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Arizona Daily Sun
| 9 months ago
The Associated Press The Associated Press 1 hour ago Associated Press Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan defended himself Tuesday against lingering questions about the accuracy of some of his recent statements. In interviews, Ryan...
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Boston Globe
| 9 months ago
N.C. (AP) Democrats ridiculed Republican Mitt Romney as a man who quite simply doesn't get it'' and worse Tuesday on the opening night of a national convention aimed at propelling Barack Obama to a second term in the White House despite high...
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
He has never really acknowledged that he made mistakes other than saying he didn't do an adequate job telling a better story about his accomplishments. Nor has he explained very well why his policies haven't wrenched the economy out of its current...
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Los Angeles Times
| 9 months ago
With Mitt Romney lying low on the opening day of the Democratic National Convention, Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan pounded President Obama's economic record on Tuesday and tried to blunt a new round of expected attacks on Romney's...
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Examiner
| 9 months ago
The first thing that stands out to me is the fact that Obama is everywhere. Barely a surface goes unmolested by an O, his picture or his name. This is in stark contrast to the Republican Convention, where the gift shop contained lots of elephant and...
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The Columbus Dispatch
| 9 months ago
Ohio Given that it's Democratic National Convention week, GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan thought he'd weigh in on what President Barack Obama will or won't say in Thursday's acceptance speech. We're going to hear the president say lots of...
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Fox News
| 9 months ago
If you want to understand why President Obama has run such a scorchingly negative campaign, consider this: In a new poll conducted for The Hill, only 40 percent of likely voters said they felt Obama deserves a second term. Fifty-two percent said he...
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NY Daily News
| 9 months ago
Reuters President Obama, seen after touring Hurricane Isaac damage and recovery efforts in Louisiana, needs to convince voters why they shouldn't kick him out of the White House in November. The President becomes one more American this week,...
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Taiwan News
| 9 months ago
Travel & Delicacy Beauty never Ends Ecological Environment Taiwan News, Staff Writer 2012-09-04 02:42 PM Democrats assemble Tuesday to re-nominate Barack Obama for the presidency, to sell him as the wise and humane alternative to Republican...
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SF Gate
| 9 months ago
As they begin their national convention Tuesday, Democrats are offering a new twist on their answer to the question GOP nominee Mitt Romney posed during last week's Republican convention: Are you better off than you were four years ago? The Democrats'...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 9 months ago
As they watch the political stagecraft, there may be only one thing all Americans can agree on: Deep concern over the struggling American economy that has made only a halting recovery from the Great Recession and near meltdown of the US financial...
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Chicago Tribune
| 9 months ago
Then set your watch and see how long before the child is lying back to you. We're confronted right now with a growing wave of political dishonesty, and there are two specific reasons why that angers me...They're my sons, and if I teach them nothing...
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The Globe & Mail
| 9 months ago
Paul Ryan at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Aug. 29, 2012. Reuters video video The findings were from the seventh day of a rolling online poll conducted for Reuters by Ipsos to judge voters' attitudes around the political...
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The Courier-Mail
| 9 months ago
Barack Obama has told Americans to punt away Mitt Romney's economic game plan, in a new swipe at his Republican rival on the road to this week's Democratic National Convention. Obama surrounded himself with union members in Ohio, the crucial swing...
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Boston Globe
| 9 months ago
The surrogate, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, answered no on Sunday when CBS Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer asked if Americans are better off now than they were when Obama took office. O'Malley attempted a quick pivot, declaring that's not...
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Fox News
| 9 months ago
David Axelrod, senior campaign adviser to President Obama, in an interview with Bloomberg News, discussing expectations for this week's Democratic National Convention. Democrats are casting about today for the right answer to the question of whether...
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Spiked
| 9 months ago
The campaign to re-elect President Obama has spent the entire summer attacking Republican candidate Mitt Romney in personal terms. According to the Obama camp's outlook, Romney is a financial bloodsucker who spent his career destroying companies for...
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Epoch Times
| 9 months ago
September 2, 2012 Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney waves on stage during the final day of the Republican National Convention at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Tampa, Fla., Aug. 30. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)...
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Truthdig
| 9 months ago
Combining the lessons of this highly public briefing with what's already known about the Romney strategy defines the Charlotte Imperative...Romney has been stung by the attacks on his career at Bain Capital and knows he has a serious likability...
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Los Angeles Times
| 9 months ago
President Obama's deputy campaign manager lit into Republicans on Sunday, saying their convention was marked by personal attacks and empty platitudes that left the impression they really think that lying is a virtue. Stephanie Cutter told CBS's Face...
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Newsbusters
| 9 months ago
But thrice was the number of times that President Obama's senior adviser refused to answer the question as to whether this country is now better off than four years ago. Perhaps Plouffe thought he would get all softball questions from the host of ABC'...
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The Hill
| 9 months ago
Gibbs said that no one in the campaign expects the level of enthusiasm Obama generated in the historic 2008 election. "Nobody is sitting up here saying this is 2008," he said. Campaign aides have said repeatedly they expect the election to be "close,"...
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The Hill
| 9 months ago
It's a prediction in line with a promise made by the GOP presidential ticket. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan each pledged in their speeches during the GOP convention that they would create 12 million jobs...
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Boston Globe
| 9 months ago
At the same time, the incumbent must fight back against what Democrats say are gross distortions of his record by the Republicans and reinstill in voters some of the inspirational message that propelled him into office four years ago. After months of...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
President Barack Obama takes his campaign to the Rocky Mountain state of Colorado Sunday as he and Republican challenger Mitt Romney fight for votes in key battleground states that will determine the outcome of the November election. The president...
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Taiwan News
| 9 months ago
A fired-up President Barack Obama lampooned the just-completed Republican National Convention for taking the country backwards and being better-suited to an era of black-and-white TV as he embarked Saturday on a tour through battleground states in...
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Los Angeles Times
| 9 months ago
Fla.Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his running mate, making stops in Ohio and Florida Saturday, continued to attack President Obama's job-creation record. Romney, who has promised to create 12 million jobs with his economic plan...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 9 months ago
I sat through three days of speeches at the Republican convention here, but I confess that my mind often drifted off to thinking about Neil Armstrong, the first person to set foot on the moon. Armstrong's death really touched me, especially...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 9 months ago
Democrats hold their national convention in Charlotte next week, Mitt Romney will be off the trail preparing for this fall's debates with President Barack Obama. The Republican nominee will spend Sunday and Monday at his vacation home in Wolfeburo, N.
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Boston Globe
| 9 months ago
Unveiling a new campaign speech, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney vowed Saturday to lead America to a winning season'' and insisted that his party would stick to the promises of fiscal responsibility that it had abandoned in the past. We'...
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Saturday persistent unemployment is a sign the United States needs "a new coach." Campaigning in Cincinnati as the college football season gets under way, Romney used football imagery when he said 23...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 9 months ago
Mitt Romney sprinkled his stump speech Saturday with sports analogies, arguing it's time to put a "new coach" on the field to get America back in the game. Speaking at a rally inside a historic train station here, Romney reminded his audience of...
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USA Today
| 9 months ago
GOP agenda 'better suited for the last century' Updated President Obama launched his "Road to Charlotte" tour in Iowa today by saying this week's Republican convention in Florida offered "an agenda that was better suited for the last century."
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 9 months ago
Romney's success is all the more impressive because the Republican convention, now dominated by the hard right of the Republican Party, is a hard crowd for a man who has spent years erasing traces of his moderate background...It's a theme that goes...
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The Columbus Dispatch
| 9 months ago
Hoarse from the week that was and interrupted by a bone-rattling outpouring of support, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney delivered a short speech this morning at the city's old Union Terminal train station. Not lost on him that today is...
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Arizona Republic
| 9 months ago
Listening to Republicans, a vote for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan is imperative to save the nation. "The republic of Washington and Jefferson is now in danger of becoming the democracy of debt and despair," Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul told delegates at the...
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Los Angeles Times
| 9 months ago
As he has campaigned for president, Mitt Romney has made one thing clear: In his first term he would try to dramatically shrink the size of government to wean Americans from what he views as too much reliance on the federal government for basic...
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National Public Radio
| 9 months ago
Republicans admit they had taken as a given a 2008 North Carolina victory by Sen. John McCain...No Democratic presidential candidate had won the state since Jimmy Carter in 1976. But as McCain learned to his grief, history isn't always destiny. Obama'...
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The Columbus Dispatch
| 9 months ago
What was a trial balloon last week in Powell is now a national battle cry for Republicans...We don't apologize for it, GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney said to the country during his televised acceptance speech on Thursday night at the packed...
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The Globe & Mail
| 9 months ago
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney waves as he arrives onstage to accept the nomination during the final session of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, August 30, 2012. Reuters Multimedia Republican vice presidential...
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The Globe & Mail
| 9 months ago
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, right, celebrates with vice-presidential runningmate Rep. Paul Ryan after accepting the nomination during the final session of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Aug. 30, 2012. Actor...
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SF Gate
| 9 months ago
The day after accepting the Republican Party 's presidential nomination, Mitt Romney abruptly canceled a campaign appearance in a crucial swing state Friday to tour a flood-ravaged area of the Louisiana bayou near New Orleans, visiting victims of...
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The New York Times
| 9 months ago
After a brief campaign rally in Lakeland, Fla., with his running mate, Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, Mr. Romney touched down here in his new campaign plane on Friday afternoon and met with Gov. Bobby Jindal and Senator David Vitter, both...
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NY1
| 9 months ago
The Republican National Convention is now officially over and Mitt Romney is officially the Republican nominee. NY1's Zack Fink wraps up the convention in the following report. The convention was sometimes predictable, such as Mitt Romney saying in...
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The Washington Times
| 9 months ago
In the run-up to the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., Democrats and their fellow travelers in the liberal media claimed that the GOP was waging a war against women, depicted Mitt Romney as a heartless felon responsible for the death of...
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Associated Press
| 9 months ago
The Republican convention propelled Mitt Romney into the fall campaign on a high note, thanks to his well-received acceptance speech, an appealing cast of future party leaders and a relentless drumbeat of criticism of President Barack Obama's record...
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Austin America-Statesman/Texas Longhorns
| 9 months ago
Texas His convention turn coming fast, President Barack Obama on Friday began sprinting toward his one of his last, best shots to win over voters, ready to promise better days even for those who do not feel better off. Rival Mitt Romney, flush with...
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Inquirer.net
| 9 months ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (right) and vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan wave from the stage on the final day of the Republican National Convention. Romney accepted the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday by making a...
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The Globe & Mail
| 9 months ago
Actor Clint Eastwood addresses the final session of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., Aug. 30, 2012. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, right, and vice-presidential running mate Rep. Paul Ryan wave to the crowd after Mr.
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Money Morning
| 9 months ago
At the Republican National Convention Wednesday night vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan, R-WI, rallied the crowd, saying presidential hopeful Mitt Romney "will not duck the tough issues" if elected. He added that a Republican administration...
