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...
Authors: Joshua Cohan
Bill Clark/Roll Call via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Need any evidence that Congress on the heels of both the DNC and RNC conventions will be operating under a hyper-partisan dome from now until Election Day? Then look no farther than Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s, D-Nev., statement on the Senate floor Monday in...
Authors: Joshua Cohan
Alex Wong/Getty Images(PORTLAND, Ore.) -- A conservative superPAC is taking part of Paul Ryan’s convention speech that brought him under fire for inaccurately blaming President Obama for a GM plant’s closing and using his words in a new ad attacking Obama and backing up the GOP ticket.
Ryan came under scrutiny after...
Authors: Joshua Cohan
Brand X Pictures/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- President Obama and Democrats report raising more than $114 million for the 2012 campaign in August, marking their best fundraising month of the election cycle and outpacing rival Mitt Romney for the first time in three months.
The Obama campaign announced the figure on Twitter ahead...
Authors: Joshua Cohan
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.) — President Obama mocked rival Mitt Romney’s tax cut proposals Sunday, telling supporters in Florida that his opponent’s plan is bad math and that he should “get some tutoring.”
Mitt Romney and his running mate Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., struggled in...
Authors: Joshua Cohan
SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images(WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.) — President Obama is hoping to get a boost from Florida voters, but on Sunday he may have gotten more of a lift than he bargained for.
Making a surprise stop at the Big Apple Pasta & Pizza Restaurant in Ft. Pierce, Fla., the president was greeted enthusiastically by...
Authors: Joshua Cohan
JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images(MELBOURNE, Fla.) — Courting senior voters in the key swing state of Florida, President Obama on Sunday ramped up his attack against Mitt Romney’s Medicare plan, saying the GOP presidential nominee would increase health care costs for retired Americans and bankrupt the popular entitlement...
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