Updated at 6:15 pm EDT: With 67.2 million people tuning in to the presidential debate last night, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney drew an audience 28 percent bigger than the first face-off between then-candidate Obama and challenger John...
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President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are seen at the Lavanderia coin laundry during their televised debate on October 3, 2012 in Miami.
Debates: 67 Million Watch, Fox No. 1
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People watch the televised final presidential debate between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain in Hollywood in this October 15, 2008 file photo.
Obama’s Debate Expectations Higher
For whatever attempts the president and his rival have made to set expectations for their televised debates, the public’s are higher for President Barack Obama. Voters surveyed expect that Obama will do a better job than Mitt Romney in the...
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US President Barack Obama chats with students as he tours a classroom November 8, 2011 in Yeadon, Pennsylvania.
Obama Misses Teaching (Not Yet)
President Barack Obama wants to return to academia. Just not yet. Asked about his post-presidency plans after 2016 in an interview for ABC’s “The View,” Obama says he longs for the classroom: “I miss teaching. I love teaching.” In an...
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Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama t-shits at Dulles International Airport near Washington.
Obama vs. Romney: It’s Not Over
It’s not over until it’s over. That’s the word from Gary Langer, of Langer Research Associates, pollster for ABC News and the Washington Pos. Slightly more than one fifth of all registered voters surveyed “remain persuadable” in the presidential contest...
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Mitt Romney at a campaign rally in Painesville, Ohio.
Romney Camp Pledges `Specifics’
It’s time, the Romney campaign says, to get more specific. Most voters surveyed agree. A Poll run for ABC News and the Washington Post last week found that, by a margin of 63-31 percent, the registered voters surveyed said Mitt...
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Nicole 'Snookie' Polizzi during the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles.
Romney: `Kind of a Snooki Fan’
It’s not quite the pages of US Weekly, but Mitt Romney really wants voters to know that he’s just like us. He indulges in Reese Peanut Butter cups, though he doesn’t really consider them junk food. He hates it when...
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Mitt Romney reflected in sunglasses as he speaks during a campaign rally in Jacksonville, Florida.
Romney Wouldn’t Tell the Truth, Voters Say in Poll
More voters believe Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s campaign is intentionally misleading people than believe it is telling the truth, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll. Less than 50 percent of respondents said President Barack Obama’s campaign has told the...
Read more »Obama, Romney: Dueling Videos: Evasiveness vs. Repetitiveness
This is the post-convention word from the Obama and Romney camps on one another: Avoiding the details versus repeating the same old words. Expect to hear more of this in the next 57 days. In war-room style, President Barack Obama’s...
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...
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A cutout of President Barack Obama during day one of the Democratic National Convention.
Obama’s Ratings Upside Down
President Barack Obama arrives at his convention upside down. More voters held an unfavorable opinion of Obama than a favorable one going into the Democratic National Convention that opened in Charlotte, North Carolina, tonight. This includes his lowest ratings among...
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