Tag: Mitt Romney
Many unknowns as Presidential race heads into final stretch
Flush with cash, Mitt Romney plans to open a new front in the White House race by challenging President Barack Obama in upper Midwest...
Obama opens up lead over Romney in new poll
President Barack Obama, picking up support following the Democratic National Convention, widened his narrow lead over Republican U.S. presidential challenger Mitt Romney in a...
Romney concentrates on Virginia
Mitt Romney is back in tightly contested Virginia, where he's trying to deny President Barack Obama another victory in a state that typically goes...
The mythical peace dividend and other fantasies from Obama’s speech
President Barack Obama laid claim to a peace dividend that doesn't exist when he told the nation he wants to use money saved by...
Barack Obama’s evolution from change candidate to status quo President
President Barack Obama's convention evolution is complete.
Eight years ago, the little-known Democrat rocketed into the political spotlight with a soaring convention keynote address. Four...
Obama attempts to make case for re-election
President Barack Obama's fall mission: Remind voters why they chose him in the first place, hope the economy doesn't get worse — and paint...
Can Obama sell Romney as a Bush retread to a divided...
Democrats assemble Tuesday to re-nominate Barack Obama for the presidency, to sell him as the wise and humane alternative to Republican challenger Mitt Romney,...
For Obama, 2012 requires a new message
We campaign in poetry, Mario Cuomo used to say, but we govern in prose.
This was how the then-New York governor explained the gap between...
Romney ignored warnings about Ryan’s history of lies, exaggerations
Campaign professionals vetting Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as a potential Republican vice presidential candidate warned Mitt Romney's strategists that the Congressman had a "history...
Obama takes battleground state tour on way to Democratic convention
President Barack Obama is embarking on a four-day march through battleground states and the storm-battered Gulf Coast in the lead-up to his party's convention...