On final lap, Romney, Obama focus on key states
President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney storm into the final day of their long presidential contest, mounting one last effort to protect their flanks while engaging in the toughest battleground of all — Ohio.
Romney faces criticism on aid in storm’s aftermath
There’s nothing like a natural disaster to test the depth of politicians’ preference for small government.
Susan Estrich: The October surprise
Sandy.
Don’t get me wrong. Like most Americans, politics was the last thing on my mind as I waited to hear from my daughter, who lost power and cell service Monday night, along with millions of other Americans, and was trying to figure out what to do and where to go with a roommate and two kittens.
Romney, Obama, talk of Sandy before election
Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney edged back into active campaigning on Tuesday while President Barack Obama stayed close to the White House, rival candidates calibrating their responses to superstorm Sandy and the misery it inflicted on millions.
Froma Harrop: The Romney myth about helping Detroit
Of Mitt Romney’s many costume changes, the new Superman outfit portraying him as the would-be savior of the American auto industry wins for most imaginative.
Storm in spotlight in campaign’s final full week
The presidential race’s final full week was devolving into a scheduling nightmare as President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney grappled with how to push on with campaigning while a massive storm churned toward the East Coast.
The Romney effect: Campaign sheds light on Mormonism
When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney traveled through Mississippi earlier this year, he used grits, football and “y’all” to connect with voters, but in the heart of the Bible Belt, many Southerners were more interested in the religious beliefs of the first Mormon candidate for the nation’s highest office.
Romney woos Florida early vote; Obama eyes NH
Juggling politics and storm preparations, Mitt Romney dangled a plea for bipartisanship before early voters in Florida on Saturday as Barack Obama worked to nail down tiny New Hampshire’s four electoral votes.
Obama pressures Romney on Mourdock
President Barack Obama, seeking to shore up support among women, intensified his pressure Thursday on Mitt Romney to break any ties with a Republican Senate candidate who said that if a woman becomes pregnant from rape it is “something God intended.”
Kathleen Parker: Mitt Romney’s ‘peace’ strategy
Forget “horses and bayonets.” The most important word uttered during the third presidential debate was “peace.”
Froma Harrop: ‘Access’ to birth control doesn’t count
Mitt Romney is running ads explaining that he does not object to birth control. But no one questions his stance that women should have, as the ads say, “access” to contraception. They already do. They also have access to Coach handbags and flights to Acapulco. And that’s where the Romney smokescreen, intended to close a gender gap favoring Democrats, needs clearing.
Obama assails Romney in bid for women’s vote
Seeking to shore up his support among women voters, President Barack Obama hammered Republican rival Mitt Romney today anew over his backing of Richard Mourdock, the Indiana Senate candidate drawing fire for saying that pregnancies that result from rape are “something God intended.”
Susan Estrich: Lady Luck
There is a lot about this election season that’s easy to explain.
Mitt Romney won the first debate by a lot, and President Obama won the second and third, but by smaller margins.
5 things to watch for in the presidential debate
1. THE TIEBREAKER: Romney ran away with the first. Obama edged him in the second. Stakes are high for their third and final showdown. Does
Unions shift political might to state, local races
Unions are shifting more of their political resources to state and local races this year as they try to head off passage of laws that could undermine bargaining rights, make it harder to organize or reduce their political muscle.
Whole binders full of women?
Everybody will be writing about how a different Barack Obama came out Tuesday night from the one we saw in the first debate.
Debate body language: A testy and tense exchange
Maybe it’s a cliché to say the gloves came off in Tuesday’s presidential debate. But then again, maybe not, since the candidates sometimes looked like they were actually about to start boxing.
One debate left; 2 alphas wage fight of their lives
Two alphas in the fight of their lives, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney sparred with passion and grit in a debate that previewed the closing arguments of a campaign that keeps circling back to bedrock questions about which candidate can do more to strengthen the fragile economy.
Too big to maintain?
If in four weeks a president-elect Mitt Romney is seeking a Treasury secretary, he should look here, to Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
KO’d in Denver
Contrary to conventional wisdom that debates are rarely, if ever, game-changers, the first presidential debate was a demolition derby.