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Romney running mate search enters audition phase
Mitt Romney's vice presidential search has entered a new phase: auditions. As his campaign evaluates potential running mates, Republicans with a possible shot at the No. 2 spot on the presidential ticket are starting to engage in unofficial public tryouts for the traditional vice presidential role of attack dog. Democratic ...
THE RACE: Romney talks up his private-sector days
Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney likes to portray himself as a better job creator than President Barack Obama, but he may have a hard time backing up those boasts. "We were able to create over 100,000 jobs," Romney said recently, recycling an old unsubstantiated claim. It is a debatable ...
Obama team wrongly says Romney moves goal posts
A spokesman for President Barack Obama's campaign is accusing Mitt Romney of moving the goal posts on unemployment. Actually, that's a fumble of the facts. Romney told Time magazine in an interview published Wednesday that he would bring unemployment to 6 percent, down from the current 8.1 percent. Obama spokesman ...
Independent groups launch dueling campaign ads
An independent group seeking to oust President Barack Obama launched a new TV ad Tuesday suggesting Obama had let down the voters who vaulted him into the White House in 2008. A pro-Obama group answered with an ad slamming Republican Mitt Romney, featuring a woman who lost her job at ...
Old feud in Bush administration part of Ariz. race
Richard Carmona arrived in Washington a political novice in 2002 and left four years later scarred and frustrated. He didn't go quietly. A year after his term as the nation's 17th surgeon general, the one-time $500 campaign donor to President George W. Bush turned on the administration, telling Congress that ...
New Obama ad challenges Mitt Romney's economics
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is keeping up its effort to paint Mitt Romney as a job-destroying corporate raider at Bain Capital. In a video being released Monday, Obama's campaign zeroes in on a Marion, Ind., company, American Pad & Paper, also known as Ampad. The ad charges that Ampad ...
Conservative donors slow to back Romney's campaign
Donors who backed Republican rivals of presidential candidate Mitt Romney appear to be slow coming to his aid. Romney raised more than $40 million last month as he solidified his chances of being the GOP nominee. Yet an Associated Press review of new financial data finds only a handful of ...
Is GOP trying to sabotage economy to hurt Obama?
Are Republican lawmakers deliberately stalling the economic recovery to hurt President Barack Obama's re-election chances? Some top Democrats say yes, pointing to GOP stances on the debt limit and other issues that they claim are causing unnecessary economic anxiety and retarding growth. The latest Democratic complaint came after House Speaker ...
AdWatch: Romney "day one" vows are missing caveats
TITLE: "Day One" LENGTH: 30 seconds AIRING: Romney is spending roughly $1.3 million to run the ad in Iowa, North Carolina, Virginia and Ohio KEY IMAGES: Romney does not speak in the ad, which shows video and still photos of him speaking to voters, along with separate images of construction ...
THE RACE: Politics a factor in weekend summits
President Barack Obama is taking a break from active campaigning for a few days to host back-to-back world summits. Yet U.S. presidential politics will be lurking just offstage at both. First, leaders of eight wealthy democracies gather at Camp David on Friday and Saturday for the annual Group of Eight ...
GOP Senate hopes once again rest on insurgents
For Senate Republicans, 2012 is starting a lot like 2010. They have a shot at taking control away from Democrats as long as insurgent conservatives who are defeating the party's more establishment candidates in primaries don't frighten too many independent voters like they did two years ago. Deb Fischer, a ...
Romney pins 'prairie fire of debt' on Obama
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Tuesday painted President Barack Obama as a reckless steward of the country's economy and, as proof, pointed to "a financial crisis of debt and spending that threatens what it means to be an American." The likely Republican nominee offered a far-reaching indictment of Obama's ...
New generation challenges some blacks in Congress
For two decades, Texas congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson has been an outspoken voice for Democrats. But for the first time, the first black woman to represent North Texas is facing serious opposition in the May 29 primary election. The effort to unseat her is one of several challenges being mounted ...
New 'super' PAC hopes to woo younger voters
President Barack Obama counted on the support of younger voters four years ago. Now, a new Republican-leaning "super" political committee wants to bring them to the GOP's side. Crossroads Generation, a new super PAC formed with the help of a handful of established GOP groups, is tapping into the economic ...
NAACP launches voter registration push in Georgia
Saying it won't let recently enacted voter ID laws suppress turnout, the NAACP on Wednesday launched a nationwide drive to register thousands of mostly minority, student and elderly voters before the Nov. 6 elections. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People says these groups could be the ones ...
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