Authors: Jeanette Torres
Joe Raedle/Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The American public may be divided on “Obamacare,” but when faced with choosing a candidate to care for them if illness struck, President Obama is their man. By a 13 point margin -- 49-36 percent -- registered voters polled by ABC News chose the...
Authors: Carmen Cox
Wilson (L) and Tomblin (R). US Senate/Governor's Office, W.Va.(NEW YORK) -- It is nothing new for local politicians to shun unpopular leaders of their parties to remain viable with voters, nor is it so uncommon for elected officials to switch parties when the going gets tough.
But least two Democrats are trying a different...
Authors: Carmen Cox
Win McNamee/Getty Images(PORTLAND, Ore.) -- Paul Ryan crossed party lines and voiced support for one of President Obama’s biggest backers Monday, saying, “We stand with Mayor Rahm Emanuel” in his fight with Chicago’s teachers, which led the union to call the city’s first teachers’ strike in 25...
Authors: Carmen Cox
JEWEL SAMAD/FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Barack Obama has emerged from the nominating conventions in his best position against Mitt Romney since the spring, a 50-44 percent race among registered voters in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll. But Romney recovers to a virtual dead heat among those most...
Authors: Carmen Cox
JD Pooley/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Mitt Romney said Sunday he doesn’t want to get rid of all of “Obamacare,” a statement that at first seemed to indicate he’d softened his position on President Obama’s health care law.
“Well, I’m not getting rid of all of health care reform,”...
Authors: Carmen Cox
Saul Loeb/AFP/J.D. Pooley/GettyImages(LAKE FOREST, Ill.) -- Mitt Romney Monday night called on President Obama to take a stand on the Chicago Teacher’s Union strike, which is about to enter its second day in which 400,000 students will be shut out of classes. The candidate took a break from a high-dollar fundraiser to...
Authors: Carmen Cox
Geoff Burke/Getty Images(MANSFIELD, Ohio) -- With the party conventions in the rearview mirror and Election Day less than two months away, Mitt Romney has found God once again.
At a campaign rally in Mansfield, Ohio, on Monday, Romney pledged that, if elected, “I will not take God out of my heart, I will not take God out of...
Authors: Carmen Cox
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza(NEW YORK) -- President Obama told author Bob Woodward that he didn't know Rep. Paul Ryan was going to attend a major speech he delivered last year on spending and debt, and says in retrospect that it was "a mistake" to dress down Ryan and his budget plans to his face in that setting.
In...
Authors: Carmen Cox
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza(WASHINGTON) -- The White House is seeking to downplay a report that “gaps” in President Obama’s leadership contributed to the failure of a “grand bargain” in the debt crisis negotiations of last year.
In his latest book, The Price of Politics, and in an...
Authors: Joshua Cohan
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Rep. Paul Ryan, the Republican nominee for vice president, is expected on Thursday to make his first return to the Capitol since Mitt Romney chose him as his running mate last month, according to his spokesman, Michael Steel.
Ryan, R-Wis., is expected back in the House to vote on a...
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