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Last-minute stops as Romney ends White House quest Nov 6, 2012 12:00 AM
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's years-long quest for the presidency is ending with a last-minute round of campaigning in one state he's showered with attention and another he's largely ignored. After he cast his vote near his Boston-area home, Romney was visiting Cleveland and Pittsburgh on Tuesday, betting an eleventh-hour appeal to working-class voters in Ohio and Pennsylvania will help him defeat President Barack Obama.
First Election Day votes cast in New Hampshire favor Obama Nov 6, 2012 12:00 AM
Residents of two tiny villages in northern New Hampshire headed to the polls at midnight, casting the first Election Day votes in the nation. President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney each had 5 votes in Dixville Notch. In Hart's Location, Obama had won with 23 votes, Romney received 9 and Libertarian Gary Johnson received 1 vote.
Springsteen, Jay-Z, put the pop in Obama rally Nov 5, 2012 12:00 AM
Someone has to introduce the president. On Monday, the final day of the presidential campaign, President Barack Obama, however, didn't bring along an opening act. He brought along two main acts: Bruce Springsteen and Jay-Z.
A look at the most competitive states in the race Nov 4, 2012 12:00 AM
A look at the race between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney for the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House. With two days left in the campaign, Obama appears closer to the goal, but Republican Mitt Romney has closed on the Democrat and pulled narrowly ahead in some battleground state polling.
Economy better off 4 years later? A mixed bag of answers Nov 4, 2012 12:00 AM
"Are you better off than you were four years ago?" Ronald Reagan asked in 1980 at the end of a televised debate. The answer was his landslide win. Since then, the question has become a cudgel for political challengers, a survey question for pollsters and a barometer for the mood of the country. Campaign 2012 is no exception.
Hours to go, so many promises to keep Nov 4, 2012 12:00 AM
Mitt Romney has a ton of promises to keep if he becomes president, and that’s on his first day alone, never mind the other 1,460 days. Barack Obama was similarly brimming with will-do’s in his first presidential campaign, racking them up by the hundreds, big and small.
Judge orders Florida county to extend early voting Nov 4, 2012 12:00 AM
A judge extended early voting hours in one Florida county Sunday after Democrats sued to allow more time in a presidential battleground state where more than 4 million ballots have already been cast.
Rivals stress differences and bipartisanship hopes Nov 4, 2012 12:00 AM
Two days from judgment by the voters, President Barack Obama raced through four far-flung battleground states on Sunday while Mitt Romney ventured into traditionally Democratic Pennsylvania, seeking a breakthrough in a close race he mused aloud he might lose.
Stakes high for White House, control of Congress Nov 3, 2012 12:00 AM
Apart from the candidates, divided government — perhaps a politically correct term for dysfunctional government — is on the ballot after a two-year stretch that produced gridlock on many issues and record-low congressional approval ratings.
Obama’s iPod a bit like his electorate — varied Nov 3, 2012 12:00 AM
President Barack Obama's iPod could pass for a voter outreach tool. During an interview with a radio station in Cincinnati, Obama said he has "a pretty good mix." "I've got old school — Stevie Wonder, James Brown. I've got Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan," he said.
One scenario has Rommney-Biden as winning ticket Nov 2, 2012 12:00 AM
On Jan. 20, Mitt Romney takes the presidential oath of office. Standing close by is his new vice president, Joe Biden. Highly unlikely though that outcome may be, it's possible under the complex U.S. system for selecting presidents. A 269- 269 tie between Romney and Barack Obama in the Electoral College, the body set up to formally choose the president, would trigger fallback mechanisms that might leave the country in a constitutional and political tempest.
A final factcheck as election looms Nov 2, 2012 12:00 AM
In campaign speeches that serve as closing arguments, President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney are still at it. Romney is still misrepresenting the impact of Obama's health care law on your wallet. Obama is still masking the sticker shock of his plan to tax the rich.
Campaigns lawyered up for election overtime chance Nov 2, 2012 12:00 AM
Legions of lawyers are ready to enter the fray in case Election Day turns on a legal challenge. One nightmare scenario would be for the results in a battleground state like Florida or Ohio to be too close to call, with thousands of absentee or provisional ballots yet to be counted.
Romney, Obama each get something in jobs report Nov 2, 2012 12:00 AM
President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney each got something Friday out of the final snapshot of the nation's economy heading into Election Day, with more job creation and an uptick in unemployment. That data fresh in hand, both candidates were plunging into a hectic pace of campaigning.
Presidential politics reignites in Sandy’s wake Nov 1, 2012 12:00 AM
Presidential politics reignited in the wake of natural disaster Thursday, with the candidates beginning their full-throttle closing arguments with new vigor on the same pocketbook concerns that have dominated the campaign from the start.
Polls giving partisans lots of room to argue Nov 1, 2012 12:00 AM
Don't like the latest poll numbers on the presidential race? Just wait. More are coming — probably before you can say "margin of sampling error." Regardless of what any given poll says, it's likely that someone — a campaign, an interest group, a political party or a rival polling operation — will argue that the survey is invalid at the same time someone else argues that it's significant.
Romney claims Obama doesn’t understand business Nov 1, 2012 12:00 AM
Mitt Romney said Thursday that President Barack Obama doesn't have a clue about how business works. The Obama campaign shot back by saying that Romney doesn't know what he's talking about.
Obama coming to Madison day before election Nov 1, 2012 12:00 AM
Political ads gear up for final push of campaign Oct 31, 2012 12:00 AM
he campaign ad war has intensified and expanded in the last week of the presidential contest, with President Barack Obama, Republican challenger Mitt Romney and allied independent groups making their final, full-throated advertising pitches to voters in the major battlegrounds.
Obama tours storm damage, Romney mutes rhetoric Oct 31, 2012 12:00 AM
President Barack Obama soberly toured the destruction wrought by superstorm Sandy on Wednesday in the company of New Jersey's Republican governor and assured victims "we will not quit" until cleanup and recovery are complete. Six days before their hard-fought election, rival Mitt Romney muted criticism of Obama as he barnstormed battleground Florida.