Are you ready to call the election? Mitt Romney certainly isn’t, nor for that matter is President Obama. But a few hardy academics have done so. Out now are a baker’s dozen forecasts produced by political scientists that predict the outcome in November.
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Of late, the political world has been dominated by allegations — almost all of which have come from the conservative end of the spectrum — that the media (and its pollsters) are part of a grand conspiracy designed to re-elect President Obama.
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Normally, when a new book rolls into our office, we subject it to Marshall McLuhan’s page 69 test. Flip to page 69, read what’s there. If the passage is any good, then the book’s worth a deeper browse.
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When Mitt Romney was a young man, his father gave him direct advice: “He said never get involved in politics if you have to win election to pay a mortgage,” Romney often says. “Financial independence was key.”
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When Mitt Romney was a young man, his father gave him direct advice: “He said never get involved in politics if you have to win election to pay a mortgage,” Romney often says. “Financial independence was key.”
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A majority of Americans have unfavorable views of former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney’s comments — caught on film at a fundraiser — regarding the “47 percent” of people who don’t pay federal income taxes and simply would not vote for him, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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We’re getting to that point in the presidential campaign when we start second-guessing ourselves about which swing states are, well, swing states.
Just this week, Democrats have started whispering (again) that they might try to expand the map by pursuing red-leaning Arizona, and Mitt Romney said Friday that he expects to win in a blue-leaning state, Pennsylvania.
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According to his pal Kevin McCarthy, vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan is “the thinker” of the GOP, the fiscal visionary with the plan to lead America out of debt and into the promised land of balanced budgets.
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We’re getting to that point in the presidential campaign when we start second-guessing ourselves about which swing states are, well, swing states.
Just this week, Democrats have started whispering (again) that they might try to expand the map by pursuing red-leaning Arizona, and Mitt Romney said Friday that he expects to win in a blue-leaning state, Pennsylvania.
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Former Missouri senator Christopher “Kit” Bond, one of the many Republicans who encouraged Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) to end his Senate campaign before this week’s drop-out deadline, is now backing the religious conservative lawmaker.
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The Obama campaign has attacked Republican Mitt Romney this week for having investments in China, saying it is inappropriate for a presidential nominee to be investing so much money there.
Former Ohio governor Ted Strickland (D), a campaign co-chairman, said it “defies logic.” “It may not be illegal, it may not be unethical, but it is unseemly,” he said in an interview. “It just leaves a bad taste in your mouth.”
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President Obama travels to Henderson, Nev., on Sunday for a mission far more important than the usual swing-state campaign rally: He will huddle privately with senior aides for an intensive, three-day boot camp to prepare for the first presidential debate.
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Supporters of Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) might be surprised to learn that among them is a billionaire behind a super PAC that has pledged to spend $10 million helping Mitt Romney get elected.
TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts chairs Ending Spending Action Fund, a group that is backing GOP Senate candidates this cycle, with one notable exception: McCaskill, who Ricketts’s group endorsed shortly after the Missouri Senate primary in early August.
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The House on Friday joined the Senate in approving a delay of a requirement that financial disclosure forms filed by many executive branch and congressional employees be posted online.
With no debate, the House cleared a bill that the Senate had passed just before it recessed to delay the posting requirement until Dec. 8, while ordering a study of the potential impact of making those disclosure forms available on agency Web sites.
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Are the United States and Europe poised for a trade war over airline fees? Suddenly, that’s not such a ludicrous question. Late last Friday night, the Senate unanimously passed a bill to try to block a European Union plan to cap carbon emissions on all flights in and out of Europe. The bill sets the stage for a cross-Atlantic showdown that could get unruly.
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It’s too early to draw strong conclusions, but it’s a good bet that early voting in Ohio will surpass 2008 levels. More than 10 percent of Ohio’s registered voters — 723,000 including military personnel and overseas residents — have mailed applications for absentee ballots to county election boards, according to the office of Secretary of State Jon Husted. In 2008, about 30 percent of Ohio voters cast absentee ballots by mail or
voted early in person.
In the four months since Mitt Romney clinched the GOP presidential nomination, about 20 nonpartisan polls have been taken in the battleground state of Ohio. Romney has led President Obama in just three of them.
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PUEBLO, Colorado— Mitt Romney on Monday criticized President Obama’s comments in a recent interview where he described the eruption of violence in the Middle East as “bumps in the road,” saying that Obama has diminished America’s standing in the world and failed to lead.
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The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has a new ad out accusing Republican former senator and governor George Allen of wanting to privatize Social Security.
The ad features an elderly Virginian, shown going to the mailbox, presumably to retrieve his Social Security check. Later, he looks in dismay at images of the Senate candidate on his (perhaps inadvertently impressive-looking) entertainment center.
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With just seven weeks of campaigning left before the November election, President Obama holds a clear lead over Mitt Romney in Virginia, buoyed by growing optimism about the state of the country and fueled by a big gender gap working in his favor, according to a new Washington Post poll.
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“When we talked about immigration reform in the first year, that’s before the economy was on the verge of collapse ...”
“And so we had to take a whole series of emergency actions to make sure that we put people back to work — cutting taxes for middle-class families and small businesses so that they could stay open or pay the bills; making sure that states got assistance so they didn’t have to lay off teachers and firefighters and police officers; saving an auto industry that was on the brink of collapse. And so that took up a huge amount of time in the first year.”
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With just seven weeks of campaigning left before the November election, President Obama holds a clear lead over Mitt Romney in Virginia, buoyed by growing optimism about the state of the country and fueled by a big gender gap working in his favor, according to a new Washington Post poll.
Read full article >> NEW YORK — President Obama urged world leaders Tuesday to condemn the recent deadly attacks against U.S. diplomats and missions in Libya and Egypt, suggesting that now is a key moment in the struggle for democratic freedom in the Muslim world.
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One of the defining features of Barack Obama’s presidency is a refusal or inability to get out in front of problems and steer events in their favor. As Bob Woodward told ABC’s Diane Sawyer on the debt ceiling deal, “‘President Clinton, President Reagan. And if you look at them, you can criticize them for lots of things. They by and large worked their will,’ Woodward told Sawyer. ‘On this, President Obama did not.’ ”
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