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Los Angeles Times
| 11 months ago
President Obama 's response to rival Mitt Romney 's repeated requests for those two little words was clear on Saturday. As the president campaigned across Virginia, Obama kept up the attacks on Romney's tenure at Bain Capital , accusing the...
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Al Jazeera English
| 11 months ago
33 President Barack Obama meets a young girl in the audience during a campaign rally in Glen Allen, Virginia [Reuters] An unrelenting President Barack Obama has jabbed at Republican candidate Mitt Romney's record with a private equity firm in fresh...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
Alex Wong/Getty Images President Barack Obama continued to needle Mitt Romney over claims he sent jobs overseas while at Bain Capital, despite demands for an apology by the Republican candidate. Shaking off a downpour that left him sodden, Obama told...
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The New York Times
| 11 months ago
Mr. Obama, speaking to a drenched crowd during a downpour in this Richmond suburb, accused Mr. Romney of investing in companies that have been called pioneers in outsourcing. He ignored the demands for an apology about the campaign's tone that Mr.
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USA Today
| 11 months ago
as Romney sings Updated Mitt Romney does all the talking in President Obama's latest campaign ad...The 30-second spot, which will run in nine swing states, uses Romney singing "America the Beautiful" from a Florida campaign appearance earlier this...
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The Courier-Mail
| 11 months ago
THE US presidential race grew increasingly hostile and bitteryesterday with US President Barack Obama releasing an attack ad in which he denounced Republican rival Mitt Romney for shipping jobs abroad. Mr Obama, who with a stubborn unemployment rate...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
A new Obama campaign ad hits Mitt Romney on a familiar theme the presumptive GOP nominee's tenure in private equity and his offshore accounts but this time appears to make a pointed jab at Romney's patriotism...The audio of the ad is from Romney...
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Houston Chronicle
| 11 months ago
Va. (AP) Mitt Romney insists that he stepped down from his private equity firm years earlier than federal records indicate, but President Barack Obama is more than a little skeptical and says his Republican rival has much to explain. Obama campaign...
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Los Angeles Times
| 11 months ago
To say the Obama campaign is undeterred by Mitt Romney 's harsh criticism of its attacks of his business record would be an understatement. The president's reelection effort launched a dramatic new television advertisement Saturday that sets Romney's...
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Des Moines Register
| 11 months ago
Singing is the only sound in the Obama campaign's latest attack ad, except for the president saying he approved the message. The new TV advertisement again levels charges of outsourcing a theme that has triggered accusations of lying from both sides...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
The new ad opens with footage of Romney singing America, America at a campaign rally in Florida in January, ahead of that state's GOP primary. While Romney sings in the background, the ad runs clips from news reports about Romney's tenure at private...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Mitt Romney isn't even the official Republican presidential nominee yet -- it won't be certified until the Republican National Convention in August -- but his campaign may already be virtually over. Share This Story Scrutiny of Romney's years at the...
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National Public Radio
| 11 months ago
July 14, 2012 Republican Mitt Romney sat for a hastily arranged flurry of TV interviews Friday. Romney strongly denied he had any role in running Bain Capital at a time when, according to reports, the company invested in firms that outsourced jobs...
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Asian Tribune
| 11 months ago
05 editor Former National Security adviser Condoleezza dropped a bomb stating it is time for all of us, in any way we can, to mobilize, get our act together, and storm Washington, D.C. Speculation shot up that she would give an impetus to the...
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The Pheonix
| 11 months ago
Today's front-page Globe story throws Mitt Romney's shadow years at Bain (as I called them last week) into the national media spotlight...The Globe story adds some additional evidence to what has been pretty evident for many years: when he left for...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
In this July 11, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks in Houston, Texas. President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney's campaigns traded accusations of lying Thursday, ratcheting...
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NY Daily News
| 11 months ago
Rick Santorum will finally campaign for Mitt Romney this weekend, a sign that the frosty relations between the former Republican rivals may be thawing. Santorum, who repeatedly hammered Romney during the bitter GOP primary season, will appear at the...
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The Progressive
| 11 months ago
Subscribers can log in and access digital editions and our archive...Romney was booed when he labeled President Obama's Affordable Care Act as nonessential and expensive. The Republican candidate chose the wrong audience for that boilerplate. He was...
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CNN
| 11 months ago
EDT, Thu July 12, 2012 (CNN) -- Don Harwell has not spoken to his twin brother in 10 years. "As I remember it, the discussion was (that) the Book of Mormon was a lie, " Harwell said via phone. His brother, a born-again Baptist, was speaking about his...
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National Public Radio
| 11 months ago
He quickly tackled one issue that drew Romney sustained boos the 2010 health care overhaul. Biden appeared in place of President Obama, who made a brief videotaped address thanking the group for its work. He walked out to warm applause, and several...
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Canadian Free Press
| 11 months ago
The candidate immediately threw red meat to the African-American crowd when he promised to repeal ObamaCare and cut non-essential spending. The lions reacted with a lusty chorus of boos that caused Romney to pause for 15 seconds, after which he...
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USA Today
| 11 months ago
His fundraisers include dozens of current and former executives of the consulting and private-equity firms he ran. Republican stalwarts, including former U.S. ambassador to Belgium Sam Fox, have joined the fundraising circuit...Louis businessman,...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Wednesday afternoon in Washington, the Republican-dominated House of Representatives voted to repeal President Barack Obama's health care plan. While that might sound like a grand gesture, it's in fact the 33rd time the GOP has voted to defund,...
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Truthdig
| 11 months ago
Jul 11, 2012 Could it be that Mitt Romney is correct from a strategic point of view to tell us little about what he'd do as president? There are, of course, excellent civic reasons for a candidate to say where he or she would lead the country. But...
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Boston Globe
| 11 months ago
President Obama has just kicked off round two of the tax-cut debate and that means it's time for some big-picture perspective on the duel of ideas that will characterize this campaign. The GOP won round one back in the 2010 lame-duck session, when...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
Priorities USA Action and the Service Employees International Union are out with a new round of Spanish-language ads attacking former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney with his own (out of context) words in Latino-heavy swing states. The Colorado ad...
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National Public Radio
| 11 months ago
But the former Massachusetts governor managed to absorb sustained booing after he said he'd eliminate "Obamacare" if elected, and delivered a speech that reached out a bit to African-Americans, while remaining consistent with his conservative...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
The Obama campaign and the press may be turning up the heat on Mitt Romney to release new information on tax returns, but the Republican presidential candidate has adamantly skirted the issue -- and continues to do -- to the point that his surrogates...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Wednesday, a video of the crowd booing the Republican presidential nominee had already made its way around the web. Share This Story Romney asserted that he would repeal "non-essential" programs that do not promote job growth, including President...
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SF Gate
| 11 months ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney drew jeers from black voters Wednesday as he criticized President Barack Obama and pledged to repeal the Democrats ' health care overhaul. Democratic incumbent, who won their overwhelming support in 2008,...
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Los Angeles Times
| 11 months ago
Mitt Romney is now out-raising President Obama 's campaign money machine, the most prodigious in history. But nervousness has crept into Republican ranks because the unofficial nominee hasn't fully defined himself in voters' minds something the...
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Mother Jones
| 11 months ago
The GOP presidential candidate is speaking to the nation's oldest civil rights organization on Wednesday...Massachusetts, he may receive a particularly unpleasant reception...In one of his early acts as governor, Romney dumped the state's office of...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
Conservative pundits are pushing the former Massachusetts governor to plug in some policy gaps, but others in GOP circles including members of Congress don't see an urgent need for the presumptive nominee to shift course. Republican strategists told...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 11 months ago
Breaking News Romney may name running mate early in US election race US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney acknowledged on Tuesday he is considering naming his choice to serve as vice presidential running mate earlier than usual to better...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that 91 percent of Obama voters are enthusiastic, compared with 85 percent of Romney supporters...Fifty-one percent of Obama backers are very enthusiastic, compared to 38 percent of Romney backers. When we...
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Vanity Fair
| 11 months ago
A new Washington Post ABC News poll has President Obama in a dead heat with his challenger, life-size crosswalk-sign figure Mitt Romney. The draw represents no change from where the race stood a few months ago. The Washington Post reports : A pair of...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
Listen, I'm going to be enthusiastic about voting for Gov. Romney in November, and I think the American people will be enthusiastic about voting for Gov. Romney in November, Boehner told reporters after a closed-door House GOP conference meeting. At...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
Romney and Obama are tied, with each taking support from 47 percent of registered voters in the new national poll from The Washington Post and ABC News, released late Monday. But more people disapprove of Obama's handling of the economy than...
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United Press International
| 11 months ago
President Obama and presumptive Republican challenger Mitt Romney are deadlocked in their bid to be U.S. president, a Washington Post-ABC News poll indicated. The two tied at 47 percent among registered voters, results released Monday indicated.
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Canadian Free Press
| 11 months ago
So, having come out of a passionate background, I tend to seek out other passionate people with whom to associate. Lord knows, I have found manyespecially in the legendary blogosphere! I bring this up because I am concerned that the GOP candidate...
