Poll: Romney 48 Percent, Obama 45 Percent
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows Mitt Romney attracting support from 48% of voters nationwide, while President Obama earns 45% of the vote. Two percent (2%) prefer some other candidate, and five percent (5%) are undecided.
The recent numbers may have been impacted by a number of factors. Clearly, one is the fading of the president’s convention bounce. Last week, Scott Rasmussen anticipated this fade by noting that the conventions would have no lasting ...
Are You Better Off Than 4 Years Ago? 44 Percent Say No, 37 Percent Yes
It was the question that Mitt Romney presidential campaign and Republican Party officials kept asking earlier this month: "Are you better off than you were four years ago?"
After some initial stumbling, the response from President Obama's campaign and other top Democrats was "yes."
A new national survey indicates that a plurality of registered voters say they're not better off. But a majority continue to blame former President George W. Bush and Republicans for the country's economic ...
Violence in Middle East Erupts Into Tight 2012 Race For White House
The murder of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans irrupted into the presidential election campaign yesterday, with the candidates sharply criticizing each other’s response to the incident.
The fatal attack by a mob in Benghazi, which might have been a coordinated terrorist assault, played directly into an existing undercurrent of the battle for the White House, with Mitt Romney hurling allegations of weakness, appeasement and “apology” at the incumbent, and President ...
Message for US Citizens Voting Abroad
Your Vote Counts: Many US elections have been decided by a margin of victory of less than 0.1 percent. This year’s general election will be held Tuesday, November 6, and will include the presidential race, 33 US Senate seats, and all 435 seats in the US House of Representatives.
Register to Vote: To register, visit Federal Voting Assistance Program and complete the Federal Post Card Application for the state where you last resided prior to departing the United States. Review your ...
Obama Campaign Tops Romney’s August Fundraising Haul
The Obama campaign has finally notched a win in its money war with Mitt Romney.
The president’s campaign, combined with the Democratic National Committee, raised more than $114 million in August, narrowly topping the Romney camp’s haul for the first time since April.
Romney and the GOP raised roughly $111.6 million in August.
In a statement, Campaign Manager Jim Messina said the Obama campaign grew its donor base “substantially” in August and celebrated the impact of small ...
Comedian In Chief: Obama Asks Young Boy If He Has Birth Certificate
President Obama poked fun at conspiracy theories which question whether he was born in the United States during a campaign stop in Orlando, Fla. on Saturday.
The president made a stop at a local sports bar, Gator Dockside, where he made the rounds, speaking to patrons, according to a White House pool report.
At one table, Obama was told by an adult that a young boy at the table was “born in Hawaii.”
“You were born in Hawaii? You have a birth certificate?” the president asked, ...
Secret Service Looking Into Delegate Who Said She Wants To 'Kill' Romney
The Secret Service is looking into an incident in which a New York delegate at the Democratic National Convention said she would "like to kill" Mitt Romney if she ever sees him.
Julia Rodriguez made the remark Wednesday in a brief interview with a reporter for The Blaze website.
She said she thinks the Republican presidential candidate will ruin the country.
"He will destroy this country, completely. Romney will destroy this country," she said. "If I see him, I would like to kill ...
After Three Votes, Dems Put Jerusalem, God Back In Platform
Democrats on Wednesday reinstated language in their party platform recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, but only after an unclear vote in which as many delegates appeared to oppose the change as support it.
The party also added the word "God" back into the party's decree, following criticism that it did not include the word at all.
The additions were approved by a voice vote that seemed to split the crowd evenly and confused Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who was ...
Dems Move Obama Speech From Football Field To Smaller Venue
President Obama's acceptance speech has been moved from the Bank of America Stadium to the Time Warner Cable Arena, Democrats announced Wednesday.
Democrats blamed "severe weather forecasts" for the move to the smaller, indoor arena from the larger outdoor stadium. The first two days of the convention have been wet, and afternoon showers and thunderstorms are forecast on Thursday for Charlotte.
"We have been monitoring weather forecasts closely and several reports predict thunderstorms in ...
Poll: Obama Personal Popularity Dropping
Barack Obama approaches his nomination for a second term with the lowest pre-convention personal popularity of an incumbent president in ABC News/Washington Post polls since the 1980s. He's also at his lowest of the year among registered voters, with trouble among women.
Just 47 percent of registered voters in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll see Obama favorably overall, down 7 percentage points from his recent peak in April, while 49 percent rate him unfavorably. He's numerically ...
Dem Platform Leaves Out 2008 Stance On Jerusalem
The Democrats' official platform, released late Monday, omits a clause from the party's 2008 document proclaiming Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, a subject of intense diplomatic scrutiny that Obama's Republican challenger Mitt Romney has put at the center of his position on the Jewish state.
In 2008, Democrats wrote in their platform, "Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel. The parties have agreed that Jerusalem is a matter for final status negotiations. It should remain an ...
Dem Compares Ryan Remarks to Nazi Tactics
The chairman of the California Democratic Party offered a qualified apology after comparing Republican tactics -- and specifically Paul Ryan's convention remarks -- to the "big lie" strategy employed by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.
California Democratic chief John Burton made the remarks Monday in an interview with San Francisco station KCBS while in Charlotte, N.C., for the Democratic National Convention.
"They lie and they don't care if people think they lie ... Joseph Goebbels -- ...
Debt To Reach $16 Trillion In Time To Crash Democrats’ Convention
Just as Democrats are gaveling in their convention Tuesday, the federal government likely will announce another dubious milestone — $16 trillion in total federal debt.
In an election already focused on domestic issues of jobs, spending and deficits, the $16 trillion number is likely to underscore just how much is at stake in November for both parties, which are offering dramatically different ways to begin to eat away at the deep hole.
Gross federal debt has been flirting with $16 ...
Obama Spending More Time Out Of White House Bubble, Trying To Reconnect With Country
President Obama has begun nearly every outside-the-Beltway appearance since taking office with a derisive nod to his place of work.
“It’s good to be out of Washington,” he tells the crowd, inevitably getting some laughs. He goes on to explain that it’s not the people who live here so much as the dysfunctional politics and the thick walls, high fences, and men and women with guns who protect him, sealing him off from ordinary people who could be giving him even better advice than he ...
Yahoo Editor Fired Over Romney Slur
Yahoo News' Washington bureau chief was fired Wednesday after he was caught on a hot mic joking that Republicans are "happy to have a party" while black people drown.
The comment was made by David Chalian during live coverage of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, and was an apparent reference to the convention getting underway while a tropical storm-turned-hurricane barreled toward the Gulf Coast.
"They are happy to have a party with black people drowning," said a voice ...
GOP Nominates Romney
The Republican Party on Tuesday voted to nominate Mitt Romney as its candidate for president in 2012.
Now all Romney has to do is accept.
In a formal but anticlimactic roll call of states, GOP delegates to the Republican National Convention ratified the results of the primary process and tapped the former Massachusetts governor as its standard-bearer against President Obama this fall.
Romney needed 1,144 delegates for the nomination. New Jersey put him over the top.
His nomination ...
Report: Christie Turned Down Romney VP Offer
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) did not want to be Mitt Romney's running mate because he thinks the presumptive GOP nominee's chances of winning the election are "unlikely," the New York Post reported Monday.
Citing an anonymous source, the Post reports Christie refused to leave his position as governor in order to run as Romney's vice president. He could not see a way to avoid resigning his post due to Securities and Exchange Commission rules that would otherwise limit Romney campaign ...
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