As Election Day Nears, Romney Crowds Are Surging
The crowds tell the story. As Election Day nears, Mitt Romney is drawing large and excited throngs.
Look to dusty Iowa cornfields, rain-soaked Virginia parks, the muddy fields of the Shelby County Fairgrounds, where a crowd of 9,500 — almost half of this western Ohio town — gathered among the barns and stables on a frigid October evening this week to glimpse the Republican presidential contender.
"Where else would we want to be?" said one of the shivering faithful, Judy Cartwright, a ...
Biden's 'Malarkey' & Laughter Drive Online Reaction During Veep Debate
Vice President Biden and Paul Ryan came ready to rumble. And it showed.
The dueling running mates turned the lone vice presidential debate into an uncharacteristically feisty affair Thursday night, scrapping over everything from the economy to Libya to taxes.
The candidates interrupted each other. They talked over each other. Biden chuckled through many of Ryan’s responses. Ryan claimed his opponent was simply under “duress.”
The 90-minute session was a turnaround from last ...
Google Accused of Anti-Romney Bias
Is Google showing its liberal bias when its image search for "completely wrong" yields photo of presidential hopeful Mitt Romney? Actually, no, the company said: it's based on comments Romney made last week.
Google said that the unintentional result happened because the Google algorithm was fed Romney comments last week about how he was "completely wrong" when he said earlier this year at a fundraiser that 47 percent of Americans were "victims" dependent on the government, according to CNN. ...
Gallup: Romney Takes Lead Nationally
Mitt Romney edged President Obama in Gallup’s first national survey of likely voters in the 2012 race, released Tuesday.
Romney took 49 percent support against Obama at 47 percent.
Among registered voters, which Gallup has been tracking all year, Obama maintains an advantage of 3 percentage points over Romney, 49 to 46 percent.
Gallup polls only registered voters early in the cycle, but as Election Day nears, it prods for more information from voters to determine the likelihood that ...
Romney Takes Two Point Lead In National Poll & Rakes In $12 Million
Mitt Romney's commanding performance in Wednesday night's first presidential debate has started to yield results.
The Republican candidate has raised $12million in online donations over the last couple of days, and has also received a two point boost in the respected Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll.
The news comes as Barack Obama's lacklustre showing continues to be mocked by top comedians - even those who are strong supporters of the President.
The poll shows Mitt ...
Was Obama Rattled by Developing Donor Scandal Story?
President Obama's reelection campaign, rattled by his Wednesday night debate performance, could be in for even worse news. According to knowledgeable sources, a national magazine and a national web site are preparing a blockbuster donor scandal story.
Sources told Washington Secrets that the Obama campaign has been trying to block the story. But a key source said it plans to publish the story Friday or, more likely, Monday.
According to the sources, a taxpayer watchdog group conducted a ...
AARP To Obama: Don’t Mention Us Again
President Obama invoked AARP to defend his health care law last night, prompting the influential group to release a statement telling him not to do that again.
“While we respect the rights of each campaign to make its case to voters, AARP has never consented to the use of its name by any candidate or political campaign,” the group posted in a statement. “AARP is a nonpartisan organization and we do not endorse political candidates nor coordinate with any candidate or political ...
Video Potential Worry For Obama Campaign
The five-year old video showing President Barack Obama talking bluntly about race, Hurricane Katrina and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright is a source of worry for a campaign that’s already on a knife’s edge over Wednesday night’s high-stakes debate in Denver and thinning leads in national polls.
Obama’s aides and top Democratic officials projected an air of nonchalance and nothing-to-see-here Tuesday night as Fox News and Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller promoted the 2007 speech at Hampton ...
NY Times: 'President Xanax'
The following is an Op-Ed on the NY Times website:
President Obama’s stylistic strategy during Wednesday night’s debate seemed to be to try to stay right above the rancor, to appear dignified, presidential. The problem with that approach is that the line between dignified and presidential and anodyne and weak is the width of a cat’s hair.
Romney, on the other hand, went on the attack, interrupting and rambling on, which to some will read as confidence and command of the facts, even ...
Romney Lands Punches Against Subdued Obama In First Debate
Mitt Romney dominated the critical first presidential debate Wednesday night, landing punch after punch on a noticeably subdued President Obama.
The GOP nominee came into the evening needing to shake up the narrative of the race, and he appeared to succeed.
Throughout the 90-minute debate in Denver, the first showdown of the presidential contest, Romney aggressively questioned the president's record while defending his own economic priorities. Meanwhile, as Obama offered a safe defense of ...
Obama & Romney Will Go At It In 1st Debate
The gloves are coming off tonight when President Obama and Mitt Romney duke it out in Denver.
They’ve been holed up for days practicing their jabs and sucker punches for the big debate. But Obama and Romney both have glass jaws when it comes to hard-hitting questions about the economy, taxes and health care.
The president has a huge blind spot in explaining his broken promises to fix the economy, end partisan gridlock in Washington and rein in runaway federal spending and mounting ...
Poll: Obama leads in Ohio, Romney closing gap in Florida, Virginia
A new poll shows President Obama leading Mitt Romney in Ohio, with the GOP challenger closing the gap in two other swing states.
The NBC News/Marist/Wall Street Journal poll released Tuesday shows Obama leading Romney among likely voters in Ohio 51 percent to 43. That finding is virtually identical to when the poll last surveyed likely voters in the state and found Obama leading Romney 50 percent to 43.
But in both Florida and Virginia, the race is much tighter. Obama just barely leads ...
Video Surfaces Of Obama In 2007 Suggesting Racism Slowed Aid To Post-Katrina New Orleans
It's the Obama speech on race you probably haven't heard.
In June 2007, then-Sen. Barack Obama told a mostly black audience of ministers that the country's leaders "don't care about" New Orleans residents, suggesting the city was neglected in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina because of institutional racism, according to an unedited video reported on by The Daily Caller.
In the address, delivered during the upswing of the Democratic presidential primary season, candidate Obama ...
CBS Doesn't Air Obama Admitting Mistakes in Campaign Ads
ON Sunday night, CBS aired a 60 Minutes interview with President Obama. But curiously enough, the news magazine show did not air a clip of Obama admitting to interviewer Steve Kroft that some of his campaign ads contain mistakes and that some even "go overboard."
60 Minutes did, however, post the clip online.
CBS describes the clip this way: "President Obama says some of his campaign ads might 'go overboard' or contain mistakes, but most of them simply highlight the differences ...
Ann Romney's Plane Makes Emergency Landing
Ann Romney's plane made an emergency landing in Colorado on Friday, a spokeswoman from Mitt Romney's presidential campaign tweeted.
"All okay. Thank goodness," the spokeswoman, Andrea Saul, wrote on Twitter.
Saul added the cause of the emergency was apparently "an electrical fire" after the cabin of the plane filled with smoke. Romney's plane was headed to Los Angeles but landed in Denver, where it was met with emergency vehicles on the runway.
Ann Romney was near Omaha, Nebraska ...
Romney Doubles Obama's Charitable Giving
Mitt Romney's presidential campaign is releasing a brief summary of 20 years of tax returns on Friday, and his accountant says it will show he gave 13.45 percent of his adjusted gross income to charities.
That's nearly twice the rate of President Obama, who according to his tax returns from 2000 through 2011 donated just less than 7 percent of his adjusted gross income to charities.
Mr. Romney's campaign did not release his returns, but instead had his trustee, Brad Malt, write a blog ...
Obama Pressed On Failures At Univision Forum
President Barack Obama on Thursday faced some of the toughest questioning of his reelection campaign to date, pressed repeatedly on his failure to achieve comprehensive immigration reform and other unmet promises from his 2008 run.
The Univision presidential forum at the University of Miami here kicked off with grilling on another topic which brought mounting criticism from Republicans Thursday: The government’s decision to label as a terrorist attack the violence at the consulate in ...
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