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The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), one of the nation’s largest trade associations, launched a multi-state campaign Wednesday to oppose increasing energy taxes. (more)

The oil spill in the Gulf may be mostly out of the headlines now but Louisiana voters aren’t getting any less mad at Barack Obama about his handling of it. Only 32% give Obama good marks for his actions in the aftermath of the spill, while 61% disapprove. (more)

A conservative group has been banned from holding a rally at Illinois’s Old State Capitol because the site prohibits political demonstrations — yet it’s the same place where President Obama announced his run for president and later, his choice of Joe Biden for vice president. (more)

I interviewed Roger Stone, master of the political arts, in October, 2008, as things were looking pretty sorry for my Republicans. (more)

Two years after his coattails helped sweep two dozen Democrats into office, President Obama is proving more a boon to Republicans than to Democrats during the midterm elections. His poll numbers are so morose that Democrats are planning ways to avoid his shadow, while Republicans plot strategies aimed at tying Obama to every incumbent member of Congress they can. (more)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said an Islamic center shouldn’t be built near the site of the 9/11 attacks. (more)

He’s never been shied away from showing off his toned physique. (more)

It’s 81 days to the election. Expect many of them to be filled with the explanations Democrats are now serving up as to why Nov. 2 is likely to be a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day. (more)

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Cash-strapped states are one signature away from getting $26 billion in federal funds to shore up their budgets. (more)

President Obama Friday flew Marine One from the White House less than six miles to Northwest DC. (more)

Chicago, Illinois (CNN) — President Obama will display his administration’s high hopes for the U.S. auto industry when he visits a Ford plant in Chicago on Thursday. (more)

PRINCETON, NJ — President Obama’s job approval rating averaged 88% among blacks and 38% among whites in July, a 50-percentage-point difference that has been consistent in recent months but is much larger than in the initial months of the Obama presidency. Obama’s job approval ratings among blacks, whites, and Hispanics in July are all at their lowest levels to date, although the overwhelming majority of blacks still approve. (more)

President Obama’s ambitious agenda to curb nuclear weapons during his term has to a large extent stalled as he struggles to assemble a bipartisan coalition in the Senate to approve his arms control treaty with Russia. (more)

WASHINGTON — If you listen to the mythology of Washington conservatives, then you might think the close circle of Chicagoans who run the White House are masters of a modern political machine, tough-minded enforcers of what Sean Connery’s character in “The Untouchables” called “the Chicago way.” (more)

Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) — Plans to reduce the number of U.S. troops in Iraq to 50,000 by the end of this month are on schedule, according to a prepared speech President Obama is scheduled to deliver Monday. (more)

President Obama criticized what he called “the ‘just say no’ crowd in Washington” for their opposition to his decision last March to bail out U.S. auto companies. (more)

With less than 100 days until November’s midterm elections, it appears that President Barack Obama is picking up the pace when it comes to helping out his party with fundraising. (more)

President Obama will travel to New Jersey on Wednesday as part of an effort to refute Republican assertions that he is anti-business. (more)

The House on Tuesday approved spending an additional $37 billion on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, overcoming the opposition of some Democrats who have concluded that the Afghan conflict is unwinnable. (more)

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s once solid support among Hispanics is showing a few cracks, a troubling sign for Democrats desperate to get this critical constituency excited about helping the party hold onto Congress in November’s election. (more)