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KSAZ
| 1 year ago
President Barack Obama capped off a two-day, three-state tour promoting an extension of low-interest federal student loans Wednesday with a speech at the University of Iowa. "Now is not the time to double interest rates on our student loans," Obama...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
The ad calls Romney the "$200 million man" and charges him with wanting to protect the oil industry's interests, a loaded accusation with gas prices already high and summer looming. "He's the $200 million man, and Big Oil's fingerprints are all over...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
Updated Good morning from The Oval, on a day when President Obama wraps up his two-day college tour and raises money for his campaign. The president wakes up in Denver, then boards Air Force One to head to the University of Iowa to talk about his...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
Senate Democrats are ready with an election-year bill preventing interest rates from rising for millions of college students with federal loans. Republicans are already balking at the way Democrats would cover its $5.9 billion price tag: boosting...
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Boston Globe
| 1 year ago
Sweeping all five primaries Tuesday was almost an afterthought as Mitt Romney took the stage in New Hampshire to deliberately, if unofficially, put the Republican primary campaign behind him and shift his focus to his general election battle with...
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The Columbus Dispatch
| 1 year ago
Congress needs to keep interest rates on student loans low so more Americans can afford college, learn the skills they need for a good job and clear a path to a comfortable middle-class life. Many local students and college leaders hope Obama...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney speaks in New Hampshire, on a night when he won five primaries and sealed the presidential nomination. Photograph: Jae C Hong/AP Mitt Romney finally declared the Republican presidential race over on Tuesday night after sweeping victories...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Describing his own struggle to pay off college debt and taking another dig at his likely White House rival's wealth, President Barack Obama sought on Tuesday to expand his popularity among young voters with a call to make education more affordable.
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
College education is one of the best investments America can make for our future, Obama said in Chapel Hill ...Obama and the presumptive Republican nominee, Mitt Romney , now agree that student loan rates should remain low. Both are, not...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Even though he spoke moments after Mitt Romney had promised a vigorous challenge against him in the fall, President Obama's message was little-changed as he spoke at a Colorado university campus Tuesday night. Pressing Congress to act to extend lower...
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The Dallas Morning News
| 1 year ago
A Text Size Carolyn Kaster/The Associated Press President Barack Obama waves as he arrives to speak at University of Colorado at Boulder Tuesday...For a president facing a tough re-election and a stubborn economy, there is no better amen corner, no...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
President Obama kicked off a two-day, three-stop tour of college campuses Tuesday with soaring speeches on student loan interest rates that quickly veered into an all-out appeal for students' support. His likely Republican opponent in November, Mitt...
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CNN
| 1 year ago
As it is, the University of North Carolina sophomore expects to graduate in a few years with $20,000 in debt. "I try not to think about it too much," said Balboni, "The last thing I want is to be financially dependent on my parents." Balboni is...
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News Press
| 1 year ago
President Barack Obama went after the college vote Tuesday, pitching cheaper student loans as he courted the one age group where he has a decided advantage over Republican rival Mitt Romney...Romney, too, has endorsed the idea, though its unclear...
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Acushnet Community News
| 1 year ago
President Barack Obama courted young voters today as he urged an audience of University of North Carolina students to oppose a scheduled hike in student loan interest rates. The young university crowd was receptive to the president's argument,...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
President Barack Obama sought to put himself in young Americans' shoes on Tuesday while campaigning in North Carolina, telling a crowd of college students he only finished paying off his student loans eight years ago. Share This Story In the first...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 1 year ago
N.C.The focus of the presidential race shifted this week to younger voters. President Barack Obama began a three-state trip Tuesday aimed at reigniting the enthusiasm he enjoyed on college campuses in 2008, a day after Mitt Romney argued that sour...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
President Barack Obama visited American college campuses on Tuesday, looking for support for his plan to hold down federal student loan rates. The president is appealing to young voters, who overwhelmingly supported him in the 2008 election.
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Education News
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney has plucked a campaign theme out of President Obama's arsenal by going against general GOP feeling and asking Congress to extend the federal subsidy on Stafford loans for college grads. Without the extension the 3.4% interest rate on...
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MarketWatch
| 1 year ago
President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney found some rare common ground Tuesday they both want Congress to take action to prevent a doubling in federal student loan interest rates. Unless Congress takes action by July 1,...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
Romney team brackets Obama on pitch to young voters Updated Updated 2:53 p.m. ET If President Obama is making an appeal to young voters today, so is Mitt Romney...And if Obama speaks about the economy, you can bet Romney will find a way to give his...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Speaking to an exuberant crowd at the University of North Carolina's flagship campus, Obama made his case that congressional leaders must take action before July to prevent interest rates from doubling on federal student loans. Later Tuesday, he will...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
In a fiery speech during which he urged Congress to pass legislation to prevent an increase in federally subsidized student loan rates, Obama also continued a narrative where he set himself apart from presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney,...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
Kicking off a two-day tour of college campuses, President Obama called on Congress to renew a low-interest loan program before it expires July 1 and leaves some students with higher college costs. "The interest rates will double unless Congress acts...
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
N.C. (AP) — President Barack Obama tells college students that he and his wife, Michelle, know what it's like to owe student loans because the two of them didn't come from wealthy families.
He says: "When we married, we got poor...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
A new poll finds a clear preference for President Obama over Mitt Romney among younger voters, a key sector of his winning coalition in 2008. But as the president embarks on a three-state tour of college campuses to press Congress to act to preserve...
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The Columbus Dispatch
| 1 year ago
President Barack Obama is taking his fight to keep college affordable on the road today. Obama is to talk to students at the University of North Carolina shortly after 1 p.m. about the potential for steep interest-rate hikes that could further burden...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
Half of my generation didn't get up and go to a job this morning, College Republican National Committee Chairman Alex Schriver said on a conference call hosted by Romney's campaign. Young voters, including college students, are an important voting...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R). (AP Photo/Jae C...Agreeing on an extension is only the first part of the debate. The second part how to pay the cost of an extension is where the real battle comes in. On Monday, the presumptive...
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Education Week
| 1 year ago
Pa. (AP) Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Monday embraced a student loan proposal that President Barack Obama is selling on the campaign trail and refused to endorse Sen. Marco Rubio's conservative immigration plan aimed at helping...
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DAWN
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney looking to seal republican nomination AP 8 mins ago U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and Florida Senator Marco Rubio address the media before holding a rally at Mustang Expediting in Aston, Pennsylvania, April 23. Mitt...
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KSAZ
| 1 year ago
A poll by the Merrill/Morrison Institute shows it will be a toss-up who wins the presidential election. The poll found that Arizonans are evenly divided on whom they will vote for in November. Of 488 registered voters, 42 percent said they would vote...
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The New York Times
| 1 year ago
Recent Posts April 23 What we want to know is how much of a push a vice presidential candidate gives a presidential nominee relative to how he would do otherwise. April 18 Mitt Romney's personal favorability ratings have been relatively poor...
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Star Tribune
| 1 year ago
The Republican presidential nominating contest is effectively over, but the voting continues. On Tuesday, voters in five states -- Connecticut, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island -- will choose from the remaining three candidates in...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
Obama will visit three college campuses in swing states this week, where he'll try to appeal to young voters by urging Congress to pass legislation to prevent interest rates on subsidized student loans from doubling to 6.8 percent this summer. He'll...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
I think young voters in this country have to vote for me if they're really thinking of what's in the best interest of the country and what's in their personal best interest, Romney said at a campaign event outside Philadelphia. Obama won young voters...
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The Tribune
| 1 year ago
His shoestring campaign, which ended Tuesday, was a constant reminder of Romney's trouble connecting with the party's conservative core...Editorials on the GOP campaign Editorials on the GOP campaign The following editorial appeared in the Los...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 1 year ago
So Obama is touring universities in North Carolina, Colorado, and Iowa to talk about student loans. Washington Young voters were a crucial piece of Barack Obama 's victory four years ago, and they support him again for reelection. So why is the...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
In anticipation of President Obama's focus on education this week, Mitt Romney pointed to an analysis showing more than half of college graduates under 25 were either jobless or underemployed. Romney, campaigning in Pennsylvania on Monday, also...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
The likely Republican nominee today called on Congress to "temporarily extend the current low rate on subsidized undergraduate Stafford loans" for college students -- a call Obama will also make during a two-day trip to various college campuses later...
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Community News
| 1 year ago
Pa. Mitt Romney declined Monday declined to endorse an immigration proposal from potential running mate Marco Rubio. Romney said he's considering the freshman Florida senator's plan to help some young people stay in the country legally, although...
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
NPR Staff Mitt Romney on Monday endorsed the idea of extending a law that curbs interest rates paid by some recipients of federal student loans, a cause that President Obama has made a campaign issue. "Particularly with the number of college grads...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
As the White House ramps up its push to woo young voters by urging Congress to head off a scheduled increase in student loan interest rates, GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney struck back Monday, throwing his support behind an extension of the...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
More U.S. voters give likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and the GOP the edge over Democrats on the issue of working women, a poll indicated. Forty-nine percent of likely voters in the poll by The Hill said Romney respects women who...
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CNSNews.com
| 1 year ago
Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani endorsed Mitt Romney for president on Monday. Giuliani, who had been leaning toward Newt Gingrich earlier in the season, says he believes Romney not only understands the economy -- but also "has the strength and...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
As he pushes to "repeal and replace" President Obama's healthcare law, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has turned to proposals that could alter the way hundreds of millions of Americans get their medical insurance. In public, Romney has only...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
Hope and change were the two key messages of Barack Obama's 2008 election campaign but, after nearly four years in office, they are gone. In their place, the president is focusing his re-election campaign on another apparently appealing theme,...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi warned that allowing rates to jump, as they're scheduled to do this summer, would put college "further out of reach" for middle class families struggling in the still-limping economy. "[I]f Republicans don't act,...
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
Eager to energize young voters, President Barack Obama is depicting Republicans as obstacles to an affordable college education, using his Internet and radio address Saturday to preview an argument he will take on the road next week to university...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
Leaders of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus say Romney's opposition to the proposal which would forge a pathway to citizenship for high achievers brought to the U.S. Latinos, a fast-growing group that's sure to figure prominently in this year's...
