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Kansas City Star
| 11 months ago
Donors supporting President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney have helped them raise hundreds of millions of dollars in their bids for the White House.But a growing share of financial support from "super" political committees raises...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
President Obama 's campaign spent heavily in May and shelled out more than it raised, according to a report filed Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission. The report shows Obama's campaign raised $39.1 million for the month and spent $44.6...
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Star Tribune
| 11 months ago
President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney are courting the nation's swelling Hispanic population as immigration emerges as a big issue in the presidential contest. Both candidates are to address the same Latino political convention in Florida...
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Parker Pioneer
| 11 months ago
We've noticed many Democrats seem less than enthusiastic about reelecting President Barack Obama. In 2008, Obama excited Democrats as no other recent candidate had...We suspect many Democrats have concluded this emperor has no clothes on. We've...
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KSBY
| 11 months ago
President Barack Obama's campaign says it expects the president to become the first incumbent to be outspent by his opponent. They are outlining the potential for $1 billion in spending from Republican-leaning outside groups supporting Mitt Romney.
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
The conference call was set up to focus on the economy and knock President Obama's comment that the private sector was "doing fine." But reporters wanted to ask about immigration. Romney aides repeatedly urged reporters to restrict their questions...
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The New York Times
| 11 months ago
Archive Recent Posts June 20 President Obama and several conservative groups are going head-to-head in a flurry of new attack ads, trading accusations over mishandled economic policies and inattention to the plight of struggling Americans. June 20...
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 11 months ago
When Mitt Romney talks about his plan for tax reform, he is very careful to say two things: He wants to cut tax rates, and he wants high-income households to pay the same share of taxes they do today. He said it again on Face the Nation last Sundaya...
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Vanity Fair
| 11 months ago
President Obama might not be in such terrible shape come November after all. According to a new poll from Bloomberg News, Obama leads Romney . . ...Just wait until Romney taps Tim Pawlenty as his vice president! Seriously, waiting produces the same...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
Senate Republicans, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell , appear to think so. But on a conference call Wednesday, Romney advisers indicated that their focus remains on the economy, not on immigration...He added that when it comes to the economy,...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
The Bloomberg National Poll asked likely voters which candidate's argument has been more convincing, as each campaign works to paint its rival as unaware of the plight of the "average American" in an election year dominated by the struggling economy.
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NY Daily News
| 11 months ago
The dream of legal status is coming true for thousands of young immigrants...Immigration and Customs Enforcement to cease deporting undocumented youth and ordered U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to grant them employment authorization...As...
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Los Angeles Times
| 11 months ago
Select a date range Create a custom date range Declaring that there is only "one president at a time," President Obama dismissed criticism from Mitt Romney 's campaign over his handling of the European economic crisis and suggested his rival's team...
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Star Tribune
| 11 months ago
Senate Republicans are sure they don't want President Barack Obama's new immigration policy. But they don't want to say if it amounts to amnesty while they wait for guidance from presidential candidate Mitt Romney. These days, amnesty is most often...
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Seattle Times
| 11 months ago
McCain received 58 percent support from this group, according to exit polls conducted for the AP.
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
A super PAC supporting former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has launched its own ad using President Obama's comment that the private sector is doing fine. The ad is part of Restore Our Future's $7 million ad campaign in eight battleground states.
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The Tribune
| 11 months ago
Romney wooing GOP Hill leaders has risks Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney is throwing his lot in with his party's leadership in Congress, a break with other recent GOP White House seekers who have kept some distance. Romney and GOP...
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Seattle Times
| 11 months ago
The poll conducted June 13-16 found that 49 percent favored Obama, compared to 41 percent for Romney. That's a gain of three percentage points for Romney from an Elway poll conducted last February...Elway also noted that Obama remained under 50...
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 11 months ago
That question arises because the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is touring Michigan Tuesday and Wednesday at the end of his six-state Every Town Counts bus tour. Mr. Romney was born in the Wolverine State, of course, and his father was a...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
Romney, the presumptive GOP presidential candidate, has so far declined to state if he would repeal Obama's executive decision to allow some illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children to stay in the country and work without fear of...
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Seattle Times
| 11 months ago
Asian immigrants now outnumber Hispanic immigrants to the U.S., the Pew Research Center said Tuesday. They also have the highest incomes, the highest level of education and happiest outlook on life, according to a study called "The Rise of Asian...
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Mother Jones
| 11 months ago
Are they asking you about comprehensive immigration reform, with a path to citizenship for most undocumented people? Act, which would provide a path to citizenship only for certain immigrants who were brought here as children?
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The New York Times
| 11 months ago
Recent Posts June 19 If Mitt Romney moves closer to a lukewarm acquiescence of President Obama's decision, he may be accused of flip-flopping. But candidates flip-flop when they conclude that the alternative might be more costly. June 15 After a...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
Sixty-four percent of likely voters said they approved of Obama's policy change in a Bloomberg National Poll released Tuesday. Thirty percent surveyed said they disagreed with the decision. The results highlight the challenges presumptive GOP...
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Boston Globe
| 11 months ago
A recent poll published June 13 by Washington Post and ABC News showed that voters are unimpressed by the economic plans laid out by both President Obama and presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney The survey revealed 41 percent of registered...
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Truthdig
| 11 months ago
President Obama showed last week that it's possible to find a reasonable, humane solution for at least 800,000 young people who were illegally brought into this country as children...Seems to me that Obama's unilateral decision to let these...
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Kansas City Star
| 11 months ago
He says he thinks he can win here, and is telling reporters that would hand him the presidency.Still, Romney could face trouble in Michigan because of his opposition to federal bailouts for General Motors and Chrysler. Democrats have repeatedly...
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Indian Express
| 11 months ago
The Pew Research Center found that the number of Asian immigrants grew from 19 percent of all new immigrants in 2000 to 36 percent in 2010. Incoming Hispanic immigrants fell from 59 percent in 2000 to 31 percent. Up to 11 percent of illegal...
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Los Angeles Times
| 11 months ago
Iowa Mitt Romney introduced criticism of President Obama 's record on illegal immigration into his standard campaign speech on Monday as he wrapped up a swing across eastern Iowa. Romney had avoided bringing up the topic in remarks to supporters at...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 11 months ago
During a bus tour of potentially pivotal heartland states, Mitt Romney is drawing clear lines of contrast with President Obama on taxes: The Republican challenger says that as president, he would reject a budget fix that calls for new taxes as part...
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Pakistan Chronicle
| 11 months ago
Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama on Sunday of political motivation in offering work permits to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children, but declined to say he...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
President Obama 's announcement Friday that he would stop the deportation of some 800,000 young illegal immigrants who were brought to this country by their parents isn't likely to increase his share of the Latino vote much. But there is still plenty...
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Sacramento Bee
| 11 months ago
A survey in five swing states by by Latino Decisions and America's Voice found Latino voters very enthusiastic about the policy--a contrast to previous attitudes about the president. Prior to June 14, 2012, many immigration reform advocates had...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
In Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Nevada and Virginia, 49 percent of Latino voters said the policy made them more enthusiastic about Obama, compared to 14 percent who were less enthusiastic, according to a Latino Decisions-America's Voice poll conducted...
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SF Gate
| 11 months ago
Millions of Americans are desperate for work, runaway government spending clouds the future and Democratic and Republican candidates are busy making one thing clear: They're light years apart on what to do about it. They do agree that the economy is...
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Los Angeles Times
| 11 months ago
President Obama 's decision to extend administrative relief to an estimated 800,000 young illegal immigrants has won favor with Latino voters in key battleground states, according to a new poll...Voters in five states with significant portions of...
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Seattle Times
| 11 months ago
But he refused to say whether, if elected, he would countermand Obama's executive order.
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 11 months ago
Where's the Romney lead?...Our Israel Factor experts, like it or not, have given President Obama a mark identical to Romney's on the ultimate question of good for Israel. Not a small feat, considering the fact that this is the first time for them to...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
A new Obama administration initiative that could allow thousands of young immigrants to avoid deportation and find work is fully within the president's legal powers, a top White House aide said Sunday. Act, that would offer citizenship to...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
We are not going to bail out the European banks, Romney said in an interview broadcast on the CBS program Face the Nation. The European debt crisis is expected to be a major focus of discussion at the G20 summit in Mexico that begins Monday. Greek...
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Los Angeles Times
| 11 months ago
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney faulted President Obama on Sunday for bypassing Congress to shield about 800,000 young illegal immigrants from being deported, but he stopped short of saying he opposed the move. During the Republican primaries,...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
Asked about whether he would repeal the new policy on CBS's Face the Nation, Romney vowed to seek long-term immigration reform, but avoided a clear stance on Obama's new deportation policies. Well, it would be overtaken by events if you will, by...
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Reuters
| 11 months ago
Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign event at the Cornwall Iron Furnace in Cornwall, Pennsylvania, June 16, 2012. Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama in remarks aired on Sunday...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
Making his first extensive comments about immigration policy since Obama's announcement Friday, the presumptive Republican nominee said that if he were elected president he would seek a permanent long-term solution regarding the citizenship status of...
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Fox News
| 11 months ago
FoxNews.com Mitt Romney declined to say whether, if elected president, he would nix the Obama administration's controversial new order allowing potentially hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children to avoid...
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Leader Post Online
| 11 months ago
The United States will not bail out European countries if the eurozone economy falls apart under a spiraling debt crisis, Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney said Sunday. "We're not going to send checks to Europe...We're going to be poised...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
He's trying to walk a line that's not to sound like he's hostile to Latinos . . . Santorum said of Romney in an interview to air Sunday on CNN's State of the Union. But at the same time you need to hammer the president on this now habitual abuse of...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
Asked by Schieffer if the president made the policy shift for "for politics," Romney responded: "That's certainly a big part of the equation." On Friday, the Obama administration announced it would stop deporting many illegal immigrants who came to...
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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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NY1
| 11 months ago
President Obama's likely opponent in November's election is speaking out over Friday's new proposed immigration policy . Mitt Romney said the President's executive order is a short-term fix that can easily be undone by future presidents and says it...
