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Arizona Daily Sun
| 8 months ago
The Associated Press The Associated Press 1 hour ago Associated Press As the White House race shows signs of tightening nationally, President Barack Obama's campaign is banking on a massive get-out-the-vote operation and state-by-state shades of...
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Truthdig
| 8 months ago
If recent polls are an indication, debates matter ... a lot. The latest round show a bounce for Mitt Romney after a stirring debate performance against President Obama last week. According to the latest Pew Research survey, Romney is up by 4...
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The Onion
| 8 months ago
For weeks many Beltway insiders had written off the Romney campaign as dead, saying the candidate had dug himself into too deep a hole with too little time to recover. However, with a month to go before ballots are cast, Romney has pulled even with...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Va. (AP) Mitt Romney declared on Monday the U.S. must join other nations in helping arm Syrian rebels to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad , casting President Barack Obama's efforts as weak and part of a broader lack of leadership in the Middle East...
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HNN
| 8 months ago
Mitt Romney gave a generally fine speech today on the Middle East. Sensibly, he criticized the Obama administration for its Benghazi shenanigans, for the "daylight" with Israel, fecklessness vis-a-vis Tehran, and the cuts in military spending. Very...
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The New York Observer
| 8 months ago
The folks at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee are apparently freaking out about a new national poll that shows Mitt Romney tied with President Barack Obama...We've got one month left until the election, and it's clearer than ever: we...
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Washington Post
| 8 months ago
I think Ryan's going to eat him alive, said Darlene Johnson, 68, a retired teacher from Toledo who came to see Ryan speak Monday in an airport hanger here...In interviews here, as Ryan closes out his schedule of public rallies before heading to...
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International Business Times
| 8 months ago
Romney has assailed the Obama administration for its response to an attack on the American consulate in Libya that left four dead. In a speech to cadets at the Virginia Military Institute, the Republican nominee emphasized that while blame for the...
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The Hill
| 8 months ago
Obama's campaign aggressively hit back on Romney's speech, challenging the GOP nominee to "bring it on." "Mitt Romney once again tried to engage the president on foreign policy, and we have a simple message for him: bring it on," said Obama campaign...
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The Hill
| 8 months ago
Behind the tough talk, he has been erratic, unsteady and irresponsible in his audition on the world stage." In a speech earlier Monday at the Virginia Military Institute, Romney blasted Obama, arguing that "hope is not a strategy" in shaping foreign...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
In turning to foreign policy, Mitt Romney is playing to a traditionally Republican strength while trying to build on momentum from his winning performance in last week's presidential debate. He's also resurrecting an old GOP theme: that President...
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Fox News
| 8 months ago
FoxNews.com "So you don't think that's questioning their patriotism when you say that?" -- An incredulous George Stephanopoulos of ABC News in an Oct. 18, 2004 interview asking President George W. Bush about his charge that Democratic presidential...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 8 months ago
Meanwhile, President Barack Obama will be fundraising in California, and Vice President Joe Biden and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan prepare for the vice presidential debate on Thursday...Hurst, Associated Press / October 8, 2012 Washington Republican...
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Miami Herald
| 8 months ago
Paul Ryan, a congressman from Wisconsin and Mitt Romney's vice presidential pick, is a model of unassuming, Midwestern courtesy, and that will be on display later this week when Ryan debates Vice President Joe Biden...Richard Carmona's eye-popping...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Republican challenger Mitt Romney gained ground on President Barack Obama in their debate over the U.S. economy last week and will be trying to diminish the incumbent's strength in foreign policy with a speech Monday that will draw heavy attention...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
Mitt Romney will pitch himself as a stronger leader on the international stage than President Obama when he delivers a foreign policy speech in Virginia Monday. "It is time to change course in the Middle East," The Washington Post reported the...
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Newsbusters
| 8 months ago
I originally thought that the story of Linda Morrison which will follow after the jump would be all about the Obama campaign completely misreading the situation surrounding a question asked of GOP vice-presidential nominee at a Clinton County, Iowa...
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Star Tribune
| 8 months ago
Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan took a break from debate preparation to spend time with his family. Ryan, his wife and their three kids went to Sturtevant on Sunday to pick pumpkins and eat caramel apples. He and his wife then...
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Miami Herald
| 8 months ago
American companies should avoid doing business with China's two leading technology firms because they pose a national security threat to the United States, the House Intelligence Committee is warning in a report to be issued Monday. Vice presidential...
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Washington Post
| 8 months ago
But, the now-familiar phrase took on a different and more troubling meaning for the president in the debate as it capped a decidedly desultory performance that left even his most loyal allies wondering what was wrong with him. Obama's debate...
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Los Angeles Times
| 9 months ago
As governor of Massachusetts, he dove deeply into the subject while creating the most far-reaching state health plan in the country. As president, he would bring an unusual degree of nuance to any discussion of health insurance. In theory, that...
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Inquirer.net
| 9 months ago
President Barack Obama has carefully crafted a social platform aimed at putting the squeeze on his Republican rival Mitt Romney. The issues remain on the back burner one month before the election but, in the run-up to the vote at least, the...
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Ledger-Enquirer
| 9 months ago
Vice presidential hopeful Paul Ryan is rallying the Republican faithful at a fundraiser in his home state of Wisconsin. Ryan appeared at a fundraiser in Milwaukee on Saturday evening. He told donors in a 15-minute speech that President Barack Obama...
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Star Tribune
| 9 months ago
Republican Mitt Romney blames President Obama for annual trillion-dollar deficits adding to what is now a $16 trillion national debt. Nonpartisan analysts agree that Obama inherited a bad hand: The 2009 deficit was a projected $1.2 trillion when he...
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Lexington Herald-Leader
| 9 months ago
Herald-Leader columnist Who could have guessed that President Barack Obama would suddenly be depending on Vice President Joe Biden's communications skills to get his re-election campaign back on track? That's right, the same Joe Biden who has an...
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Tahoe Daily Tribune
| 9 months ago
Barack Obama let Mitt Romney off the hook frequently during Wednesday night's debate. The former Massachusetts governor's lie about his own tax plan and his specious comments about jobs were glaring. Obama blew his chance to force his opponent to...
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The Hill
| 9 months ago
The legislators argue that the silver lining in President Obama's underwhelming debate showing is that Romney gave Democrats plenty of ammunition to reinforce their case that he is a flip-flopper willing to say anything to get elected. "Romney's...
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The New York Times
| 9 months ago
Elise Amendola/Associated Press Mr. Romney with the new Democratic speaker of the Massachusetts House, Representative Salvatore DiMasi, in 2004. That could be the Barack Obama that Mitt Romney depicted in Wednesday's presidential debate as an...
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Los Angeles Times
| 9 months ago
The identifying characteristic of progressives' syndrome, which I believe psychiatrists have been following since the Truman administration, is their defensiveness about their own policies when they're challenged by Big Business and other stalwarts...
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The Washington Times
| 9 months ago
I didn't want to write about the first presidential debate, which has been sliced and diced by many. I'd rather write about Teddy finally winning the Presidents Race on the last day of the Nationals' championship baseball season. But the debate is...
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The independent
| 9 months ago
As Mitt Romney hid in his hotel one afternoon early last week, prepping for Wednesday's big debate, his wife, Ann, left to address several hundred supporters in a small park south of Denver. The event was Kodacolor perfect, verging on quaint; more...
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CNN
| 9 months ago
A few months ago he told donors at a Florida fundraiser that he'd never convince the 47% of Americans who he described as government-dependent shoo-ins for President Barack Obama to "take personal responsibility and care for their lives." In the...
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The Hutchinson News
| 9 months ago
One large, strategic question at the center of the presidential race: In order to beat President Obama, does Mitt Romney need to be an exceptional candidate or merely an acceptable one? For much of the campaign, Romney and his team have operated...
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Fox News
| 9 months ago
FoxNews.com A woman who pressed Republican running mate Paul Ryan for details on his and Mitt Romney's tax plan says she's "outraged" that the Obama campaign tried to spin her inquiry for political purposes. Linda Morrison posed a direct question to...
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Canadian Free Press
| 9 months ago
An Inconvenient Truth Confronts Obama and the Left: Mitt Romney Rocks! As shock waves continue to jolt the sensibilities of liberal moonbats, the leftist-biased mainstream media, and Barack Obama himself, all of the excuses which seek to explain The...
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Gawker
| 9 months ago
After spending five years watching a diffident political compromiser campaign for and occupy the White House, Democrats were still shocked that Wednesday's debate didn't reveal Barack Obama: Political Nut-Cutter. They were dismayed, too, by the...
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The Gleaner
| 9 months ago
The Mitt Romney who demolished President Barack Obama in their first debate of the general-election season wasn't the same candidate at all who has been campaigning for president for the last six years. Romney was no longer the man whose wealth...
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Glen Ridge Voice
| 9 months ago
Wednesday's first presidential debate, many Republicans were becoming increasingly gloomy over the prospects of GOP candidate Mitt Romney. Incumbent Barack Obama had inched ahead in the national polls and far more alarmingly for Republicans, the...
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Boston Globe
| 9 months ago
Romney made the case that his term as a Republican governor in Massachusetts would enable him to break the partisan gridlock in Washington, a goal Obama has failed to accomplish. I had the great experience -- it didn't seem like it at the time -- of...
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The New York Times
| 9 months ago
Under fire from fellow Democrats, Mr. Obama came out swinging, accusing Mr. Romney of lying to the American people about his plans for the nation. I met this very spirited fellow who claimed to be Mitt Romney, Mr. Obama told 12,000 supporters during...
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The Guardian
| 9 months ago
Denver Barack Obama, speaking at a post-debate rally in Denver, said: 'If you want to be president, you owe the American people the truth.' Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters Barack Obama and the Democrats have accused Mitt Romney of dishonesty as...
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The Observer
| 9 months ago
Mitt Romney walks after he greeted members of law enforcement before he boarded his campaign plane in Denver Oct. 4, 2012. Photograph: Charles Dharapak/AP Jubilant Republicans declared the US election race back on Thursday, calling Mitt Romney 's...
