Here are three ways to think about the epic 2900-word article that Politico ran on the Romney campaign last night, focusing in particular on Mitt Romney’s chief strategist Stuart Stevens. In a nutshell, the piece–bylined to Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei–portrays Stevens as
Maureen Dowd, on the eve of Rosh HaShanah, the Jewish new year, decided to write a column dripping with anti-Semitism to attack Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan’s hardline positions on the Middle East and national defense. In her rant, titled
President Barack Obama’s fundraising trip to Las Vegas on Wednesday–shameful though it may have been, in the midst of a deadly foreign policy crisis–was a sign of how important Nevada remains to his re-election prospects. Mitt Romney was in the
Vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan made the case that President Barack Obama’s agenda is hostile to the unified interests of economic conservatives and social conservatives at the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit (VVS). Thousands of socially-conservative voters gather every fall
A Survey USA/Denver Post poll released on Friday has President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney essentially tied in Colorado, a state Obama won by nine points in 2008. Obama only leads Romney by 3 points in the RealClearPolitics average of polls. In the poll, Obama
To re-elect Barack Obama, the media has a long list of what they expect us to believe. We would have to “suspend disbelief” (as Hillary Clinton once said of General David Petraeus) to vote for Barack Obama on November 6th.
By KEN THOMASAssociated PressNEW YORKWho would Mitt Romney like to see play him in a movie? (Gene Hackman) What’s Romney’s guilty pleasure (peanut butter sandwiches and chocolate milk). And what exactly, does the Republican presidential hopeful wear to bed? Romney
(AP) With 7 weeks to go, Obama-Romney race still tightBy CHARLES BABINGTON and BRIAN BAKSTAssociated PressWASHINGTONMiddle East violence is shaking up a presidential race that otherwise looks stubbornly stable, and tight. President Barack Obama holds a tiny edge, Mitt Romney
GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney weighed in on the anti-Muslim movie which some allege is the spark behind the current rioting across the Middle East. “The idea of using something that some people consider sacred and then parading that out
With 53 days left until the election, a new CBS-New York Times poll shows President Obama with a small lead over Mitt Romney. It also shows that Americans who believe the country is headed in the right direction increased nine
Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. In an interview that aired on Friday with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Mitt Romney discussed the upcoming debates: “I think he’s going to say a lot of things that aren’t accurate, I’m tempted to
On Thursday, an NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll that oversampled independent voters found 52 percent of Virginians think the country is on the wrong track. The poll also found President Barack Obama with a five-point lead in Virginia, one of the country’s
A Republican presidential elector in Iowa, Melinda Wadsley, resigned on Thursday after she told the Associated Press she may not cast her vote for Mitt Romney if Romney won Iowa’s six electoral votes. “I have accepted Melinda Wadsley’s resignation this
The Obama campaign cited a notorious state-owned Chinese propaganda network to attack Mitt Romney on Friday morning. The statement was a response to a new Romney ad, which declares, “Under Obama, we’ve lost over half a million manufacturing jobs. And
Rep Charles Rangel on MSNBC’s Jansing and Co discussing Mitt Romney’s comments on the violence in the middle east
Ari Shapiro of National Public Radio went on the defensive after being identified as one of the reporters caught on an open microphone coordinating questions before Wednesday’s press conference with Republican nominee Mitt Romney. Almost all of the questions by
The Democratic National Convention Committee (DNCC) apologized on Wednesday for displaying images of the Russian warships at the Democratic National Convention on the big screen while a retired Navy four-star Admiral was on stage honoring 50 veterans. They blamed the
According to the Real Clear Politics averages, Mitt Romney now the leads the presidential race in Virginia for the first time since the beginning of the year. RCP also finds that Obama’s poll numbers have been sliding steadily in the
Mitt Romney on Thursday called President Barack Obama out on his mishandling of the economy and foreign policy at a campaign rally in Fairfax County, Virginia, a region he said could “well determine who the next president is.” In a week in
KELLI KENNEDY Associated Press In the wake of attacks that killed four Americans at the U.S. Consulate in Libya, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said Thursday the U.S. government must stress that Americans treasure their freedom of speech,
Instead of questioning President Barack Obama about the intelligence and security failures that led to the deaths of four diplomatic personnel in Libya Tuesday, the media has focused its ire on a California private citizen. The filmmaker allegedly behind the
Two new polls indicate that contrary to the media hype, Ohio is now a toss-up between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. The American Research poll, conducted between September 10-12, showed Obama ahead 47% to 46%. The latest Rasmussen poll shows
The murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens has raised questions as to why he was in Benghazi to begin with and who in the Libyan government knew he was there. Stevens’ home base was not in Benghazi, but Tripoli. What was
Novelist Martin Amis took in the Republican National Convention late last month and apparently required roughly two weeks file his report for The Daily Beast. After all, name calling can’t be done without some serious thought. Here’s Amis on Ann
As our embassies burn and our foreign officers are being murdered overseas, TIME Magazine’s Joe Klein is desperate to change the current narrative of Obama’s major failures in the Middle East. So, in his latest piece, Klein wants to go
