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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 8 months ago
The presidential candidates offered clashing views on education, with Republican Mitt Romney delivering some of his harshest judgments on teacher unions and President Barack Obama defending them. Mr. Obama attacked Mr. Romney for wanting to cut...
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Washington Post
| 8 months ago
Standing in front of their campaign planes, and joined by tea party star Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.), the Republican ticket painted a dramatic contrast with the Obama administration on their tax plans, on trade policies with China and on the size and role...
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International Herald Tribune
| 8 months ago
Mitt Romney may be right about President Obama 's Robin Hood tendencies. Future historians could well conclude that Mr. Obama led the biggest redistribution of wealth in decades. The Affordable Care Act, which levies new taxes on the wealthy to...
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HNN
| 8 months ago
There's a common view that the clandestine video of Mitt Romney's 47 per cent speech revealed the real Mitt...There is one thing we can know, though: Politicians tend to tell audiences what they want to hear. A good politician's stock-in-trade is a...
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Telegraph India
| 8 months ago
Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate for President of the US, has compounded his reputation for verbal gaffes by questioning why jet airliners do not have windows that open. During a $6 million fundraising event in California, Romney brought up an...
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The Hutchinson News
| 8 months ago
Mitt Romney remains close in most swing states, though durable polling deficits in Ohio and Virginia are enough to trouble even the sleep of the just. President Obama's job approval remains in the re-election danger zone, the economy stubbornly...
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The Independent
| 8 months ago
News in pictures From the blogs This time last year, Olympique Marseille were a team in decline...The new academic year is almost upon us and as universities prepare to open their doors to the lates... New iPhone 5 users have taken to the web to...
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 8 months ago
I do it because apparently many Americans find these people persuasive, and it seems important to try to show why they're profoundly wrong. Skip to next paragraph Recent posts
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NY Daily News
| 8 months ago
Speaking in the shadow of the United Nations, Mitt Romney made a forceful case Tuesday for America's role in the world but had the powers of both incumbency and political momentum working against him. Romney, whose campaign has sputtered in recent...
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Newsbusters
| 8 months ago
Call me Pollyannaish, but I believe Mitt Romney will defeat Barack Obama in November. Let me give you some of my reasons: 1) Romney's campaign message is essentially positive; Obama's is overwhelmingly negative. People always prefer promises of...
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National Public Radio
| 8 months ago
It evokes, obviously, one of the most painful chapters in our nation's history...When a man desperate for work finds himself in a factory or on a fishing boat or in a field, working, toiling for little or no pay and beaten if he tries to escape, that...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 8 months ago
In a presidential campaign packed with nasty attack ads, truth-bending allegations and general rancor, there finally is something that Democrats and Republicans can agree on: The replacement officials in the National Football League stink...General...
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Greensboro News and Records
| 8 months ago
Tagg Romney, one of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's sons, will be in the Triad Thursday as part of a multi-city swing through North Carolina, the Romney campaign said this afternoon. Tagg Romney will visit Asheville on Wednesday and is...
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South Burgenite
| 8 months ago
Ohio Kicking off an Ohio bus tour, Republican Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama is offering a "foreign" vision of government. At an airport rally in Vandalia, Romney told several thousand cheering supporters that Obama believes bureaucrats in...
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Russia Today
| 8 months ago
Rep. Paul Ryan (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP ) Republican vice presidential hopeful Paul Ryan told an audience in Ohio this week that voting for Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) this November in lieu of GOP pick Mitt Romney will only ensure a second term for...
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Star Tribune
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama had an audience and megaphone that Republican challenger Mitt Romney could only envy: addressing an array of global leaders as the head of the world's largest economic and military power...Most U.S. chief executives come to...
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New Statesman
| 8 months ago
A new narrative is taking shape just over 40 days before Election Day: Mitt Romney is losing. That's expected as well as premature, but it's easy to see why so many on the left and right are calling this a wrap. Romney's polling numbers stayed...
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The Daily Telegraph
| 8 months ago
Romney has pledged a fight to the finish against President Barack Obama, lashing out at the incumbent's policies and vowing a more aggressive campaign, starting in battleground Ohio. Romney insisted on Monday he was headed for election day victory...
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Reuters
| 8 months ago
Topics Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney shakes hands with vice presidential running mate Rep. Paul Ryan (L) after accepting the nomination during the final session of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida August 30, 2012.
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Kansas City Star
| 8 months ago
Ohio Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan says President Barack Obama's attempt to cut military spending is putting Americans at risk overseas.Ryan on Monday kicked off three days of campaigning in battleground Ohio by the GOP presidential...
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Miami Herald
| 8 months ago
Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan says President Barack Obama's attempt to cut military spending is putting Americans at risk overseas. One of the big challenges Mitt Romney faced after effectively clinching the GOP presidential...
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Washington Post
| 8 months ago
Romney's comments came amid a change in course for his campaign; the Republican presidential candidate has said he will campaign more, fund raise less and draw clearer distinctions between his policy positions and the president's ahead of next month'...
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The Daily Sentinel
| 8 months ago
Mitt Romney is using the unrest in the Middle East and Barack Obama's interview on 60 Minutes to challenge the president's foreign policy. The Republican presidential nominee Monday told a crowd at the Pueblo airport here that the country needs a...
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The Hill
| 8 months ago
That new strategy will involve a renewed focus on China and trade policy a particularly salient issue as both candidates travel extensively in the manufacturing-oriented state of Ohio this week. President Obama has consistently held a small lead in...
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Star Tribune
| 8 months ago
The presidential candidates are criticizing each other in new television commercials aimed at winning working-class voters who could help swing the election, pitting Republican Mitt Romney's wealth against the loss of American jobs to China on...
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Fox News
| 8 months ago
FoxNews.com In a set of dueling interviews aired Sunday night, President Obama conceded his "biggest disappointment" is that he hasn't significantly changed the tone in Washington since taking office -- and acknowledged sometimes his campaign ads go "...
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USA Today
| 8 months ago
The ad comes a week after disclosure of a videotape from a Romney fundraiser earlier this year. The Republican nominee can be heard saying that Obama starts out with 47% of the vote because of people who either don't pay taxes or depend on government...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama 's campaign is launching a new offensive Monday against Republican Mitt Romney , blasting the GOP nominee for criticizing Americans who don't pay income taxes without having "come clean" about his own. The campaign started the...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
Barack Obama's re-election campaign team boasted on Sunday that it was winning the race against Mitt Romney with six weeks remaining until election day despite polls showing a dead heat. In unusually bullish statements after Romney's most difficult...
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Washington Post
| 8 months ago
Romney said the debates, the first of which is Oct. 3, will give him a chance to push back against what he said were distortions by the Obama campaign on the auto bailout, his record on abortion and tax rates for the middle class. I think what we can...
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Kansas.com
| 8 months ago
President Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney tangled over their varying approaches to foreign policy in dueling 60 Minutes interviews that aired Sunday, with the president brushing off Romney's charge that he has been weak on national defense...
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Epoch Times
| 8 months ago
September 23, 2012 Supporters cheer for Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at a campaign event at the Cox Pavilion on September 21, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. In the next week, Romney and his running mate, Paul...
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Virginian-Pilot Online
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is launching its first television advertisement targeting Mitt Romney's comments about Americans who don't pay income taxes. The Democratic campaign argues in the ad that Romney should stop attacking...
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The New York Times
| 8 months ago
Through the halls of Congress and well beyond, a whisper campaign is bursting into the open: Rather than burden him with the usual constraints on a ticket's No. Ryan be Ryan and take a detailed, policy-heavy fight to President Obama and the Democrats.
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The Tribune
| 8 months ago
is meddling in US politics Israelis fear PM is meddling in US politics It is a taboo for Israeli leaders to give even the slightest hint of favoritism in politics in the United States, Israel's closest ally. So some Israelis are squirming over a...
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Star Tribune
| 8 months ago
Mitt Romney says he's going to spend less time raising money and more time with voters. The Republican presidential nominee says President Barack Obama's decision in 2008 to bypass traditional spending limits has forced him to spend more time...
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USA Today
| 8 months ago
A multiday bus tour through Ohio by Republicans Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan this week further shows the state's significance in the presidential race but also comes as a new poll shows Ohio presents an uphill battle for the GOP ticket. President Obama,...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
The chairman of the Republican Party said despite what critics say, presidential nominee Mitt Romney has been specific about his strategy for the U.S. economy. Reince Priebus said on ABC's "This Week" Sunday Romney had called for specific reductions...
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National Public Radio
| 8 months ago
September 23, 2012 President Obama and his Republican rival, Mitt Romney, seem to have switched places in recent days. The incumbent president is promising to change Washington from the outside. Meanwhile, Romney, who made his fortune turning...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
Ryan campaigned near Florida's Space Coast, Mitt Romney on Saturday released a plan for space exploration that said remaining the global leader in that arena is vital for the nation's economic and security needs. With an eye toward impressing...
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NY Daily News
| 8 months ago
Tom Lynn /AP President Obama waves to people upon arrival at the airport in Milwaukee, Wis., for a campaign stop Saturday. President Obama traveled to the pivotal state of Wisconsin on Saturday, riding a wave of optimism as challenger Mitt Romney...
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Washington Post
| 8 months ago
Romney brushed aside questions about the state of his campaign in an interview scheduled to air Sunday on CBS's 60 Minutes. Asked by anchor Scott Pelley how he planned to turn around his campaign, Romney responded: Well, it doesn't need a turnaround.
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
DEL MAR, Calif. (AP) Facing criticism that he's too focused on raising campaign cash, Mitt Romney is about to launch what advisers call an "intense battleground state schedule." But on Saturday, the Republican presidential nominee focused exclusively...
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Miami Herald
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama worked to squash GOP hopes for a resurgence of support in pivotal Wisconsin on Saturday, pushing back against his GOP rival's arguments against an overly intrusive government. Mitt Romney countered with his own pitch to middle-...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
DEL MAR, Calif. (AP) Mitt Romney says he's done raising money in San Diego. The Republican presidential nominee told donors gathered in the San Diego area that Saturday's fundraiser there is his last one. Romney is expected to launch a more...
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USA Today
| 8 months ago
Again casting the race against Mitt Romney as a stark choice between two visions of government, Obama said the election can break up the gridlock in Washington that has frustrated some of his plans. "We've got what it takes to succeed," Obama said. "...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
Change, President Obama 's most basic rationale for reelection, remains his toughest sell. Throughout the campaign, in high-profile speeches and private remarks, Obama has sought to maintain the theme that powered his 2008 bid for the White House ,...
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The New York Times
| 8 months ago
Archive Recent Posts September 22 When Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. sat down at a diner on Saturday, wouldn't you know it, he met another table of Greek Americans -- which gave him the chance to set the record straight on an earlier bit of...
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Seattle Times
| 8 months ago
Originally published Saturday, September 22, 2012 at 9:15 AM Obama aims for Wisconsin, Romney seeks Calif. cash A breeze of momentum on his side, President Barack Obama was trying to shore up support in a pivotal state Saturday while he and rival...
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Boston Globe
| 8 months ago
A breeze of momentum on his side, President Barack Obama was trying to shore up support in a pivotal state Saturday while he and rival Mitt Romney argue over who can change the country's political culture and best protect the financial and health...
