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Fox News
| 9 months ago
8 percent unemployment, and economic growth of 1.7 percent. That projection for 2013 was embedded in a sprawling economic report released this week by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, and it underscored how dire the economic forecast...
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NY Daily News
| 9 months ago
There is a saying that politics ain't beanbag, referring to the hostile nature that is often encountered in the throes of campaigns and elections. And though we've seen fierce battles in past, most recently between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in...
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
Likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said he would replace Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke when his term expires in 2014. Bernanke, a professor at Princeton University in New Jersey, was appointed to a four-year term as Fed...
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USA Today
| 9 months ago
In an electorate that is evenly split, the survey shows President Obama with an advantage in the intensity of his support, but Republican Mitt Romney with an edge in voter enthusiasm. Obama is preferred on handling Medicare and taxes, issues in the...
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Kevin M.D. Medical Blog
| 9 months ago
How is that, you say? Isn't the Romney/Ryan vision of how to reform health care diametrically opposed to that of Obama? Yes . . . and no. Romney and Ryan both propose to convert Medicare from an open-ended, defined benefit program to a defined...
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Voice of America
| 9 months ago
August 23, 2012 Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney will be formally nominated next week as the Republican Party's presidential candidate at the party's convention in Tampa, Florida. The Republican ticket for 2012: Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.
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National Public Radio
| 9 months ago
Ask your average American about Florida, and you'll hear something like this: It's hot, it has Disney World, and lots of old people live there. And since the weather and Mickey Mouse don't make good attack ads, both presidential campaigns are trying...
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The Journal Gazette
| 9 months ago
Our life was not characterized by financial stress as much as it was by health issues. I served as a pastor of a congregation and saw people with various challenges and did my best to help them. I believe my experience in the private sector, the...
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CNN
| 9 months ago
With Ron Paul having struck a deal over the seating of his delegates at the Republican convention and the likelihood of a dramatic floor challenge fading, his supporters are now thinking beyond the national political gathering next week in Tampa. "I...
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Voice of America
| 9 months ago
August 23, 2012 The next major phase of the U.S. presidential election campaign is about to begin with the Republican and Democratic National conventions. Republicans will meet in Tampa, Florida, beginning Monday to formally nominate Mitt Romney. ...
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SF Gate
| 9 months ago
Obama's plan was modeled on Romney's, which has made some conservatives wary of the former Massachusetts governor. Some GOP activists were angered when a Romney spokeswoman touted the Massachusetts plan on Fox News earlier this month. In Thursday's...
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Sun Sentinel
| 9 months ago
Select a date range Create a custom date range From: To: William E...EDT , August 23, 2012 Paul Ryan may have helped Mitt Romney tighten the presidential race in Florida, but his Medicare plan is not faring well with voters. A Quinnipiac University/...
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Voice of America
| 9 months ago
Suzanne Presto August 23, 2012 Republican voters and political analysts alike have accused Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney of being stiff, out-of-touch and willing to compromise his political beliefs when pressured. The same cannot be...
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Los Angeles Times
| 9 months ago
The first poll of Pennsylvania voters since Mitt Romney selected Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) found the new Republican ticket did nothing to improve Romney's chances in the state, whose 20 electoral votes make it one of the biggest election-night prizes.
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Star Tribune
| 9 months ago
Rep. Paul Ryan as a running mate helped him slightly with some likely voters in three critical swing states although not enough to overtake President Barack Obama, who hung onto a slight advantage in Ryan's home state of Wisconsin, according to a...
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Los Angeles Times
| 9 months ago
With his running mate in place and his nominating convention looming, Republican Mitt Romney narrowly trails President Obama , according to a new nationwide poll of likely voters. Obama leads 48% to 45% among all registered voters in the survey and...
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The Columbus Dispatch
| 9 months ago
Dispatch.com regularly will post letters to the editor that don't make it to print in The Dispatch. Unlike letters to the editor that appear in the newspaper, Web-only letters have not been edited...Obama President Obama was in Columbus this week,...
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The Economic Times
| 9 months ago
President Barack Obama clearly leads his Republican rival Mitt Romney in the battleground of Ohio but the race has tightened considerably in two other key states ahead of the November 6 elections, a new poll said Thursday. Obama continues to enjoy a...
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The Olympia
| 9 months ago
Middle class share of America's income shrinking Middle class share of America's income shrinking The middle class is receiving less of America's total income, declining to its smallest share in decades as median wages stagnate in the economic...
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The New York Times
| 9 months ago
The Medicare debate was catapulted to the forefront of the presidential campaign this month when Mitt Romney announced that his running mate would be Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, who is perhaps best known for proposing a budget plan,...
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
Presumptive Republican U.S. presidential nominee Mitt Romney Thursday outlined proposals for energy independence by 2020, with an emphasis on fossil fuels. In a summary of his energy platform white paper provided by his campaign, Romney lays out a...
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
The U.S. economy is in the midst of "the Obama imaginary recovery," presumptive Republican vice presidential hopeful Paul Ryan said out on the stump Wednesday. Rallying supporters at SMT Inc., a sheet metal company in Raleigh, N.C., the Wisconsin...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 9 months ago
Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan inspired a crowd of a several thousand people Wednesday afternoon with the message that GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has the experience and vision to fix the country. At the rally at the...
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The independent
| 9 months ago
Right now, everything should be going his way: a highly vulnerable opponent, forced to defend the most anaemic recovery from a recession in three-quarters of a century, and excitement building ahead of one of American politics' defining rituals, the...
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PRWeb
| 9 months ago
Want to know why Romney is raising more money than Obama? The answer may lie in which candidate do millionaires prefer in this upcoming Presidential Election. SeekingArrangement.com, the world’s largest sugar daddy dating website, posed this...
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The Guardian
| 9 months ago
Ryan, a pro-life supporter, supports abortion with an exception for when the mother's life is threatened. Photograph: Jack Dempsey/AP Photograph: Jack Dempsey/AP Paul Ryan attempted to draw a line under the Republican party's abortion row by saying...
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The News & Observer
| 9 months ago
Do not use profanity, hate speech, threats, personal abuse, images, internet links or any device to draw undue attention...Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan inspired a crowd of a several thousand people Wednesday afternoon with the...
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USA Today
| 9 months ago
Look deeper on the Wisconsin House member's list of priorities, military and foreign policy experts say, and you'll see a commitment to standard GOP principles: support for robust Pentagon spending and opposition to President Obama 's foreign policy.
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
When CNN's Peter Hamby tweeted earlier this month that Rep. Paul Ryan told Milwaukee magazine he once had a black girlfriend, that biographical tidbit piece was sure to draw notice. Whenever a sensitive issue like race comes up around the vice...
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The New York Times
| 9 months ago
Mr. Ryan, who has proposed a controversial voucher program for Medicare, accused Mr. Obama of being the bigger threat because of savings wrung from the growth of spending in the program contained in the president's health care overhaul of 2010. He...
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Voice of America
| 9 months ago
VOA News August 22, 2012 President Barack Obama says teachers and students are suffering from cuts in U.S. state budgets, and he says his Republican opponent's plans to reduce government spending would hurt them more. Obama told a campaign rally in...
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
Clark County had an average class size of 32 pupils last year, the highest among the nation's top 20 largest school districts, and an additional 419 teachers were laid off this summer, according to the Las Vegas Review Journal. I've got a question...
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Los Angeles Times
| 9 months ago
Rep. Paul Ryan shrugged off differences with Mitt Romney on abortion policy Wednesday, saying Romney's views, while more moderate than his, were "a good step in the right direction." Ryan, the presumptive Republican vice presidential candidate under...
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
Romney supports abortion exceptions in cases of rape, incest or when the mother's life is endangered; Ryan does not...His policy is exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. I'm comfortable with it because it's a good step in the right...
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Kansas City Star
| 9 months ago
President Barack Obama says Mitt Romney's spending cuts would cripple schools while his tax cuts shower more breaks on millionaires.And he says Romney's running mate, Congressman Paul Ryan, has already helped thwart efforts to rehire teachers laid...
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London Review of Books
| 9 months ago
Short Cuts David Bromwich On 11 August, Mitt Romney stirred excitement in a dull election by announcing that he would share the Republican ticket with Paul Ryan: a seven-term congressman, chairman of the House Budget Committee and intellectual guru...
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CNN
| 9 months ago
ET Percent of the middle class who say Obama/Romney policies would help the wealthy, middle class and poor. President Obama and Mitt Romney both say they are focused on improving the lives of middle-class Americans, but a new poll suggests that the...
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CNSNews.com
| 9 months ago
In this June 1, 2012 file photo, Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis...Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's running mate, said Wednesday that despite Vice President Joe Biden's claims that the...
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USA Today
| 9 months ago
Paul Ryan won't explain 'forcible rape' language Updated GOP vice presidential contender Paul Ryan declined to explain what is meant by "forcible rape" in abortion legislation he co-sponsored with embattled Rep. Todd Akin. Ryan, a Wisconsin...
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Zee News
| 9 months ago
US President Barack Obama maintains a four point lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney, a latest opinion poll has said. The latest results, according to a leading media outlet, makes the Republican challenger within striking distance of the...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 9 months ago
N.C. (AP) Differences between Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan's positions this time on hot-button social issues were on display Wednesday as the GOP ticket found itself dragged into a debate over abortion. The vice presidential candidate emphasized anew...
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Boston Globe
| 9 months ago
An Associated Press/GfK poll published Wednesday shows 47 percent of registered voters back Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, while 46 percent support Romney and Ryan. The 1-point difference was within the survey's margin of error. While Ryan has...
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SF Gate
| 9 months ago
Va. (AP) GOP running mate Paul Ryan says President Obama's "you didn't build that" remark explains why the U.S. recovery has been so sluggish. At a campaign rally in Roanoke, Va., the Wisconsin congressman said it revealed Obama's "mindset" of...
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The Hill
| 9 months ago
Obama is raiding $716 billion from Medicare, changing the program forever. Raising taxes on families making less than $120,000," says the narrator in the ad. The ad goes on to tout the "Romney-Ryan" plan, saying that it will restore and protect...
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Teaneck Suburbanite
| 9 months ago
For all the attention it got, Republican Mitt Romney's selection of Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his running mate has not altered the race against President Barack Obama. The campaign remains neck and neck with less than three months to go, a new...
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Zee News
| 9 months ago
Indian American Republican heavyweight Bobby Jindal has thrown his support behind Mitt Romney and his Vice Presidential pick Paul Ryan, contending that their team represents "the preservation of the American dream".
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SF Gate
| 9 months ago
Mitt Romney 's presidential campaign Friday rejected a new call from the Obama team to release five years of tax returns, while trumpeting a surge in support for the Republican ticket since Romney chose Rep. Paul Ryan , R-Wis., as his running mate.
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Zee News
| 9 months ago
Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney has raised USD 10 million in a week after he roped in Congressman Paul Ryan as his running mate, his campaign said on Friday. According to a memo issued by his campaign, the Republican Presidential candidate...
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Pakistan Chronicle
| 9 months ago
Republicans seek to thwart Iowa's adopted son' Obama Published: August 17, 2012 The fact Obama spent three days in the state an inordinate amount of presidential time shows his campaign is in panic mode, a senior Romney advisor said US President...
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Newsbusters
| 9 months ago
One of the things Mitt Romney's selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate ensures is a series of polling questions over the coming months asking voters what's more important: creating jobs or cutting government spending; helping the economy or...
