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Miami Herald
| 7 months ago
The economy still may dominate the nation's to-do list, but a nation divided in its values continues to passionately debate social issues: abortion, birth control and gay marriage...After a string of 32 states have voted to ban gay marriage, four...
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International Business Times
| 7 months ago
2012 Republican Party presidential nominee Mitt Romney with wife Ann Romney. Romney reiterated that she would not be making the decisions, that her it's her husband's job if he were to be nominated as president. She added that she is pro-life, even...
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Reuters
| 7 months ago
Republican presidential nominee and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney stands in his campaign plane in Sterling, Virginia, October 18, 2012. Thanks to Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney's debate comment that he received "binders...
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Qatar English Daily
| 7 months ago
US President Barack Obama said yesterday that Mitt Romney had taken a swing and missed when selling his tax plan to Americans, claiming his rival's economic policy does not add up. Obama also said that, after their acrimonious exchange in their...
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Reuters
| 7 months ago
Republican presidential nominee and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign rally in Leesburg, Virginia, October 17, 2012. Republican challenger Mitt Romney has gained substantial ground on Democratic President Barack Obama on...
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Tulsa World
| 7 months ago
The questions before Tuesday night's second presidential debate were: Will President Obama bounce back after a lackluster performance in the first debate?...After his dismal showing in the first debate he had nowhere to go but up. This time, the...
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Denver Post
| 7 months ago
Re- publican nominee Mitt Romney's comment during the second presidential debate that he had received "binders full of women" as Massachusetts governor when he requested more female job candidates went viral Wednesday, fueling a broader fight between...
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United Press International
| 7 months ago
I need your help," the former Massachusetts governor said. "I have to be honest with you. I love these debates, you know, these things are great," Romney said, referring to the second presidential debate Tuesday. "I think it's interesting the...
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Ridgefield Park Patriot
| 7 months ago
Tuesday night's presidential debate on Long Island served to remind voters that democracy as a guiding concept in this nation endures even as issues divide. Amazingly, ordinary people, reportedly "undecided" voters from all walks of life, came forth...
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Zee News
| 7 months ago
19 Zeenews Bureau Washington: Despite the US President Barack Obama's fired-up volley of attacks and defences at New York debate, rival republican Mitt Romney on Wednesday witnessed his biggest lead to date, according to a latest poll.
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National Public Radio
| 7 months ago
A day after their second presidential debate, President Obama and GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney were in different swing states, reprising some of their greatest hits from Tuesday night. And "hits" is the exactly the right word because each man...
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National Public Radio
| 7 months ago
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been firmly anti-abortion during this campaign. But during Tuesday's debate on Long Island, N.Y., Romney charged that President Obama misrepresented his position on birth control. Here's what Obama said,...
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Mail Online UK
| 7 months ago
17 October 2012 President Barack Obama has quipped that he is 'still trying to figure out how to get the hang' of debates but ventured that he is improving as he goes along. He was speaking in Mount Vernon, Iowa the day after he was hailed by many as...
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SF Gate
| 7 months ago
Va. (AP) On immigration, taxes and women's issues, Mitt Romney is abandoning his "severely conservative" talk of the Republican primary season and moving sharply to the political center as he looks to sway on-the-fence voters in the campaign's final...
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Reuters
| 7 months ago
Republican presidential nominee and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney boards his campaign plane in Norfolk, Virginia, October 17, 2012. Mitt Romney's proposed cap on itemizing tax deductions could not on its own raise enough new government...
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United Press International
| 7 months ago
President Barack Obama (L) and Republican nominee Mitt Romney (R) at the presidential debate in Hempstead, N.Y., Oct. 16, 2012...President Barack Obama said Wednesday Republican nominee Mitt Romney is "trying to sell you a sketchy deal." Addressing...
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Miami Herald
| 7 months ago
President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, energized by their showings at a debate whose impact was still being debated, revved up eager swing state audiences on Wednesday with pointed partisan appeals. Their Tuesday night battle in Hampstead, N.Y.,...
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Fox News
| 7 months ago
FoxNews.com With less than three weeks left on the calendar before Election Day, President Obama on Wednesday followed up his second debate with Mitt Romney by amplifying his sharpest zingers from the night before -- in what appears to be a fresh...
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Washington Post
| 7 months ago
Governor Romney didn't want to talk last night about how he wants to end funding for Planned Parenthood, Obama said, hitting a common theme throughout his speech, women's health issues...I don't think your boss should control the health care you get.
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The New York Times
| 7 months ago
Archive Recent Posts October 17 The New York City mayor, a billionaire and registered independent, expects to spend from $10 million to $15 million of his money in highly competitive Congressional, state and local races. October 17 President Obama...
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Wellington Dominion
| 7 months ago
On the seal of the United States, the eagle turns its head toward its right talon, which holds an olive branch, and away from the talon holding 13 arrows...The eagle that hovered between the two candidates in the second debate had the same design,...
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Boston Herald
| 7 months ago
A coalition of Massachusetts women's groups says GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney did, in fact, receive binders with the names of potential female candidates for high-level positions when he was governor. Romney's remark at Tuesday's debate with...
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Star Tribune
| 7 months ago
Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama has failed America's women. The Republican nominee told supporters in Virginia on Wednesday that women have suffered through high unemployment and high poverty rates during Obama's term...Romney's push to...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 7 months ago
In what amounted to a do-over on the subject of wealth and fairness, President Barack Obama took aim on Tuesday night at Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney 's personal finances, his tax plan and his once-private comment about the "47...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 7 months ago
In a markedly aggressive performance compared with his first dismal debate with Romney two weeks ago, the President hammered the former Massachusetts Governor on issues ranging from immigration policy and tax cuts to Libya. But the challenger also...
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Washington Post
| 7 months ago
Text Size The Washington Post The battle for the women's vote helped shape Tuesday night's debate between President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, pushing issues such as equal pay for women and access to contraception to the forefront...
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United Press International
| 7 months ago
A pattern of tough talk regarding U.S.-Chinese relations during the U.S. presidential race may harm long-term ties, Chinese state media reports Wednesday. An article in China's state-run news agency Xinhua calls on U.S. politicians to paint a "truer"...
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Tahoe Daily Tribune
| 7 months ago
Do Americans want to make Barack Obama a one-term president so that they can replace him with a one-term governor? My biggest beef with Mitt Romney is that he won his way into the statehouse in Boston in 2002 only to use it as a perch to run for the...
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 7 months ago
At several points, Mitt Romney was right on energy facts but wrong on the context. When energy policy took the floor on Tuesday night's presidential debate, the sparks began to fly. President Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney sparred over oil...
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Sacramento News
| 7 months ago
Wednesday 17th October, 2012 Forty-six percent of voters who watched Tuesday night's presidential debate said that the president won the showdown, according to a CNN/ORC International nationwide poll conducted right after Tuesday night's faceoff here...
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Indian Express
| 7 months ago
Obama casts Romney as extremist on Medicare, women's health '+google_ads[i].line2 +' '+google_ads[i].line3 + ' Agencies : Washington, Wed Oct 17 2012, 12:25 hrs President Barack Obama, long accused by Republicans of pursuing a socialist agenda on...
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Mother Jones
| 7 months ago
The president put Romney on the ropes with a fiery debate performanceand ended with a climactic 47-percent punch...Obama entered the second of three rounds with many tasks to accomplish. He had to display vim and vigorat least look as if he wants to...
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The New York Times
| 7 months ago
Recent Posts October 17 Scientific polls conducted after the Tuesday night's presidential debate in New York give a modest edge to President Obama. October 16 President Obama and Mitt Romney meet tonight at Long Island's Hofstra University for the...
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Have U Heard??
| 7 months ago
The President took the stage determined to play offense against Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, taking every opportunity to put his GOP challenger on the defensive, defend his four years in office, and make the case for one more term in...
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MarketWatch
| 7 months ago
President Barack Obama gesture toward each other during the second U.S. presidential debate Obama was more contentious with Romney on a number of issues, taking a couple of cues from running mate Joe Biden by interrupting the former Massachusetts...
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Taiwan News
| 7 months ago
A fired-up President Barack Obama persistently attacked Republican challenger Mitt Romney in a critical debate Tuesday, offering a striking contrast from his listless performance two weeks ago that appeared to damage his re-election prospects.
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The New York Times
| 7 months ago
A one-stop destination for the latest political news from The Times and other top sources...President Obama , who concluded that he was too polite in his first debate with Mitt Romney , made sure no one would say that after their second. He...
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Miami Herald
| 7 months ago
President Barack Obama leaped back into the presidential campaign Tuesday, aggressively challenging rival Mitt Romney in a tense debate likely to reset the contest as it heads into the final weeks. Obama was all the things he was not in his first...
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Inquirer.net
| 7 months ago
New York President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney shooks hands on Tuesday at the start of their second televised national debate ahead of the November 6 election. The Democratic incumbent is generally regarded as having come...
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NY1
| 7 months ago
summary+' President Barack Obama sparred with Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney in the second of three presidential debates. The president came out swinging, determined to do better than last time...The stakes were high for President...
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Los Angeles Times
| 7 months ago
The second presidential debate began just as the first did with a lot of statistics tossed out about jobs and unemployment...Mitt Romney said today's unemployment rate of 7.8% grossly understates what's really going on in the economy. Specifically,...
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Al Jazeera
| 7 months ago
20 Obama went on the offensive early, accusing Romney of pushing false numbers on his tax plan [Reuters] US President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney have faced each other in a combative debate that saw both men attack one another...
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Associated Press
| 7 months ago
President Barack Obama is calling for reintroducing legislation to ban assault weapons. In discussing the issue at the presidential debate Tuesday night, Obama said weapons that were designed for soldiers at war don't belong on the street. After the...
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The Indianapolis Star
| 7 months ago
Share Comments Mitt Romney and President Obama debate in Hempstead, N.Y., on Tuesday. (Photo: Emmanuel Dunand, AFP/Getty Images) Story Highlights Obama entered the debate intending to show more passion Romney blamed Obama for failing to generate more...
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Chicago Tribune
| 7 months ago
A newly energetic and aggressive President Obama went directly after his Republican challenger starting with the first minutes of their second presidential debate Tuesday night, attacking Mitt Romney 's business record and accusing him of offering a...
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Xtra News
| 7 months ago
Obama comes out swinging at second debate Laura Heathcote, Newstalk ZB October 17, 2012, 2:44 pm A more aggressive Barack Obama is showing his colours in today's second US presidential debate. President Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney are...
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Virginian-Pilot Online
| 7 months ago
President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are trying to appeal to female voters during the second presidential debate. Responding to a question about pay equity for women, Obama notes that the first piece of legislation he signed made it easier for...
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Jerusalem Post
| 7 months ago
US president gets another chance after weak first debate; latest poll shows Obama extending slim lead over Republican challenger. US President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney disagreed over the economy in their second debate on...
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Miami Herald
| 7 months ago
Mitt Romney's campaign has released a new TV ad suggesting the Republican hopeful believes abortion "should be an option" in certain cases. The ad features a woman saying she'd heard Romney's position on abortion and birth control "seemed a bit...
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Boston.com
| 7 months ago
N.Y. (AP) An aggressive President Barack Obama ripped into Mitt Romney's economic proposals in a town hall style debate Tuesday night, accusing his rival of favoring a one-point plan'' to help the rich at the expense of the middle class...The middle...
