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Fox News
| 12 months ago
A weak labor market provided energy Sunday for criticism of President Barack Obama, with the campaign of presumptive Republican challenger Mitt Romney contending that the president's lack of executive leadership experience undermines his policies.
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CNN
| 12 months ago
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is spending record amounts of money for online advertising and more than twice as much as his Republican rival, a CNN analysis of campaign finance data shows. In the first few months of 2012, Obama's...
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Newsbusters
| 12 months ago
It sure seems New York magazine's national affairs editor John Heilemann is shamelessly becoming a part of President Obama's reelection team. John, that's the weird question now: could we be on the verge of having a president getting elected who isn'...
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United Press International
| 12 months ago
Speaking a fundraiser near San Diego, Romney scolded Obama for allegedly trying to shuffle the blame for the downturn and so-far slow recovery off on President George W. Bush during last week's unveiling of Bush's official White House portrait. "What...
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CNN
| 12 months ago
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is spending record amounts of money for online advertising and more than twice as much as his Republican rival, a CNN analysis of campaign finance data shows. In the first few months of 2012, Obama's...
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Los Angeles Times
| 12 months ago
Select a date range Create a custom date range From: To: June 2, 2012 , 8:42 p.m. Mitt Romney accused President Obama on Saturday of looking for "any excuse" to pass off responsibility for the sputtering economy, and he said Obama had gone so far as...
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USA Today
| 12 months ago
including Clinton's suggestion that the Obama campaign back off attacks on Romney's private equity career -- were trumpeted by Republicans as a near-endorsement of the Republican candidate. The nation's 42nd president expressed frustration with the...
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The Hill
| 12 months ago
Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said Team Obama will continue to go after Romney's record with the same intensity that's marked the last two weeks, which have seen the release of two advertisements slamming Romney and Bain Capital for purchasing...
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PRWeb
| 12 months ago
June 02, 2012 Mitt Romney’s total market share increased by 1.6% and he carries 19.98% of the total internet marketing share despite being dominated by Obama on social media. This means Barack Obama still holds the majority of the market share with...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 12 months ago
President Barack Obama's re-election prospects were dealt a sharp blow on Friday by dire jobs figures that showed America's unemployment rate rising again for the first time in almost a year. The jobless rate rose to 8.2%, or 12.7 million people,...
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Associated Press
| 12 months ago
Booker earlier drew flak from fellow Democrats for criticizing President Barack Obama's campaign. In a May 20 appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press" he described as "nauseating" attack ads against Bain Capital. That's the private equity firm once run...
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Zee News
| 12 months ago
According to the CNN/ORC International survey, 49 percent of registered voters say that if the November election were held today, they would vote for Obama, while 46 percent say they would cast a ballot for Romney. Obama's three point margin is...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 12 months ago
Last month, the nation's employers added the fewest jobs in a year and the unemployment rate actually rose, the Labor Department reported Friday...The weakening recovery is a serious vulnerability for President Barack Obama as he faces re-election,...
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Washington Post
| 12 months ago
The new disclosure report shows that Romney has sold all of his private, independently owned stock in foreign companies. But he still has a stake in foreign companies through investments in Bain Capital, the private equity firm he founded in Boston...
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Washington Post
| 12 months ago
Since August of last year, the unemployment rate has been on a slow but steady decline, forcing Romney to temper and hedge his statements on the economy and admit that a recovery was under way...Their policies have not worked, and in many respects,...
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Washington Post
| 12 months ago
The troubles for Obama hit a day after the two campaigns staged dueling political spectacles. The Obama campaign chose the steps of the state Capitol in Boston to attack Romney's record as governor. Romney went to the doorsteps of the bankrupt solar...
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The New York Observer
| 12 months ago
NJ At a re-election rally for Congressman Bill Pascrell this afternoon, Bill Clinton blamed the current media landscape for controversy over comments he made on Piers Morgan Tonight yesterday defending Mitt Romney's business background. In his...
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International Business Times
| 12 months ago
There's been a whole lot of Bill Clinton in the news recently. The former Democratic president has become his party's go-to surrogate on the campaign trail this year, showing his face in Obama re-election ads, advertised as a major draw for swanky...
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Los Angeles Times
| 12 months ago
Mitt Romney called Friday's jobs numbers that show unemployment grew to 8.2% last month a harsh indictment of President Obama 's economic policies and argue that the president is a failure and has put his personal goals ahead of creating jobs. Their...
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NY Daily News
| 12 months ago
The defense of Mitt Romney 's business career has picked up some unlikely allies. Ex- President Bill Clinton became the latest Democrat to launch a friendly-fire attack on President Obama 's efforts to slam Romney's time in the private sector.
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The Hill
| 12 months ago
The president's policies and his handling of the economy has been dealt a harsh indictment this morning," Romney said. "Their policies have not worked and in many respects their policies have made it harder for the economy to recover. And I think...
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Contra Costa Times
| 12 months ago
May's discouraging unemployment numbers present President Barack Obama with a sobering reminder that an uneven recovery from the recession can be a fragile argument for his re-election, deepening his anxiety over the political and economic threat...
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National Public Radio
| 12 months ago
How to convince voters that while the economy isn't roaring, the situation is still improving? That's President Obama's challenge, made more difficult with every passing month where the jobs report disappoints, as on Friday. The latest Labor...
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Boston Globe
| 12 months ago
Republican presidential nominee bashed his Democratic opponent. The US Department of Labor said employers created only 69,000 jobs in May, the fewest in a year, while the unemployment rate rose from 8.1 percent to 8.2 percent. Economists fear a...
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Associated Press
| 12 months ago
State Republicans are set to start electing delegates to August's Republican National Convention. The Washington state Republican convention started Wednesday, and the delegate election process begins Friday afternoon. The state will send 43...
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Los Angeles Times
| 12 months ago
Neither were many other (any other?) A-list stars, but a Mitt Romney fundraiser at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Thursday night put the lie to the notion that everybody in Hollywood is supporting President Obama 's reelection bid. At least 425 people in...
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The New York Observer
| 12 months ago
Romney Unveils New TV Ad, Slams Obama On Jobs Report 10:16am Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney unveiled a new television ad today, one that follows up on his earlier Day One spot . The ad, called A Better Day asks at the outset What Will Be...
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Al Ahram
| 12 months ago
In doing so, Romney appeared to be demonstrating the same streak of decency that wouldn't allow him to join in with the silly "birther" cabal, or "Islamophobic" hysteria when these tendencies were all in vogue...But before pinning any medals on Mitt...
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The Hill
| 12 months ago
In the new ad, a narrator argues that from his first day in the Oval Office, Romney would "put jobs first." "President Romney focuses on the economy and the deficit, unleashes America's energy resources, and stands up to China on trade," a narrator...
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USA Today
| 12 months ago
Clinton told guest host Harvey Weinstein that Romney is qualified for president. "There's no question that in terms of getting up and going to the office and basically performing the essential functions of the office, a man who has been governor and...
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The Hill
| 12 months ago
Voters have learned that Romney and his wife, Ann sometimes quarrel even about politics but they never slam doors or yell. There were told that when Ann was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, his five sons realized their father may have been more...
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The Hill
| 12 months ago
In an interview on the Piers Morgan show on CNN, Clinton said the Obama campaign shouldn't spend its energy criticizing Romney's work at Bain Capital, an argument that has taken central stage in the debate over which candidate can better lead the U.S.
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Daily Nation
| 12 months ago
Rating Former US president Bill Clinton said he thought that fellow Democrat Barack Obama would be easily re-elected to the White House , even though polls currently show a close race. "I still think the president will win by five or six points,"...
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Sacramento Bee
| 12 months ago
President Barack Obama maintains a wide lead over Republican Mitt Romney in Democrat-heavy California, but more of the state's voters are undecided than before, according to a new Field Poll. Obama, who holds a 16 percentage point lead over Romney,...
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Washington Post
| 12 months ago
Two years ago, President Obama was here to tout this building and this business as a symbol of his stimulus Romney said, standing in front of the gleaming building, which now has a red For Sale sign hanging from the roof. Well, you can see that it's...
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CNN
| 12 months ago
Romney, meanwhile, traveled to a shuttered solar panel maker Thursday to focus attention on what he called a symbol of the Obama administration's failed economic policies, as well as cronyism. "The president took a half a billion dollars of taxpayer...
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National Public Radio
| 12 months ago
Poised to triumphantly clinch the Republican nomination for president, Romney instead was upstaged Tuesday by supporter Donald Trump's new birther-on-steroids shtick that stole the headlines and the candidate's big moment. Then on Thursday, ready to...
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Zee News
| 12 months ago
Obama hits Romney's record as Governor Washington: President Barack Obama's campaign intensified criticism of Mitt Romney's record as Massachusetts governor on Thursday, attempting to build on assertions that the Republican nominee does not relate to...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 12 months ago
That was the night Romney finally locked in the Republican presidential nomination, winning the Texas primary to secure more than the 1144 convention delegates he needs and to finally shake Newt Gingrich and the rest of the oddball pack seeking the...
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The Hill
| 12 months ago
The Romney supporters in the crowd held "Obama Isn't Working" and pro-Romney signs, and many were also blowing bubbles at the stage and periodically chanting, "Where are the jobs?" and "broken record." "Thank you for the bubbles; it's a hell of a lot...
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Fox News
| 12 months ago
FoxNews.com The president wants to make this a personal attack campaign; he's going after me as an individual...I have experience in the economy that's going to help me get good jobs for Americans so we can be secure again. -- Republican presidential...
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The Hill
| 12 months ago
Gov. Deval Patrick (D), an Obama surrogate and Romney's successor in Massachusetts, called Bain a "perfectly fine company" and said concerns about Romney's presidential qualifications stem from his inability to deliver as a public servant and a...
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Guardian Unlimited
| 12 months ago
Mitt Romney's record as Massachusetts governor is under the spotlight. Photograph: Win Mcnamee/Getty Images Mitt Romney 's record as governor of Massachusetts gets the full glare of the presidential campaign today, as the Obama team holds a high-...
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Washington Post
| 12 months ago
The Washington Post President Obama's re-election campaign launched Part 2 of its strategy to discredit Republican Mitt Romney this week, pouncing on his record as Massachusetts governor after more than two weeks of attacks on his private-equity...
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Truthdig
| 12 months ago
His immediate attempt to revise his remarks on behalf of President Obama, for whom he is supposed to act as a surrogate, only highlighted his earlier insistence that the harsh campaign criticism of Bain Capital, which he specifically defended, is...
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USA Today
| 12 months ago
They show up early, they stay late, and they do their best to spoil the party. They're not pre-butting, they're not re-butting, they're "bracketing," the term of art in this year's campaign lexicon for muddling an opponent's message. When Republican...
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The Guardian
| 12 months ago
Justin Sullivan/Getty It is indisputably a big political milestone...Never before has a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints been as close to the US presidency as Romney is today...Romney's Mormonism is still the one thing that...
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The Hill
| 12 months ago
Obama made the wrong choices in his time at the White House, Romney argues, something exemplified by his decision to give taxpayer funds to Solyndra. Obama's campaign argues Romney learned the wrong lessons from his years at Bain Capital, where he...
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Fox News
| 12 months ago
FoxNews.com Planned Parenthood, endorsing President Obama Wednesday morning, went after Mitt Romney out of the gate with a new ad buy in crucial swing states accusing the Republican candidate of undermining women's rights. The ad campaign seeks to...
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Seattle Times
| 12 months ago
Booker is the keynote speaker at the Democratic Party's state convention gala party this Friday. Booker has stayed in the national spotlight after the fire, first getting into it with the Obama administration about the appropriateness of the campaign...
