Authors: Kelly Knaub
MANDEL NGAN/AFP/GettyImages(MELBOURNE, Fla.) — Campaigning in Florida Sunday, President Obama will seize on a new analysis showing the Romney-Ryan plan would raise Medicare costs to launch fresh attacks against his opponents’ plan to “voucherize” the popular entitlement program.
Appealing to the large...
Authors: Kelly Knaub
Scott Olson/Getty Images(SAN RAMON, Calif.) — Paul Ryan said Saturday the president has gone to “great lengths” to make gas more expensive in this country.
The vice presidential candidate visited Google headquarters in Montainview to hold a Google+ Hangout where he took questions from supporters at...
Authors: Kelly Knaub
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(KISSIMMEE, Fla.) — Rolling to Orlando this evening, President Obama’s bus tour made a surprise stop at a local sports bar for beer and a little college football.
“There he is,” a girl squealed, according to pool reports, as Obama walked into Gators Dockside bar and grill,...
Authors: Kelly Knaub
Jeff Swensen/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Rep. Paul Ryan, (R-Wis.), as chair of the House Budget Committee, was part of the team that signed off on the budget deal with the White House, mandating immediate spending cuts, creating a “Super-committee” tasked to finding $1.5 trillion in further deficit reduction and...
Authors: Kelly Knaub
Joe Raedle/Getty Images(ATHENS, Ohio) — Vice President Joe Biden told the story of a run-in with the cops he had back in the 1960s during a college trip to Athens, home of Ohio University where he was nearly arrested for stepping foot in a women’s dorm where men weren’t allowed.
“As a matter of fact, the...
Authors: Kelly Knaub
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza(ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.) — Mocking his opponents’ economic agenda, President Obama says Republicans are pushing tax cuts as the prescription to cure the ailing economy, “help you lose a few extra pounds,” and even “help your love life.”
The president...
Authors: Christine Hsu
Jeff Swensen/Getty Images(VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.) -- Making reference for the first time to the Democrats’ about-face on having the word “God” in their party’s platform, Mitt Romney said here on Saturday that if he is elected, God will not be removed from the Republican platform.
“I will not take God...
Authors: Christine Hsu
JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images(ZANESVILLE, Ohio) -- Vice President Joe Biden extended an invitation to the media to check the veracity of his claims on Medicare, telling the press to “fact check me.”
“What they’re proposing, and this is a fact. I say to the press, ‘Fact check me,’”...
Authors: Christine Hsu
JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images(ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.) –- Mocking his opponents' economic agenda, President Obama says Republicans are pushing tax cuts as the prescription to cure the ailing economy, "help you lose a few extra pounds," and even "help your love life."
The president unveiled the new quip Friday, but on...
Authors: Christine Hsu
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(NASHUA, N.H.) -- As night fell on a baseball stadium here in New Hampshire on Friday, Ann Romney rallied a crowd of thousands, hinting that with two months to go until the election, she’s already got her eye on an inauguration party in January, even if she believes her husband is...
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