President Barack Obama won Ohio by 166,214 votes on Nov. 6, a margin of 3 percentage points, state election officials said today in announcing official returns. So Ohio, while highly competitive, wasn’t exactly the nail-biter it seemed to be early...
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Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush on the final day of the Republican National Convention (RNC).
Jeb Bush: `Here’ for Education
Updated at 1:15 pm EST Jeb Bush is in town. The former Florida governor, brother of one former president and son of another, is encamped in Washington — in a hotel just a few blocks from the White House, as...
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Jim Messina, center, campaign manager for the re-election of President Barack Obama, talks with reporters during a tour of the re-election headquarters in Chicago.
Messina: Romney’s Chrysler Ad One of Campaign’s Biggest Missteps
President Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign manager, Jim Messina, said one of the campaign’s biggest missteps by Republican Mitt Romney’s campaign was a controversial ad suggesting that Chrysler Group LLC is moving Jeep productions to China. “They were spending the last...
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Sen. Kay Hagan during the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 20
That’s the number of Democratic senators whose terms expire at the end of 2014. Seven of those 20 Democrats represent states that voted for Republican Mitt Romney over President Barack Obama in the Nov. 6 election. The seven are Mark...
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Mitt Romney, as the Republican presidential candidate, arrives on stage at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida. Photograph by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg
Romney Remarks: `The Dumb Party’
Mitt Romney’s campaign already had suffered from the publication of some words offered in private to supporters — telling fundraisers during his run for president that 47 percent of Americans pay no taxes, are victims of government dependency and politically...
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A collage of nighttime network television commercials largely dominated by campaign ads. Photograph by Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
2012 Campaign Negative as Seemed
After 1 million negative ads, it’s easy to conclude that the 2012 presidential campaign was negative. And it was, according to Americans surveyed in a Pew poll out today. The Pew Research Center found 68 percent of voters saying the...
Read more »Paul Ryan: No Obama Mandate — Romney’s Loss `Bit of a Shock’
Paul Ryan, the budget-cutting congressman from Wisconsin who ran with Mitt Romney on the Republican presidential ticket, maintains that the re-elected President Barack Obama is carrying no mandate for tax increases. “I don’t think so, because they also reelected the...
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Barack Obama, as a presidential candidate, campaigning in New Hampshire, 2008. Photograph by Keith Bedford/Bloomberg
Obama’s New Hampshire Win: Cities
President Barack Obama carried New Hampshire for the second straight election on Nov. 6 partly by maintaining his big margins from four years ago in the state’s three biggest municipalities. Obama beat Republican challenger Mitt Romney by 55-44 percent in...
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GOP strategist and American Crossroads backer Karl Rove. Photograph by Northwest Florida Daily/AP Photo
Down to the Crossroads: $5 Million — Final Wager in Six-for-22 Series
American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS dumped more than $5 million into ads attacking President Barack Obama in the three days before the election. The two groups tied to Karl Rove reported the last-gasp spending to the Federal Election Commission today...
Read more »Florida, Four Days Later: Obama
In Florida, they count no vote before its time. Four days after the election in the biggest of all swing states, Florida has finished counting ballots. President Barack Obama carried 50 percent of the vote. Republican Mitt Romney won 49.1...
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