The Democratic convention’s debt won’t saddle the president or his party. The Committee for Charlotte 2012, which was charged with raising money for the Democratic National Convention, insists that it will not rely on the President Barack Obama’s campaign or...
Read more »Obama’s Florida Key Swing Counties
The presidential campaigns know the so-called swing states, such as Florida, Ohio and Virginia. They’re also quite familiar with the swing counties in those states. It’s no coincidence that President Barack Obama is making campaign stops today in the Florida counties...
Read more »Obama’s Audience Off from 2008 — Romney Competed with Eastwood
President Barack Obama drew a bigger national television audience at his convention than Republican nominee Mitt Romney did at his, the ratings show. Yet TV viewership this year was off from 2008, according to Nielsen Media Research. Fox News ruled...
Read more »Missourians: Show Us the Way – Akin `No Crist,’ McCaskill `No. 50′
It now officially requires a secret de-coder ring to follow the Senate race in Missouri. This is a race in which Republicans hoped to build, in part, their takeover of the U.S. Senate — until their candidate, Rep. Todd Akin,...
Read more »Democratic Convention Debt Will Cost Obama Campaign or Party Cash
The Democratic National Convention is in debt. And that could cost President Barack Obama or his party some needed campaign cash. Democrats ended their convention in Charlotte $5 million short of their budget even after being forced to draw down...
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Obama’s Job Approval Up Nine Points
President Barack Obama has come out of the convention nominating him for a second term as president with the highest job-approval rating he has held since June, according to Gallup Poll tracking reported today. The 52 percent approval rating for...
Read more »`Improving Your Love Life’ — Romney’s Promises, in Obama’s Eyes
Written with Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Margaret Talev On the first day of the final, two-month campaign for the White House, a day delivering new employment data showing persisting unemployment and slow job growth, Republican Mitt Romney arrived in Iowa...
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8.1 pct Jobless: Back to Campaign
The conventions are finished. The new monthly employment report is out: 8.1 percent unemployment in August — down from 8.3 percent. Yet just 96,000 jobs were added. It’s a mixed report, modest job growth and a jobless rate settling just...
Read more »Romney’s Swing-State Ad Campaign: No More Patience With Obama
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is using 15 new television advertisements to tell voters in eight battleground states that they’re no better off than they were when President Barack Obama took office. The morning after Obama accepted his party’s nomination...
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An Obama campaign ad released September 3, 2012
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 605,996
That’s how many presidential election ads have run in the five-month period between April 10, when the general election began in earnest, and Sept. 4, according to Kantar Media’s CMAG. President Barack Obama’s campaign has run ads 267,987 times, or...
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