Authors: Jeanette Torres
Gerardo Mora/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan, a seven-term congressman from Wisconsin, released his first television advertisement of the 2012 election cycle on Wednesday. He’s seeking re-election to his House seat as he campaigns with Mitt Romney in his White House...
Authors: Jeanette Torres
Scott Olson/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The teacher's strike in Chicago has the potential to become a big GOP talking point on the campaign trail if it continues to drag on.
Why? The obvious reason is the close connection Obama has with Chicago. The windy city is where his campaign is headquartered, and the mayor...
Authors: Jeanette Torres
NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- President Obama has crossed into majority favorability among registered voters for the first time since spring in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll -- further evidence of a convention boost. Mitt Romney trails in popularity, albeit with a number near his own high.
The...
Authors: Jeanette Torres
Win McNamee/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Obama campaign is doubling down on the argument that Mitt Romney’s budget plan doesn’t add up (or, as former President Bill Clinton tells it, doesn’t pass the “arithmetic test”), meaning higher taxes on the middle class and/or exploding deficits.
A new...
Authors: Jeanette Torres
J.D. Pooley/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- For Mitt Romney’s campaign, the outlook in the battleground states is even worse than the national polls.
According to a GOP source with access to private polling being done by independent Republican groups (who are spending a lot of money tracking public opinion in the...
Authors: Jeanette Torres
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(OAK CREEK, Wis.) -- Paul Ryan returned home to his Wisconsin congressional district on Tuesday and visited first responders on the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
The GOP’s vice presidential nominee -- and also still a candidate for reelection to Congress -- visited the...
Authors: Carmen Cox
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- After a whirlwind month consumed by swing state campaigning and the Democratic National Convention, President Obama is back on the money trail next week for another round of star-studded New York City fundraisers, featuring Beyonce and Jay-Z.
The president will head to the Big Apple on...
Authors: Carmen Cox
ABC News(UNIVERSITY PARK, Fla.) -- At his first solo rally of the 2012 election campaign, former President Bill Clinton Tuesday night invoked the 9/11 anniversary to urge all Americans to register to vote and endorse President Obama’s vision for a future of “shared prosperity.”
He also took shots at Republicans...
Authors: Carmen Cox
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Believe them or not, post-convention polls such as the one out Tuesday from ABC News and the Washington Post show some wind -- or maybe more accurately, a slight breeze -- at President Obama’s back.
The presidential race has gone from “deadlocked” to a slight edge for...
Authors: Carmen Cox
PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images(PHOENIX) -- The Greater Phoenix Tea Party Patriots group has pulled the plug on Pat Boone and Sheriff Joe Arpaio, canceling their Sept. 22 “Birther” bash at the city’s Celebrity Theatre “due to inadequate ticket sales.”
The venue’s website touts an...
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