Instant replay can be a game-changer. “Okay fans, let’s go to the fumble of the week,” American Crossroads announces in a video-cast worthy of ESPN SportsCenter. “Barack Obama drops the ball on his own one yard line.” The super-PAC is...
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Mitt Romney hosts a small-business roundtable in Costa Mesa, Calif.
Super-PAC Sportscast: Obama Fumbles – Obama: ‘Splicing Dicing’
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Crossing the London Bridge as the Olympic Rings hang from Tower Bridge.
Romney Goes `For the Gold’ – Democratic Olympic Commentary
Reporting from London: (with an update at 10:55 am EDT) Mitt Romney arrived in London this morning for a trip which aides hope will remind voters of his work rescuing the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics from financial disaster. Allies...
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Timothy Geithner, U.S. treasury secretary and trustee of Social Security and Medicare trust funds.
Tim Geithner Sees Jackson Browne: Occupying Wolf Trap
Spotted at last night’s Jackson Browne concert at Wolf Trap in Vienna, Virginia: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. Browne, 63, a liberal singer-songwriter, is known for 1970s hits, including “The Pretender” and “Running on Empty,” and his political activism, ranging from...
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Mitt Romney in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire.
Obama vs. Romney: Tightening Nationally and in Critical States
A few storm warnings for the president: – From the New York Times and CBS: Voter disapproval of President Barack Obama’s handling of the economy is hurting his re-election prospects and improving the outlook for Republican challenger Mitt Romney, a New...
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Mitt Romney during a campaign event at Horizontal Wireline Services on July 17, 2012 in Irwin, Pa.
‘Obama Attacks Success,’ Romney Says — Replaying President’s Words
The business of business is business. And the business of government? President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney part ways on that question — with Obama pressing the highest-earning Americans to pay more taxes and Romney insisting on lowering the...
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President Barack Obama with Sen. Mark Warner, left, and Virginia Democratic Senate candidate, former Gov. Timothy Kaine, right, during a campaign stop at Green Run High School in Virginia Beach, Va., on July 13, 2012.
Obama to Virginia, 52.6-Percenter: `Finish What We Started in 2008′
Yes, Virginia, you gave 52.6 percent of your vote to President Barack Obama in 2008, the first time you went Democratic since the 1960s. You were closest among all 50 states to matching the president’s margin of victory nationally: 52.9...
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Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell at the 39th Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) in Washington.
McDonnell for Party’s Platform
The Republican Party’s primaries are starting to pay off for social conservatives: The protracted contest in which the party spent months searching for an alternative to its now-presumed nominee, Mitt Romney, with social conservatives rallying around former Senator Rick Santorum...
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Protesters planned to 'occupy' the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as courthouses across the country, in a show of protest against the two-year anniversary of the controversial Citizens United ruling.
Corporations: Hands-Off Candidates
While the Supreme Court has opened a floodgate of contributions to committees promoting or opposing candidates, a federal appeals court says the prohibition against corporations contributing directly to candidates remains: As Bloomberg’s Tom Schoenberg reports, a three-judge appeals panel in Richmond,...
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Tourists view a lion on top of a glass roof inside the MGM Resorts International casino in Las Vegas.
Joblessness Down in Critical Cities
What happens in Las Vegas may stay there, but there’s less of it lately. Particularly in the way of joblessness. On a day when swing-state news is flying — with word of President Barack Obama holding an eight-point advantage over...
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Victor Motley, left, and Sharyn Kenchen, volunteers with Organizing for America, President Obama's re-election campaign arm, make phone calls to potential supporters in the group's Richmond headquarters.
Off-Shoring, the Attack and Defense
Vice President Joe Biden, attack-dog-in-chief, has joined the off-shoring chorus. And Camp Romney is fighting back. Biden, campaigning in Waterloo, Iowa, home of a large Deere & Co. manufacturing facility, accused Republican Mitt Romney today of “making a lot of...
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