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The Hill
| 8 months ago
A flurry of new polls shows Mitt Romney eliminating a likeability gap with President Obama, but the incumbent rebuilding an advantage with female voters. The polls suggest Romney, who has had the momentum in the race since the first presidential...
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Kansas City Star
| 8 months ago
The state of Wisconsin has settled a federal lawsuit brought by Republican Mitt Romney's campaign seeking more time for military and overseas voters from Wisconsin to return ballots that were sent after a federal deadline for mailing them.The...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
In the final two weeks of the presidential campaign, it's all going to come down to ground game. And Donnie Fowler, the Silicon Valley-based veteran Democratic strategist and a regular on Jennifer Granholm's Current TV show, The War Room , says that...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Nev. (AP) Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has begun telling Americans the Nov. 6 election comes down to which candidate would be better for their families. He's trying to personalize the choice voters are making between him and...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
In horse races, the stock market and in politics, as well, nothing seduces the audience quite so well, or with such risk, as the hint of insider knowledge. The quest for insiders with information to peddle grows increasingly intense as an election...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
To Mitt Romney 's apparent surge in polls, the Obama campaign offers this counter-argument: Momentum?...Speaking to reporters in Iowa Wednesday, Obama advisor David Plouffe argued that there's no evidence Romney is picking up steam in key...
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The Courier-Mail
| 8 months ago
Obama has launched an eight-state, 40-hour "campaign marathon extravaganza" to protect his narrow lead in the key battlegrounds that will decide a knife-edge election. With just 13 days to go before he asks voters for a second term, Obama's through-...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 8 months ago
Romney's neocon backers pulled off the Libya attack to make Obama look bad just before election. ----- (Similar events took place just before the 1980 election with the deal by the Reagan/Bush backers not to release the hostages before the election...
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The Dish Rag
| 8 months ago
Tagg made the comment in a lighthearted manner, but it's election season and nothing can be taken in a lighthearted way. It got pundits all up in arms and so Tagg has issued an apology to the president, reports ABC news . A Romney campaign official...
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USA Today
| 8 months ago
President Obama is playing the trust card against Mitt Romney -- the Romney forces call it a desperation deal. In blasting what he calls "Romnesia" -- his opponent's habit of changing positions -- Obama told backers Tuesday in Ohio: "Now, we joke...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
The Romney camp said the Republican U.S. presidential nominee would finish the campaign as a front-runner while the Obama camp called the president an underdog. President Barack Obama 's "campaign is slipping," Mitt Romney told a crowd in Henderson,...
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Kansas City Star
| 8 months ago
Around lunchtime each day, the latest missives promoting or pillorying Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney arrive in Diane Ouradnik's mailbox. Before long, they're in her trash.Tearing and tossing has become routine...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
A Washington Post-ABC News poll released Tuesday showed 49 percent of likely voters support Republican Mitt Romney and 48 percent support President Obama. The results, which do not include reaction to the third and final presidential debate Monday,...
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NY1
| 8 months ago
With their final debates out of the way, both Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama are ramping up their campaign schedule and while their paths may not cross again before Election Day in two weeks, they'll be covering much of the same turf...Nevada,...
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Star Tribune
| 8 months ago
Television commercials may be king, but millions of dollars a week are fueling mail ads that are burying swing-state voters in appeals from the presidential candidates, political parties and their allied groups. Gun owners are told Democratic...
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The Courier-Mail
| 8 months ago
White House race is being economical with the truth -- because both sides say they are winning. A devious game of bluff and spin is unfolding as campaign aides shape the political endgame over voters scattered across suburbs and prairies, mountains...
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Al Jazeera
| 8 months ago
14 Energised by strong debate performances, Romney drew the largest crowd of his campaign in Colorado [AFP] US President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney have entered the final stretch of the neck-and-neck presidential race by...
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NY Daily News
| 8 months ago
There's no real argument that President Obama won Monday's final debate but not by enough to alter the trajectory of an up-for-grabs election. To close the deal, Obama must convince undecided holdouts the next four years will be different, and better,...
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Associated Press
| 8 months ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's son Tagg has apologized to President Barack Obama for saying in a radio interview that he was tempted to "take a swing" at the president for criticizing his father during a debate. Tagg Romney on Monday...
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Reuters
| 8 months ago
Topics A member of the crowd watches Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and U.S. President Barack Obama meet in the final U.S. presidential debate in Boca Raton, Florida, October 22, 2012. The number of American TV viewers who watched the...
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The Hill
| 8 months ago
Senior Obama campaign officials blitzed the airwaves a day after a combative performance by Obama at the third presidential debate, with senior strategist David Axelrod saying his candidate was even or ahead in every battleground. Romney's campaign...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 8 months ago
US president Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney are back on the campaign trail in key swing states as the US election campaign enters its final fortnight. The Obama camp says it always expected a tight finish, but it is suddenly...
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CNN
| 8 months ago
The move appeared to catch President Barack Obama by surprise at their first face-to-face match up. His lackluster performance against a strong showing by Romney helped the former Massachusetts governor to catch, and in some places, pass the...
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CNN
| 8 months ago
A dramatic new consensus has taken hold inside the campaigns of President Obama and Mitt Romney, one that was unthinkable just a few weeks ago: Americans will wake up on Election Day not knowing who their next president will be.
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Kansas City Star
| 8 months ago
p>The U.S. accuses China of flouting trade rules and undervaluing its currency to helps its exporters, hurting American competitors and jobs. But imposing tariffs could set off a trade war and drive up prices for American consumers...Chinese...
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Inquirer.net
| 8 months ago
US President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney walk away after greeting each other at the end of their third and final debate at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, on Monday. US presidential race is neck-and-neck and could boil...
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Kansas City Star
| 8 months ago
A prominent gay Republican group is hesitantly backing Mitt Romney for president, calling it the right decision for the nation even as it slams his opposition to gay marriage and civil unions.Log Cabin Republicans says it's supporting Romney to put...
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Fox News
| 8 months ago
FoxNews.com The closing chapter of the 2012 presidential race will be written in just a handful of states, as the candidates launch a feverish blitz of the battlegrounds that will determine who takes the oath of office come Inauguration Day. The...
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Boston.com
| 8 months ago
Fla. (AP) President Barack Obama says the most serious issue in the White House race is who voters can trust. Obama is aiming to draw a contrast with Republican rival Mitt Romney following their final presidential debate. The president says that...
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The New York Times
| 8 months ago
On Tuesday, airports in Colorado, Florida, Nevada and Ohio will be seized with the comings and goings of campaign jets as President Obama , Mitt Romney and their running mates campaign during the final and post-debate phase of the long contest to...
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Fox News
| 8 months ago
FoxNews.com If the third presidential debate set the tone for the final two weeks of the campaign, then expect President Obama to mock and deride his opponent all the way to the finish line and Mitt Romney to keep hammering the economy above all else.
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
After a consequential series of debates in their deadlocked contest, President Obama and Mitt Romney will now go at it, mano a mano, in a closing burst of swing-state campaigning that will decide the presidency. In Monday night's final televised...
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Venture Beat
| 8 months ago
Microsoft announced that Xbox Live swing and undecided voters have decided for the third time in a row that President Barack Obama won the presidential debate against Republican challenger Mitt Romney. More than 100,000 Xbox Live members watched the...
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Russia Today
| 8 months ago
US President Barack Obama (L) greets Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney following the final US presidential debate in Boca Raton, Florida October 22, 2012. (Reuters/Michael Reynolds/) The final presidential debate saw the candidates lock...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
Obama started ut bent on one-liner, one-upmanship early, and was attacking more than setting out a plan. Romney alertly picked up on it: Attacking me is not an agenda. Obama also stumbled over words early a la Denver. Romney also neatly turned Obama'...
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The Hill
| 8 months ago
Thirty minutes into the debate, which was designed to focus on national security and foreign affairs, both contenders brought up domestic issues on repeated occasions, indicating an awareness that the economy remains the No...Several times Romney...
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International Business Times
| 8 months ago
National polls released Monday before the last debate continued to show a basically tied presidential race, with President Barack Obama holding a tiny lead over Mitt Romney in most of them...Romney lost a point since Sunday's daily tracking poll,...
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The Australian
| 8 months ago
LET'S assume for a moment you're an American and you're getting ready to vote in the US election...You've seen two presidential debates already, the scores are 1-1 , and today is the third face-off between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Plenty has...
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OpenSecrets.org
| 8 months ago
And President Barack Obama's campaign has a significant edge over Mitt Romney's when it comes to women donors. In September, 45 percent of Obama's campaign funds came from women while only 28 percent of Romney's did. The gender gap is at a peak in...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
Select a date range Create a custom date range From: To: October 22, 2012 , 7:07 a.m. Reflecting recent strengthening of consumer confidence, a new poll shows more voters than a month ago expect the economy to improve over the coming year. Nearly...
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Miami Herald
| 8 months ago
On Monday night, President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will spar over foreign policy in the final presidential debate before the Nov. 6 presidential election. But with most polling focused almost exclusively on voters' views of the economy and other...
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Arizona Republic
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are engaged in an all-out effort to court women in the campaign's closing weeks, knowing that women could help determine the winner in a series of toss-up states. Women have emerged as the pivotal voting bloc in...
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Daily Nation
| 8 months ago
A new pull puts US President Barack Obama and his Republican rival, Mitt Romney dead even in their race for the White House on the eve of their final televised debate. Sunday's survey, by NBC News and The Wall Street Journal , showed the candidate...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
Ann Romney pronounced her love of Cuban food Saturday during a surprise visit to a Florida restaurant. Romney chatted up patrons at Las Vegas Cuban Cuisine while stumping for her husband, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney , in a key...
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Japan Times
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney not discussing the nation's future. Almost every expert agrees that controlling health costs is the crux of curing chronic budget deficits. Health spending already exceeds a quarter of federal outlays. With...
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Ledger-Enquirer
| 8 months ago
The party that runs the Senate next year may well depend on how well President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney do in toss-up states like Nevada, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin. Each of those states has Senate races that are about as tight as the...
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Star Tribune
| 8 months ago
When you vote for Democrat Barack Obama or Republican Mitt Romney in November, you'll be voting for more than a president. You'll be casting a ballot for and against a checklist of policies that touch your life and shape the country you live in. It...
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Arizona Republic
| 8 months ago
People who live in battleground states tend to have a number and a coping strategy. Virginian Catherine Caughey's number is four: Her family recently got four political phone calls in the space of five minutes...All the attention that the...
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Kansas City Star
| 8 months ago
With one debate and one jobs report to go, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney are hurtling towards Election Day in a virtual deadlock, each convinced that victory is within reach if his campaign sticks with its plan.In 16 days, voters...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Press/Corbis As Republican challenger Mitt Romney addressed a throng of supporters in the Virginian town of Leesburg last week, he started to rattle through a list of campaign promises. "When I become president" he began. Then he paused and regarded...
