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Salem News
| 8 months ago
Those voters looking forward to a second term for Barack Obama, were shocked by the President's sub-par first debate performance. A month before the election, it now appears that an Obama victory is no longer a certainty, pending a final judgment, of...
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Star Tribune
| 8 months ago
September's lower unemployment rate breaks the 8 percent psychological and political barrier that has stubbornly dogged Barack Obama through his presidency, halting the kind of stagnant high joblessness that has weighed down past presidents seeking...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 8 months ago
For months, staunch conservatives repeated the same mantra: We'll vote for Mitt Romney, but we're not crazy about him...Thanks to the Republican presidential nominee's aggressive performance in Wednesday's debate, and tough rhetoric Thursday and...
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War In Context
| 8 months ago
In the hours after the Republican challenger Mitt Romney embarrassed the incumbent in their first meeting, Obama loyalists expressed puzzlement that the incumbent had done badly. But Obama has only himself to blame, because he set himself up for...
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Kansas City Star
| 8 months ago
At least things are headed the right way.And the 7.8 percent September unemployment rate, down from 8.1 percent in August, was clearly welcome to President Barack Obama. It could help him regain footing after a shaky first debate.There's still far to...
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Tabsir
| 8 months ago
Fri 5 Oct 2012 A few weeks ago I wrote a commentary which was eventually published in my Middle East Muddle column on Anthropology News...Below I provide the first two paragraphs of my commentary, but you can read the whole thing here . After reading...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
The candidate who was coming under increasing fire from his own party for running a lackluster, almost leisurely campaign, even as a damaging video put him seriously behind in key swing states, has been revitalized by his clear win. The campaign has...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
While Americans are familiar with President Obama, many are still getting their first look at Republican challenger Mitt Romney hence his bounce in favorability ratings coming out of the debate. Photograph: Win McNamee/Getty Images The first post-...
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Fox News
| 8 months ago
FoxNews.com Well, I'm a little confused here, because I don't see how you can grow the deficit down by raising people's taxes. You see, I don't think the American people are taxed too little...I went for one tax increase and when I make a mistake I...
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The Globe & Mail
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally in Denver, Colorado October 4, 2012 Reuters video Screenshot courtesy Sesame Street/PBS video Before those numbers were released, we invited five experts to share their Friday scorecard for each...
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Boston Globe
| 8 months ago
The Bureau of Labor Statistics said employers added 114,000 jobs in September, and it revised previous numbers to show the economy also created 86,000 more jobs in July and August than first estimated...The numbers prompted immediate claims of...
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USA Today
| 8 months ago
Share Comments The Labor Department's report that unemployment has fallen below 8% for the first time since January 2009 is sure to provide a needed political boost for President Obama. Mitt Romney, Republican presidential candidate, left, and...
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The Washington Times
| 8 months ago
But the presidential debate Wednesday night might matter a great deal, not because of what the candidates said, but what the debate told us about who the candidates really are. Barack Obama was revealed to be the empty suit with a great gift of gab...
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Arizona Republic
| 8 months ago
For weeks, Republican Party elders fretted that the presidential race was slipping through Mitt Romney's fingers...The GOP nominee's strong head-to-head showing against President Barack Obama in their first debate earned Romney praise from some of...
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Arizona Republic
| 8 months ago
Third-party candidates Gary Johnson and Virgil Goode are blips in the presidential race...Yet in a tight race between Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney that likely will be won or lost at the margins, even blips...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 8 months ago
Initial impressions out of the leadoff general election debate Wednesday night held that Mitt Romney had asserted himself against an unexpectedly reserved President Barack Obama. Academic observers interviewed Thursday agreed the Republican nominee...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 8 months ago
Mitt Romney's widely praised performance in the first presidential debate gave his campaign a boost. History shows these kinds of gains, especially by a challenger, are often fleeting. That was the experience of 2004 Democratic nominee John Kerry,...
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The Globe & Mail
| 8 months ago
The first U.S. presidential debate of this year's campaign generated more social media activity than any other event in U.S. politics, therefore suggesting more young people than estimated are interested in government affairs...Many thought the 2012...
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War In Context
| 8 months ago
When it came to the issues, he offhandedly conceded much of the Republican worldview, something he is now apt to do at anytime, without warning...But Obama also had to admit it was poor people who took out home mortgages they couldn't afford...
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Telegraph India
| 8 months ago
The unthinkable has happened in the American presidential election. This country's political class is in shock the morning after the first presidential debate in Denver that 67 per cent of likely voters who watched the debate have concluded that...
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Truthdig
| 8 months ago
Mile High City where Barack Obama and Mitt Romney met in their first debate, Democracy Now! news hour broke the sound barrier by expanding their gated debate to include two third-party presidential candidates. Dr. Jill Stein, of the Green Party, and...
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NY Daily News
| 8 months ago
Charles Dharapak/AP President Obama and Mitt Romney at Wednesday night's debate in Denver...With a remarkable display of confidence, knowledge and nerve, Mitt Romney won the first 2012 debate going away. Romney didn't just demonstrate authoritative...
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The independent
| 8 months ago
How was a President of such uplifting image and such a way with words given such a drubbing by a man reckoned by even his own supporters to be a poor campaigner, especially when it came to connecting with ordinary people? Yet by near unanimous...
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The Orange County Register
| 8 months ago
The September jobs report that arrives Friday, a month before the presidential election, will likely sketch a dual picture: The job market continues to heal...No incumbent since Franklin Roosevelt has faced re-election with unemployment so high.
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The Hill
| 8 months ago
Aides and surrogates seemed invigorated by Romney's performance, and were more combative in public. This is a campaign that believes he can win, said Republican strategist Ron Bonjean. Once Romney was on stage with the president, and he was able to...
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National Public Radio
| 8 months ago
In case anyone was wondering, this week's presidential debate demonstrated why incumbent presidents and others leading in the polls used to refuse to debate their challengers...Kennedy used the first TV debates to boost his campaign against incumbent...
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Star Tribune
| 8 months ago
Looking for a quick recovery from a disappointing debate, President Barack Obama questioned the identity of the "real" Mitt Romney on Thursday, suggesting his Republican rival had not been candid about his policy positions while on stage. "Gov.
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Kansas City Star
| 8 months ago
Mitt Romney changed the game with his aggressive, confident performance in Wednesday's Denver debate, and erased the specter of doom that's dogged his campaign for weeks.President Barack Obama's forces had hinted that all they needed was one good...
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MarketWatch
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama is coming in for a lot of criticism for a leaden performance in the first presidential debate, but in some ways he had lost the contest before he stepped on the stage. Not because of his record which he defended well enough and...
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Canadian Free Press
| 8 months ago
Obama was well and truly pummeled throughout, looking like he wished he was somewhere, anywhere else. For me, the most revealing aspect of the after-debate result was the way the liberal media agreed on the success of Romney's performance and the...
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Democracy Now
| 8 months ago
As President Obama and Mitt Romney squared off for the first time on Wednesday night, Democracy Now! broke the sound barrier by pausing Obama and Romney's answers to get real-time responses from candidates Jill Stein of the Green Party and Rocky...
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HNN
| 8 months ago
WSJ (10-3-12) Karl Rove served as Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush from 20002007 and Deputy Chief of Staff from 20042007. I've seen a movie like this one before. I was in my 20s and director of the Texas Victory Committee for Reagan-Bush...
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HNN
| 8 months ago
Until their next debate on October 16, we can expect a turn towardident more positive coverage of Romney and his campaign. The insta-polls suggest that Romney's confident, upbeat, persistent point-making in the debate paid off and the pundits agree.
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USA Today
| 8 months ago
The criticism of Obama's performance last night against Mitt Romney puts him in the company of predecessors Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W...Like those presidents, Obama "fell victim Wednesday night to high expectations, a short fuse, and a...
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Herald Tribune
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney offered competing visions Wednesday night of how they would lead the country out of the deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression, each promising voters in a combative first debate that he had a...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson said Wednesday's debate between U.S. President Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney wasn't really a debate. The former New Mexico governor said in a statement Romney and Obama's debate in Denver...
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Newsbusters
| 8 months ago
Having seen the candidate the press corps so obviously favors perform poorly while his opponent shined, Ron Fournier at National Journal dove so deeply into excuse-making that I half expected him to claim that the dog ate President Obama's debate...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
The first 2012 presidential debate will be forgotten in 20 years, but Americans will have a far more positive impression of Mitt Romney when they vote five weeks from now, according to passionate and dispassionate observers who watched Romney and...
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San Diego Union-Tribune
| 8 months ago
Popkin has worked on Democratic presidential campaigns in the past. He is the author of The Candidate: What It Takes to Win and Hold the White House. His analysis of the debate: This was the best performance Mitt Romney could have ever imagined. What...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
Republicans were quick to claim bragging rights after Mitt Romney's aggressive performance in the first presidential debate on Wednesday, while Democrats struggled to explain President Barack Obama's often flat showing. Within minutes of the debate's...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
President Obama and challenger Mitt Romney differed sharply Wednesday night over taxes, Medicare and, especially, the record of the last four years in a pointed but largely polite debate that highlighted the deep substantive divide between the two...
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National Public Radio
| 8 months ago
We headed to Virginia's Prince William County, a swing county in a swing state, to watch Wednesday night's presidential debate with four undecided voters three of whom voted for Barack Obama in 2008, one who voted for Republican John McCain. They...
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National Public Radio
| 8 months ago
October 4, 2012 Mitt Romney may have given his campaign something of a reset with his performance in the first debate against President Obama. He appeared more comfortable on stage than the incumbent, and was able at least to lay the groundwork for a...
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The Hindustan Times
| 8 months ago
Will Mitt Romney let fly zingers or reintroduce himself to voters during the debate Wednesday night? There seems to be more at stake for him than for Barack Obama. Obama has merely to hold his own as Romney comes swinging at him as challengers do...
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Daily Southtown
| 8 months ago
If presidential debates were promoted like reality TV shows maybe more people would watch...Whoever wins the election in November becomes commander of the most powerful military force in the history of the world. He might even make decisions that...
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The Columbus Dispatch
| 8 months ago
Bush glancing at his watch in 1992; Vice President Richard M. Nixon's sweaty face and 5 o'clock shadow in 1960; and, late last year, Texas Gov. Rick Perry trying in vain to remember which cabinet department he wanted to eliminate. Those are just a...
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Virginian-Pilot Online
| 8 months ago
As millions of Americans watch, President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney will be chasing opposite goals in their first debate. The key for Obama is to sit on his narrow lead without mishap, while Romney's challenge is to shake up the race...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
Word is that Team Romney has equipped (Mitt) with a series of zingers that he has memorized and has been practicing on aides since August...And nothing like telegraphing that you're packing Zingers and you're not afraid to use them. Yes, Romney is...
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USA Today
| 8 months ago
When President Obama steps onto the debate stage Wednesday night in Denver, he'll seek to avoid what might be called "incumbents opening debate syndrome." Presidents seeking re-election have often struggled in their first debates: Jimmy Carter,...
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The Birmingham News
| 8 months ago
The first of three presidential debates, which will focus on domestic policy issues, is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 3 at 8 p.m. Although President Barack Obama has opened up leads in every battleground state except North Carolina and Missouri, the...
