Will Isaac Threaten Mitt's Moment?
After battling for the better part of eight years for the Republican presidential nomination, Mitt Romney is facing one final primary challenge standing in the way of rallying the base ahead of Election Day.
His name is Isaac.
Tropical Storm Isaac is tracking west of Tampa and so far is not expected to careen directly into the site of the Republican National Convention. But the storm, as it heads toward the Gulf Coast roughly timed with the seven-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, ...
Hurricane Isaac Forces GOP to Delay Convention Opening
Organizers of the Republican National Convention have postponed the Monday start of the four-day event in Tampa, Fla., because of approaching Tropical Storm Isaac.
The convention will convene Monday as scheduled, then immediately recess until Tuesday afternoon, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Saturday night.
Isaac is expected to pass off the Tampa coast Monday, brining heavy rain and strong winds.
Officials said the delegate roll call that will lead to ...
Poll: Romney Pulls Into Lead
Less than a week before the Republican convention begins, the race for the White House is a virtual tie. According to a Fox News poll of likely voters, the Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan ticket receives the backing of 45 percent, while the Barack Obama-Joe Biden ticket garners 44 percent.
The poll, released Thursday, is the first Fox has conducted among likely voters this year, which means an apples-to-apples comparison can’t be made to previous polls. Likely voters are eligible/registered voters ...
VIDEO: Bill Clinton Comes To Obama's Aid In New Ad
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The Obama campaign is using former President Clinton to help sell its message that President Obama's policies will continue to build a "strong" middle class.
Clinton appears in Team Obama's latest ad, released on Thursday, telling voters, "The election, to me, is about which candidate is more likely to return us to full employment.
"This is a clear choice," Clinton says in the 30-second spot. "The Republican plan is to cut more taxes on upper-income people ...
Poll: Obama Leads Romney Overall, Trails On Economic Issues
A new poll shows that Mitt Romney’s selection of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) as running mate failed to give him a boost in the polls, leaving the presumptive GOP nominee locked in a tight race with President Obama.
A new Associated Press-GfK poll released Wednesday by shows Obama leading with the support of 47 percent of registered voters to 46 for the Republican ticket.
Those numbers show little change from a June AP-GfK poll which found Obama topping Romney 47 percent to 44.
But ...
Biden Compares Republicans To Squealing Pigs
Vice President Biden is trading his claim that Republicans want to put people "back in chains" for some new imagery -- this time likening GOP lawmakers to "squealing pigs."
The vice president, during a speech in Minneapolis, attacked Republicans on Tuesday over their objections to recent financial regulations.
"Over the objections where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of (Mitt) Romney and all his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in ...
Mitt Romney Opens Up Big Cash Lead
Barack Obama may be the president, but the guy who wants his job has more money in the bank.
Mitt Romney’s campaign operation boasts nearly $186 million in reserve through July, according to campaign estimates and federal filings released Monday.
That’s more than $62 million more than the $124 million Obama’s full operation — his campaign committee, the Democratic National Committee and a joint committee called the Obama Victory Fund — reported through July.
None of that ...
Obama Doesn't Take SEAL Group Attacks 'Seriously'
President Obama said Monday that he isn't too worried about two groups of military veterans running campaign ads against him.
Last week, two groups — Special Operations Speaks and Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund - formed to criticize Obama on national security policy, the Osama bin Laden raid and intelligence leaks.
“I don’t take these folks too seriously. One of their members is a birther who denies I was born here, despite evidence to the contrary," Obama told The ...
Obama Engages White House Press Corps For The First Time In Weeks
President Obama showed up in the White House briefing room on Monday after taking some heat from the media for avoiding the press corps.
The president didn’t have any public appearances scheduled for the day and, without warning, dropped in on the daily press briefing usually run by White House press secretary Jay Carney.
Obama has sat with local news outlets while out on the campaign trail but has avoided talking to the national press.
While in Pueblo, Colo., earlier this month, the ...
Shock Poll: Obama Could Lose Illinois
President Barack Obama could lose his home state of Illinois in November, a new poll shows.
A poll conducted by Illinois-based pollster and political strategist Michael McKeon found Obama leading Republican Mitt Romney by 49 percent to 37 percent in Cook County, the home of Chicago. That puts him ahead by a far thinner margin than expected in a county he should be winning handsomely.
Cook is the most Democratic leaning county in the state. It is also the most populous.
Those numbers do ...
Left-Leaning Boston Globe Asks Biden To Apologize
The following is a Politico report:
The Boston Globe is calling on Vice President Joe Biden to apologize for telling an audience at a campaign rally, made up largely of African Americans, that Republicans "want to put ya'll back in chains."
"[I]magine if Republican Paul Ryan uttered comments like that. Mitt Romney’s pick for vice president would be pilloried for racial insensitivity — and so would Romney," the Globe's editorial board wrote in today's paper. "In the fight for civility ...
Biden Handlers Monitor VP After Uproar at Comments
Vice President Biden's handlers appear to be going to new lengths to keep their boss' antics and open-to-interpretation quips from spiraling out of control in the 24-hour news cycle.
The close attention to the vice president's style and coverage comes after Biden set off a round of campaign crossfire over his comment that Republicans want to put people "back in chains." Pressed anew on whether President Obama might consider dropping his No. 2 in favor of, say, Hillary Clinton, the White ...
Romney Answers The Tax Question; Slams Harry Reid
The following is from Fox News:
Mitt Romney gave his most expansive answer yet over questions about his tax returns, telling reporters Thursday he has "never paid less than 13 percent" in taxes over the last 10 years -- contrary to what Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid has claimed.
"I did go back and look at my taxes," Romney said during a news conference at a South Carolina airport. "And over the past 10 years, I never paid less than 13 percent. I think the most recent year is 13.6 ...
Ex-Obama Campaign Official Rips Biden
Artur Davis, the former four-term Democratic congressman from Alabama, said Wednesday that Vice President Joe Biden was propagating "racial viciousness" when he said Mitt Romney's regulatory policies would "put y'all back in chains."
Biden made the comments Tuesday to a predominantly black crowd in Danville, Virginia, a city with a long history of racial tension. In May Davis announced he was switching to the GOP, leaving the door open to a future political bid as a Republican.
"[Romney] ...
Ann Romney: There's Nothing We're Hiding Regarding Tax Returns
Ann Romney said in an interview set to air Thursday that "there's nothing we're hiding" in regards to her and husband Mitt Romney's personal finances, and insisted again the campaign had no plans to release additional tax return details.
"We have been very transparent to what's legally required of us,” Romney said in an interview with NBC News. “There's going to be no more tax releases given."
Romney echoed previous comments by her husband, saying that releasing more tax information ...
Media: This Presidential Race Is A Disgrace
The following is a Politico report:
The race for the White House has grown so toxic that it’s become a top topic among reporters and analysts covering the contest — and some are even calling on President Barack Obama and presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney to call a truce.
“You thought last week was bad? Just when you thought last week’s third-grade insults were as low as the campaign could go here, here we go again, the campaign has gotten even uglier,” MSNBC’s Chuck Todd ...
Romney: Biden Remarks Show 'Angry' Presidency
Mitt Romney slammed Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday for making what Romney called an "outrageous charge" -- evidence, he said, of "an angry and desperate presidency."
Romney, using some of his most pointed language to date on the campaign trail, accused Obama of running a "campaign of division and anger and hate," and specifically objected to comments Biden had made earlier Tuesday to a crowd in Virginia.
The vice president suggested that Romney and the Republicans intend to roll back ...
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