Ryan aims pitch at blue-collar voters in Ohio stop
Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan kicked off a two-day swing through battleground Ohio on Saturday with a pitch aimed at workers displaced by upheaval in the economy's manufacturing...
View ArticleDespite ground support, Berkley struggles to soar in Nevada
RENO, Nev. — Democratic operatives in Nevada are pumping voters here to the polls like nickels into a slot machine, and yet their efforts may not be enough for Senate candidate Shelley Berkley. The...
View ArticleRomney's bipartisanship vow: He and Ryan will 'reach across the aisle'
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — During a Saturday swing through the crucial battleground of Florida, GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney drove home the notion that he will bring a level of bipartisanship to...
View ArticleBiden touts Obama plan, says GOP ticket too negative
Vice President Joseph R. Biden, campaigning in Virginia on Saturday, outlined the Obama administration's plans for a second term while taking a sharp jab at the Republican presidential ticket of Mitt...
View ArticleAsking supporters for more time, Obama recycles unfulfilled 2008 promises
TAMPA, Fla. — Since he began campaigning for re-election more than a year ago, President Obama has worried aloud that his supporters may have lost enthusiasm because of the slow pace of the changes he...
View ArticleHurricane forces candidates to drop events
The arrival of Hurricane Sandy one week before Election Day has forced both presidential campaigns to shuffle schedules, but the massive "Frankenstorm" has particularly complicated the final push by...
View ArticleRepublicans ready for governor gains
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Republicans are in position to extend their recent gains among governors as they compete for seats they haven't won in a quarter-century. Of the 11 states with gubernatorial elections...
View ArticlePreclearance of voting-law changes back before court
Three years ago, the Supreme Court warned there could be constitutional problems with a landmark law that has opened voting booths to millions of blacks. Now, opponents of a key part of the Voting...
View ArticleMcCain: White House’s handling of Libya attack has been a ‘debacle’
Sen. John McCain said Sunday that the Obama administration's handling of the Sept. 11 consulate attack in Benghazi, Libya, has been a "debacle," and that the White House has engaged in a cover-up worse...
View ArticleDemocrats look to New England
Democrats are counting on their New England friends to help them pick up Republican-held Senate seats on Nov. 6 and construct a barrier against losses in Nebraska and elsewhere that could erase their...
View ArticleRich siblings rattle Gov. Brown
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Charles Munger Sr. is best known as Warren Buffett's right-hand man, an investor who has turned his skill at picking winning companies into a billion-dollar fortune. He has passed...
View ArticleInside Politics: RNC chief: Candidate gaffes aren’t the real issues
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Sunday that issues such as the economy and the Libyan consulate attack are much more important to the nation's voters than controversial...
View ArticleReid would test Romney vow of bipartisanship
MARION, Ohio — In the waning days of the election, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is playing up his bipartisan prowess, wooing voters with the notion that he will be the post-partisan...
View ArticleInside the Beltway: Strategic revels
Indicators that an OSS Society event is under way: the official party favor is an elegant martini glass, strolling violinists play "The Ballad of the Green Berets" and multiple conversations begin with...
View ArticleObama makes trip to FEMA ahead of Sandy's landfall
Just hours before planning to leave Washington for a campaign trip to Florida, President Obama visited the Federal Emergency Management Agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C., for a briefing on the...
View ArticleZOGBY: President Obama's weekly report card (Oct. 22-28)
Pollster John Zogby grades the president's week and how its events affect his re-election chances. Grade: D "There is just about one week to go and neither the public nor the president himself knows...
View ArticleObama: Storm is 'serious and big' and slow-moving
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Sunday that the storm taking aim at the East Coast is a "serious and big storm" that will be slow-moving and might take time to clear up. The government would...
View ArticleCURL: You don't mess with the CIA
ANALYSIS/OPINION: You know who doesn't like getting thrown under the bus? The CIA. You know what the CIA does when you try to throw it under the bus? They get even — quickly, quietly, and with fatal...
View ArticleObama balancing storm response with campaigning
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Obama has spent months trying to balance his re-election bid with running the government. Now, just when his campaign needs him the most, with little more than a week before...
View ArticleObama returns to Washington to monitor storm with FEMA, Cabinet officials
ORLANDO, Fla. — President Obama rushed out of the battleground state of Florida on Monday to return to Washington and oversee the response to one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the Northeast....
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