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Star Tribune
| 11 months ago
President Obama and former governor Mitt Romney delivered dueling speeches on the economy last week, but they need to freshen up their facts. Obama: "They haven't specified exactly where the knife would fall, but here's some of what would happen if...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
Speaking in Weatherly, Pa., the latest stop in his six-state Midwestern battleground tour, Romney appeared to misspeak, accidentally referring to Obama as a former governor. "He upon becoming governor excuse me, president last time," Romney said,...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
Mitt Romney tours the Weatherly Casting Company with the company's president in Weatherly, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. Photograph: Larry Downing/Reuters Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney sought Saturday to highlight economic issues and turn...
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Gawker
| 11 months ago
Despite criticisms that he's spent too much time railing against Obama and not enough time outlining his own plans, Mitt Romney said today that he's the candidate that wants to talk about the economy . According to Romney, the economy is the...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
Appearing via video at the Faith and Freedom Coalition's annual meeting Saturday morning, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R) delivered a speech that hinged on social issues but also focused in on what remains the top issue in the...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
It happened when the presumptive Republican presidential nominee launched into his practiced spiel about how he thinks President Obama is well-meaning but ill-equipped to fix the economy because he's never worked in the private sector...He, upon...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 11 months ago
Pa. (AP) Mitt Romney is telling Pennsylvania voters that he and not President Barack Obama is the White House candidate who will give them a fair shot. The Republican challenger is on a six-day bus tour and is looking to keep the focus on jobs and...
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The New York Times
| 11 months ago
Opinion It sent a clear signal to fast-growing Hispanic populations in Florida, Colorado, Nevada, Virginia and other states that he understood their frustration at his lack of progress so far in addressing problems with the immigration system and...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
The policy puts political pressure on Obama's Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, by highlighting past GOP opposition to legislation designed to help young immigrants and by forcing Romney to confront his party's sharp divisions over the issue. But...
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Leader Post Online
| 11 months ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's rural bus tour hit an unexpected bump on Friday as he scrambled to respond to President Barack Obama's decision to ease deportation rules for young illegal immigrants. On a day when Romney wanted to...
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The Tribune
| 11 months ago
Romney is aiming to use this tour, which will visit states Obama won in 2008, for face-to-face campaigning in all-American settings. In Stratham, he spoke and mingled on a farm's hilltop among Boy Scouts, bales of hay and a barn with an Every Town...
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The Tribune
| 11 months ago
Presidential slogan wars are heating up Mitt Romney is on an "Every Town Counts" bus tour rolling across six states won in 2008 by Barack Obama and now being courted by Republicans. Romney: Obama denying middle class a 'fair shot' Romney: Obama...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 11 months ago
His assertion on June 8 that "the private sector is doing fine" was gleefully exploited by his Republican rival, former Governor Mitt Romney, and has dominated Republican TV ads ever since. American voters have got used to Romney's political gaffes...
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 11 months ago
The former Massachusetts governor has this problem. He must find a way to convince voters that he has an entirely different idea for health reform than Obama who, of course, lifted his own version from none other than Romney. So in an effort to put...
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Reuters
| 11 months ago
Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney waves to supporters at a campaign event at the Scamman Farm in Stratham, New Hampshire, June 15, 2012. Romney is kicking off a five-day tour through the battleground states. Republican presidential...
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The Jakarta Post
| 11 months ago
From opposite ends of Ohio, a state vital to both of their political futures, Romney and Obama dueled Thursday in economic speeches that set the tone for the final five months of debate. The pitches were the political foes' familiar, fundamentally...
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Denver Post
| 11 months ago
President Barack Obama cast his re-election race against Republican Mitt Romney as the economic choice of a lifetime on Thursday, seeking to stir undecided voters and asking the nation to buy into his vision for four more years or face a return to...
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Chandler Republic
| 11 months ago
President Barack Obama declared Thursday that he and his opponent, Mitt Romney, offer radically different, irreconcilable visions of how to lead the nation back to prosperity, saying it is up to voters to "break that stalemate." The president's 54-...
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Courier & Press
| 11 months ago
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney was walking on the beach near his $12 million home in La Jolla, Calif., when he saw a young man smoking marijuana and drinking...This anecdote, revealed by reporter Michael Barbaro of The New York Times in a...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
Massachusetts is where Romney moved for graduate school, ran a business, raised a family and served as governor. In pursuit of the presidency, however, Romney has all but ignored the state that was his launching pad. While Romney's studied moderation...
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National Public Radio
| 11 months ago
Ohio could very well be the state where what's expected to be a very close presidential race gets decided. And every indication is that the issue of the economy will be what drives the majority of voters to either President Obama's column or that of...
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United Press International
| 11 months ago
President Barack Obama holds a press conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room in Washington, DC on June 8, 2012. June 14 (UPI) -- This election offers American voters a stark choice on the vision they see for the country's future, Obama told a...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
Obama telegraphed the message that he's the one who has the interests of the middle class at heart on the economy, while Romney railed at the president for being unable to lead an economic recovery. The two speeches took place at roughly the same...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
Obama offered the most vigorous defense to date of his presidency, denying Romney's argument that Obama has been a poor leader and offering a litany of actions, such as investments in schools, energy and infrastructure, that he has taken to...
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Associated Press
| 11 months ago
Perhaps no presidential battleground will test the leanings of critical independent voters more than the "Live Free or Die" state, the launching pad for Mitt Romney's White House bid. President Barack Obama handily won New Hampshire four years ago.
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
On Thursday, in Cleveland, Ohio, President Obama gave a speech that his campaign sold as an attempt to reframe the election. At the same time, in Cincinnati, Ohio, Mitt Romney gave a speech trying to reframe the president's speech. You may have heard...
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 11 months ago
Their plans, while profoundly different, are alike in a critical way: They both assume the national economy needs national solutions.
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Boston Globe
| 11 months ago
Romney made his remarks at equipment manufacturer Seilkop Industries only minutes before President Obama delivered an economy-themed address of his own, across the state at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland. The candidates were originally...
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Boston Globe
| 11 months ago
There is one place where I stand in complete agreement with my opponent: This election is about our economic future, Obama said at Cuyahoga Community College. But more than anything else, this election represents a choice between two fundamentally...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
This election presents a choice between two fundamentally different visions. This is a make-or-break moment.' Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images Barack Obama offered a stark choice for American voters on Thursday as he invoked the spectre of a...
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MarketWatch
| 11 months ago
President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney traded blows in a key battleground state Thursday, each promising to create more jobs than his opponent. Romney and Obama spoke minutes apart in different locations in Ohio, engaging...
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The Columbus Dispatch
| 11 months ago
Campaigning just 250 miles away from his November opponent, Mitt Romney beat President Barack Obama to the microphone today and addressed a crowd of several hundred inside Seilkop Industries, a manufacturing located in a predominantly Republican area...
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Los Angeles Times
| 11 months ago
President Obama , in an attempt to reset his campaign after weeks of missteps and setbacks, cast the November election as a chance for voters to break a "stalemate in Washington" between two sharply different philosophies. The president, speaking in...
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The Columbus Dispatch
| 11 months ago
President Barack Obama said today that voters this fall will break the stalemate in Washington between two fundamentally different views of which direction America should take. Obama spoke for nearly an hour to a predominately African-American crowd...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
The Washington Post The spring slowdown in the economy has further exposed President Obama's greatest political vulnerability going into his reelection campaign and has forced him into a more urgent and aggressive debate with Mitt Romney on the...
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The Tribune
| 11 months ago
Romney amends budget goals, assails Obama's record Romney amends budget goals, assails Obama's record Mitt Romney told business leaders Wednesday that he would try to put the federal budget on track to be balanced within eight to 10 years,...
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Miami Herald
| 11 months ago
Mitt Romney told business leaders Wednesday President Barack Obama is largely responsible for the nation's sluggish economy, but a Romney presidency would mean big changes that would make it easier for them to run their companies. A day before Obama...
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United Press International
| 11 months ago
Mitt Romney Wednesday told the nation's top corporate executives Barack Obama is one of the most "anti-business, anti-jobs" presidents in U.S. history. The former Massachusetts governor and likely 2012 Republican presidential nominee told the chief...
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Leader Post Online
| 11 months ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, riding a burst of momentum, predicted a major economic speech by President Barack Obama this week will have soaring rhetoric but little substance. "My own view is that he will speak eloquently but that...
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SF Gate
| 11 months ago
Evan Vucci / AP Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during the Business Roundtable quarterly meeting at the Newseum in Washington, Wednesday, June 13, 2012. AP) -- Mitt Romney told business leaders...
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Boston Globe
| 11 months ago
Mitt Romney, speaking before a group of high-powered business leaders on Wednesday, heightened his criticism of President Obama, accusing the Democratic incumbent of implementing the most anti-investment, anti-business, anti-jobs series of policies...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
Those words are enough to lay out a basic vision. Romney would turn Medicaid over to the states and though this appears in a separate policy paper cap its growth at inflation plus 1 percent, which would mean deep cuts to the program. He would allow...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
But Romney employed particularly stinging rhetoric in a sort of campaign prebuttal, a day before the president is expected to deliver a major campaign speech in Ohio in which he tries to reframe the economic debate. Seizing again on Obama's comment...
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The Tribune
| 11 months ago
He argues Obama's policies on health care, energy, trade and other issues have made it harder for businesses to grow and hire new workers and amount to an "anti-business, anti-job agenda." "The president and his folks just don't understand how the...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
From the GOP perspective, the answer would appear to be yes with the country's economic recovery still plodding along, many believe the best strategy for Republicans would be to focus in on criticizing Obama's stewardship. But on Wednesday, House...
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BDNews24
| 11 months ago
First lady Michelle Obama has more upbeat advice for Ann Romney as they face a hectic summer of campaigning: Enjoy it. Though Obama will be out campaigning for her husband, President Barack Obama, to beat presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney in...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
A new North Carolina poll conducted by the automated pollster (and Democratic affiliated) Public Policy Polling has set the political world on its head suggested that not only has former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney made up significant ground...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
The speech is expected to draw sharp contrasts between the president's economic proposals and those of his rival, Mitt Romney, according to reports. And while the president isn't expected to detail new policy proposals, Obama is expected to take a...
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Asia Times Online
| 11 months ago
After the failed, game-changing nomination of Sarah Palin for vice president in the 2008 election, Republicans are risk-averse and treading very carefully. David Hollinger, the Berkeley sociologist, has argued that America entered a phase of post-...
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USA Today
| 11 months ago
When asked why people are critical of Obama, Lee said: "I can't say to all the people that are unhappy with him that they're racist people...So I don't care what color you are, if people are out of work, it's tough. "And then" he added,"when you're...
