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The Huffington Post
| 8 months ago
If the presidential election were literally a blood sport -- where candidates wailed on one another until a combatant conceded defeat -- President Barack Obama would have an advantage over rival GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a recent poll...
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The Hill
| 8 months ago
Romney and vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan had not begun receiving intelligence briefings similar to those the president and vice president receives a courtesy usually extended the opposing party's nominees once they are formally nominated. A...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Wis. (AP) Playing to a younger audience, Vice President Joe Biden is stressing differences between the presidential campaigns on education, college debt and entitlement programs more in doubt for future generations. Biden spoke Thursday to a crowd...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 8 months ago
The administration's first response was "not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions but to sympathise with those who waged attacks" .....Mitt Romney's claim that the Obama administration's response to attacks on US diplomatic missions was to ''...
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The Columbus Dispatch
| 8 months ago
Ohio Republican vice presidential hopeful Paul Ryan last night sharply criticized President Barack Obama's foreign policy in light of the attacks on U.S. embassies in Egypt and Libya. The administration sent mixed signals to those who attacked our...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
U.S. voters say they think President Obama is weaker on economic issues than Republican rival Mitt Romney , a United Press International poll indicated Thursday...Confirmed voters said they think Romney could better address oversight of the financial...
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NY Daily News
| 8 months ago
Voters in the solidly blue Empire State prefer Obama to Mitt Romney by a nearly two-to-one margin, a new Quinnipiac University poll has found . The president has the support of 62 percent of likely voters, while Romney was favored by just 34 percent.
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Courier & Press
| 8 months ago
Obama lying about Medicare Posted September 13, 2012 at 3 a.m. Jacqueline Jordan, Evansville Obama lying about Medicare's future The tiresome rhetoric of President Obama and his surrogates on the subject of Medicare is no longer acceptable or...
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The Jakarta Post
| 8 months ago
Obama used his nationally televised speech on Thursday, closing out the Democratic National Convention, to try to recapture the excitement that powered his first run to the presidency. Your comments: America can't afford to wait while Obama tries to...
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MarketWatch
| 8 months ago
In less than 60 days, U.S. voters will choose the next president. The financial community in Britain is paying close attention. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, right, with vice presidential running-mate Rep. Paul Ryan after accepting the...
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Politico
| 8 months ago
Democrats seem even more thrilled than Republicans about Paul Ryan's homecoming to Congress on Thursday. The Wisconsin Republican returns to the Capitol for the first time since presidential hopeful Mitt Romney tapped him as his running mate. And...
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The Dallas Morning News
| 8 months ago
Crises overseas tend to create moments of joint resolve back home, a time to pause from the daily bickering of partisan politics. But as news was streaming in from attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions in Egypt and Libya, Mitt Romney broke from that...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
Ryan stepped up his criticism of the White House response to the attacks on American envoys, backing up his running mate by echoing Mitt Romney 's assertion that the Obama administration gave mixed signals. Ryan's statement was more pointed here in...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
Mitt Romney has yet to begin receiving the security briefing typically afforded presidential nominees, his campaign said Wednesday. The absence of a briefing is conspicuous at a time when foreign policy has emerged as a the focal point of the...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
Obama strongly condemned the violence in Libya that killed the U.S. Ambassador, and said the United States was working with the Libyan government to bring the killers to justice. Fla., Sept. 12 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama said Wednesday Mitt...
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Gawker
| 8 months ago
Paul Ryan Spends Millions on TV Ads for House Race In the wake of Mitt Romney's horrible mishandling of last night's deadly attacks on U.S. diplomats in Libya and Egypt, many Americans are wondering if the millionaire Mormon is really presidential...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
In the aftermath of the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya, Republican vice presidential nominee Paul D. Ryan opened a town hall meeting questioning the administration's leadership, though he did not criticize the White House as...
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The Columbus Dispatch
| 8 months ago
Saying that there is no place in the civilized world for senseless murder, Vice President Joe Biden promised today that the slayers of four U.S. diplomats in Libya would be pursued and prosecuted. In his first public appearance after yesterday's...
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Vanity Fair
| 8 months ago
T here is a good reason why The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage calls unprecedented a dangerous word that should be avoided. There is really nothing new under the sun, except, perhaps, the Internet. So for much of this year, when even some...
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Fox News
| 8 months ago
FoxNews.com Mitt Romney on Wednesday stood by his criticism of the Obama administration for its early response to the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, even as he and President Obama mourned the murder of four Americans including the U.S.
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USA Today
| 8 months ago
The ad also makes reference to Romney's refusal to release more than two years of tax returns, saying: "He won't reveal what's in his taxes and he won't tell you what he'd do to yours."...The Romney campaign responded to the ad, noting that Obama...
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Newsbusters
| 8 months ago
The November elections are a Republican landslide begging to materialize, but will the GOP make it happen?...I'm not buying these negative polls, but to increase our chances, let's sharpen the message, not dilute it. A recent Fox News story reports...
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Newsbusters
| 8 months ago
After reading Ben White's "Morning Money" report at the Politico this morning, I went back to Real Clear Politics to make sure that I was up to date on the current polling. Currently, RCP has Barack Obama up by 3.2 points over Mitt Romney in an...
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The Onion
| 8 months ago
MAVisiting the home of running mate Mitt Romney today, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) was reportedly knocked to the floor by a pack of rambunctious, wet-nosed Romney boys, all five of whom jumped onto the vice presidential candidate as soon as he entered the...
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News 24
| 8 months ago
Americans are becoming more optimistic about the direction of the country, giving a boost to President Barack Obama in the final stretch of the race for the White House, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Wednesday. The telephone poll, conducted from 7-...
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Star Tribune
| 8 months ago
Republican Mitt Romney slammed the Obama administration's handling of foreign affairs after attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions in Egypt and Libya as foreign policy pushed to the front of the presidential campaign. Romney branded the administration's...
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The New York Observer
| 8 months ago
Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan hasn't stopped running for his seat in the House of Representatives. This morning, Mr. Ryan released a television ad for his race to represent Wisconsin's First Congressional district.
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Boston Globe
| 8 months ago
Fla. (AP) Republican Mitt Romney slammed the Obama administration's handling of foreign affairs in the wake of attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions in Egypt and Libya, as the presidential campaign lurched back to negative mode after a one-day pause...
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The Hill
| 8 months ago
In these polls, Ryan averaged a likability factor 7.5 percentage points higher than Biden, and he even bested President Obama's favorability rating four out of six times. The Wisconsin lawmaker gave a fiery, well-received speech to the GOP faithful...
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Boston Globe
| 8 months ago
Wis. Paul Ryan is busy preparing to face off next month with Vice President Joe Biden, lugging around briefing books, cramming on foreign policy, and trying to mesh his views with those of his new running mate, Mitt Romney. But here at home, in the...
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PRWeb
| 8 months ago
The end of the political conventions marks the true beginning of the presidential campaign. September 12, 2012 Romney-Democrats believe that the themes presented at both conventions confirm their support of Mitt Romney. The GOP stressed bi-partisan...
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Miami Herald
| 8 months ago
In the aftermath of the conventions, two trends are conspiring to raise the presidential stakes in Wisconsin: the polling bounce Mitt Romney got in this state after picking Paul Ryan as his running mate, and Romney's struggles elsewhere on the map,...
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Star Tribune
| 8 months ago
Reflection over Sept. 11 quickly past, the race for the White House is returning to fierce form, with negative ads free to fly again and the candidates spreading out from Florida to Ohio to Nevada. In a campaign speech and a new TV ad, President...
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International Business Times
| 8 months ago
For months, Republican Mitt Romney's presidential campaign has been built on broad themes: cut taxes, repeal and replace Democratic President Barack Obama 's healthcare overhaul, increase defence spending...The calls for a change in strategy have...
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Scoop
| 8 months ago
The results are now available with selectable graphs synchronised with the videos (details below). The Reactor results show that Americans are difficult to sway from their preferred party, regardless, it seems, of the merits of the candidate's...
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The Hill
| 8 months ago
Several polls released in recent days show Obama displaying new strength among male voters. Romney needs to win the male electorate by a wide margin to overcome the chronic disadvantage the GOP faces with respect to women. A CNN poll released Monday...
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The Hill
| 8 months ago
President Obama and Mitt Romney entered the conventions statistically tied in the polls. Romney didn't receive much of a bump following the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., late last month, and while Obama is enjoying a modest boost,...
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International Business Times
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama's approval rating has enjoyed a modest bump since the Democratic National Convention, while Mitt Romney is already behind in the presidential debate game, according to a national polls conducted by CNN/ORC International...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
A raft of new polls, all reporting fairly similar numbers, underscores two critical facts about where the presidential race stands: President Obama has emerged from the back-to-back conventions having erased the edge that Republican challenger Mitt...
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The Hutchinson News
| 8 months ago
The presidential race has been stable for months, but not in a way favorable to Mitt Romney...More money has been spent on TV ads in the general election so far this year than during the entire 2008 presidential election. More money was spent this...
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Star Tribune
| 8 months ago
Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, will make a campaign stop in Minneapolis on Friday. "Dr. Biden will speak about what's at stake for the middle class in this election and encourage supporters to help organize their communities between...
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USA Today
| 8 months ago
Paul Ryan to start running ads for House seat Updated GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan plans to start airing ads tomorrow for re-election to his House seat in Wisconsin as he also asks voters to put him and Mitt Romney into the White House.
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Edgewater View
| 8 months ago
Looking to win voters even as they swore off negative attacks, the presidential candidates clashed over whether the country is a safer place on the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. President Barack Obama pointed to gains in the war on terror...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
Barack Obama claimed the early momentum in the US presidential election last night (Monday) as he pulled clear of Mitt Romney in three polls and even managed to raise more money than his Republican rival for the first time in months. Each of the...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Tuesday could be the only day before Nov. 6 without explicit partisan rancor. Both President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney plan to take down their negative ads in honor of the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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Aim Veron
| 8 months ago
The economy has improved here, and so has President Barack Obama's standing, putting pressure on Republican Mitt Romney in a state critical to his presidential hopes. No Republican has won the White House without winning Ohio, and Romney hopes to...
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Star Tribune
| 8 months ago
For the first time in a decade, the Sept. 11 attacks and the wars that resulted are not the focus of the presidential campaign. President Barack Obama, who leads Republican Mitt Romney in polling on national security issues, may try to change that...
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Washington Post
| 8 months ago
Don't get too worked up about the latest polling, Newhouse wrote. While some voters will feel a bit of a sugar-high from the conventions, the basic structure of the race has not changed significantly. The reality of the Obama economy will reassert...
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International Business Times
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign raised $114 million last month, narrowly beating his Republican challenger Mitt Romney for the first time in four months. Obama' s total -- the largest haul brought in by either candidate during the 2012...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama squeaked out a fundraising victory over Mitt Romney in August as the candidates gear up for the final stretch of their closely contested campaign. Obama raised more than $114 million in August, while Romney brought in just over...
