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Mandatory Voting? President Obama Says It
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Pres. Obama Has Kentucky Over Villanova In His Chalky NCAA Tournament Bracket
ing Xavier. But after the sec- ond round, Pres. Obama’s bracket gets very chalky. He has 10th-seeded Davidson reaching the Sweet 16 out of the South Region, but in the other three regions he goes straight chalk, with the top four seeded teams reaching the region semifinals.
Pres. Obama has been just okay with his NCAA tournament brackets in the past, just like the rest of us:
Last year, Pres. Obama finished in 72.9 percentile overall, but missed on na- tional champion Connecti- cut (he had Michigan State beating Louisville in title game). His best finish since becoming president was in 2011, when he was in the 87.4 percentile despite pick- ing Kansas to win the na- tional title (Connecticut did that year as well).
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Just like nearly everyone else, President Obama thinks Kentucky will be- come the first team to go un- defeated and win the national title since Indiana in 1976.
Pres. Obama released his bracket Wednesday on ESPN, just as he’s done in past years. He has the Wild- cats beating another set of Wildcats — Villanova — in the title game.
As far as upsets go, Pres. Obama is clearly on the No. 12 train as he has Buffalo upsetting fifth-seeded West Virginia in the Midwest Re- gion and No. 12 Wyoming over No. 5 Northern Iowa in the East Region. And per- haps spurred by Ole Miss’s comeback victory over BYU in the play-in game Tuesday night, the President also has the 11th-seeded Rebels beat-
President Obama praised compulsory voting Wednesday, mentioning Australia, which fines citizens who don't go to the polls.
Wednesday in Cleveland, Ohio, President Obama is announced nearly $500 mil- lion in public-private invest- ment to strengthen American manufacturing by investing in cutting-edge technologies through a new, textiles-focused manufactur- ing institute competition led by the Department of De- fense, and by sharpening the capabilities of small manu- facturers through Manufac- turing Extension Partnership competitions in 12 states. The White House, as detailed in a new report, is also launching a Supply Chain In- novation Initiative focused on building public-private partnerships to strengthen the small U. S. manufactur- ers that anchor the nation's supply chains.
With the goals of creating jobs and strengthening America's leadership in ad- vanced manufacturing tech- nology, the President's fiscal year 2016 budget provides the resources to double the number of manufacturing in- novation institutes nation- wide to 16 by the end of 2016 and fulfills the President's goal of building a network of up to 45 institutes over the decade. In contrast, the House Republican Budget released yesterday propose to sequester funding and eliminate the Manufacturing Extension Partnership, put- ting at risk critical invest- ments in advanced manufacturing, workforce development and training, and innovation proposed in the President's budget.
After a decade of decline in the 2000s when 40 percent of all large factories closed their doors, American manu- facturing is adding jobs at its fastest rate in decades, with 877,000 new manufacturing jobs created since February 2010. Ohio alone has added nearly 70,000 manufactur- ing jobs over that period. Manufacturing production is up by almost a third since the recession and the number of factories manufacturing across the United States is growing for the first time since the 1990s.
WASHINGTON -- They say the only two things that are certain in life are death and taxes. President Barack Obama wants to add one more: voting.
Pres. Obama floated the idea of mandatory voting in the U. S. while speaking to a civic group in Cleveland on Wednesday. Asked about the corrosive influence of money in U. S. elections, Pres. Obama digressed into the related topic of voting rights and said the U. S. should be making it easier - not harder- for people to vote.
Just ask Australia, where citizens have no choice but to vote, the president said.
"If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country," Pres. Obama said, calling it potentially transformative. Not only that, Pres. Obama said, but
universal voting would "counteract money more than anything."
Disproportionately, Amer- icans who skip the polls on Election Day are younger, lower-income and more likely to be immigrants or minorities, Pres. Obama said. "There's a reason why some folks try to keep them away from the polls," he said in a veiled reference to efforts in a number of Republican- led states to make it harder for people to vote.
Statistically speaking, Pres. Obama is correct. Less than 37 percent of eligi- ble voters cast ballots in the 2014 midterms, according to the United States Election Project. And a Pew Research Center study found that those avoiding the polls in 2014 tended to be younger, poorer, less educated and more racially diverse.
Missouri Man Charged With Threatening To Shoot
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A central Missouri man is facing a federal charge for allegedly threatening to shoot President Barack Obama.
Twenty-four-year-old Cameron Stout, of Stover, was charged Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Jefferson City with making threats against the president.
An affidavit from a Secret Service agent says Stout had several conversations during the past week with a confidential informant who is a former Aryan Nation member about plans to kill the president.
Court documents say Stout made diagrams, charted wind speed and dis- tance and even looked for a high-powered rifle so he could shoot and kill Presi- dent Obama either in
Washington, D.C., or when the president visited Kansas City.
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conversa- CAMERON tions be- STOUT tween Stout
and the informant were recorded, authorities say Stout stated to the inform- ant: “If you had contact with the people you say you had contact with, I could kill the President of the U. S. and then we storm Washington, and then we take over the country that our forefathers created.”
Court documents also re- veal Stout said, ‘I know that it can happen and I know that I can get away with it, but I know that it needs to be executed a certain way.”
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