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Obama Doubles Down on Touting Osama Bin Laden Death
Tweet Share on Facebook April 30, 2012 Comment (12)The Obama campaign's advertisement that highlights the president's decision to authorize the covert mission that killed Osama Bin Laden was criticized Monday by Republicans and Mitt Romney's team as politicizing an event that should be off limits. But experts say this pushback was just as predictable as Obama highlighting the raid as part of his foreign policy success.
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Joe Biden, Mitt Romney Campaign Spar on Iran, Syria
Tweet Share on Facebook April 26, 2012 Comment (3)Vice President Joe Biden and campaign advisers for Mitt Romney went tit-for-tat on foreign policy positions on Thursday.
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Maine's Olympia Snowe Says She Supports Mitt Romney
Tweet Share on Facebook April 25, 2012 CommentMaine Sen. Olympia Snowe, a moderate Republican who surprised many when she announced in March she would not be seeking re-election, says she supports Mitt Romney as the Republicanpresidential nominee and thinks he matches up well against President Obama.
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GOP Primary Race in Connecticut is Tea Party Test
Tweet Share on Facebook April 20, 2012 Comment (15)Connecticut may not be known as a hotbed of conservative activism, but the Nutmeg State's Republican Senate primary may just serve as the Petri dish for the viability of the Tea Party.
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Mitt Romney Heads to Ohio in General Election Mode
Tweet Share on Facebook April 19, 2012 Comment (2)Mitt Romney, now the presumed Republican presidential nominee, has wasted little time re-focusing his campaign on the general election. Throughout the GOP nomination process, he zeroed in on criticism of President Obama in most of his stump speeches, but was also forced to give these addresses in states dictated by the nomination calendar – Iowa, New Hampshire, and so on. Not so now.
The former Massachusetts governor is scheduled to give a speech on the failings of the president's economic policies in Ohio on Thursday, even though he already won the state's primary more than a month ago. It's being billed by his campaign as a direct rebuttal to the speech delivered by Obama Wednesday, when the president talked about the economy and raised campaign cash in the Midwest. Ohio is widely considered one of the crucial swing states that could determine who wins the presidency this fall.
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Progressives Push Amendment to Overturn Citizens United
Tweet Share on Facebook April 18, 2012 Comment (8)Opponents of the Supreme Court ruling that led to unlimited corporate campaign spending acknowledged that their bid for a constitutional amendment to address the issue is a long shot, but hope to rally grassroots support for change as a consequence of the effort.
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Ted Nugent Calls Obama Team 'Criminals'
Tweet Share on Facebook April 17, 2012 Comment (23)In an attempt to go tit-for-tat with Republicans, Democrats seized on comments made by controversial music legend and right-wing activist Ted Nugent last weekend and hoped to tie them to the presidential campaign of Republican Mitt Romney.
Nugent, in a radio interview captured in a YouTube video, called on National Rifle Association event attendees to go home and recruit "everybody in your lives to clean house in this vile, evil, America-hating administration."
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Gallup: Romney Beating Obama in First Daily Tracking Poll
Tweet Share on Facebook April 16, 2012 Comment (8)Mitt Romney is leading Barack Obama in Gallup's first head-to head general election poll of registered voters.
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Mitt Romney Begins VP Search
Tweet Share on Facebook April 16, 2012 Comment (2)Mitt Romney has tapped a long-time aide to head up his search for a vice presidential candidate the Republican presidential front-runner told ABC News' Diane Sawyer in an interview.
"I have selected someone who has been a counselor of mine for a number of years, Beth Myers. She was my chief of staff when I was governor," Romney told Sawyer in an exchange set to air on Monday night.
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Mitt Romney and the NRA: Uneasy Bedfellows
Tweet Share on Facebook April 13, 2012 Comment (4)Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney faces a tough task Friday afternoon when he addresses thousands of members of the National Rifle Association in St. Louis. Romney's position on gun rights has evolved throughout his political career and he has a history of opposing measures supported by the powerful special interest group.
The NRA has repeatedly proven itself a force not only in Republican politics, but for Democrats serving in conservative districts as well. It has both an effective get-out-the-vote effort and savvy, well-funded messaging during elections.
