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Fox News
| 11 months ago
The pro-Obama super PAC is continuing to blast Mitt Romney's work at Bain Capital in a new ad, in which a former worker at a plant that was acquired by the private equity firm and later closed said he was forced to "build his own coffin." The...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 11 months ago
Press reports this week detailed jobs sent abroad and executive profits made when firms failed during Mitt Romney's time running Bain Capital...Mitt Romney 's record running the Bain Capital investment firm continues to get close and sharp-edged...
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NY Daily News
| 11 months ago
President Obama basked in the warm embrace of a Latino leaders conference Friday as a new poll shows that his new immigration policy could pay off in key swing states. Obama announced last week that nearly 1 million upstanding young, illegal...
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NY Daily News
| 11 months ago
Mitt Romney delivered what was billed as a major immigration policy speech on Thursday. The shift from his near-hostile primary posture, when he suggested undocumented people self-deport, was both stunning and welcome. Kudos to Romney for calling for...
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Denver Post
| 11 months ago
Font Resize The Associated Press President Barack Obama, in a strikingly personal appeal, renewed his call for an overhaul of America's immigration laws before a supportive Latino audience Friday. He portrayed rival Mitt Romney as an obstacle to...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 11 months ago
President Barack Obama pounded Republican challenger Mitt Romney over his past business practices and current immigration views during a swing Friday through the heart of the nation's largest battleground state. At a boisterous campaign rally near...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 11 months ago
US President Barack Obama on Saturday attacked presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for outsourcing the jobs by his companies and said Americans don't need pioneers of outsourcing in Oval Office. Obama said this while referring...
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United Press International
| 11 months ago
A Pew Research Center poll indicated more Republican voters are closely following the presidential campaign but Barack Obama is better liked than Mitt Romney . The poll of 2,013 adults, including 1,563 registered voters, indicated 73 percent of...
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National Public Radio
| 11 months ago
Coming a week after President Obama announced that he would defer deportation proceedings for many young illegal immigrants, it was safe to predict that he'd get an appreciative response from an audience of Latino leaders...It started with a woman in...
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The Tribune
| 11 months ago
I'll tackle immigration in 'civil' manner Romney: I'll tackle immigration in 'civil' manner Backing off the harsh rhetoric of the Republican primaries, Mitt Romney pledged Thursday to address illegal immigration "in a civil but resolute manner."
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United Press International
| 11 months ago
President Barack Obama announces that the administration will stop deporting most young illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children, during a Rose Garden event at the White House in Washington, DC on June 15, 2012. Young immigrants...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
Romney addressed the group, Obama sought to telegraph the message that he's the candidate who has the best interests of the Hispanic community a group critical to his reelection at heart. Referring to Romney as your speaker from yesterday, Obama...
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Fox News
| 11 months ago
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign has the perfect wedding gift in mind. The campaign has started an "Obama event registry" to let engaged fans of the president ask friends and family for donations to his re-election bid instead of...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 11 months ago
Largely unsaid is how their ideas would affect jobs and create economic growth.
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USA Today
| 11 months ago
Obama spoke a seek after announcing a policy blocking deportations of children of illegal immigrants, somewhat mirroring a bill that had been languishing in Congress. The new policy "falls short of where we need to be" he added. "A path to...
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The New York Times
| 11 months ago
Archive Recent Posts June 22 Voters pay less attention to the presidential race in the summer, resulting in lots of varied results in individual polls. June 22 The reporter, Joe Williams, had a history of describing Mr. Romney and other conservatives...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
Bloomberg pollster Ann Selzer, whose poll we dissected Thursday after it showed President Obama leading by a surprisingly large margin of 13 percentage points, has crafted a response to the critiques. Below, we are posting it in full: When people ask...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
According to a Pew Research poll released Thursday, 50 percent of registered voters support or lean toward supporting Obama, while 46 percent support or lean toward Romney. That's a very narrow lead for Obama, with a margin of error is plus or minus...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
Hispanic officials one day after his presumptive Republican challenger Mitt Romney addressed the same group. Polling shows Obama has the upper hand over Romney among Hispanic voters, particularly in the wake of his move last week to halt the...
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The New York Times
| 11 months ago
Opinion Speaking to a group of Hispanic officials in the heart of a swing state, Mr. Romney made his most extensive remarks on immigration since President Obama announced last week that he would use executive authority to allow many young people who...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
Text Size The Washington Post Mitt Romney's financial company, Bain Capital, invested in a series of firms that specialized in relocating jobs done by American workers to new facilities in low-wage countries like China and India. During the nearly 15...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
He did not say what should happen to the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States, nor did he mention the Dream Act, the stalled legislation he previously vowed to veto that would legalize many young people brought to the country...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 11 months ago
But he still won't say whether he would overturn President Obama's new policy to help young illegal immigrants. Washington After a primary season marked by hard-line rhetoric toward illegal immigrants, presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney...
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NY Daily News
| 11 months ago
Mitt Romney made a pitch for Latino votes Thursday but remained silent as to what he would do with President Obama 's game-changing immigration reform. Romney, whose party has struggled in wooing Hispanics, toned down his sometimes aggressive...
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News Press
| 11 months ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney acknowledged that Hispanics may not always agree with him, but he offered a vision Thursday of an America more welcoming to certain legal immigrants and their families. Speaking to the National...
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National Public Radio
| 11 months ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney softened his tough primary-campaign tone on immigration, if not his positions, during a speech Thursday to national Hispanic leaders. In comments to thousands gathered at the National Association of...
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Seattle Times
| 11 months ago
He described them as "common-sense reforms" that could both reform a broken immigration system and benefit the U.S. economy.
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Boston Globe
| 11 months ago
Mitt Romney on Thursday afternoon sought to broaden his appeal among Hispanic voters, recasting some of the hard-line positions he took during the heated Republican primary race and offering his most extensive comments on the divisive topic of...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
New polls from the Pew Research Center and the Associated Press catalog the rising economic jitters that threaten President Obama's bid for re-election. The Pew data also allow a deep-dive into key factors that underlie voter turnout that all-...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 11 months ago
Friday Jun 22, 2012 A majority of Americans disapproves of how President Barack Obama is handling the economy, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. The pessimism hurts his re-election chances as the November election looms, with the poll...
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Los Angeles Times
| 11 months ago
Accusing President Obama of taking Latino voters for granted, Mitt Romney told an influential Latino audience Thursday that he would replace and supersede Obama's new deportation policy for young immigrants but offered no details. One day ahead of...
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Orlando Sentinel Online
| 11 months ago
June 21, 2012 Declaring that America must make legal immigration more attractive, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney outlined a plan that would expedite legal visas -- especially for family members of legal immigrants -- and tighten controls...
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New York Observer
| 11 months ago
Mitt Romney Addresses Latino Lawmakers, No Mention Of Self-Deportation 1:35pm Gov. Mitt Romney addressed the National Association of Latino Elected Officials, and he made no mention of the immigration buzzword he is perhaps most famous for: self-...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
He will outline the details in a speech this afternoon to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials...Romney, however, once again avoided saying whether he'd uphold President Obama's decision to stop deportations on certain...
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The New York Times
| 11 months ago
June 20 How should a reader react to a new poll that shows President Obama ahead of Mitt Romney by 13 points among likely voters? June 19 On the immigration issue, in key states up for grabs that may determine this presidential election -- like, for...
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Los Angeles Times
| 11 months ago
With the Supreme Court ruling on healthcare reform set to land, the Obama campaign is prepared to defend the president's signature legislative accomplishment, regardless of the outcome. The game plan likely mirrors the reelection team's strategy when...
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Zee News
| 11 months ago
According to the Bloomberg National Poll, Obama leads with 53 percent votes to Romney at 40 percent among American voters. According to The Telegraph, the poll also revealed that almost 49 Americans preferred Osama's vision of handling the economy,...
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The Economic Times
| 11 months ago
Fewer Americans believe the economy is getting better and a majority disapproves of how President Barack Obama is handling it, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. Meanwhile, new financial filings reveal that although major donors supporting...
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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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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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The New York Observer
| 11 months ago
Obama Campaign Bets Mitt Romney Won't Win Michigan 8:58am Mitt Romney campaigning in Michigan yesterday. (Photo: Getty) Yesterday, Mitt Romney wrapped up his six state bus tour in Michigan, the state where he was raised and his father was governor...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
The ad, which argues that Obama's economic policies have hit the minority group particularly hard, does not mention immigration, despite polls suggesting that Hispanic support for Obama may be bolstered by his more lenient deportation rules. The ad,...
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USA Today
| 11 months ago
The Bloomberg National Poll shows Obama leading Romney 53% to 40% among likely voters, a much bigger lead than other surveys. The numbers are likely to be disputed by Republicans and questioned by Democrats; most members of both parties expect a much...
