama, but the visit comes at a particularly tense moment in Canada-U.S. relations as TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline saga rages on. The prime minister and Obama discussed Keystone at length during the recent APEC summit [...]