As President Barack Obama prepares to address the Democratic National Convention tomorrow, a Republican group is looking to blunt any post-convention “bounce” for him. “President Obama says he’ll move us forward. But where has he taken us so far?” asks...
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Delegates at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Charlotte.
Emanuel Freed to Fundraise for Super-PACs: $3 Million Already
Rahm Emanuel has always been a fundraising machine, but as a co-chairman of the President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign, he was prevented from raising the kind of big checks that Republican Karl Rove is collecting. So he resigned. Now, the...
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Karl Rove, former Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff to former President George W. Bush, right, with Sen. Orrin Hatch on the floor of the Republican National Convention.
Karl Rove’s Plan for Beating Obama
Karl Rove steered George W. Bush to two presidential election victories. Now Rove, the brain behind a super-PAC called American Crossroads, is trying to do the same for Mitt Romney — and Rove spelled out his strategy for unseating President...
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Republican political adviser Karl Rove has his photo taken with a delegate on the floor of the Republican National Convention.
Rove Is in the House: Tampa
Updated at 5:20 pm EDT The canvas-covered entrance tunnel to the Tampa Bay Forum is long and warm — for all the wide plastic hosing pumping conditioned air into the luminous white channel lighted by Sixties-style, snaking floor lamps. It...
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Workers place displays at the Republican National Convention inside of the Tampa Bay Times in Fla.
Rove Says Obama Paints Romney as `Vampire Capitalist’
Mitt Romney will teach voters watching the Republican National Convention something new about him, said Republican strategist Karl Rove, predicting the candidate’s time this week in Tampa would help him win the Nov. 6 presidential election. Romney is “going to...
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John Zito looks at a rendering of the display screens on stage at the Republican National Convention at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Fla.
Obama’s Spring, Romney’s Summer — TV Ad Parity in the Long Run
At 30 seconds a pop, and sometimes 60, it would take you more than six months to watch all 526,633 presidential election ads that have run on television since the general election began in earnest in early April. If you...
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Virginia, which advertised itself as being the state for lovers, this year has become the state for attacks. A swing state in the presidential election, Virginia airwaves for months have been filled with ads attacking President Barack Obama and his...
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New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman
Tax-Exempt Political Groups Probed by NY Attorney General
Tax-exempt nonprofit groups account for some of the biggest, yet most mysterious, spending in the presidential election. And now they’ve attracted the attention of New York’s attorney general. Eric Schneiderman, a Democrat, has asked two dozen nonprofits to explain how...
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President George W. Bush with his Senior Adviser Karl Rove in this 2005 file photo.
U.S. Debt: Very Short History Lesson
History lessons can be useful, and also misleading. The 60-second spot which a youth-oriented subsidiary of American Crossroads has produced, a “primer” opening with the (nearly) $16 trillion debt of the United States, suggests that the current administration is responsible for...
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This video frame grab provided by the Mitt Romney presidential campaign shows a scene from an ad entitled: "Believe in America."
FEC Ruling Could Force Chamber, Crossroads GPS to Disclose Donors
The Federal Election Commission today told groups that run electioneering communications, those so-called issue ads you see on TV that are virtually indistinguishable from campaign ads except that they don’t say “vote for” or “vote against,” that they have to...
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