Obama’s fiscal cliff strategy is tricky balance
JULIE PACE,Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Playing both sides, President Barack Obama is trying to balance his public pressure campaign on Republicans over the looming “fiscal cliff” with his private More...
Romney: Obama won with ‘gifts’ to certain voters
DOUGLASS K. DANIEL,Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is telling top donors that President Barack Obama won re-election because of the “gifts” he had already More...
Changing times: Politicians’ tears more common now
GREGORY KATZ,Associated Press It seems out of place: The president of the United States breaking down in tears as he thanked campaign workers for their tireless work for his re-election. But Barack Obama isn’t More...
Suspense to the end, Obama, Romney yield to voters
NANCY BENAC,Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two fierce competitors who’ve given their all, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney now yield center stage to voters Tuesday for an Election Day More...
Romney’s path: Win indies, stoke base, no errors
KASIE HUNT,Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney’s plan for victory boils down to this: Convince independent voters he’ll change Washington, stoke Republican enthusiasm and avoid unforced More...
Obama’s strategy: Grind it out, get out the vote
JULIE PACE,Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For President Barack Obama, winning re-election rests on a workman-like, get-out-the-vote strategy aimed at protecting key territory in the Midwest, ramping up minority More...
Romney, Obama fight spiritedly into final weekend
JULIE PACE,Associated Press NEDRA PICKLER,Associated Press HILLIARD, Ohio (AP) — President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney fought spiritedly into the final weekend of the marathon and unpredictably More...
Campaigns lawyered up for election overtime chance
CURT ANDERSON,Associated Press STEPHEN BRAUN,Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Legions of lawyers are ready to enter the fray in case Election Day turns on a legal challenge. One nightmare scenario would be for the More...
Romney warns against re-electing Obama
KASIE HUNT,Associated Press STEVE PEOPLES,Associated Press WEST ALLIS, Wis. (AP) — In a speech billed as his closing argument to voters, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney warned Friday that re-electing More...
THE RACE: Obama hums a GOP tune: US exceptionalism
TOM RAUM,Associated Press Eds: With 6 days left until Election Day, here are insights into today’s highlights in U.S. politics Locked in a razor-thin battle for re-election, President Barack Obama is adapting More...
Obama, Romney in search of independent voters
KEN THOMAS,Associated Press MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Political mailers are stuffed in their front doors and the phone rings nonstop. Under a fall canopy of crimson and golden leaves, the battle for independent More...
Obama to visit storm victims as campaign rolls on
CHARLES BABINGTON,Associated Press NEDRA PICKLER,Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama put campaign battleground travel on hold to tour the ravaged New Jersey coast Wednesday, while down-to-the-wire More...
5 things to watch for in the campaign homestretch
WASHINGTON (AP) — Five things to watch for in the final week of the presidential race between President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney: 1. HOW LONG CAN THEY WAIT? Obama and Romney pull off the More...
Candidates look for right time to resume campaign
NEDRA PICKLER,Associated Press STEVE PEOPLES,Associated Press KETTERING, Ohio (AP) — The presidential candidates searched for the right moment to get back to politicking after superstorm Sandy’s destructive More...
Stellar duo target Ohio’s working class for Obama
JULIE PACE,Associated Press PARMA, Ohio (AP) — Lest anyone forget the importance of Ohio’s white, working-class voters, President Barack Obama sent a clear reminder on Thursday. Make that two reminders: More...
If elected, Romney wants a say in ‘fiscal cliff’
KASIE HUNT,Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney’s transition team is quietly talking with government officials and Capitol Hill to develop a plan, if he’s elected, to prevent massive cuts More...
After a few laughs, Romney, Obama back to the fray
KASIE HUNT,Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are returning to the sometimes-nasty rhetoric of a close presidential campaign after a brief truce, renewing More...
Obama out to seize momentum from Romney in debate
NEDRA PICKLER,Associated Press STEVE PEOPLES,Associated Press HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) — Republican White House challenger Mitt Romney conferred with his debate practice partner while President Barack Obama exercised More...
Romney, GOP raise $170.4 million in September
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s campaign says it raised $170.4 million in September. The figure brings Romney’s fundraising effort slightly behind President Barack More...
Obama out to seize momentum from Romney in debate
NANCY BENAC,Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The pressure is on President Barack Obama to deliver a Goldilocks performance in the second debate: Not too cool, as he was in his first, listless encounter with More...
War zones, body language off-camera at debates
MATTHEW DALY,Associated Press PHILIP ELLIOTT,Associated Press DANVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Most voters watching the debate from home didn’t get to see what happened before and after Vice President Joe Biden and More...
McCaskill hits Akin with ads featuring raped women
DAVID A. LIEB,Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill took aim Wednesday at Republican challenger Todd Akin with a new series of TV ads featuring rape survivors outraged More...
Democrats on edge amid Obama debate fallout
JULIE PACE,Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s more than President Barack Obama’s lackluster debate performance that has some Democrats on edge a month from Election Day. Party loyalists, in Washington More...
For Obama, this time, it is ‘grind it out’ mode
BEN FELLER,AP White House Correspondent COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The last campaign got the glory. This one is the grind. For all the many ways that President Barack Obama’s bid for a second term is different More...
Mitt Romney strives to turn the page on rough week
JOSH LEDERMAN,Associated Press STEVE PEOPLES,Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign strove to turn the page on a week of public stumbles and Republican hand-wringing Sunday, More...
Romney campaign presses Medicare, Obama ‘division’
KEN THOMAS,Associated Press STEVE PEOPLES,Associated Press Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leaves a fundraiser in Charlotte, N.C., Wednesday Aug. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/The More...
Presidential campaigns spar over Ohio election law
ANN SANNER,Associated Press This Jan. 31, 2012 file photo shows a woman voting at the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections in Cleveland as early voting began in Ohio's March 6 presidential primary. A dispute over More...
Will Ryan change the race?
JOSH LEDERMAN,Associated Press Republican Vice Presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. makes an appearance at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Monday, Aug. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Conrad Schmidt) WASHINGTON More...
Host for Romney event is a convicted drug dealer
DAVID FISCHER,Associated Press Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, left, and his son Craig, center, listen as Sen. Marco Rubio R-Fla., speaks at a campaign event at El Palacio More...
Obama, Romney see what they want in jobs report
BEN FELLER,AP White House Correspondent Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns at McCandless Trucking in North Las Vegas, Nev., Friday, Aug. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles More...
Obama says he won’t apologize to Romney
MICHELE SALCEDO,Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he will not apologize to likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for an aide’s comment last week that false More...
Obama climbs back on the campaign bus in Ohio, Pa.
KEN THOMAS,Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s the kind of trip President Barack Obama relishes — one that plays to his natural political abilities by taking him outside of Washington to mix More...
Romney accuses Obama of reckless spending
Tuesday in Des Moines, Romney gave a speech criticizing the Obama administration for its reckless spending. “Today America faces a financial crisis of debt and spending that threatens what it means to be an American. More...
Biden accuses Romney of corporate agenda
Wednesday in Ohio, Vice President Joe Biden accuses Republican candidate Mit Romney of pursuing a corporate political agenda. He claims Romney intends to steer commerce towards profit without regard for workers. Today More...
Obama’s view on gay rights
Monday, President Obama reinforced his opinion about gay rights in America, stating homosexuals should have the right to marry. His stated reasoning is that in the past no harm has come from giving Americans more More...
Ron Paul pulls back on campaign
Libertarian Ron Paul, the final Republican contender for Mit Romney, announced he will no longer campaign in the 11 states that have not yet voted for the republican primaries. “Moving forward, however, we will More...
Newt Gingrich bounces check in Utah
Newt Gingrich, speaking Wednesday after a campaign stop in Delaware, said the bouncing of a $500 check for the Utah elections was “one of those goofy things.” “That check was drawn in December,” More...
