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Despite Recent Romney Stumbles, Presidential Race Is Far From Over
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney appears a man under siege.His political strategists are feuding over the direction of the campaign. He bungled his "presidential moment" with an ill-timed...
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Tim Pawlenty Exits Romney Campaign To Lead Bank Lobbying Group
With less than seven weeks to go before the presidential election, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is leaving his job as co-chairman of the Mitt Romney campaign to take a top Washington lobbying...
View ArticleThe Auto Industry and the 2012 Election
In 2008, we broke down the election map state-by-state. In 2012, we’re breaking it down by industry. Each week, we’ll look at a different industry that changed dramatically over the last four years and...
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Romney's 2011 Tax Return Shows He Paid At 14.1 Percent Rate, Campaign Says
Mitt Romney and his wife Ann paid $1,935,708 in federal taxes last year on income of $13,696,951, an effective tax rate for the couple of 14.1 percent, the Republican presidential nominee's campaign...
View ArticleIn Northern Virginia, Class and Race Dominate Election Talk
For skeptical voters in the battleground state of Virginia, Mitt Romney’s recorded remarks at a Florida fundraiser last week were just the latest in a line of revelations that are stoking doubts about...
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Candidates Banter Over The Best Side Of The Beltway
President Obama and his Republican rival, Mitt Romney, seem to have switched places in recent days.The incumbent president is promising to change Washington from the outside. Meanwhile, Romney, who...
View ArticleEnergy in North Dakota and the 2012 Election
We’ve seen huge economic changes across the country since 2008. The Associated Press’s Dale Wetzel talks about the natural gas and oil industries in North Dakota and throughout the Plains states that...
View ArticleNew York’s Gillibrand Looking to Go National with Women
This November, New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is running for her first full six-year term in the Senate. It's been nearly four years since she was tapped to fill Hillary Clinton's seat. She’s still...
View ArticleIn Colorado, Campaigns Talk Economy while Voters Talk Abortion
Leading up to today’s first presidential debate, Colorado voters are getting barraged with campaign advertising. Most of it focuses on numbers – the unemployment rate, the size of the debt, and that...
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Transcript And Audio: First Obama-Romney Debate
Transcript of the first presidential debate between President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney, moderated by Jim Lehrer of PBS, Oct. 3, 2012, in Denver. Source: Federal News ServiceJIM LEHRER:...
View ArticleObama and Romney Delve into the Details
Americans demanded details and, boy, did they get them.In their first debate, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney delved into dense discussions on taxes, health care, entitlement programs...
View ArticleFact Check | Presidential Debate Missteps
President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney spun one-sided stories in their first presidential debate, not necessarily bogus, but not the whole truth.Here's a look at some of their claims...
View ArticleCampaign Ads Nauseam
The real problem with campaign ads today, Kurt Andersen thinks, isn’t that they’re mean, or contain fuzzy numbers. It’s that they’re boring. Why?In the 1950s, when the first campaign commercials hit...
View ArticleDavid Brooks
David Brooks is known as a Conservative voice—he was a senior editor at The Weekly Standard—but former Obama advisor David Axelrod described him as a “true public thinker.” Brooks has been a New York...
View ArticleRevealing Dark Money and Big Data
Bradley Smith, Chairman and Co-Founder of the Center for Competitive Politics, Adam Rappaport, Chief Counsel of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, and ProPublica’s Kim Barker discuss...
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Romney Shows His Soft Side; President Tightens His Pitch
With 27 days until the general election, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was on an Iowa farm Tuesday where he did what he's done for months: criticized President Obama's economic policies,...
View ArticleRomney Taps Christie to Headline in Battleground State of Ohio
Gov. Christ Christie is campaigning with GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney in the battleground state of Ohio. Mark Urycki, a reporter for WKSU in Kent, OH, attended one of the Christie - Romney...
View ArticleObama's Momentum in New Hampshire Cools after Debate
New Hampshire could be politically pivotal again with its four electoral votes in a close election for president. The state’s famously engaged voters watched the first presidential debate – and it made...
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Listener Challenge: Jingles for Obama and Romney
Back in the days of “I Like Ike,” presidential candidates hired Madison Avenue ad men to come up with winning jingles. These days, campaign ads are all message, no flair. We want you to come up with...
View ArticleVP Debate: Biden, Ryan at Each Other on Everything
At odds early and often, Joe Biden and Republican Paul Ryan squabbled over the economy, taxes, Medicare and more Thursday night in a contentious, interruption-filled debate. "That is a bunch of...
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