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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Washington Barack Obama, who surprised campaign volunteers in Virginia on Sunday, will try to be 'firm but respectful' in the debate, a spokeswoman said. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Barack Obama 's campaign team Monday promised that a...
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BBC
| 7 months ago
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are hunkered down with advisers ahead of Tuesday's debate, with the US president under pressure to bounce back after a languid first performance. Mr Obama is at a debate camp in Virginia, while Mr Romney is preparing in...
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The Tribune
| 7 months ago
Associated Press 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...After months of firing up core supporters, the two...
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The Hill
| 7 months ago
Spokeswoman Jen Psaki would not get into the specifics about Obama's expected tone, but promised Obama would be forceful on Tuesday night. Obama is looking for a strong performance after the first debate, when he was criticized for giving a...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 7 months ago
Counting down to national, state and local elections on Nov. 6, 2012 Republican Mitt Romney has taken a slight lead in North Carolina, according to the latest Public Policy Polling survey. The former Massachusetts governor is the choice of 49 percent...
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United Press International
| 7 months ago
President Obama holds a 1 percentage point lead over Republican rival Mitt Romney , but Romney's likability numbers are rising, a Politico poll indicated. In the Politico-George Washington University Battleground Poll of likely voters, Obama leads...
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United Press International
| 7 months ago
Mitt Romney could work with Democrats to strike a tax deal with a 20 percent individual rate reduction, Republican vice presidential hopeful Paul Ryan says. However, Ryan said it's sufficient for the GOP standard-bearer to provide only general...
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Kansas City Star
| 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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Newsbusters
| 7 months ago
Last week, Chuck Todd came in for criticism at NewsBusters for sniffing off a Rasmussen poll favorable to Mitt Romney as "slop." But has yesterday's slop become today's sirloin for the NBC political director? Sure looks like it. In a remarkable...
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Fox News
| 7 months ago
FoxNews.com We saw Governor Romney sort of serially walk away from his own proposals and certainly the president is going to be willing to challenge him, on it, as we saw the vice president challenge Paul Ryan. -- David Axelrod , senior political...
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The Globe & Mail
| 7 months ago
Vice-President Joe Biden, left, makes a point in front of Republican vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan and moderator Martha Raddatz during a debate in Danville, Ky., Oct. 11, 2012...Vice-President Joe Biden, left, and Republican vice-presidential...
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Leader Post Online
| 7 months ago
Locate me Bruce Springsteen to campaign for Obama in Ohio, Iowa comment Reuters News Service Published: October 15, 2012, 10:26 am Updated: 1 hour ago (Reuters) Republican Mitt Romney may have Clint Eastwood on his side, but President Barack Obama...
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International Business Times
| 7 months ago
First lady Michelle Obama will attend a campaign event in Delaware, Ohio, before visiting Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland. - A new Washington Post/ABC national polls shows Obama with a three-point lead over his Republican challenger, Mitt...
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Chicago Tribune
| 7 months ago
Obama must remain presidential, while also showing some of the fire and flash that was missing at the first debate in Denver. Romney, who has been cast in advertisements by the Obama campaign as a wealthy and heartless chief executive, must show that...
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Fox News
| 7 months ago
Associated Press President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney remain holed up with advisers Monday, the incumbent determined to bounce back in the coming debate from a poor performance in the first confrontation and the challenger hard at work...
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News 24
| 7 months ago
Three weeks before election day, the White House race between US president Barack Obama and his Republican foe Mitt Romney remains statistically tied, with Obama maintaining just a slight advantage, a new opinion poll found on Monday. The latest ABC...
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Asian Tribune
| 7 months ago
00 editor The next presidential debate points to a rough and tumble toe to toe match-up between President Obama and challenger Mitt Romney. Obama's handling of Benghazi deaths would be Romney's trump card while Obama would come down heavily on...
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Zee News
| 7 months ago
With the race for the White House becoming closer than ever, both Democrats and Republicans are focusing on Tuesday's second encounter between President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
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USA Today
| 7 months ago
Another poll, another close result between President Obama and Mitt Romney. George Washington University Battleground Poll released this morning. On the other hand, Romney leads 50%-48% in the poll's 10 top "battleground states:" Colorado, Florida,...
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News 24
| 7 months ago
Washington Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were closeted with advisers on Sunday preparing for the second presidential debate, a confrontation in which the president hopes to rebound from a lacklustre performance in their first face-to-face session and...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 7 months ago
Barack Obama's hopes of reviving his flagging re-election campaign received a boost yesterday (Sunday) after a series of polls showed the president leading in the must-win battleground state of Ohio. As both Mr Obama and Mitt Romney, his Republican...
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Truthdig
| 7 months ago
In the first presidential debate, President Obama let Mitt Romney's attacks on him stand, and seemed disengaged. Vice President Joe Biden stayed in Rep. Paul Ryan's face for the entirety of Thursday's vice presidential debate. In the process, he...
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Taiwan News
| 7 months ago
President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney were staying out of the spotlight Monday, underscoring the intense focus each campaign is placing on the second presidential debate exactly three works before Election Day.
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The Washington Times
| 7 months ago
You can almost chalk Tuesday's presidential debate up as draw before it even starts. This verdict should not depress Republicans because it does not mean Mitt Romney won't again do a stellar job. What it means is that because of the first debate, the...
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The New York Times
| 7 months ago
Republican rival, Mitt Romney, here with his wife, Ann, on Sunday in Belmont, Mass., also spent the weekend preparing for the debate. But as Mr. Obama huddled with close aides on the spectacular resort grounds of what was the Kingsmill Plantation in...
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The New York Times
| 7 months ago
October 14, 2012 The most important time for the presidential candidates this week may be after Tuesday night's debate. True, the 90 minutes that they spend in the town-hall-style debate on Long Island on Tuesday night could be a game changer if one...
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Newsbusters
| 7 months ago
If you've been paying attention to the Drudge Report lately, you've seen headlines linking to Real Clear Politics data showing how the presidential race has tightened since President Obama and Mitt Romney debated in Denver. Rather surprisingly, the...
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Xtra News
| 7 months ago
Democrat Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney may be neck and neck in the polls as the November 6 election draws close, but on social networks, the US president is the clear winner. - Facebook: More than 30.8 million people "like"...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Yuri Gripas/Reuters With their proxies dispatched to do battle on the weekly round of political talks shows, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney went to ground on Sunday to swot up ahead of a crucial second presidential debate in the still tight electoral...
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The Globe & Mail
| 7 months ago
President Barack Obama walks over to talk to the media about the vice presidential debate after stepping off Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington, October 11, 2012 Reuters video video Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 7 months ago
It's not exaggerating to say that Wednesday's second debate could tip the balance of the US presidential election. After months of lagging behind, Mitt Romney grabbed the opening his rival gave him in the first debate to take a very narrow lead in...
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GMA News
| 7 months ago
Campaign advisers to President Barack Obama promised on Sunday he would be more aggressive and energetic on Tuesday in his second debate against Republican challenger Mitt Romney after a passive, heavily criticized performance in their first showdown.
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The Hill
| 7 months ago
He can probably win the presidency without Ohio, but I wouldn't want to take the risk, said Portman, a prominent Romney surrogate on ABC's This Week. No Republican has, he added. Ohio is one of 12 battleground states captured by Obama in 2008 where...
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Washington Post
| 7 months ago
The two weeks since have been filled with second-guessing and second thoughts from the Democratic base. Although Vice President Biden's over-the-top performance in last week's vice-presidential debate helped re-energize many of the party's activists,...
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Guardian Unlimited
| 7 months ago
New York Mitt Romney campaigns in front of The Golden Lamb Inn and Restaurant in Lebanon, Ohio on Saturday. Photograph: Charles Dharapak/AP A senior adviser to Barack Obama has accused the president's Republican challenger Mitt Romney of attempting...
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NY Daily News
| 7 months ago
Vallery Jean/FilmMagic President Barack Obama's advisors say he is preparing to be more energetic in Tuesday's debate. President Obama has learned from his debate mistakes and plans to step up his game when he faces Mitt Romney on Tuesday, a senior...
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Fox News
| 7 months ago
Va. As President Obama began to hunker down at a plush resort here for three full days of debate prep, his campaign team signaled the incumbent may steal a page from Vice President Joe Biden and show a more aggressive tone in Tuesday's second face-...
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Ledger-Enquirer
| 7 months ago
Saturday Night Live" parodied the vice presidential debate with a little help from the world's fastest man. Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt dropped by the NBC sketch show's mock debate after Taran Killam, playing Mitt Romney's running mate, Paul Ryan,...
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The Hill
| 7 months ago
The effort was on full display last Thursday night, when Vice President Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) squared off in the first and only vice presidential debate of the election. On two separate occasions, Biden suggested Romney's national...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 7 months ago
It is depressing but true that foreign policy rarely has much impact on American elections. This one indisputable area of a president's responsibility affects millions, if not billions, of people around the world, yet to the 200,000 pivotal swing...
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The Columbus Dispatch
| 7 months ago
Just 23 days until Election Day and the quadrennial question persists: Which Ohio will show up this time? As fickle as it is pivotal, the state again is the gateway to the presidency, poised to tip the outcome with its 18 electoral votes...Ohio could...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 7 months ago
Va. (AP) President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney are each forgoing time on the campaign trail Sunday in favor of hours of intense debate preparation ahead of their next face-to-face meeting. Obama, seeking to rebound from a widely panned...
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The Denver Post
| 7 months ago
10/14/2012 12:54:04 AM MDT GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's fortunes have shifted in the past five weeks in Colorado. After an affecting debate performance at the University of Denver and more commanding stump speeches across battleground...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 7 months ago
Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan received several standing ovations from a crowd of about 500 Saturday at Youngstown State University as he doubled down on positions he has held on key issues for much of his political career and...
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Parsippany LIfe
| 7 months ago
Ohio Every week after Labor Day is touted as a critical week in presidential politics. The coming week may actually live up to that characterization. During the next eight days, President Obama and Mitt Romney will meet for their final two debates...
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Baltimore Sun
| 7 months ago
At an event with thousands of Ohioans on Friday night, Romney boasted of "a growing crescendo of enthusiasm." He has spoken to several large audiences in Ohio this week. "(Obama's) campaign is about smaller and smaller things, and our campaign is...
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The New York Times
| 7 months ago
Ticket Focuses on Crucial Ohio Votes Max Whittaker for The New York Times Representative Paul D. Ohio The Republican ticket has all but taken up residence in vital Ohio : Mitt Romney spent four days in the state this week and Representative Paul D...
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The New York Times
| 7 months ago
Archive Recent Posts October 13 Senator Rob Portman took Mitt Romney through the Ohio inn he owns with his family, marching him into the John Quincy Adams Room on the second floor. October 13 Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, Beau Biden and other...
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Washington Post
| 7 months ago
Text Size The Washington Post Two things seem certain in modern presidential campaigns: Candidates will spend more time attacking each other than offering constructive alternatives, and one or both will attack China...Kerry assailed Benedict Arnold...
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The Denver Post
| 7 months ago
Font Resize Longmont Times-Call Vice President Joe Biden has cancelled a Tuesday afternoon campaign appearance in Boulder but is still scheduled to deliver a Wednesday morning speech in Greeley. The Boulder County Democratic Party posted on its...
