The writer, a Democrat, is the 44th president of the United States.

The writer, a Democrat, is the 44th president of the United States.

The writer, a Democrat, is the 44th president of the United States.

President Barack Obama made another bet on swing-state Ohio by flying in to Cleveland to announce his appointment of a former Buckeye State Democrat to run the federal government’s new far-reaching financial regulatory agency.

A vacationing President Barack Obama has nominated a Harvard University professor and a former Treasury official under President George H.W. Bush — a Democrat and a Republican — to the Federal Reserve Board.