Updated at 12:10 pm EST The White House scolded the National Rifle Association today for an ad calling the president an “elitist hypocrite” on gun control because his children have armed protection. Jay Carney, the president’s press secretary, called the...
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One of two police officers carrying an AR-15 assault rifle stands guard at the west entrance of Grand Island Senior High School, in Grand Island, Neb.
White House Scolds NRA for Ad Challenging Obama Over Children
Obama: Some States `Tight as a Tick’ — Romney: `We’re All Catholic’
President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign has posted a contest-closing Web video explaining “what we’re fighting for” and where he and Republican Mitt Romney differ — touting the small donors who have financed more than one-third of his campaign. “We’ve got...
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Filmmaker and actress Lena Dunham in New York City.
First-Time Advice: Not Just Anybody
Updated at 11:51 am EDT In that bid for the female vote, particularly the young female vote, the first words from this famous young supporter of the president are attention-getting — she’s not talking about what it sounds like she...
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Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama following a presidential debate at the University of Denver.
Obama, Romney: `Hot and Cold’ — Web-Fun ala Katy Perry
Web-guys know how to have fun. Fadi Saleh, creator of @BaracksDub, has had some fun on YouTube with the first presidential debate in a take-off on Katy Perry’s “Hot and Cold.” As another debate nears, at 9 pm EDT, this...
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 »Romney in Florida, Without Ryan
Mitt Romney landed in Florida today with a few winners of his campaign’s “Day with Mitt” contest — a man and woman from Florida, and a man from Wisconsin. But that man from Wisconsin is not the running mate. It’s...
Read more »Ryan Runs Against `New Normal’ — White House Warns of Old Normal
The Romney campaign’s rollout of running mate Paul Ryan spoke to a certain, well, malaise. Ryan, the seven-term congressman from Wisconsin and chairman of the House Budget Committee, says he has spoken with a lot of people in the common...
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President Barack Obama walks to Marine One prior to departing to Florida and Virginia to attend campaign events.
No. 1 Political Web Video: Obama’s
In the YouTube campaign, the president has taken a wide lead. No. 1 in the top-trending English-language political videos last week: President Barack Obama’s Web-ad about “The Choice:” 1.958 million hits. “It’s a choice between two very different plans for...
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Ann Romney nimbly avoids her horse Rafalca during a photo op at the National Grand Prix Dressage Championship at the United States Equestrian Federation Festival of Champions.
Romney’s Rafalca: ‘Dancing Around the Issues,’ Pushing Boundaries?
There are TV ads, and there are videos. The TV ads are broadcast, or relayed by cable networks, to millions of Americans in battleground states, all aimed at influencing public opinion about the presidential election contest. The videos are rolled...
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