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ABC News: Politics

Voters Disillusioned With Obama and Romney Policies
Wed, 16 May 2012 08:37:33 -0400
By MICHAEL FALCONE (@michaelpfalcone) and AMY WALTER (@amyewalter) NOTABLES: SHADOW BOXING: Both President Obama and Mitt Romney have a common foe: neither receives majority support for some of their own signature policy proposals, new ABC News-Washington Post polling suggests. That likely means one thing: more...

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Who's Up in the GOP Veepstakes
Wed, 16 May 2012 10:06:16 -0400
Jonathan Karl assesses who is up and who is down in the ongoing silent campaign to be Mitt Romney's running mate.

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The Note's Must-Reads for Thursday May 17, 2012
Thu, 17 May 2012 03:28:03 -0400
The Note’s Must-Reads are a round-up of today’s political headlines and stories from ABC News and the top U.S. newspapers. Posted Monday through Friday right here at www.abcnews.com Compiled by ABC News’ Carrie Halperin, Amanda Van Allen and Ben Waldron MITT ROMNEY USA Today’s Catalina Camia: “Mitt...

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Dinner for 2? Romney Spox Throws a Question at Biden at Dinner Run-In
Wed, 16 May 2012 22:42:56 -0400
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — One of Mitt Romney’s spokesmen, in Ohio to attend Vice President’s Joe Biden’s speech today in nearby Youngstown, Ohio, got some unexpected one-on-one time with the veep tonight when he was seated next to him at dinner, where he apparently proceeded to...

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Obama administration denies role in arming Syrian rebels
Wed, 16 May 2012 19:47:44 -0400
President Barack Obama's administration has repeatedly said over the past few months that it won't ship arms to Syria's outgunned opposition, warning that doing so will only escalate the bloody conflict there. But the Washington Post reported Wednesday that the U.S. has been helping to coordinate shipments of "more and better weapons" to the rebels, with Persian Gulf nations picking up the tab. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland denied that Washington was playing any role in arming the rebels. "With regard to any assertions with regard to lethal (aid), we are not involved in that," she said at her daily briefing. "The United States has made a decision to provide nonlethal support to civilian members of the opposition.  This is things like medical equipment.  This is communications, things to help them, first of all, deal with the humanitarian aspects but also to help them to communicate better so that they can plan and be ready for the period of...

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Even with Calculators on the Floor, the Senate Still Comes Up With a Zero on the Budget
Wed, 16 May 2012 19:08:49 -0400
You would have thought that starting the day with a vote permitting the use of calculators on the Senate floor today was a good sign that it could potentially be a productive day for the U.S. senators. But you would have been mistaken. The Senate...

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House OKs Violence Against Women Act
Wed, 16 May 2012 18:51:48 -0400
The House voted this evening to approve the Republican version of the Violence Against Women Act, also known as VAWA, 222-205. The bill would have failed had it not won the support of six Democrats. Twenty-three Republicans voted against the bill with most of the...

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House and Senate Unanimously Reject Obama Budgets - Or Do They?
Wed, 16 May 2012 18:48:48 -0400
The White House today reacted to news that representations of President Obama’s budget had been voted down by the House and Senate by decrying the introduction of the amendments, by Republicans, as “gimmicks.” “Gimmicks are not solutions,” White House press secretary Jay Carney emailed to...

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A Bunch of Bologna, Debt and Lunch, Edwards Rests, Karl's VP Line (PM Note)
Wed, 16 May 2012 18:31:48 -0400
Mary Kennedy, Ex-Wife or RFK Jr., Dies – http://abcn.ws/LTDMaR Senate Rejects House Budge; House Rejects Obama Budget Plan – http://abcn.ws/K8vtq5 But everyone gets a sandwich. A Bunch of Bologna – Call it the sandwich summit, or Hoagie Diplomacy or Obama buys and Boehner flies or...

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Pentagon Faces New Enemy: 10,000 Honey Bees
Wed, 16 May 2012 18:21:48 -0400
There were chuckles all around the Pentagon today as an alert notice appeared on computers warning buidling employees a swarm of bees had parked themsleves outside an entrance to the building.  By coincidence, a short time later a fire alarm led to the evacuation of...

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Romney Defends Himself Over Bain Attacks for First Time During Radio Hit
Wed, 16 May 2012 17:54:47 -0400
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Mitt Romney responded for the first time today to attacks made by Democrats this week criticizing his time at Bain Capital, dubbing the attacks “off target” while shifting the focus to the president and accusing him of losing 100,000 jobs in the...

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Watch: Obama Awards Medal of Honor to Vietnam Hero
Wed, 16 May 2012 19:02:17 -0400
President posthumously honors soldier killed in Cambodia during Vietnam War.

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Watch: Bees Swarm the Pentagon
Wed, 16 May 2012 19:04:38 -0400
Specialists called in to contain the buzz.

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Watch: Bill Bradley on New York Knicks' 'Linsanity'
Wed, 16 May 2012 17:43:05 -0400
"Draft character, not statistics," says the former senator and NBA Hall of Famer

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Watch: Joe Biden: GOP 'Just Don't Get It'
Wed, 16 May 2012 16:21:25 -0400
The vice president rails against Republicans at speech in Ohio.

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Watch: 'The View' Quizzes Obama on Pop Culture
Tue, 15 May 2012 13:56:46 -0400
The co-hosts test the president on the Kardashians, "Fifty Shades" and comics.

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Watch: Obama on 'The View': Parenting Approach
Tue, 15 May 2012 13:56:22 -0400
The president discusses daughters' sports, cell phones and social networking.

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Watch: Obama's 'View' on Economy: 'Still Got Work to Do'
Tue, 15 May 2012 13:55:49 -0400
The president gives himself an incomplete when asked to grade his efforts.

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Watch: Obama on 'The View': Campaign Is 'Tight'
Tue, 15 May 2012 13:55:22 -0400
The president says job, housing struggles make for tough environment.

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Watch: Obama Speaks at LGBT Fundraiser
Tue, 15 May 2012 10:22:27 -0400
The president attends New York event hosted by Ricky Martin.

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Watch: President Obama Speaks to Barnard Graduates
Tue, 15 May 2012 10:22:38 -0400
Obama: Mentor young girls to ignore cultural obsession over beauty and fashion.

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 Word of the day 

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 17, 2012 is:

maffick • \MAF-ik\ • verb
: to celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior

Examples:
Fans mafficked for hours outside the stadium, celebrating the team's dramatic victory in the division championship.

"In half an hour, after the mildest of mafficking, the last visitors of the exhibition's last day had gone out of the gates and the staff began their final acts of closing up shop." — From an article in The Guardian (London), October 1, 2011

Did you know?
"Maffick" is an alteration of Mafeking Night, the British celebration of the lifting of the siege of a British military outpost during the South African War at the town of Mafikeng (also spelled Mafeking) on May 17, 1900. The South African War was fought between the British and the Afrikaners, who were Dutch and Huguenot settlers originally called Boers, over the right to govern frontier territories. Though the war did not end until 1902, the lifting of the siege of Mafikeng was a significant victory for the British because they held out against a larger Afrikaner force for 217 days until reinforcements could arrive. The rejoicing in British cities on news of the rescue produced "maffick," a word that was popular for a while, especially in journalistic writing, but is now relatively uncommon.