Political News
-
Virginia gives Goode spot on state election ballot
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:47AM September 04, 2012 CommentRICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Conservative former Rep. Virgil Goode will appear on Virginia's presidential ballot after state election officials rejected a Republican-led effort to keep him off. Republicans fear Goode will drain votes from their candidate, Mitt Romney, in a swing state where polls show a deadlocked race.
-
ESSAY: 4 years on, Obama message challenge differs
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:22AM September 04, 2012 CommentCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — We campaign in poetry, Mario Cuomo used to say, but we govern in prose.
-
Charlotte mayor rising as Dems' convention begins
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:44AM September 04, 2012 CommentCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Anthony Foxx had been mayor for barely a year when he got the news: Charlotte was chosen to host the Democratic National Convention.
-
DNC guests to party with donors, special interests
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:51AM September 04, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats flocking to their national convention will spend this week hobnobbing in Charlotte, N.C., with lobbyists, special interest groups and wealthy donors, just days after Republicans hosted their own party of all political parties in Tampa, Fla.
-
AP source: Bain-related workers to speak
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:38PM September 03, 2012 CommentCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — An Obama campaign official says workers from Bain Capital-controlled companies will speak at the Democratic Party's national convention.
-
Dems platform backs gay marriage, abortion rights
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:38PM September 03, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats unveiled a party platform at their national convention Monday that echoes President Barack Obama's call for higher taxes on wealthier Americans while backing same-sex marriage and abortion rights.
-
NY pol's reliance on rabbi comes back to haunt him
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:02PM September 03, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — When he announced his run for congress in the fall of 2009, future U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, then a political novice, sorely needed a rainmaker who could get the dollars flowing to his nascent campaign. He found one in an Israeli rabbi, Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto.
-
Obama: Help is on the way to hurricane zone
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:31PM September 03, 2012 CommentLaPLACE, La. (AP) — President Barack Obama insisted on Monday that the federal government can help Americans in crisis, whether they're autoworkers fearful that their company will disappear or Gulf Coast residents picking up the pieces after the devastation of Hurricane Isaac.
-
Another disaster brings candidates to Gulf Coast
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:20PM September 03, 2012 CommentNEW ORLEANS (AP) — Mitt Romney wasted no time after accepting the GOP presidential nomination in heading to Louisiana to see the damage from Hurricane Isaac, changing his schedule on the fly to get there the very next day. President Barack Obama also tweaked his travel plans to make sure he gets there Monday, ahead of his own nominating convention.
-
President says GOP creating 'fictional' Obama
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:12PM September 03, 2012 CommentCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — President Barack Obama says Republicans are creating a "fictional Barack Obama" during the White House campaign by misrepresenting his positions and words.
-
Analysis: 4-year progress query puts Obama in box
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:54PM September 03, 2012 CommentCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — It's a question that aides to any president seeking re-election should be ready to handle: Are Americans better off now than before he took office?
-
Obama's re-election road: Hope and a hard climb
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:49PM September 03, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — People remember the hope and the history. For him or against him, they picture candidate Barack Obama as the one who stood on stage in a football stadium in Denver and accepted the Democratic presidential nomination by declaring "It's time for us to change America."
-
Ryan says Jimmy Carter era was better than Obama's
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:11PM September 03, 2012 CommentGREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Paul Ryan delivered a scathing criticism of President Barack Obama's stewardship of the nation's economy Monday, arguing that even conservative punching bag Jimmy Carter's presidency was better as Democrats streamed to North Carolina to nominate Obama for a second term.
-
For conventions, TV viewing down, social media up
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:21PM September 03, 2012 CommentCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — When it comes to following political conventions, Twitter may soon trump television.
-
Democratic convention speeches to remember
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:32PM September 03, 2012 CommentClint Eastwood gave the Republicans some offbeat remarks to remember this year. Will the Democrats come up with any memorable lines? Here are some past Democratic convention speeches that live on:
-
Biden to organized labor: We're with you
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:30PM September 03, 2012 CommentDETROIT (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden had a simple Labor Day message for unionized workers: Stick with President Barack Obama because the other guys are worse.
-
Medical marijuana backers seek inroads in South
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:09PM September 03, 2012 CommentLITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The home state of the president who didn't inhale has become an unlikely front in the battle over medical marijuana.
-
Dems cobble convention crowd together bit by bit
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:42AM September 03, 2012 CommentCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — College students from across North Carolina will arrive in Charlotte by the busload. Same with members of predominantly black churches in neighboring South Carolina.
-
New Obama ad makes middle-class appeal
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:31AM September 03, 2012 CommentCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — President Barack Obama's campaign is running a new television ad claiming Republican Mitt Romney's policies would "hit the middle class harder."
-
How do voters assess candidates' '2 visions'?
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:17AM September 03, 2012 CommentIt's the mantra we will hear endlessly in the coming weeks: Americans face a "stark choice" come November. It is a choice, as President Barack Obama has said repeatedly, "between two fundamentally different visions" for our country. Or as newly anointed Republican nominee Mitt Romney has said from the stump, "President Obama's vision is very different — and deeply flawed."
