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The Dallas Morning News
| 1 year ago
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, stepping up efforts to help the GOP nominee, will join Mitt Romney on a call Thursday morning with his own top donors in Texas and around the country. "The purpose of the call -- and both Romney and Perry will be on -- is to...
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Boston Globe
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney on Wednesday proposed a significant restructuring of the American education system, one that would revamp the funding formulas, encourage more charter schools, and revive the debate over how poor and disabled students choose the schools...
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
Declaring that a "national emergency" exists in public education, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney shifted from his usual economic message to outline his education platform during a speech to a Latino business group Wednesday.
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Ken Bredemeier May 23, 2012 Private corporations seldom assume a prominent role in U.S. presidential election campaigns. But analysts say that could be the case this year as attention is focused on Bain Capital, an investment company headquartered...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney used a Latino business gathering as a forum to assail President Obama 's leadership of the economy and blame teachers unions for problems facing American education. The Republican presidential candidate is making education the focus of...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
I can tell you that over a period of four years, by virtue of the policies that we'd put in place, we'd get the unemployment rate down to 6%, and perhaps a little lower, Romney says in a Time Magazine interview set to hit stands on Friday. The 6...
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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
Republican Mitt Romney told a business luncheon Wednesday one block from the White House that Barack Obama shouldn't "attack success," after the president hit out at his rival's corporate record. "This is a time when everybody in this administration...
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The New York Observer
| 1 year ago
26am Politicians, it seems safe to say, are not renowned for their familiarity with the truth. On the rare occasion when a politician blurts out something which is both verifiable and accurate, apologies and explanations often follow.
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Indian Express
| 1 year ago
Despite flare ups over issues like same sex marriage and contraception, more than half of all Americans cite the economy as the concern that will decide their vote this fall. In new polls carried out by Washington Post-ABC News, the two contenders...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
That suggests that Romney doesn't need to pivot dramatically to the center, shed partisan identity or turn his back on the GOP base to gain favor with nonpartisans. He's already got their tentative but increasingly solidified support. According to...
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Epoch Times
| 1 year ago
May 23, 2012 Presumptive Republican presidential nominee and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign stop on May 16 in St...The economy has been a major focus of the 2012 presidential campaign. (Edward Linsmier/Getty Images)...
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Canadian Free Press
| 1 year ago
Mainstream media, still suffering debilitating effects from Obamamania, have never properly vetted Barack Obama's past, never fully investigated his relationships with left-wing anarchists such as Saul Alinsky, or even hard-core criminals like John...
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CNN
| 1 year ago
The uproar last week over a proposed campaign ad highlighting President Barack Obama's former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, lit up political circles before organizers finally backed off the idea. And Mitt Romney came under fire from evangelicals...
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Newsbusters
| 1 year ago
Face The Nation" host Bob Schieffer spotlighted the left's talking points on two issues in the presidential race on Tuesday's CBS This Morning. Schieffer tried to play it down the middle when he stated, "I think most people understand that Mitt...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
In April he said Romney was like a foreign despot for having Swiss bank accounts.
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
Priorities USA Action released a video Tuesday titled "Republicans vs. Romney's Record," featuring clip after clip of Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry absolutely pummeling the presumptive GOP nominee during the primary over his record at Bain Capital. "...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
However, the president's lead has dropped from an 8-point lead in the same poll taken last month, where Obama garnered 51 percent support to 43 for the presumptive GOP nominee But on the matter of which candidate is better equipped to handle jobs and...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
It's Mitt Romney the businessman who is now the target of President Obama and his re-election campaign. Chicago. "And that's not always going to be good for communities or businesses or workers." Obama also noted that Romney "is not going out there...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
President Barack Obama 's re-election campaign repudiated U.S. comic Bill Maher 's portrayal of GOP White House hopeful Mitt Romney 's Mormon religion as a "cult." "Attacking a candidate's religion is out of bounds, and our campaign will not engage...
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The Journal Gazette
| 1 year ago
In these early days of the campaign season, forging a personal connection with voters is critical. Both camps are trying to present their candidate as someone who connects with voters, someone who is in touch with people's needs. Therefore, we wanted...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Romney and Bain Capital responded forcefully to the attacks, but it was questions from Democrats that complicated the debate for the president. Those complications began on Sunday when Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a close ally of the president,...
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The New York Times
| 1 year ago
Mr. Obama's comments were his first explicit endorsement of his campaign's aggressive strategy attacking Bain Capital . The Obama campaign's full-throated assault, through ads, statements and Web videos, is now in its second week and portrays Mr.
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
Eyder Peralta "This kind of stuff is nauseating to me on both sides," he said. "It's nauseating to the American public...Stop attacking private equity, stop attacking Jeremiah Wright." President Obama praised Booker but then he went on to staunchly...
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
Add Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker to the long list of political stand-ins for both President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney who've veered wildly off message in a presidential contest notable for its attention-grabbing gaffes.
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Newsbusters
| 1 year ago
Political reporter Michael Shear uses a half-baked Times "expose" to accuse the GOP of using racial attacks by bringing up the legitimate issue of the anti-white, anti-American, paranoid ravings of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor for decades in...
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
This is a classic chain of events that never seems to go out of style in an election year. First one of the presidential campaigns put out videos that it says are informational but critics say are attack ads. This time, it's President Obama's team...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney surrogate and real estate mogul Donald Trump disagrees with the presumed Republican nominee on using Rev. Jeremiah Wright in attack ads against President Obama and encouraged him to do so. Share This Story In a telephone interview with "...
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CNN
| 1 year ago
The overall unemployment rate is above 8%; fewer than 150,000 jobs were created the last month; student loan debt has hit $1 trillion; consumer personal credit card debt is on the rise; gas prices look like a yo-yo; the housing industry continues to...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
As the Obama campaign doubles down on the use of Bain Capital to question Mitt Romney 's economic philosophy, Newark Mayor Cory Booker is backing off his criticism of a line of attack he called "nauseating." During an appearance Sunday on "Meet The...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
Cheney and his wife, Lynne Cheney, will host a fundraiser for Romney at their Jackson Hole, Wyo. home on July 12. Cheney has stayed mostly out of the political spotlight since leaving office in 2009, but he endorsed Romney in April, three weeks after...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
I haven't heard of any Democrat who has said that should be touched." Burton contrasted that approach with some top Republican strategists' push to tie Obama to his former pastor, the controversial Rev...After a New York Times report revealed some...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Share This Story Must Read Sponsorship Link Barack Obama surrogate and Newark mayor Cory Booker quickly backtracked his "Meet the Press" comments after calling an Obama campaign ad that attacks Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital "nauseating" -- but,...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
I used the word 'nauseating' on Meet the Press because that's really how I feel, when I see people in my city struggling with real issues, said Booker in the video. I get very upset when I see such a level of dialogue that calls us to our lowest...
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Mother Jones
| 1 year ago
Are voters torn between the guy they like better and the fellow they hope could do more for the economy?...The volatility of the 2012 presidential race is a boon for pollsters and pundits, who every day, it seems, have new data to dissect and a new...
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Nutley Sun
| 1 year ago
The Republican presidential frontrunner last week quickly rejected an ad campaign proposed by a conservative super PAC that would have portrayed President Obama, once again, as inextricably linked to an inflammatory pastor, the Rev...The revelation...
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Newsbusters
| 1 year ago
I'm talking about a national conversation about the Mormon faith, including its past practice of polygamy (which was renounced by the church in the 19th century) and its exclusion of African Americans from the priesthood (until 1978)...Jeremiah...
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Kansas City Star
| 1 year ago
Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney and his party raised a sizable $40 million last month from donors who want him to replace President Barack Obama. But even as Romney solidifies his position as the eventual GOP nominee, many supporters who backed...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
The Washington Post Mayor Cory Booker of Newark, a close ally of President Obama in the upcoming election, slammed the president's campaign Sunday for ads attacking Mitt Romney's work for the Bain Capital private equity firm. Booker, who noted that...
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Newsbusters
| 1 year ago
The New York Times on Thursday published a front page piece about a Mitt Romney supporting Super PAC that allegedly considered bringing a lot of attention to Barack Obama's America-hating Reverend Jeremiah Wright. I want to get to Facebook in a...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
House Speaker John Boehner and Rep. Nancy Pelosi , D-Calif., brushed off the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy Sunday, saying voters should focus on jobs. A super PAC called Ending Spending Action Fund, backed by Chicago Cubs owner Joe Ricketts, had...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Boehner dismissed as "nonsense" a proposed GOP campaign attack on President Obama 's past association with Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., as well as a Democratic fundraising effort that followed. "This kind of nonsense shouldn't happen," said...
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Newsbusters
| 1 year ago
If there was a contest each week for the dumbest comment made by a member of the media, this would likely be last week's prohibitive favorite. Well Kathleen, obviously it got blown out of the water, the Obama people clearly love it coming out this...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Going against the partisan tendencies in Washington, both sides of the aisle readily took the opportunity to condemn the recently uncovered super PAC ad proposal that would have attempted to bring Rev...It takes something particularly noteworthy to...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
We won't talk about Romney's mormonism Updated Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod says that the president won't consider raising questions about Mitt Romney's Mormonism. But Axelrod question the sincereity of Romney's repudiation last week of a...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
FoxNews.com House Speaker John Boehner on Sunday downplayed the supposed plan to resurrect Rev. Jeremiah Wright in an anti-Obama ad campaign, becoming the latest prominent Republican to knock down the proposal despite Democratic efforts to play it up.
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Sunday challenged Speaker John Boehner to move forward with cutting middle class tax rates and blasted him for calling for matching cuts before agreeing to raise the debt-ceiling limit. "Last year,...
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Associated Press
| 1 year ago
Massachusetts Republicans Mitt Romney and Scott Brown have a history of supporting each other throughout their political careers. But with each facing a tough election, neither the presidential candidate nor the U.S. senator is playing up that...
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Virginian-Pilot Online
| 1 year ago
Massachusetts Republicans Mitt Romney and Scott Brown have a history of supporting each other throughout their political careers. But with each facing a tough election, neither presidential candidate Romney nor U.S. Sen. Brown is playing up that...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 1 year ago
When Mitt Romney embarked on his first political race in 1994, he also slipped into a humble new role in the Mormon congregation he once led. On Sunday mornings, he stood in the sunlit chapel teaching Bible classes for adults. Leading students...
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The New York Times
| 1 year ago
Leading students through stories about Jesus and the Nephite and Lamanite tribes, who Mormons believe once populated the Americas, and tossing out peanut butter cups as rewards, Mr. Romney always returned to the same question: how could students...
