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Susan Crabtree was a reporter for The Washington Times.

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President Obama speaks Aug. 28, 2012, during a campaign event at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. (Associated Press)

Campus tour brings Obama to University of Virginia

President Obama is bringing his counter-GOP convention tour Wednesday to the dead-heat battle for Virginia, a state where he enjoyed a historic win in 2008 but where he and fellow Democrats have faced a series of obstacles and setbacks ever since.

August 28, 2012
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.’s use of FBI planes for travel is the subject of a letter to the FBI director from GOP lawmakers questioning whether the number and nature of his flights amount to misuse. (Associated Press)

Lawmakers ask if Holder’s use of FBI planes abuses privilege

Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, wants answers about whether Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and other senior Justice Department officials misused FBI aircraft, hindering the agency's investigations and ignoring a White House order to cut travel costs.

August 23, 2012
President Obama speaks in the White House briefing room in Washington on Monday, Aug. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama to Akin: ‘Rape is rape’

President Obama condemned Rep. W. Todd Akin, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Missouri, for asserting that "legitimate rape" victims rarely get pregnant, and he used the incident to blast GOP rival Mitt Romney's and running mate Rep. Paul Ryan's views on abortion.

August 20, 2012
Rep. W. Todd Akin, Missouri Republican, is under heavy pressure from his own political party to quit the race for the U.S. Senate after insensitive remarks he made regarding rape and abortion. (Associated Press)

GOP tries 
to oust 
Akin 
after rape 
remarks

Top Republicans on Monday backed away from their Senate candidate in Missouri and party leaders threatened to revoke financial support if he doesn't withdraw from the race after his comments about rape and abortion, but Rep. W. Todd Akin insisted he is in to stay.

August 20, 2012
“The president seems to be running just to hang on to power. I think he’ll do anything in his power to try and get re-elected. These personal attacks, I think, are demeaning to the office of the White House.” — Mitt Romney (Associated Press)

Romney seeks to elevate tone of debate

Flashing anger at the direction the presidential campaign has taken, Mitt Romney on Wednesday challenged President Obama to elevate the debate after a month in which Democratic operatives and the Obama campaign charged Mr. Romney was a felon and connected him to a woman's cancer death.

August 15, 2012
** FILE ** President Obama speaks Aug. 13, 2012, during a campaign stop in Council Bluffs, Iowa. (Associated Press)

Obama tries to recapture Iowa magic

Hoping to recapture some of the same electricity that fueled his 2008 victory, President Obama has spent the last three days in Iowa on a nostalgia tour, reminding voters how they helped catapult him into the White House and asking them to do it again in November.

August 15, 2012
President Obama speaks Aug. 15, 2012, during a campaign stop at the Alliant Energy Amphitheater in Dubuque, Iowa. The president is on a three-day campaign bus tour through the state. (Associated Press)

Obama labels Romney tax plan ‘snake oil’

In a campaign that has become nastier by the day, President Obama ratcheted up his rhetoric against Mitt Romney's economic policies Wednesday, labeling his tax plan "trickle-down snake oil."

August 15, 2012
President Obama speaks Aug. 14, 2012, during a campaign event at the Nelson Pioneer Farm & Museum in Oskaloosa, Iowa, during a three-day campaign bus tour through Iowa. (Associated Press)

In Iowa, Obama slams Romney on wind energy cuts

Nationally, the 2012 presidential race is about big issues — Medicare, immigration and the federal budget. But in Iowa, a state that could swing the election toward either presidential candidate, President Obama has gone local, attempting to create a wedge issue by supporting wind-energy tax credits.

August 14, 2012
“I’m told Gov. Romney’s new running mate might be around Iowa these next few days, and he’s one of those leaders of Congress standing in the way” of a farm bill. (Associated Press)

Obama, Ryan take longtime rift to the next level

President Obama and Mitt Romney's vice-presidential pick, Paul Ryan, have never seen eye to eye when it comes to policy, and now that the congressman from Wisconsin is on the GOP ticket, Mr. Obama is wasting no time in going after the Republicans' popular budget man.

August 13, 2012
President Obama talks to supporters Aug, 9, 2012, during a campaign rally at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colo. (Associated Press)

Obama team deflecting criticism by citing Bush

For an administration that touts its desire to make a clean break with its predecessor, President Obama and his aides have taken to citing President George W. Bush's White House tenure several times lately when challenged on the same type of indiscretions they once condemned.

August 9, 2012
President Barack Obama talks abut taxes, Friday, Aug. 3, 2012, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Obama says too many people still out of work

President Obama is highlighting the positive numbers in Friday's employment report, taking credit for 29 straight months of slow-but-steady job increases even as he concedes that too many Americans are still out of work.

August 3, 2012
In this Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2012 photo, a Syrian medic helps a wounded man in Maarat Misrin, Idlib province, northern Syria. (AP Photo)

U.S. sends $12M in new aid for Syrian refugees

The Obama administration is providing $12 million in new humanitarian assistance to help hundreds of thousands of displaced or suffering Syrian civilians as civil war continues to rage between rebels and the Assad regime.

August 2, 2012
**FILE** Rep. Maxine Waters, California Democrat, speaks Feb. 8, 2011, during a news conference on Capitol Hill. (Associated Press)

Waters’ case faces another delay

The House has prolonged its three-year ethics investigation of Rep. Maxine Waters, a Democrat from California, yet again but is pledging to try to wrap up the case by the end of the year.

August 2, 2012
** FILE ** President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, July 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama aide sent lobbyists private email

With three months to go before Election Day, President Obama's campaign manager faced a fusillade of questions Wednesday about whether he deliberately skirted disclosure rules during his time as deputy White House chief of staff, undermining the administration's claim to be "the most transparent administration in history."

August 1, 2012
Rep. Laura Richardson, who is running for the Senate in California, is seen here in a 2012 photograph provided by her campaign. (Associated Press)

Ethics panel finds Richardson guilty, fines her $10K

The House Ethics Committee has found Rep. Laura Richardson guilty of violating rules that prohibit pressuring her staff to perform campaign work and personal errands and is recommending that the House issue a reprimand and fine her $10,000.

August 1, 2012