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Charlotte Observer Online
| 8 months ago
Saturday, Oct. 06, 2012 Another look some of the statements made by President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney at the first presidential debate of 2012, held Wednesday in Denver. If I'm president, I will help create 12...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
A screen shot from JedBlue's 'Election Protection 2012' website. Can't stomach the thought of living in a country where Barack Obama/Mitt Romney is president for the next four years?...If things don't go your way, don't worry, the airline proclaims...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 8 months ago
Repudiating his "47%" comment. The Strategy: During the fight for the Republican nomination, Mitt Romney said he had been a "severely conservative" governor...Mr. Romney in recent weeks has augmented his positions on taxes and immigration.
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Boston Herald
| 8 months ago
Updated 1 hour ago Text size M itt Romney's to-do list looks a lot different today than it did on Tuesday. The GOP nominee didn't just win Wednesday's debate with President Obama, he re-introduced himself to voters as a likable guy and seized the...
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The New York Times
| 8 months ago
Elise Amendola/Associated Press Mr. Romney with the new Democratic speaker of the Massachusetts House, Representative Salvatore DiMasi, in 2004. That could be the Barack Obama that Mitt Romney depicted in Wednesday's presidential debate as an...
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Mail Online UK
| 8 months ago
5 October 2012 Speaking at an event in Fairfax, Virginia, a relaxed and confident President Barack Obama had plenty of witty retorts and quotable sound bites to aim at his challenger Mitt Romney. The problem was that they came a day and a half...
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The Globe & Mail
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally in Denver, Colorado October 4, 2012 Reuters video President Barack Obama hugs his wife Michelle Obama at the end of the first 2012 U.S. presidential debate in Denver October 3, 2012 Reuters video...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
He returned to the reference several times in a feisty speech in which he joked about his Republican opponent and railed against his agenda. It was a far cry from the candidate people saw on stage earlier in the week during the first presidential...
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Washington Post
| 8 months ago
And as he did Thursday on the campaign trail, Obama again mocked Romney's comment, during their debate Wednesday in Denver, that he would eliminate federal funding to PBS even though he likes Big Bird, as a way to help curb the deficit. Governor...
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Washington Post
| 8 months ago
Conversely, it's kind of boring to think of yourself as having a set of technocratic disagreements with the opposition. Yet, for the most part, that's what this U.S. presidential election is about. One of this year's more amusing Ideological Battle...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
A U.S. subsidiary of the giant Canadian insurance company Fairfax Holdings has donated $1 million to Restore Our Future, the SuperPAC boosting Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. The donation by OdysseyRE has raised questions about whether the U.S.
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The Globe & Mail
| 8 months ago
Screenshot courtesy Sesame Street/PBS video Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney waves to the crowd at a campaign rally in Abingdon, Virginia October 5, 2012 Reuters video U.S. politics U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign...
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Newsbusters
| 8 months ago
The presidential candidates are picking up the pace, looking for momentum after their first debate. President Obama did something his critics say he did not do on Wednesday: he came out swinging. On Thursday, the President accused Governor Mitt...
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The independent
| 8 months ago
As Mitt Romney hid in his hotel one afternoon early last week, prepping for Wednesday's big debate, his wife, Ann, left to address several hundred supporters in a small park south of Denver. The event was Kodacolor perfect, verging on quaint; more...
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The independent
| 8 months ago
Desperate to recover from his limp debate performance, President Barack Obama received a major boost yesterday with a decline in the US unemployment rate to below 8 per cent, as a re-energised Mitt Romney stepped up his efforts to recapture the vital...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
Al Gore attributed President Obama's poor performance in Wednesday's debate to Denver's high altitude. (Charlie Neibergall/ AP) Al Gore has proven he knows a lot about the environment. He even won a Nobel Prize in 2007 for his efforts to spread...
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CNN
| 8 months ago
A few months ago he told donors at a Florida fundraiser that he'd never convince the 47% of Americans who he described as government-dependent shoo-ins for President Barack Obama to "take personal responsibility and care for their lives." In the...
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Education Week
| 8 months ago
Aid Short on Specifics Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney made his strongest commitment yet to education by promising in this week's debate with President Barack Obama not to cut federal school funding if elected. But whether he could uphold...
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The Hindustan Times
| 8 months ago
The Obama campaign came out charging Thursday, determined to deny Mitt Romney the bounce he is sure to get from the Denver debate...The campaign put out an ad enforcing that line and fielded top operatives for a conference call...When I got onto the...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 8 months ago
For months, staunch conservatives repeated the same mantra: We'll vote for Mitt Romney, but we're not crazy about him...Thanks to the Republican presidential nominee's aggressive performance in Wednesday's debate, and tough rhetoric Thursday and...