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Government spending and debt are emerging as a campaign tug-of-war, with Mitt Romney blaming President Barack Obama for a "prairie fire of debt" and Obama calling the charge a "cowpie of distortion." House Speaker John Boehner is talking about a debt ceiling that is still more than eight months away. Complete Story...
An analysis of the state-by-state race to 270 electoral votes, the total needed to win the presidency, and where Democratic President Barack Obama and probable Republican nominee Mitt Romney stand now. The numbers reflect electoral votes:
In the risky business of running for president, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are largely playing it safe.
President Barack Obama delivered his harshest rebuttal yet to rival Mitt Romney on Thursday, dismissing his challenger's claims as "a cowpie of distortions" while seeking to rekindle the all-but-faded Iowa magic that launched him in 2008. Escalating his criticism of Romney's background as a venture capitalist, Obama said it wasn't adequate preparation for the presidency.
When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney decried President Barack Obama as beholden to the nation's teachers' unions and unable to stand up for reform, he glossed over four years of a relationship that has been anything but cozy.
Mitt Romney is trying to counter President Barack Obama's argument that he would bring back Republican Party economic policies that have proved unworkable.
Mitt Romney's campaign has released a new ad promoting "Day One" of a potential Romney presidency, describing which of President Barack Obama's policies the Republican will reverse first if he wins the White House.
Mitt Romney's vice presidential search has entered a new phase: auditions.
President Barack Obama's campaign says Republican rival Mitt Romney is trying to "move the goal posts" and reverse his position on unemployment. Actually, that's a fumble of the facts.
The battle between President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney will be the most expensive presidential contest ever — by a long shot.
Mitt Romney says that if elected Congress should wait until he takes office to block automatic spending cuts and to keep tax cuts from expiring.
Mitt Romney is defending his work at the private equity firm he co-founded and says it's part of why he's qualified to be president.
His cash advantage threatened, President Barack Obama and his party are redoubling their fundraising efforts after robust hauls by Republican rival Mitt Romney and a slew of GOP-leaning super PACs that are raking in cash from the party faithful highly motivated to topple the Democrat.
Oklahoma oil billionaire Harold Hamm didn't wait long to make a nearly $1 million donation to a group supporting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney after he became one of Romney's top energy advisers in March. Just weeks after Hamm joined the Romney campaign, he gave $985,000 to a pro-Romney super PAC, according to campaign reports.
Mitt Romney struggled to find support for his education proposals while campaigning at an inner-city school Thursday, one day after declaring education the "civil rights issue of our era."
Mitt Romney's courtship of female voters in his typical campaign speech sounds a bit like a movie's casting call.
Mitt Romney swept all the delegates in GOP primaries in Kentucky and Arkansas and picked up more endorsements from party leaders, putting him one win away from claiming the Republican nomination for president.
The core of his presidential candidacy under attack, Mitt Romney has yet to shape a playbook to defend a quarter-century in the business world that created great riches for him and great hardship, at times, for some American workers.
President Barack Obama sought to undermine Mitt Romney's key rationale for his presidential candidacy Monday, sharply attacking his Republican challenger's background as a venture capitalist and arguing that profit-making alone is not a qualification for the White House.
President Barack Obama on Monday defended his criticism of presumptive Republican presidential Mitt Romney's ties to the private equity firm Bain Capital, saying it was rightly part of the campaign debate because Romney himself was emphasizing his business background.
Romney Blogger Dan Riehl: 'If Joan Walsh Is Going to Open Her Mouth, She Should Do Something I'd Enjoy'Here’s Dan Riehl, a Breitbart.com writer who’s on Mitt Romney’s list of approved bloggers, reacting to Salon editor Joan Walsh’s criticisms of Andrew Breitbart...
How to cure the crazy - Republican Party One thing when writing about the Republican Party and the crazy – you can always be certain that it’ll generate new examples. So just when the news that a member of the House accused dozens of Democrats in Congress of being Communists seemed to be going stale, al …
I am not a huge fan of organized labor beyond knowing that it is the fear of such that keeps my company doing the right thing--you know they don't want a union to come in. The argument for less organized labor has been framed as a war against out-of-control unions rather t …
Romney Admits That Spending Cuts Could Kill the EconomyAnybody else hear the sound of a shaking Etch-A-Sketch?
Romney sparks a debate on school class sizeFor years, teachers and parents have insisted that smaller class sizes are crucial to children's educational success. On Thursday, Mitt Romney visited Philadelphia and politely said they were mistaken. And on Friday, passions erupted among partisans and professionals, from ci …
Romney Sticks With Trump, Despite Birther CommentsDonald Trump, whose penchant for questioning President Barack Obama’s place of birth showed no signs of abating Friday, is helping presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney raise money. Isn’t such close proximity to the “birther” conspiracy embarrassing for …
Maddow Challenges Romney's Use Of Trump While He Insists Obama Is A 'Kenyan Usurper' | MediaiteMitt Romney is down in the polls this week. So, what's a wealthy man like this to do? Well, he can either throw in the towel or recruit someone even richer than himself. Hey, how about Donald Trump? He certainly loves the sight, sound, and thought of being vice president. Furthe …
Mitt Romney Embarrasses Himself with Class Size Pronouncements COMMENTARY | The week leading into Memorial Day was not a good one for Mitt Romney as he managed to turn the "dry subject" of education into a prairie fire. His assertion at a Philadelphia charter school Thursday that class size means less to quality education …
Romney: Going Negative, SubtlyRepublican presidential challenger, Mitt Romney was given credit last week for refusing to endorse a proposed ad campaign that sought to link President Barack Obama with the controversial sermons delivered by his former pastor Jeremiah Wright. In doing so, Romney appeared to be …
Bill Maher Starts "Wifer" Theory About Romney, Asks If He Is A PolygamistOn the Friday broadcast of HBO's "Real Time," host Bill Maher offered his own conspiracy theory to counter "birthers," or those who question if President Obama was born in the U.S., with "wifers." Wifers, according to Maher, are those who ask if Mitt Romney, a Mormon, has more …
Remember When Trump Blasted Romney As Someone Who Would "Close Companies…Get Rid Of Jobs"?Last April, Mitt Romney’s birther surrogate talked about how the former “small businessman” would “get rid of jobs.”
Mitt Romney hasn't released his birth certificate, but no one seems to careLike a lot of people around here, I thought I knew a little something about presumed GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Born in Detroit. Raised in the 'burbs. First name Willard. Right?
Obama's Gift to RomneyFor Obama and Biden to lecture Romney on the qualifications for being president is like John Edwards and Bill Clinton lecturing us on the importance of fidelity in marriage. Their case is undermined by their record, their actions, and their failures.
TRENDING: Romney-Trump 2012?(CNN) – The Donald says it's the buzz. Asked Friday in a guest appearance on ABC's "The View" if he was interested in joining Mitt Romney's presidential ticket, Donald Trump asked, "Who would turn it down?" "A lot of people are asking that question," he added. Not kno …
Romney Argues Big Spending Cuts Would Cause 'Depression,' Contrary To Tea Party ActivistsRepublican House Speaker John Boehner and GOP Presidential nominee Mitt Romney have, in the course of the past week, pushed starkly different approaches to fiscal policy and economic recovery, a window into a broader rift within the GOP between the Tea Party and less absolutist …
William K. Black: Romney Messes Up, Tells the Truth About AusterityMitt Romney has periodic breakdowns when asked questions about the economy because he sometimes forgets the need to lie. He forgets that he is supposed to treat austerity as the epitome of economic wisdom. When he responds quickly to questions about austerity he slips into defaul …
Romney Admits Budget Cuts Would Throw Economy Into 'Recession Or Depression' | ThinkProgressDuring an interview with Time Magazine’s Mark Halperin, 2012 presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney admitted that drastic spending cuts will hurt the economy, creating a “recession or depression“.
Masters of the Universe' Sure Have Fragile Egos - It would be funny, if it weren't so 'shameful'Paul Krugman has some choice words today for the titans of Wall Street, who can't seem to take a little criticism from the president. "It has, in a way, been funny to see how childish and thin-skinned the Masters of the Universe turn out to be," he writes in the New York Times. …
This article is part two of a three piece edition of articles explaining the philosophy of the current Republican Party. These articles were driven from three previous articles we published on how the GOP has declared war on America as we know it and how cowardly the GOP really …
It's Official: Romney Will Proudly Stand With America's Best-Known BirtherOne of the clearest signs yet that the Republican Party is off the rails and over the cliff: Romney Camp Stands by Trump After Latest Birther Comments.
They Should Call This 'The Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Friend' TourNewt Gingrich, Donald Trump, and Mitt Romney will campaign together.
Rick Scott's Florida Unemployment Reform Shortchanges The Jobless: Formal ComplaintTwo legal groups want the federal government to investigate Florida's treatment of jobless workers following reforms that made the Sunshine State's unemployment insurance program the most stingy in the nation. Republican Gov. Rick Scott signed a law last year that sharply redu …
Mitt Romney May Place Top Oil Lobbyist In Charge Of His White HouseWhen oil companies need help in Washington, they call Jack Gerard. But in January of next year, assuming he wins the presidency, Mitt Romney may be dialing Gerard for political support. According to media reports in his native Idaho, Gerard is on the shortlist to become Ro …
Conservative Quits Right, Cites Allen West 'Extremism,' Malkin 'Hate'Michael Fumento, a respected long-time conservative, just announced he too is quitting the conservative movement, which, he labels as “extreme” and calls it “the new hysterical right,” which, in his words, has become a “hate, anger and fear ma …
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