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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 7 months ago
After wilting under the heat of Mitt Romney's attacks in the first presidential debate in Denver, Barack Obama is hoping to rebound with an improved performance at their second encounter on Tuesday. Obama's year-long lead over Romney in national...
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Daily Nation
| 7 months ago
Republican Mitt Romney raised more than $170 million in September, aides said Monday -- a record for his campaign but shy of President Barack Obama's $181 million haul for the same period. With the latest fundraising figures, the Romney campaign and...
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Boston Globe
| 7 months ago
Mitt Romney and the Republican Party raised $170.5 million in September, a record monthly haul for his campaign but one that still trailed the $181 million President Obama and the Democratic Party raised over the same period. Romney, in conjunction...
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Fox News
| 7 months ago
FoxNews.com An averaging of polls by the website RealClearPolitics shows President Obama and Mitt Romney essentially deadlocked at 47 percent in nationwide surveys and neck-and-neck in battleground states, with 22 days left before Election Day. The...
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News Press
| 7 months ago
Gallup Poll finds, and he has growing enthusiasm among women to thank. As the presidential campaign heads into its final weeks, the survey of voters in 12 crucial swing states finds female voters much more engaged in the election and increasingly...
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Miami Herald
| 7 months ago
President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney face off Tuesday in a town hall style debate that has the potential to finally break the races stubborn tie as their battle roars into its final, decisive three weeks. The 90-minute debate at...
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New York Observer
| 7 months ago
State Senator Adriano Espaillat would really prefer if Mitt Romney would stop beating immigrant communities with a stick so that candy will come out, figuratively, of course. Thus, on the eve of the second debate between Mr. Romney and the incumbent,...
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New York Observer
| 7 months ago
After a new poll out today from Gallup and USA Today showed Mitt Romney pulling ahead of President Barack Obama by strengthening his standing with likely female voters in key swing states, the Obama campaign fired back by releasing a memo written by...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
The $170m raised in September easily outstrips the $111m Romney raised in August. Photograph: Charles Dharapak/AP Mitt Romney received a major boost on the eve of the second presidential debate when his team announced he had raised $170m in campaign...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 7 months ago
A bevy of new national polls show the tightness of Barack Obama v. Mitt Romney, and underscore the importance of Tuesday night's second final-round debate of America's 2010 presidential election. AFP/GettyImages) A Politico/George Washington...
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Los Angeles Times
| 7 months ago
First Lady Michelle Obama cast her ballot for president Monday, presumably voting for her husband with the absentee form she dropped in the mail. After @MichelleObama tweeted that news in the afternoon, the president announced that he'll also be...
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Los Angeles Times
| 7 months ago
A Politico/George Washington University Battleground poll released Monday showed Obama still with a wide lead among women -- 54% to 43%. But the poll also showed that women's views on Romney have improved slightly. Forty-eight percent said they had a...
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Los Angeles Times
| 7 months ago
Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney enjoyed a surge of donations in September, raking in $170 million for the month -- a major cash infusion that is helping finance a deluge of advertising by his campaign in the final weeks of the White...
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Truthdig
| 7 months ago
The presidential contest remains tight, according to the latest poll released on the eve of the second debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. The ABC News/Washington Post survey shows the president with a slight lead over Romney among likely...
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National Public Radio
| 7 months ago
If there was any surprise in the first 90-minute presidential debate , it was President Obama's apathetic performance, not Mitt Romney's energetic and assertive pounding of the commander in chief. Anyone who had caught Romney's performances in the 23...
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Washington Post
| 7 months ago
This came during Romney's most difficult month as a candidate, when he lost significant ground in the polls and when his disparaging comments about the 47 percent publicly surfaced. The September total does not reflect the surge in donor enthusiasm...
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CNN
| 7 months ago
After months of criticism, much of it from fellow Republicans, the machine managing Romney's presidential bid has him gaining support in the final weeks of the race. The latest polls show Romney catching or slightly passing President Barack Obama in...
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Herald Tribune
| 7 months ago
For the last week or so, we have been hoping to decode a confusing polling landscape . President Obama still appeared to hold a narrow Electoral College lead on the basis of state-by-state surveys, while national polls were suggestive of a tie or...
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SF Gate
| 7 months ago
President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney practiced for their second debate as the economy posted another set of positive numbers just over three weeks from Election Day. The stakes for Tuesday's town-hall debate at Hofstra University on New...
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The Hill
| 7 months ago
The figure, provided by the Romney campaign, indicates the Republican candidate has no issue keeping pace with Obama through the campaign's final weeks. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are offering voters a vision for our country that will grow the economy,...
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Kansas City Star
| 7 months ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's campaign says it raised $170.4 million in September.The figure brings Romney's fundraising effort slightly behind President Barack Obama's $181 million haul for the month. It leaves Romney, the...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 7 months ago
And sure enough, polls show nearly two-thirds of Americans will base their vote on fear for their own financial security.
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CNN
| 7 months ago
CNN will offer unrestricted access to Tuesday's presidential debate coverage starting at 7 p.m. ET on CNN TV, CNN.com and via CNN's apps for iPhone , iPad and Android . Web users can become video editors with a new clip-and-share feature that allows...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 7 months ago
The president, locked away in a Virginia resort ahead of his debate with Republican Mitt Romney on Tuesday, quickly tweeted back, in an apparently orchestrated move, saying he would go home to vote later this month. "I'm following @MichelleObama's...
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Chicago Tribune
| 7 months ago
As a flurry of recent polls confirms, the presidential race has returned to the situation that prevailed before the party conventions -- nearly a dead heat -- as Mitt Romney's strong performance in the first debate with President Obama largely erased...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 7 months ago
The Boss is back in the battle for the White House. (Political) capital diminishes the more often you do it, Springsteen told The New Yorker in a profile last summer. But that was before President Obama's lead began to narrow in key Battleground...
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Las Vegas Review-Journal / Sun
| 7 months ago
Is there any escape from all those political ads in the most hotly contested states in the three weeks before the presidential election?...They cover everything from jobs to education to trust, and they're sharply negative. It's all enough to turn...
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OpenSecrets.org
| 7 months ago
Contributing $176,121, the Department of Defense is Obama's biggest supporter, with the Army not far behind with $165,646...In comparison, Romney's top military contributor is the Army with $115,458, followed by the Air Force with $90,611 in...
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The New York Times
| 7 months ago
Archive Recent Posts October 15 The Romney campaign met with big donors today to discuss strategy for the closing weeks of the campaign...October 15 The president's staff said he is preparing intensely for Tuesday's debate. October 15 As the...
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The New York Times
| 7 months ago
The Obama campaign insisted Monday it remained sanguine about the state of the presidential race, a day before President Obama was to meet Mitt Romney in Hempstead, N.Y., for a second high-stakes debate. With polls showing Mr. Obama clinging to a...
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The New York Times
| 7 months ago
01 pm Mitt Romney and the Republican Party have begun a late push to raise tens of millions of dollars in the closing weeks of the election, cash that will finance a last-minute barrage of advertising that Mr. Romney's aides believe is critical to...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 7 months ago
With the economy showing some signs of improvement three weeks before Election Day, President Barack Obama on Monday laid down a full embrace of the economic record many Republicans say is his biggest weakness. The president's first act in this...
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Los Angeles Times
| 7 months ago
After months of enjoying strong leads over their Republican challengers in battleground Pennsylvania, President Obama and Sen. Bob Casey are edging their opponents by only a few points with three weeks until Election Day. Obama is up over Mitt Romney...
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Associated Press
| 7 months ago
Obama and first lady Michelle Obama said Monday they are both voting early, a nod to the campaign's efforts to encourage supporters to vote absentee by mail or cast their ballot at an early voting location. Mrs. Obama said on Twitter that she dropped...
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Pop Crunch
| 7 months ago
Presidents With Romney's recent rise in the polls after a night of debate dominance, the election is now a serious race. What seemed like an inevitable win for President Obama is no longer so clear. But do people really have any idea who Romney is or...
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Star Tribune
| 7 months ago
After their running mates slugged it out in a spirited debate, President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney are on deck. The next debate is theirs, a town-hall format Tuesday night at Hofstra University in New York. With the race so close...
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MarketWatch
| 7 months ago
I've been watching the daily election dramas, and I still think Obama is going to win the election...Instead of giving us reasons to vote for them, the candidates are giving us reasons to vote against the other guy. Mitt Romney is promising not to be...
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Zee News
| 7 months ago
US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has a one-point lead over President Barack Obama in Colorado, and has cut the president's lead to half in Wisconsin after his success at the first presidential debate in Denver, a new poll has found.
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Kansas City Star
| 7 months ago
In a spirited debate that laid out stark choices, Joe Biden and Paul Ryan teed up pointed arguments on the economy, social policy and America's place in the world that President Barack Obama and GOP rival Mitt Romney now will drive forward into the...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 7 months ago
US vice-president Joe Biden put up a strong spirited performance today during his only face-to-face debate with Paul Ryan, but could not stop his Republican challenger from emerging the winner according to snap polls immediately after the 90-minute...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 7 months ago
Rep. Paul Ryan pummeled one another over Medicare, the federal budget and foreign policy Thursday night in their sole vice presidential debate, less than a month before an election in which voting had already begun in key states. Mr. Biden was the...
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Herald Tribune
| 7 months ago
Ann Romney's sweet tooth proved too much to prevent a detour while the GOP presidential challenger's wife campaigned in Sarasota on Thursday morning. After a fundraiser earlier at the Sarasota Hyatt, Romney took a 20-minute break to visit Sarasota's...
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Los Angeles Times
| 7 months ago
After weeks of preparation, the rival running mates were braced for a combative encounter split between domestic and foreign affairs. Rather than a formal setting of twin lecterns, the two were to be seated at a table with moderator Martha Raddatz, a...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Danville Obama's lead among women, one of his strengths, has been cut to 2%, from 15% a month ago. Photograph: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images The Obama campaign suffered a major blow only hours before the vice-presidential debate when a new poll...
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Taiwan News
| 7 months ago
Vice President Joe Biden and the man who wants to succeed him, Republican Paul Ryan, face off Thursday in a debate that gained new importance in the race for the White House after President Barack Obama flubbed last week's confrontation against Mitt...
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Fox News
| 7 months ago
FoxNews.com Rarely have the running mates held such sway over the course of a presidential race. But thanks to President Obama's lackluster debate performance last week, the match-up Thursday night between Vice President Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan...
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The Hill
| 7 months ago
For Biden, the meeting is an opportunity to course-correct after President Obama's disappointing debate performance just over a week ago, while for Ryan, another consensus win could give the GOP ticket unstoppable momentum heading into Election Day.
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National Public Radio
| 7 months ago
Kentucky may be the site for tonight's debate between the vice presidential candidates, but the monster swing state of Ohio remains the focus of the White House dreams for President Obama and Mitt Romney. Both the incumbent and his challenger have...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 7 months ago
to stop President Barack Obama's slide in the polls after a lacklustre performance in last week's first presidential debate with Republican challenger Mitt Romney. In what promises to be one of the closest presidential elections in recent US history,...
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Los Angeles Times
| 7 months ago
Barack Obama carried this state by 10 percentage points in 2008, and polls this year have had him ahead of hometown candidate Mitt Romney , who has a house in Wolfeboro, by as much as 7 percentage points. But recent polls have showed the race...
