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Obama reelection campaign manager Jim Messina emceed an event for Obama campaign volunteers Sunday night that was headlined by a rock singer convicted of sexual battery on a college student in 1990.The popular rock group The Red Hot Chili Peppers played a concert at the House of Blues in Cleveland last night for about 1200 Obama for America supporters who volunteered time at Obama phone banks. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer:...On Sunday, the Cleveland Heights woman joined 1,200 Obama volunteers at the House of Blues to hear the band play a 45-minute set that included its anthem, "Under the Bridge,"...

A gauge that links the economy and votes in presidential elections suggests President Barack Obama's chances of winning a second term will be at risk if the recovery proceeds as forecasters expect. Plugging the latest forecasts into a model developed by Yale University economist Ray Fair yields the projection that President Obama will receive 48.6 % of the two-party vote next year. "It is close," Mr. Fair said. "It could go either way In The Wall Street Journal's most recent survey, economists said they expect the U.S. to grow at a moderate 3% pace through the third quarter of 2012...