WASHINGTON — Bill Clinton is going to bat for President Obama, bashing Mitt Romney as “extreme,” in e-mails touting a blockbuster June fund-raiser in Manhattan with the current and former presidents. “If our opponent succeeds, so much of what we’ve fough...
President Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney in the key battleground states of Florida, Ohio and Virginia, according to a new poll released Thursday. The NBC-Marist poll found the president leading Romney by six points in Ohio (48 percent to 42 percent) and ...
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney vowed yesterday that he’d be the educator-in-chief and a champion of charter schools. The presumptive GOP presidential nominee said he would use federal funds to “expand parental choice in an unprecedented way.” Romney said he wo...
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney turned the tables on President Obama for the attacks on Romney’s time at Bain Capital, releasing an emotional video about job woes during the Obama’s tenure. The ad kicks off with Obama’s recent statement that Romney’s time runni...
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney has grabbed a 6-point lead in the battleground state of Florida based on a strong showing among men, according to the latest Quinnipiac University poll. Romney leads President Obama by 47-41 percent in the Sunshine State. He lead...
President Barack Obama faces new warning signs in a once-promising Southern state and typically Democratic-voting Midwestern states roughly five months before the election even as he benefits nationally from encouraging economic news. Obama's new worries...
In the risky business of running for president, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are largely playing it safe. For all the small daily dramas of the 2012 campaign, there's a risk-averse dynamic playing out: Neither candidate has been making bold new policy pr...
By Sara Murray In February, the Romney campaign was stung by a triple loss in Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado that raised fresh questions about whether the former Massachusetts governor had the staying power for his presidential run. It was a testing mo...
The Players: Mitt Romney and fellow Republicans The Play: Trying to outflank Barack Obama on student loans The Strategy: Polls give Mr. Obama a big lead among college students and voters under 30, an edge he enjoyed in 2008. Looking to capitalize on that...
DES MOINES, Iowa – President Obama delivered his harshest rebuttal yet to rival Mitt Romney on Thursday, dismissing his challenger's claims as "a cowpie of distortions" while seeking to rekindle the all-but-faded Iowa magic that launched him in 2008. Esc...
Donald Trump, whose penchant for questioning President Barack Obama's place of birth showed no signs of abating Friday, is helping presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney raise money. Isn't such close proximity to the "birther" conspiracy embarrassing for a ...
Four years after the 2008 collapse, the finance industry has regained its dominant position in American politics. Perhaps the development of deepest significance is an absence: the failure of a powerful anti-Wall Street faction to emerge in either the Ho...
LOS ANGELES - Mitt Romney has a new ad out, touting what he’ll do on his first day as president. "Day One," the narrator intones, "President Romney announces deficit reductions, ending the Obama era of big government." That’s pretty much what Romney has ...
Does Mitt Romney have a clue? By the way, who are his campaign advisers? Does he have campaign advisers? Is he generally underinformed and living in a blur when it comes to education? … About school reform. Three big ideas: First, Romney is going to make...
