Authors: Kelly Knaub
Alex Wong/Getty Images(DELRAY BEACH, Fla.) -- Mitt Romney stopped by a football game between members of his staff and the press this afternoon, declining to take questions on Iran, the debate or polls, during a rare break from debate prep.
“Let’s see, look at the captain,” said Romney, walking onto the beach...
Authors: Kelly Knaub
Jin Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images(PALM BEACH, Fla.) -- After more than a year of attending finance events across the country, from California to Texas to New York, Saturday night marked Mitt Romney’s final campaign fundraiser, an aide confirmed to ABC News.
The final event came on the same day that the candidate’s...
Authors: Kelly Knaub
(NEW YORK) -- ABC News has confirmed that former Democratic Sen. George McGovern, of South Dakota, has died. He was 90 years old.
McGovern, who lost the 1972 presidential bid to Richard Nixon, worked as a U.S. Senator from 1963 to 1981. He also served as the director of the Food for Peace Program, the chairman for the Select...
Authors: Christine Hsu
Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images(BELMONT, Ohio) -- Paul Ryan rallied a soggy, but hardy crowd at a campground here after a heavy downpour, twice urging those gathered to vote early.
“One thing Belmont County can do: if you head to early voting at your Belmont Board of Elections the one thing you can do is elect a...
Authors: Christine Hsu
Joe Raedle/Getty Images(ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla.) -- What happens when a baby starts crying when Vice President Joe Biden is speaking at an event? Well the vice president finds a way to work that baby into his speech as he did in St. Augustine Saturday afternoon, saying the crying baby knows how its future would pan out if Mitt...
Authors: Christine Hsu
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call(MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa.) -- For the first time in two months, Paul Ryan stumped in Pennsylvania, landing in this town just outside of Pittsburgh, and rallying a crowd of several hundred on the tarmac.
The GOP vice presidential nominee tailored his remarks to the steel country audience, hitting the...
Authors: Carmen Cox
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza(WASHINGTON) -- President Obama uses his weekly address to tout his efforts to revive the housing industry, casting himself as a take-charge president and slamming Republicans for standing in the way of additional progress.
“I never believed that the best way to deal with the...
Authors: Carmen Cox
United States Congress(WASHINGTON) -- In this week's Republican address, U.S. Representative and Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Arizona, Jeff Flake, discusses President Obama's record on the economy, particularly the national deficit.
"Last week, the Obama Administration confirmed that the budget deficit for fiscal year...
Authors: Carmen Cox
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- Unemployment dropped in all but two presidential battleground states last month, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In New Hampshire and Virginia, the rate stayed the same. All but one battleground (New Hampshire) has seen its unemployment rate drop over the past year.
B...
Authors: Carmen Cox
Eugene Gologursky/WireImage(NEW YORK) -- If unenthusiastic voters aren’t satisfied with Monday’s final presidential debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney, they should take comfort: There will be more debating to be had, with an entirely different set of men doing the talking.
Former New Mexico governor Gary...
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