There’s nothing like a comeback story. The Obama campaign, working to spin away Republican Mitt Romney’s perceived success in the first presidential debate last night, suggests that reporters have been waiting for a turnaround in fortunes. “I think some of...
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White House senior adviser David Plouffe speaks to reporters after the Presidential Debate between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney at the University of Denver on October 3, 2012.
Romney’s Comeback: Plouffe’s Nightmare — Florida, Ohio Get Ready
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A polling site in Manhattan.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 23.7 million
That’s how many Hispanics will be eligible to vote in the Nov. 6 presidential election, according to a Pew Hispanic Center analysis. That’s an increase from 19.5 million eligible Hispanic voters in 2008, when 9.7 million voted in the election....
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President Barack Obama in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Priorities Sets New Priority: Nevada
Priorities USA Action, a super-political action committee backing President Barack Obama, is shifting and increasing its television advertising buy to include the swing state of Nevada, its co-founder Bill Burton said this morning. The super-PAC’s new focus on Nevada, which...
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President Barack Obama visits the Hoover Dam, on Oct. 2, 2012 in Boulder City, Nev.
Obama the Sight-Seer: Hoover Dam
President Barack Obama, practicing for the first of the presidential debates tomorrow night, took some time off from his studies today in Henderson, Nevada, to go sight-seeing. Obama said he decided to go visit the Hoover Dam because “it’s spectacular...
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Mitt Romney and Sen. Rob Portman make an unscheduled stop at a Chipotle restaurant in Denver, on Oct. 2, 2012.
Chipotle Take-Out: Debate-Prep Menu
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is spending most of the day hunkering down in his Denver hotel getting ready for tomorrow’s face-off against President Barack Obama — and he has a burrito bowl for sustenance. The former Massachusetts governor, along...
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President Barack Obama carries boxes of pizza as he arrives for an unannounced stop at a campaign office October 1, 2012 in Henderson, Nevada.
Obama Doing `My Homework’
Swing states get curb service: President Barack Obama has delivered White House-brewed beer to a firehouse in Virginia, and today he took a break from debate preparation to deliver boxes of pizza to campaign volunteers in Nevada. “It’s really coming...
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President Barack Obama, center, greets supporters after speaking at a campaign event in Desert Pines High School on Sept. 30, 2012 in Las Vegas.
Debate Expectations: Bar Games
Expectations are everything. By a margin of nearly two to one, voters expect President Barack Obama to “win” the televised debates with Republican Mitt Romney that start Wednesday night in Denver. By two to one, most think Obama will win...
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Elvis impersonator Tony Gallardo, left, dances outside a casino along The Strip with tourist Leigh Moorhead of Hampton, Va.
What Obama Practices Around Vegas Won’t Stay in Vegas: Debate Camp
There was a time when presidents and presidential candidates didn’t spend much time in Las Vegas — flying in and out for events like an American Legion or Veterans of Foreign Wars convention — but not spending the night in...
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Sheldon Adelson, chairman and chief executive officer of Las Vegas Sands Corp. and chairman of Sands China Ltd., during a news conference in Macau, China, on Sept. 20, 2012.
Adelson Front and Center for Romney
With casino magnate Sheldon Adelson in town, Las Vegas is never a gamble for Mitt Romney. “I don’t know how it is that Sheldon Adelson got in the front row,” Romney said, with a smile at the opening of a...
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Romney: `Helpful to Be Latino’ — Spanish Ads: `We’re Not Laughing’
There was something else that Mitt Romney said in the now-famous May 17 fundraising dinner talking about that 47 percent of Americans whom he cannot reach with his campaign, a videotape of it published online this week, that he could...
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