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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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Los Angeles Times
| 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...
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Truthdig
| 7 months ago
Oct 15, 2012 In his latest Op-Ed, the New York Times columnist rips the Republican presidential ticket for a health care plan that would deny potentially millions of Americans coverage in order to save moneyall while proposing a trillion-dollar tax...
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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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Christian Science Monitor
| 7 months ago
He's got to try to perform differently than he did in their first clash in Denver , after all...At times, Mr. Obama was so reserved it seemed as if he didn't even want to be there.
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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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Greensboro News and Records
| 7 months ago
Want to catch up on the backstory between the presidential candidates. Visit news-record.com/links to watch the first debate between President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney, watch the past vice presidential debate between Vice President Joe Biden...
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USA Today
| 7 months ago
President Obama's campaign has a new ad in which business people say that things are getting better. "When you look at the president's plan I don't think there can be any question that we're on the right course for today's economy," says one...
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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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Aim West Milford
| 7 months ago
Governor Christe Governor Christie said a few days before the last presidential debate that GOP hopeful Mitt Romney would score a decisive victory and turn around the trajectory of the presidential campaign, a prediction that largely came true after...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 7 months ago
As the US election race enters its final lap with President Barack Obama and his challenger Mitt Romney almost tied in latest opinion polls, the two are pinning on the second presidential debate to gain a decisive edge. After an uncharacteristically '...
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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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Kansas City Star
| 7 months ago
WASHINGTON A study out Monday says most Medicare recipients - 59 percent - would pay higher premiums under a hypothetical privatized system, with wide regional differences leading to big hikes in some states.In the senior-rich political swing state...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Latest first Oldest first Auto update: On Off Updates: A cracking op-ed piece by Rebecca Solnit A letter to my dismal allies on the US left is carried over here at Cif America : One manifestation of this indiscriminate biliousness is the statement...
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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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United Press International
| 7 months ago
Obama, Romney in virtual tie President Barack Obama walks on the South Lawn of the White House after returning from a trip to Miami Oct. 11, 2012...President Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney were in a virtual dead heat heading into this week's...
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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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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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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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The Hill
| 7 months ago
Obama's weak and disengaged display at the first debate on Oct. 3 allowed Republican challenger Mitt Romney to reshape a race that had seemed to be slipping from his grasp...He now holds a lead in many nationwide surveys, while Obama clings to a...
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Arizona Republic
| 7 months ago
The every-four-years ritual of a national "town hall" style debate began as a nerve-racking experiment in live television. Moderator Carole Simpson was so nervous about turning over the microphone to regular folks and their questions that she spent...
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Arizona Republic
| 7 months ago
Curious what Virginia Republican Senate candidate George Allen thinks about his own party's law that forces women seeking abortions to have ultrasounds?...How about whether Arizona Democratic Senate candidate Richard Carmona would support Majority...
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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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International Business Times
| 7 months ago
Mitt Romney, left, answers a question as Barack Obama listens during the first U.S. presidential debate in Denver. These states (and their electoral votes) are Florida (29), Pennsylvania (20), Ohio (18), Michigan (16), North Carolina (15), Virginia (...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 7 months ago
That improved poll standing came after Mr. Romney's strong debate performance Oct. 3 against President Barack Obama. The two candidates spent Sunday preparing for their second debate, to take place Tuesday night in Hempstead, N.Y. Mr. Ryan amplified...
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Miami Herald
| 7 months ago
Obama is ahead of Romney 51-44 percent among Hispanics, a relatively narrow lead that could spell trouble for a Democratic campaign thats counting on minority support as non-Hispanic white voters flock to the Republican ticket in droves. In the rest...
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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...
