As a Washington journalist, there’s only one thing worse than being beaten on a White House story: Being beaten by the White House itself. Last night, my Bloomberg colleague Hans Nichols and I faced off on the tennis court with...
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White House economists, Alan Kreuger and Gene Sperling, left, versus Team Bloomberg, Hans Nichols and Peter Cook, right.
Obama’s Backhanded Economists: Reporter’s (Sweaty) Notebook
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Mitt Romney supporters at a primary night party in Tampa, Florida.
Sunshine State Saturation: 641 a Day
President Barack Obama will kick off a two-day campaign swing tomorrow in Florida, the biggest of all swing states, where voters have seen plenty of him, Republican challenger Mitt Romney and their surrogates blitzing the television airwaves. Florida television stations...
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Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman and CEO of the Goldman Sachs Group, at the Economic Club of Washington luncheon, on July 18, 2012.
Lloyd Blankfein Calls at White House
The White House welcomed Wall Street through its doors today with a visit from Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, who was in town to speak at the Economic Club of Washington. But it was not to meet with President Barack...
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Mitt Romney during a campaign rally at the Bowling Green Community Center July 18, 2012 in Ohio.
Romney’s ‘Town Hall:’ All Business
Updated finally at 3:05 pm EDT Who wears a tie to a town hall? Mitt Romney, up now in Bowling Green, Ohio. With Ohio Governor John Kasich, also in a tie. “Bowling Green rocks,” Kasich explained. “Every day I have...
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A Mitt Romney supporter with in Irwin, Penn., on July 17, 2012.
It’s About Character, (No Stupids)
“It’s about the economy, and we’re not stupid,” Mitt Romney often says, charging that President Barack Obama is trying to make the contest about anything but his record on jobs. Yet as both men’s campaigns ratchet up the intensity of...
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Barack Obama supporters after hearing Ohio has been called for him in Columbus, Ohio., in this 2008 file photo.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 7.1
That was President Barack Obama’s percentage-point margin of victory four years ago in Wood County, Ohio, where Republican challenger Mitt Romney is campaigning today, in Bowling Green. Wood, just south of Toledo, is one of just six of the 88...
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Anna Wintour at the Giorgio Armani Autumn/Winter 2012/2013 fashion in Milan.
Vogue Editor Helps Clinton’s Debt, Obama’s Bid for Re-Election
Thank you note to Anna Wintour, and others: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who lost the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination to Barack Obama, is down to her last $100,000 in campaign debt, new Federal Election Commission reports show. The debt...
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Mitt Romney during a campaign event at Horizontal Wireline Services on July 17, 2012 in Irwin, Pa.
‘Obama Attacks Success,’ Romney Says — Replaying President’s Words
The business of business is business. And the business of government? President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney part ways on that question — with Obama pressing the highest-earning Americans to pay more taxes and Romney insisting on lowering the...
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People line up to purchase tickets to enter the beach in Belmar, New Jersey.
Washington Daybook: Jersey Shore Likes Obama
New Jersey voters give President Obama a 49 percent to 38 percent lead over Mitt Romney in the latest Quinnipiac University poll released today, helped by the youth vote. Voters in the Garden State under the age of 35, a...
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Protestors outside a hotel where Mitt Romney is holding a fundraiser in Philadelphia.
Obama Pollster: Romney’s Tax Returns `Character’ Issue
Updated at 11 am EDT President Barack Obama’s chief pollster, Joel Benenson, says Mitt Romney’s reluctance to release additional tax returns is a character issue because American voters expect more transparency from their candidates. Benenson also defends the campaign’s attacks...
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Al Hunt
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Mark Silva
is deputy managing editor for government news in Washington and editor of Political Capital. He has covered the White House and national politics. -
Emma Fidel
is political editor for Bloomberg.com in Washington. She previously covered financial regulation as a Bloomberg intern. -
Don Frederick
edits political and government coverage for Bloomberg News. He previously worked for more than a decade at the Los Angeles Times' Washington bureau. -
Gregory Giroux
analyzes elections, financing of congressional and presidential elections, political advertising and demographics in Bloomberg's Washington Bureau. -
Julie Bykowicz
covers the influence of money and lobbying in Washington, and covered the state legislature and city crime for the Baltimore Sun for 10 years. -
Jonathan Salant
covers campaign finance and lobbying in Washington. He was president of the National Press Club and started in Washington in 1987. -
Richard Rubin
covers federal tax policy. He worked at Congressional Quarterly and The Charlotte Observer before joining Bloomberg News in 2010. -
Julie Hirschfeld Davis
is a senior political reporter for the Washington Bureau. She covered the 2012 campaign for Bloomberg News and previously covered the White House for the Baltimore Sun. -
Lisa Lerer
covers the White House and covered the 2012 campaign for Bloomberg News. She covered Congress, lobbying and the 2008 campaign for Politico. -
John McCormick
is a national political reporter looking forward to the 2016 presidential campaign, which will be the fifth he's covered. He's also reported for The Des Moines Register and Chicago Tribune. -
Julianna Goldman
covers the White House for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Television. -
Hans Nichols
covers the White House for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Television. -
Margaret Talev
covers the White House for Bloomberg News and covered the White House for McClatchy Newspapers. She has covered California and Florida politics. -
Cary O'Reilly
is Editor at Large at Bloomberg First Word and is Washington Daybook columnist for Bloomberg Government and Bloomberg News.
