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Associated Press
| 12 months ago
Mitt Romney's campaign has launched a new attack ad against President Barack Obama that uses Hillary Rodham Clinton's words against the president. The Romney ad is running in Ohio and several other battleground states. It's a response to a commercial...
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Los Angeles Times
| 12 months ago
Increasingly, the 2012 presidential election appears to be dividing along a pair of fault-lines...President Obama 's re-election depends increasingly on a coalition of minorities and younger voters, the same groups that helped put him in office. ...
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International Business Times
| 12 months ago
If someone asks you which candidate, President Barack Obama or Republican Party nominee-designate Mitt Romney, is likely to benefit more, electorally, from the U.S. Supreme to uphold the U.S. health care reform act, mention to him/her, "It may have...
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The Hill
| 12 months ago
Shame on you, Barack Obama," Clinton says at the close of the ad. The footage is from the 2008 Democratic presidential primary, when Clinton was challenging Obama for the nomination. The Romney ad will air in six swing states and is designed to blunt...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 12 months ago
Barack Obama is not a man given to public displays of emotion but one imagines there were a few "high fives" in the Oval Office shortly after 10am yesterday (Thursday) when news came through that the US Supreme Court had upheld his signature health...
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The New York Times
| 12 months ago
For all its weight, however, the judgment does little to settle the bitter decades-long debate over the proper role of government in American life. That debate rages on, with the next acid test only four months away an election that will give voters...
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Los Angeles Times
| 12 months ago
While President Obama celebrated a victory on policy, the Obama campaign is treating the Supreme Court's decision on healthcare reform as another chance to raise questions Mitt Romney 's record and his plans for the country and calling his response...
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OpenSecrets.org
| 12 months ago
Campaign finance disclosures released last week by the presidential campaigns, parties and one of the joint fundraising committees raised a lot of eyebrows and generated speculation about the financial challenge facing the President's reelection...
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The New York Times
| 12 months ago
Taken aback by the court's ruling, Mr. Romney and Congressional Republicans quickly pledged to press forward with seeking to repeal the law and to hold Democrats accountable, a strategy that conservatives believe will help energize their voters in...
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Newton Daily News
| 12 months ago
Vice President Joe Biden wrapped up a second day of Iowa campaigning on Wednesday, capping a trip that blended old-fashioned retail politics with ramped-up criticism of presumed Republican nominee Mitt Romney. In his final stop of the day before...
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Washington Post
| 12 months ago
What the court did not do on its last day in session, I will do on my first day as president, and that is, I will act to repeal Obamacare, Romney said. He avoided criticizing the Supreme Court, taking aim instead at the Affordable Care Act and the...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 12 months ago
Barack Obama re-election campaign received a significant boost on Wednesday as two new polls showed him pulling ahead of Mitt Romney, his Republican challenger, in the key battleground states that will decide November's general election. Despite a...
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Towleroad
| 12 months ago
There are red flags for the Obama campaign, considering Latinos and young voters appear to be among the least enthused so far and down in big numbers from 2008. And there are things for the Romney campaign to look at, particularly when it comes to...
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The New York Times
| 12 months ago
Archive Recent Posts June 28 Political news from today's Times, plus a look at what's happening in Washington. June 28 A Democratic group uncovered what it said was fresh evidence of Mitt Romney's one-time embrace of the individual mandate he now...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 12 months ago
Mr. Romney has closed a bit of ground in the state since Quinnipiac's study in early May, which may help explain why Mr. Obama plans his first bus tour of the campaign late next week, with stops in northern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania after...
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Kansas City Star
| 12 months ago
President Barack Obama will address the National Urban League Conference on July 25 in New Orleans.The conference by one of the nation's oldest civil rights organizations is focused on increasing employment for African-Americans, who now face a...
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National Public Radio
| 12 months ago
New polls show that President Obama's shift in deportation policy appears to have had the intended effect of boosting his support among Latino voters, many of whom have been adrift since 2008 and uninterested in the presidential election. Obama has...
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Fox News
| 12 months ago
FoxNews.com In a tight presidential race that both candidates say will turn on the economy, majorities of American voters believe neither has a plan to improve things. A new Fox News poll released Wednesday shows that by a 14 percentage-point...
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The Washington Times
| 12 months ago
Thomas Marshall, the former governor of Indiana who served as Woodrow Wilson's vice president from 1913-1921, quipped, Once there were two brothers. One ran away to sea; the other was elected vice president of the United States...His successor to the...
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The Hill
| 12 months ago
My guess is they're not sleeping real well at the White House tonight that's the way it ought to be, Romney said of the pending decision during a campaign speech in Virginia. The Republican presidential candidate called the health care reform...
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National Public Radio
| 12 months ago
Ever since the Washington Post published a widely read piece last week whose central premise was that when Mitt Romney ran Bain Capital the firm invested in companies that shipped U.S. jobs abroad, President Obama, Vice President Biden and other...
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Money Morning
| 12 months ago
President Barack Obama's chances for re-election in 2012 are increasingly tied to the fate of the U.S. economy , poll results show...The barrage of bad news has included: An uptick in unemployment from 8.1% to 8.2%; A 700-plus point drop in the "The...
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Newsbusters
| 12 months ago
It might sound ridiculous, but Time magazine writer Michael Crowley actually grumbled in an article on Monday that the GOP presidential candidate is One-Note Mitt Romney, whose campaign defines this year's election as merely a referendum on Obama's...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 12 months ago
The Democrat is scheduled to do his first bus tour of the campaign, probably starting in northern Ohio on July 5 and crossing the state border into Pennsylvania afterwards. It follows a bus trip Republican challenger Mitt Romney made through the two...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 12 months ago
06/27/2012 01:56:46 PM PDT Updated: 06/27/2012 01:56:47 PM PDT If the presidential campaign were a TV program, it would have been canceled by now. Viewers have clicked off, stupefied by a campaign that has one overriding issue, the economy, and...
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Los Angeles Times
| 12 months ago
President Obama 's shift on immigration has boosted the president's support in a few key battleground states, with a new poll placing the president and his revised policy ahead of Mitt Romney in Pennsylvania and Ohio, while Obama holds a slight...
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Voice of America
| 12 months ago
June 27, 2012 In the U.S. presidential race, two new public opinion surveys contain some good news for President Barack Obama as he looks ahead to the November election and his presumptive Republican opponent, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt...
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NY Daily News
| 12 months ago
Team Obama awoke to some good news on Wednesday, with two new polls showing President Barack Obama leading Republican rival Mitt Romney in key battleground states. A Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday showed Obama beating Romney in Florida,...
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Vanity Fair
| 12 months ago
A new poll out of the quadrennially important states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida has President Obama leading Mitt Romney by six percent, nine percent, and four percent, respectively. Talking Points Memo reports that while voters in all three...
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SF Gate
| 12 months ago
With just over four months to go, polls underscore what's been clear for some time: President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney are locked in a neck-and-neck race in a closely divided nation...The gap was within the poll's margin of error...
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The Hindu
| 12 months ago
The well-worn stereotype of Democrats being more cautious about India than Republicans are raised its head again this week, as both U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden slammed election rival Mitt Romney for outsourcing American...
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Washington Post
| 12 months ago
A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll out Wednesday suggests that in key swing states, President Obama 's ad campaigns against former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney are working. While nationally the two rivals are locked in a dead heat, in 12...
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Washington Post
| 12 months ago
President Obama 's decision to exempt young illegal immigrants from deportation may not be the electoral boon it's cracked up to be. And in fact, it appears to be turning off more voters than it mobilizes in three key states, according to new polling...
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Washington Post
| 12 months ago
Majorities of Americans say neither President Obama nor Mitt Romney has a clear plan to fix the nation's problems, according to a Gallup poll released Wednesday , a signal that neither candidate has made a successful case to be president in 2013. In...
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The Naples Daily News
| 12 months ago
AP Barack Obama and Mitt Romney (AP photos) Voters in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania support President Barack Obama's new immigration policy and are divided on whether the president or Gov. Mitt Romney would be better for their personal economic...
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Fox News
| 12 months ago
FoxNews.com President Obama is holding on to a narrow lead over Mitt Romney nationally but is performing better in the battleground states that traditionally decide presidential elections, a pair of new polls showed Tuesday. A Wall Street Journal/...
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The Hill
| 12 months ago
A campaign official confirmed the planned trip, which will be Obama's first of the 2012 cycle, to The Hill. The two-day trip is expected to begin July 5th, according to the Associated Press, which first reported the story. The tour is expected to...
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USA Today
| 12 months ago
The two-day trip starts on July 5, and takes the presidential entourage through northern Ohio and western Pennsylvania; the specific schedule is still being developed. Expect to hear Obama bash Republican Mitt Romney over outsourcing, in communities...
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Daily Nation
| 12 months ago
US President Barack Obama has taken the lead over Republican rival Mitt Romney in the three biggest swing states of the 2012 election, according to a new poll released Wednesday. The latest Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll puts the president in...
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Boston Globe
| 12 months ago
President Obama won New Hampshire by nearly 10 percentage points in 2008, and even now, his advantage lingers. On a sweltering day last week, his phone bank volunteers outnumbered Romney's backers by 3 to 1 at their respective state headquarters. But...
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The News & Observer
| 12 months ago
Do not use profanity, hate speech, threats, personal abuse, images, internet links or any device to draw undue attention...Republicans pick challenger over Sullivan Navy pilot Jim Bridenstine has defeated five-term incumbent John Sullivan to capture...
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AP Online
| 12 months ago
Sen. Orrin Hatch won the GOP primary in Utah on Tuesday, handily turning back a challenge from tea party forces hoping to jolt the Republican Party again by defeating an incumbent who occasionally strayed from the movement's focus on shrinking the...
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The Salt Lake City Tribune
| 12 months ago
Mitt Romney, the de facto Republican presidential nominee, shocked nobody Tuesday, cruising toward a dominant win, capturing more than 90 percent of the vote in early returns. The Romney victory in Utah's last-in-the-nation primary was emphatic, but...
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Virginian-Pilot Online
| 12 months ago
Mitt Romney has won the Utah Republican presidential primary, the last contest of a primary season that started with a crowded field in January and ended with Romney the only candidate campaigning for votes. Romney already had more than enough...
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Wyckoff Suburban News
| 12 months ago
Governor Christie stood alongside Mitt Romney before a $50,000-a-plate fundraising dinner on Tuesday and predicted that New Jersey is going to be Mitt Romney Country. The proclamation may be overly optimistic; most polls show President Obama leading...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 12 months ago
News about Seattle City Hall, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, Washington Governor Christine Gregoire, Seattle and King County government and more President Obama holds onto a 47-44 percent lead over Mitt Romney in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal...
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The New York Times
| 12 months ago
Other volunteers entered information from the calls into computers which voters would support President Obama , which were undecided and why thereby expanding the VoteBuilder database instantly accessible at his campaign's state headquarters in...
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USA Today
| 12 months ago
Presented with a list of eight personal characteristics that could describe the candidates, 81% of respondents said Obama "is likable;" 64% said the same of Romney. Likability topped the list of attributes for both candidates. "Overall," the Gallup...
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Los Angeles Times
| 12 months ago
Previewing his response to this week's expected decision on the nation's healthcare law, Mitt Romney told supporters in southwestern Virginia on Tuesday that healthcare is a matter of states' rights and personal responsibility and that he'd block the...
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USA Today
| 12 months ago
The first summit is July 1 in Denver, Colorado, one of several states where the women's vote could be decisive. The Obama campaign panel features Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to Obama; Kate Chapek, the national women's vote director for the...
