Voters unsure of Obama's agenda
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Ask voters to describe what a second Obama term would look like, and even some of the president's most ardent supporters have a hard time painting a picture. "I don't know," said...
View ArticleState Department report praised diplomatic security before Benghazi attack
A State Department report earlier this year lauded security at the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, just a few months before it was overrun by heavily armed Islamic extremists in an attack...
View ArticleWelfare spending jumps 32% during Obama's presidency
Federal welfare spending has grown by 32 percent over the past four years, fattened by President Obama's stimulus spending and swelled by a growing number of Americans whose recession-depleted incomes...
View ArticleFamily: Former Sen. George McGovern 'no longer responsive'
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The family of former Sen. George McGovern says the 90-year-old is "no longer responsive" in hospice care. Mr. McGovern's family issued a statement Wednesday afternoon through...
View ArticleFor Romney and Obama, one-liners are on the menu
WASHINGTON (AP) — The presidential campaign, which has been a spectacle of finger-pointing and recrimination, is oh so briefly taking a sharp detour so President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney can play...
View ArticleRomney: Obama has 'incredible shrinking campaign'
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Mitt Romney charged Friday that Democrats have resorted to "silly word games" to try to win the election after President Obama on Friday accused him of "Romnesia" in changing his...
View ArticleGOP pounces after news of CIA cable on Libya raid
WASHINGTON — Sensing a moment of political vulnerability on national security, Republicans pounced Friday on disclosures that President Barack Obama's administration could have suspected early on that...
View ArticleJobless rate falls in most battleground states
CLEVELAND — Unemployment rates fell last month in nearly all of the battleground states that will determine the presidential winner, giving President Barack Obama fresh fodder to argue that voters...
View ArticleClinton, Michelle Obama make early voting push
MADISON, Wis. — Former President Bill Clinton and first lady Michelle Obama traveled across Wisconsin on Friday, as both Democrats and Republicans made a push to get supporters to the polls with the...
View ArticleDr. Obama: Rival has 'Rom-nesia'
Losing support among women voters and falling behind in the key battleground state of Virginia, President Obama mocked Republican rival Mitt Romney Friday as a candidate who's apparently forgotten his...
View ArticleRyan says Obama misleading on Libya questions
WASHINGTON — Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan slammed President Barack Obama on Friday for describing response to the deadly attack in Libya as "not optimal" and said the White House is...
View ArticleAfter a few laughs, Romney, Obama back to the fray
NEW YORK — President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are returning to the sometimes-nasty rhetoric of a close presidential campaign after a brief truce, renewing their focus on two...
View ArticlePRUDEN: Clearing the record of a fiasco in Libya
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are on a collision course over Libya, and both men want to talk about something else. Mr. Romney wants to talk about the economy. When he does, his...
View ArticleCalif.'s Democrat-vs.-Democrat, Berman-Sherman contest may be nation's nastiest
LOS ANGELES — A U.S. House contest in Southern California may be the country's most bitter — even though both candidates are Democrats and respected, longtime incumbents. For Jewish Democrats in the...
View ArticleRomney ups criticism of Obama's second-term plans
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Heading into the campaign's final weeks, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is upping his criticism of President Barack Obama's plans for a second term, accusing...
View ArticleSenate candidate Flake: White House hurting Arizona economy
Arizona Rep. Jeff Flake, a six-term Republican House member who is hoping to move up to the Senate, blamed "regulatory overreach" by the Obama administration for economic woes in his state and across...
View ArticleOutsiders abide by rules in Brown-Warren race
Interest groups are technically obeying an unusual effort to keep third-party advertising out of the Massachusetts U.S. Senate race — including one union that recently switched its Internet ads...
View ArticleLate Romney ad surge possible
The presidential candidates are as closely matched in cash as they are in the polls, new disclosures show, adding pressure for both candidates to raise money at a breakneck speed even as their...
View ArticleInside Politics: Absent Rep. Jackson surfaces, asks supporters for patience
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who has been undergoing treatment for bipolar disorder, told supporters this weekend in an automated phone call that he is "healing," but is not yet ready to return to work and...
View ArticleZOGBY: President Obama's weekly report card (Oct. 15-21)
Pollster John Zogby grades the president's week and how its events affect his re-election chances. Grade: C- "President Obama came out swinging in the second debate with Gov. Mitt Romney, and a weekend...
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