Authors: Joshua Cohan
Brand X Pictures/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- The Obama campaign scored a legal victory Tuesday when the Supreme Court declined to step in and allow Ohio’s early in-person voting limitation to take effect.
After two lower federal courts ruled in favor of the Obama campaign and enjoined the law, Ohio’s Republican...
Authors: Jeanette Torres
Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The head of an Ohio soup kitchen where Paul Ryan stopped with his family over the weekend said on Monday that the Romney campaign barged its way in for a photo op.
Ryan, his wife Janna, and their children donned white aprons and washed dishes -- that appeared to be clean...
Authors: Jeanette Torres
NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images(HEMPSTEAD, N.Y.) -- Exactly three weeks before voters head to the polls, President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney face-off in Hempstead, N.Y., on Tuesday for the second presidential debate that could again chart a new course for the general election campaign.
In an email to supporters...
Authors: Jeanette Torres
Hemera/Thinkstock(PHOENIX) -- Senate ads have been dark and foreboding, if often boilerplate. But Arizona’s Senate race has swiftly become one of the most intense and personal in the country, thanks to two new TV ads released last week by Republican Rep. Jeff Flake and Democrat Richard Carmona, who served as...
Authors: Jeanette Torres
ABC/Martin H. Simon(WALTHAM, Mass.) -- Ann Romney will visit the women of ABC’s The View solo on Thursday since her husband is no longer available to appear on the show he once referred to as “high risk.”
Co-host Barbara Walters announced on the show Monday morning that she was told over the weekend Mitt...
Authors: Jeanette Torres
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WILLIAMSBURG, Va.) -- The Obama campaign on Monday declined to comment on reports that they are concerned about the role moderator Candy Crowley intends to play at Tuesday night’s debate, but said the president is “prepared for and ready to take questions from wherever they...
Authors: Carmen Cox
NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/GettyImages(WASHINGTON) -- Mitt Romney's pointed criticism of President Obama's planned 2014 "transition" of troops out of Afghanistan has been dulled over the past week, marking a rhetorically subtle but politically significant shift in the Republican nominee's plan to end the decade-long war.
The Romney...
Authors: Carmen Cox
J.D. Pooley/Getty Image(CINCINNATI) -- Paul Ryan made a quick stop Monday in the crucial state of Ohio to remind supporters of their “responsibility” to talk to friends who voted for Barack Obama in 2008, but now “just aren’t as impressed,” and get them to turn out for Mitt Romney.
“You know,...
Authors: Carmen Cox
Alex Wong/Getty Images(CHICAGO) -- The Obama campaign Monday blasted the latest battleground state polling that finds Mitt Romney with a five-point lead among likely voters, saying the Gallup/USA Today poll has “deep flaws.”
“Gallup’s data is once again far out of line with other public pollsters,”...
Authors: Carmen Cox
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- It’s becoming a tradition for Sen. Tom Coburn: The annual “Waste Book.” Every year since 2010, the Oklahoma Republican has issued his blistering report highlighting the 100 most egregious abuses of taxpayer dollars. This year, Coburn and his research team...
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