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The Rose Garden: The New President Has Gifts, Will Travel

By Keith Koffler
Roll Call Staff
March 23, 2009, Midnight

President Barack Obama has been in office only a couple of months, and already he has embarked on the permanent campaign. Obama has swept through Florida, Colorado, Arizona and Ohio — not to mention a foray into nearby Virginia — all prize pieces of the electoral majority that he must assemble in 2012.

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February 9, 2012

Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently suspended her campaign for the presidency, speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9.

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