President Barack Obama has gained a stronger footing in three states which he won in 2008, three states which Republican Mitt Romney hopes to take from him in November. Obama is favored by at least 50 percent of likely voters in...
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President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign event on Sept. 13, 2012 in Golden, Colorado.
Obama Gains Footing in Key States
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Rep. Paul Ryan during a campaign rally on Sept. 18, 2012 in Newport News, Virginia.
Romney: Note to Running Mate Ryan
When Mitt Romney first tried to explain his remarks about 47 percent of the American electorate being dependent on government — “victims,” as he put it, and unreachable politically for him — he called his words inelegant. Romney’s running mate...
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Former President Bill Clinton speaks at a campaign event on Sept. 12, 2012, in Orlando.
Clinton `Explaining Stuff:’ — In a Hole, First Thing is to Stop Digging
The “secretary of explaining stuff,” as President Barack Obama has dubbed former President Bill Clinton since their party’s convention in Charlotte, was explaining things again today in Orlando, Florida. What is Republican Mitt Romney proposing? Cutting taxes by 20 percent,...
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President Ronald Reagan on his way to a campaign stop in 1984.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 28
That’s how many years since the last victory by a Republican presidential nominee in Wisconsin. Following Republican Ronald Reagan’s Wisconsin win amid his landslide re-election in 1984, Democratic presidential nominees have won six elections in a row there, including President...
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Mitt Romney has begun general-election television advertising in Wisconsin, the home state of vice-presidential running mate Paul Ryan. It’s a sign Republicans see Wisconsin as competitive four years after President Barack Obama carried the state by 14 percentage points, the...
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Mitt Romney, left, and his running mate Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan stand near the new Romney campaign plane during an RNC Farewell Victory rally on August 31, 2012 in Lakeland, Florida.
Ryan’s Marathon Tale: Pants on Fire
Rep. Paul Ryan, facing criticism for making what fact-checkers counted as up to seven statements false or distorted in his Aug. 29 acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, is now qualifying another claim: his best marathon time....
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Americans for Prosperity Foundation chairman and Koch Industries Executive Vice President David H. Koch during the Defending the American Dream Summit in Washington, DC.
Spotted: David Koch Dines with Wisconsin Senator
Tampa during convention week is awash in politicians, big donors and journalists. And sometimes they all choose the same place for dinner, as billionaire industrialist David Koch learned last night. A group of reporters including Slate’s Dave Weigel spotted Koch and Republican...
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Tea Party member Carl Frederick at a rally for vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan at Miami University of Ohio on Aug. 15, 2012.
Tea Party Revels in Ryan on Ticket
Tea Party activists are taking a special pride in Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan’s ascendance to the Republican presidential ticket. The decision by Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, to name 42-year-old Ryan as his vice presidential running mate “is an...
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Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan arrives at a campaign event at Miami University on August 15, 2012 in Oxford, Ohio.
Ryan Welcoming Medicare Debate
It was a homecoming day for Paul Ryan. And a day to stand on the issues that brought him there. The Wisconsin Republican running as Mitt Romney’s vice presidential candidate today welcomed the debate over his proposals as House Budget...
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A snakehead fish in Weston, Florida.
Washington Daybook: Hunting for Votes
U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has some news Rep. Paul Ryan can use. Salazar and Dan Ashe, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, today unveils the National Hunting and Fishing Survey — a comprehensive national survey on hunting,...
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