Posts Tagged ‘Barack Obama’

Poll results show that 70.7 percent of students were satisfied with President Barack Obama's handling of the economy and 75.3 percent believe the economy will improve or stay the same over the next year. Full story

Steve Schmidt, who led the Republican campaign of U.S. Sen. John McCain, and David Plouffe, who led the Democratic campaign of Obama, discussed their experiences with candor and humor before an audience of about 500 people on Thursday, April 23, in Clayton Hall. Full story

Keynote addresses by Delaware Gov. Jack Markell and Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House of Representatives and founder of the Center for Health Transformation, anchored the program for a health sciences conference at the University of Delaware. Full story

As Delaware's statewide delegation looked on, President Obama addressed the nation last night in his first prime-time address to a joint session of Congress. The tone was a State of the Union speech in everything but name only, sparing the new president from having repeat the annual claim that “The state of our union is strong.” Full story