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The independent
| 8 months ago
Ann Romney has told a television station that if her husband, the Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, wins the presidential election, her biggest concern would be his "mental well-being". Mrs Romney was asked what her biggest worry was...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
When President Obama visits Ohio, a swing state heavily dependent on the auto industry, he says his bailout of American carmakers saved tens of thousands of jobs and argues that Republican nominee Mitt Romney would have let Detroit go bankrupt. Now...
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Kansas City Star
| 8 months ago
Americans are growing more optimistic about the economy and President Barack Obama's leadership. That's creating a significant obstacle for Republican Mitt Romney five weeks to Election Day.Unemployment is still above 8 percent for a 43rd straight...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
The talk this week on conservative media, notably the Fox & Friends morning show, is that opinion polls are skewed against Republican challenger Mitt Romney, and sample too many Democrats...Obama has a slightly larger 49-41 percent lead among all...
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National Public Radio
| 8 months ago
September 28, 2012 This week, the campaigns of both President Obama and Mitt Romney released new TV ads in battleground states that feature the candidates speaking directly to their audience, by looking straight into the camera. The Romney ad appears...
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Tahoe Daily Tribune
| 8 months ago
Ann Romney told a crowd of more than 500 people Thursday that she's taking to the campaign trail to combat accusations her husband thinks he is "above it all" or can't relate to regular people. She said Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee for...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
Medicare trails only the economy and the federal budget deficit as key priorities for U.S. voters, the Kaiser Health Tracking Poll indicates. Thirty-six percent of U.S. adults asked said Medicare was extremely important to their vote, 49 percent said...
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The New York Times
| 8 months ago
Multimedia According to the same indicators, the economy is not doing very well. The accompanying charts illustrate that dual reality, and do so in ways that either the Barack Obama or Mitt Romney campaigns might choose to use if they were producing...
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Kansas City Star
| 8 months ago
For the first time in his presidency, Barack Obama can call himself a job creator.There are now more U.S. jobs than when he took office. Not by much, but they've moved out of negative territory, according to a Labor Department revision.It probably...
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Canadian Free Press
| 8 months ago
Let not your heart be troubled by wonky polls designed to make Obama look unbeatable Great polling news!...As reported at the reference, Americans are starting to wake up to the fact that Barack Obama is nearly as much a disaster with respect to...
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USA Today
| 8 months ago
No matter how many times they try to 'reboot' their campaign, no matter how many times they try to tell you they're going to start talking specifics really soon, they don't do it." The president and aides are picking up on reports of Romney...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 8 months ago
US president Barack Obama sought to deepen Mitt Romney's woes in new ads slamming his rival and promoting his own brand of "economic patriotism". One Obama campaign advertisement used a soundtrack of Mr Romney's words secretly recorded at a function...
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National Public Radio
| 8 months ago
TE From the magazine that brought you the infamous, secretly recorded "47-percent" video comes a new one about Republican candidate Mitt Romney this one offering a very different objective for Bain Capital than the one he brags about on the campaign...
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Fox News
| 8 months ago
FoxNews.com The latest Fox News poll finds the race for the White House holds steady, with 48 percent of likely voters backing the Obama-Biden ticket and 43 percent backing the Romney-Ryan ticket, if the election were held today. That's unchanged...
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Fox News
| 8 months ago
FoxNews.com A large majority of likely voters believes all Americans should pay some federal income tax -- even if it is as little as one percent of what they make. Seventy-nine percent say everyone should pay something, according to a Fox News...
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Daily Nation
| 8 months ago
Rating Mitt Romney seized on poor GDP data Thursday to brand President Barack Obama a failure, but the incumbent shot back accusing his challenger of pushing a rich man's "trickle-down" economic fantasy. The verbal jousting took place across Virginia,...
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MarketWatch
| 8 months ago
As presidential nominee Mitt Romney continues to fall in the polls, particularly in crucial swing states, Republicans are pinning their hopes on the presidential debates starting next week to right the situation. Both campaigns are trying to manage...
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College Candy
| 8 months ago
Following Romney's comments about the dependence of 47% of Americans on the government, Harry Reid again demanded that the Republican candidate release his tax returns, stating that Romney could very well be part of the 47% that pays no income tax...
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MarketWatch
| 8 months ago
Not surprisingly, Republicans were quick to pounce on the GDP report as further evidence that Obama has mismanaged the economy. The Obama economy is officially stuck in neutral, said Andrea Saul, spokeswoman for Mitt Romney, the Republican...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
President Obama's nationwide lead over Republican rival Mitt Romney fell to 2 percentage points, results of a United Press International poll indicated. Forty-eight percent of likely voters said they would vote for Obama and 46 percent said they...
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Courier & Press
| 8 months ago
Republicans seem to be having a tough time doing anything right these days, at least politically. Not only is their presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, trailing in three of the five states that are expected to decide the election, there is a growing...
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Zee News
| 8 months ago
48 Washington: US President Barack Obama is apparently surging ahead of his Republican challenger Mitt Romney in the presidential race, as he extends a considerable lead in key battle ground states, a series of latest opinion polls have shown.
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News Press
| 8 months ago
Written by Filed Under A series of polls over the past two weeks shows the momentum in the 2012 presidential election has shifted in favor of President Barack Obama. New polls in seven swing states, including Florida, show Obama leading in all...It...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney barnstormed Ohio on Wednesday amid signs that the battleground state, and perhaps others, is slipping farther from his grasp. With President Obama also campaigning in the state, Romney sharpened his...
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Star Tribune
| 8 months ago
When you vote for Democrat Barack Obama or Republican Mitt Romney in November, you'll be voting for more than a president. You'll be casting a ballot for and against a checklist of policies that touch your life and shape the country you live in. It...
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Courier & Press
| 8 months ago
We're often told that the rich got rich because they're smarter with money than the poor. Earlier this year, a group of wealthy citizens shelled out $50,000 apiece to have a meal with Republican candidate Mitt Romney. This is roughly the same as the...
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Epoch Times
| 8 months ago
September 26, 2012 Republican U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign rally at Westerville South High School in Westerville, Ohio. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Both President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney...
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National Public Radio
| 8 months ago
Two ads released Wednesday by the campaigns of President Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney are worth noting because of how they illustrate the very different challenges now facing the two candidates...For Obama, who has the...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney at the 2012 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York, Sept. 25, 2012. Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney cautioned voters in Ohio not to expect "a huge cut in taxes"...
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The Tribune
| 8 months ago
Not bad policy Mitt Romney said that Obamacare is bad policy...I have to believe that even the most archly conservative Americans would want appropriate medical care without fear of losing their homes, life savings and everything else they've ever...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
Romney has consistently opposed the federal law, saying that its mandate was unconstitutional, while he stood by his law as appropriate because it was a state action...Romney has been repeatedly emphasizing his compassion for the poor and middle...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
The Romney campaign faced a sobering set of new polls Wednesday showing the Republican nominee slipping behind President Obama in the critical swing states of Ohio and Florida. But the Republican nominee insisted in television interviews Wednesday...
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Truthdig
| 8 months ago
Sep 26, 2012 My heart aches for the people I've seen, Mitt Romney says, on the second day of his Ohio bus tour. He's now telling stories of economic hardship among the people he's met. Up until now, Romney's stories on the campaign trail have been...
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Boston Globe
| 8 months ago
President Obama and I both care about poor and middle-class families. The difference is my policies will make things better for them, Romney says in the ad. The spot appears to be a response to criticism of secretly taped remarks Romney delivered at...
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Washington Post
| 8 months ago
That's an even wider margin than in Tuesday's Washington Post/ABC News poll , which showed Obama taking 52 percent to Romney's 44 percent among Ohio's likely voters. Why has the Buckeye State so eluded Romney in his bid for the White House? Part of...
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CNN
| 8 months ago
New polls in three swing states indicate President Barack Obama exceeding 50% support among likely voters and holding leads of nine to 12 points over Republican nominee Mitt Romney. Fueling those numbers, the four polls suggest that Romney has lost...
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BBC
| 8 months ago
US President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney are campaigning in Ohio, as opinion polls show the incumbent pulling ahead of his rival in the key swing state. Mr Obama a five-point lead in the Buckeye State, according to a Real...
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Canada.com
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney were again in the crucial battleground state of Ohio on Wednesday, with a special urgency for Romney as new polling shows the president edging ahead there less than a week before early voting begins.
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 8 months ago
The first debate on Oct. 3 looms large as Mitt Romney's last, best chance at turning the presidential race around...How crucial will next week's presidential debate be for Mitt Romney ? Well, there seems to be near-universal consensus that it...
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USA Today
| 8 months ago
Updated If a new polls are any guide, President Obama has big leads in two states that could nail down his re-election: Ohio and Florida. Obama leads Republican Mitt Romney by ten points -- 53%-43% -- in Ohio, according to the Quinnipiac University/...
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USA Today
| 8 months ago
Landor; Penn Schoen Berland; AP; AFP; Getty Kevin A...Updated Presidential candidates are advertised as heavily as consumer products, so it's little surprise that voters have opinions on how President Obama and GOP nominee Mitt Romney compare to...
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The New York Times
| 8 months ago
Those fears are affirmed in the findings of the latest Quinnipiac University/New York Times/CBS News polls of likely voters in both states, which show that Mr. Obama has widened his lead over Mr. Romney and is outperforming him on nearly every major...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Ohio (AP) President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney are pitching to college students and working-class voters in Ohio less than a week before early voting kicks off in this critical Midwestern state. Fresh off a high-stakes address before...
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Associated Press
| 8 months ago
Six weeks before the election, those highs and lows are merging into a straighter line which, while below optimum performance, is moving in a positive direction for the country and for the president in his contest with Republican rival Mitt Romney...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
If you look at the whole story, Mitt Romney wanted to go through channels, go through bankruptcy, but it was never allowed to get to that point," said Sikora, a longtime Utica city councilman who owns a glass and mirror business. "He didn't want to...
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The Courier-Mail
| 8 months ago
Romney's senior advisers are insisting they are unbowed by public polls showing the Republican White House hopeful is trailing significantly in key battlegrounds such as Ohio. "This is a wide open race," political director Rich Beeson told reporters...
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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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Canadian Free Press
| 8 months ago
Anyone who has been following the presidential election polls with any intensity knows that there is something crazy going on! Barack Obama's economy is stuck in a quagmire of trillion-dollar deficits and ghastly unemployment; his Cairo Initiative...
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News Press
| 8 months ago
Consumer confidence hit a five-year, post-recession high in Florida this month, and researchers said Tuesday that the upcoming Nov. 6 election likely was a factor. The index, based on a survey conducted by the University of Florida, is up three...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 8 months ago
In a split-screen race for the presidency, Republican Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama were on their best campaign behavior in public Tuesday, all the while slashing away at each other in paid television ads. In separate appearances in New York,...
