Obama's travels carry a touch of blue

PHILIP ELLIOTT Associated Press Writer PITTSBURGH

For President Barack Obama, it's almost as if the election campaign never ended. Just look at his travel schedule. The same states that Obama targeted to win the White House are seeing an awful lot of the president, Vice President Joe Biden and top Cabinet officials. Only this year, the taxpayers are footing the multimillion-dollar tab for the trips, and Obama officials are delivering wheelbarrows of economic stimulus money also compliments of taxpayers. An Associated Press review of administration travel records shows that three of every four...