Authors: Carmen Cox
Win McNamee/Getty Images(MILWAUKEE) -- So how is the new Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan ticket playing in Ryan’s home state of Wisconsin? Among a group of swing voters -- twelve white, suburban women from the Milwaukee area -- the feelings are mixed.
Most of these women, brought together for a focus group conducted Tuesday night by...
Authors: Carmen Cox
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Although he predicted it would not happen, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said Wednesday it would be “wise” for President Obama to take Vice President Joe Biden off the Democratic presidential ticket and replace him with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
“I think it might be wise to do that...
Authors: Joshua Cohan
JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images(DUBUQUE, Iowa) -- President Obama entered the fight over Medicare today, telling supporters in Iowa that his GOP opponents are being “dishonest about my plan.”
“Here’s what you need to know: I have strengthened Medicare,” he said to applause from a crowd of 3,000...
Authors: Joshua Cohan
T.J. Kirkpatrick/Getty Images(BLACKSBURG, Va.) -- Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Mitt Romney’s selection of Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate clearly indicates where the presumptive GOP nominee stands and throws out the ability for Romney to use an “etch-a-sketch” in this campaign.
“The...
Authors: Joshua Cohan
Alex Wong/Getty Images(DUBUQUE, Iowa) -- First lady Michelle Obama joins President Obama on the campaign trail in Iowa today, making her first joint appearance with her husband in the Hawkeye State this election cycle.
“This is where the journey began for him, and where it began for the first lady, and Iowa will always...
Authors: Joshua Cohan
NFL(WASHINGTON) -- Condoleezza Rice is a Browns fan – and she’s not afraid to show it. The former secretary of state, who has sworn off a run for the White House, has jumped into another field entirely with her modeling debut.
Rice, a long-time Cleveland Browns fan, is one of the many new female faces of the NFL and...
Authors: Joshua Cohan
Comstock/Thinkstock(HARRISBURG, Pa.) -- A Pennsylvania judge upheld the state’s strict voter ID law today, rejecting civil rights groups’ claims that the law will disenfranchise thousands of voters.
The ruling is a victory for Gov. Tom Corbett, who signed the voter ID law in March, and state Republicans, who pushed...
Authors: Jeanette Torres
J.D. Pooley/Getty Images(COLUMBUS, Ohio) -- Mitt Romney offered a reminder Wednesday morning that Paul Ryan joined his campaign, and not the other way around, when drilled on how his budget plan differs from the one proposed by his running mate. He also pledged to restore $716 billion in future Medicare spending that was to...
Authors: Jeanette Torres
Mica [dot] House [dot] gov(ORLANDO, Fla.) -- Rep. John Mica fended off a tea party challenge in his Florida Republican primary on Tuesday.
Sarah Palin-backed Rep. Sandy Adams failed to muster the votes to win in Florida’s new 7th district, which encompassed much of her current territory in the 112th Congress.
Palin, who...
Authors: Jeanette Torres
JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images(WATERLOO, Iowa) -- President Obama on Tuesday recounted how much he enjoyed his pork chop and beer at the Iowa State Fair on Monday night.
“It was good. I might have another beer today. You know, just one,” he jokingly told supporters in Marshalltown, Iowa. ...
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