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The New York Times
| 8 months ago
Archive Recent Posts September 19 Mitt Romney's campaign released an ad highlighting the drop in average household income in the context of the Obama presidency. September 19 At a news conference on Capitol Hill, Republican Senate leaders declined to...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
The Romney campaign attacked President Obama on Wednesday for saying in 1999 he believed in redistribution of wealth "at least at a certain level." A release from Matt Rhoades, Romney's campaign manager, did not mention that Obama's remarks were made...
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Mahwah Suburban News
| 8 months ago
Mitt Romney's disparaging comments about 47 percent of us came from a conservative friend who emailed: If I were you, I'd wonder why Romney hates America so much...But the more you think about what Romney said, the more you wonder how he really feels...
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Star Tribune
| 8 months ago
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney says that only he is equipped to help poor and middle-class Americans. Romney aggressively attacked President Barack Obama's policies at an Atlanta fundraiser. He's warning that Obama is trying to change...
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Town News
| 8 months ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney told donors Wednesday that he cares about the poor and middle class as he tried to stem criticism and address concern from within his own party over secretly-recorded comments that he doesn't need to...
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USA Today
| 8 months ago
The survey, taken Tuesday, finds just over half of independents say the video won't make a difference in their vote. Those who say it will have an effect by 2-1, 29%-15%, say it makes them less likely rather than more likely to support the GOP...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Washington The latest polls give a mixed view of the election, and it will likely be a week before the effect of the secret Romney video is known. Photograph: Charles Dharapak/AP Mitt Romney 's embattled campaign team mounted a determined fightback...
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KSBY
| 8 months ago
A new Field Poll shows likely voters in California overwhelmingly favor President Barack Obama over Republican candidate Mitt Romney. The survey, released Wednesday, says 58 percent prefer Obama, compared to 34 percent for Romney. The 24-point spread...
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USA Today
| 8 months ago
Campaign reports to show Romney in debt Updated Mitt Romney took out a $20 million campaign loan in August and reportedly remains $11 million in debt. National Review Online was first to report that Romney moved "to increase cash flow" before he...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
Among U.S. adults who make less than $24,000 a year in household income, 34 percent say they will vote for Republican nominee Mitt Romney , a survey indicates. An analysis of Gallup Daily tracking data for the three-week period from Aug. 27 to Sept.
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Washington Post
| 8 months ago
The campaign has paid back $9 million of the loan so far, with $11 million remaining on the debt side of the ledger, the senior campaign official said. Federal Election Commission reports to be filed Thursday will show a debt of $15 million, which...
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Kansas City Star
| 8 months ago
Dave Helling Far-right talk not helping the GOP More News If Barack Obama wins re-election he'll have several thank-you notes to write. He'll want to drop Newt Gingrich a letter, thanking him for bringing up GOP nominee Mitt Romney's work at Bain...
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Newsbusters
| 8 months ago
With us now, Rick Davis he was John McCain's campaign manager when McCain ran for President in 2008...So, how damaging is this, and all these reports of dissension within the Romney camp?...I think that everybody has their YouTube moment in American...
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The Tribune
| 8 months ago
Palestinians not interested in peace Romney: Palestinians not interested in peace Republican Mitt Romney faced a new challenge Tuesday for saying Palestinians "have no interest" in peace with Israel, comments captured on newly released videotape of...
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Politico
| 8 months ago
Move back to NC you Southern ho..............................About four years ago, Obama made revealing statements to donors at a private fund-raiser in San Francisco that till today is still dogging him. He was talking about working class voters in...
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Truthdig
| 8 months ago
Sep 18, 2012 Just when you thought the story about Mitt Romney saying some pretty outrageous things about Obama supporters while being secretly videotaped couldn't get any better, it did. According to Mother Jones' David Corn , the footage was shot...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is trying to steady a shaky campaign as President Barack Obama , enjoying a burst of momentum, heads to New York for a celebrity fundraiser with Beyonce and Jay-Z and a star turn on David Letterman 's couch.
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Zee News
| 8 months ago
22 Zeenews Bureau Washington: In what may spell fresh troubles for Mitt Romney and his staggering presidential campaign, a video tape showing him talking bluntly about the Americans supporting President Obama came out in the open on Tuesday.
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International Business Times
| 8 months ago
Reuters In a secret video that has surfaced, US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is seen as ridiculing those voting for Obama, saying nearly half believe they are victims. In an address to a small group of donors, Romney says: "There are...
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The Daily Telegraph
| 8 months ago
US President Barack Obama has lodged an unfair trade complaint against China and immediately used it as a wedge against Republican challenger Mitt Romney, whose beleaguered campaign has hit another pothole. Obama told voters in Ohio, where the auto...
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The Dallas Morning News
| 8 months ago
Republican nominee Mitt Romney confronted a new headache Monday after a video surfaced showing him telling wealthy donors that almost half of Americans believe they are victims entitled to extensive government support. He said that as a candidate for...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
Then-candidate Barack Obama managed to transcend his own massive stumble at a 2008 fundraiser when an audio recording caught him saying that bitter small-town voters cling to guns or religion because of their dismay over their economic straits. The...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 8 months ago
He added that as a candidate for the White House, "my job is not to worry about those people.'' The video threatens to derail Romney's bid to win the White House, as a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll shows President Obama leading the former Massachusetts...
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National Public Radio
| 8 months ago
Mitt Romney made yet another attempt Monday to narrow President Obama's substantial polling lead over him with Latino voters. The Republican presidential nominee spoke at the Los Angeles convention of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce where he...
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The Hill
| 8 months ago
The GOP presidential nominee goes on to say his "job is is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives." The video , uncovered by Mother Jones , is from a fundraising...
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The Hill
| 8 months ago
While national unemployment is 8.1 percent, Hispanic unemployment is over 10 percent. Over 2 million more Hispanics are living in poverty today than the day President Obama took office, Romney said in a speech to the U.S...On immigration, the...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama lodged an unfair-trade complaint against China Monday and immediately used it as a wedge against Republican challenger Mitt Romney , whose beleaguered campaign is trying to regroup after a shaky few weeks. Obama told voters in...
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Boston Globe
| 8 months ago
Mitt Romney, almost since the moment he announced for president, has oriented his campaign around a singular issue: the economy, and President Obama's handling of it. But with just 49 days remaining in the presidential race, Romney's campaign has...
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The Tribune
| 8 months ago
Where they stand on the issues Obama and Romney: Where they stand on the issues A look at where Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican presidential rival Mitt Romney stand on a selection of issues, in brief: Obama, Romney to address Clinton...
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Star Tribune
| 8 months ago
The ad opens with an image of Mitt Romney holding a document, with a crowd and red, white and blue bunting in the background and the title, "The Romney Plan for a Stronger Middle Class." The camera then moves back and the image fades into a tight...
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Newsbusters
| 8 months ago
Gee, and you thought Barack Obama had an inflated opinion of himself. After watching Andrea Mitchell in action, he might actually need self-esteem therapy . . . Mitchell rolled a clip in which Rick Santorum told the Value Voters Summit audience...
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Towleroad
| 8 months ago
Here's Mitt Romney's prerecorded video to attendees of the Values Voter Summit over the weekend sponsored by Tony Perkins and his hate group Family Research Council. Said Romney, citing Rick Santorum : We will uphold the sanctity of life, not abandon...
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CNSNews.com
| 8 months ago
There's a lot more at stake in this country than just economics," former Sen. and Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum told a gathering of conservatives in Washington on Saturday. "This president has to take a share of the responsibility for...
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Truthdig
| 8 months ago
Sep 16, 2012 Apparently being smart and having conservative values do not go hand in hand. At least, that's what former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum said during a speech at the Values Voter Summit over the weekend. We will never have the elite,...
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International Business Times
| 8 months ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will pledge to Hispanics on Monday that if elected he will fix the troubled U.S...Looking to rebound after a tough week in which he fell behind Obama in the polls, Romney will couple his immigration...
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Washington Post
| 8 months ago
The GOP nominee, in speeches and television advertisements this week, will roll out more details about his plans to help the middle class by creating jobs, cutting the deficit and developing more domestic energy resources, advisers said. The...
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Associated Press
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama will launch a new trade enforcement case against China Monday, using the power of incumbency to counter Republican Mitt Romney's criticism that he is ceding American jobs to the Asian power. Senior administration officials said...
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Kansas City Star
| 8 months ago
Mitt Romney's presidential campaign has canceled an event planned for Sunday in Pueblo, Colo., because of the crash of a small aircraft at the Pueblo airport.Romney campaign spokesman Rick Gorka says the crash at Pueblo Memorial Airport is under...
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The New York Times
| 8 months ago
September 16, 2012 There is almost nothing more valuable to a presidential campaign than controlling the message. President Obama and Mitt Romney have been struggling to do that. Last week's events in the Middle East forced both campaigns to...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama has been "incredibly calm, incredibly steady, and incredibly measured" in his handling of the anti-US protests in the Muslim world, a top official said Sunday. The robust defense of the president from US Ambassador to the...
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The Hill
| 8 months ago
The Romney guys see foreign policy as a part of a larger narrative that President Obama's leadership is lacking, said Republican strategist Ford O'Connell. "If they can tag him as leading from behind abroad, they can turn around and tag him with the...
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The Daily Sentinel
| 8 months ago
This time around, conventional political wisdom has it, the election lies in the hands of Hispanic voters, in particular those voters in Colorado and the other battleground states. Although Hispanics account for 20 percent of the state's population,...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
National and state polls show small but meaningful movement toward Obama since the beginning of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Sept. 4. Obama has jumped out to an average lead of 3.1 percentage points in 10 national polls...
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Daily Nation
| 8 months ago
Rating In Summary In the New York Times poll, 47 percent of voters thought Obama would be better at handling the economy and jobs, while 46 percent picked Romney President Barack Obama has carved out a clear advantage in the White House race even as...
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China News
| 8 months ago
The Wall Street Journal on Saturday criticized Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for playing protectionism in a latest campaign ad that slams President Barack Obama for failing to stop the so-called "China's cheating." "Yet a bona fide...
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NY Daily News
| 8 months ago
01 AM Updated: Sunday, September 16, 2012, 3:00 AM Charles Dharapak/AP Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, in Jacksonville, Fla., last week, comments on the killing of U.S. diplomats in Libya. Mitt Romney 's reaction to the deaths of...
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Arab News
| 8 months ago
Mitt Romney urged a tough line on Egypt amid deadly anti-US violence in the region, as his running mate called for greater moral clarity in Obama administration foreign policy. Romney asserted his position about a need for stronger US leadership in...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
Republican lawmakers say presidential nominee Mitt Romney 's campaign needs a course correction, possibly including giving voters more details about his plans. With polls showing President Barack Obama opening a lead over Romney following the...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 8 months ago
More Information With a little more than a month until some N.C. voters begin heading to the polls, the Obama and Romney presidential campaigns continued their push this weekend to reach out to would-be supporters across the state. Craig Romney,...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Keystone/Rex Features "Smart people" in America will never back conservative Republicans , or so says Rick Santorum a conservative Republican whose verbal missteps are becoming as well-known as his hardline posturing on social issues. Santorum, who...
