Articles filed under U.S. President

• Obama in Wisconsin Thursday Oct 31, 2012 12:00 AM
  President Obama's campaign says he'll make a stop in Wisconsin on Thursday. The president is to make remarks on the tarmac at Austin Straubel International Airport near Green Bay.
  

   
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  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.
  

   

• Money men: Who are top 5 donors to Romney? Oct 31, 2012 12:00 AM
  Republicans hit the jackpot with casino mogul Sheldon Adelson. Worth an estimated $25 billion, Adelson has donated $44.2 million so far to aid Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and organizations supporting Romney this election.Other top donors giving millions of dollars to aid Romney's campaign include a trio of Texas money moguls and the head of a South Florida-based energy conglomerate.
  

   
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  Obama to resume campaigning on Thursday Oct 31, 2012 12:00 AM
  President Barack Obama plans to return to the campaign trail on Thursday with stops in Wisconsin, Nevada and Colorado, in his first campaign events since before a massive storm throttled the East Coast.
  

   
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  Romney collects supplies in Ohio for storm victims Oct 30, 2012 12:00 AM
  Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney collected relief supplies in Ohio on Tuesday in an attempt to strike the right tone after superstorm Sandy.
  

   
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  Romney, GOP suddenly plunging onto Democratic turf Oct 30, 2012 12:00 AM
  Mitt Romney is suddenly plunging into traditionally Democratic-leaning Minnesota and Pennsylvania, and his GOP allies are trying to put Michigan into play. It’s forcing President Barack Obama to defend his own turf in the campaign’s final week. The question is: Why this Republican move?
  

   
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  Nature slams campaigns into real world Oct 30, 2012 12:00 AM
  Suddenly, after drifting through months of confusing finger-pointing and iffy economic theory, the presidential candidates are getting walloped by an all-too-tangible October surprise. Superstorm Sandy is a real-world, gut-level test. "It's sort of like Mother Nature is intervening and calling a timeout," said historian and presidential biographer Douglas Brinkley.
  

   
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  Nasty campaign tactics: Phony voting instructions Oct 30, 2012 12:00 AM
  With a week to go until Election Day, the nasty campaign tactics are coming out. People in Florida, Virginia and Indiana have gotten calls falsely telling them they can vote early by phone and don't need to go to a polling place. In suburban Broward County, Fla., a handful of elderly voters who requested absentee ballots say they were visited by unknown people claiming to be authorized to collect the ballots.
  

   
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  Romney China-made Jeep comments become Ohio campaign issue Oct 30, 2012 12:00 AM
  Mitt Romney’s focus on Chrysler Group LLC’s desire to build some Jeeps in China has spawned a TV ad battle in Ohio, where the Republican presidential candidate and President Barack Obama are trying to attract car-minded voters with a week to go until Election Day.
  

   
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  Sandy upends final week of presidential race Oct 30, 2012 12:00 AM
  Superstorm Sandy’s mayhem is upending the final week of the presidential race, with President Barack Obama calling off another of the waning days left to campaign and Republican Mitt Romney struggling to strike the right tone.
  

   
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  A week to go: Sandy disrupts presidential campaign Oct 29, 2012 12:00 AM
  Eight days before the election, President Barack Obama switched from campaigner to hands-on commander of the federal response to Superstorm Sandy as it barreled across the Eastern Seaboard. Republican Mitt Romney scaled back his appearances and urged supporters to "do your very best" in donating to relief efforts.
  

   
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  Endorsement: The case for Mitt Romney for presidentOct 28, 2012 12:00 AM
  The Daily Herald endorses Mitt Romney for president, breaking with Barack Obama who received its endorsement four years ago with the argument that only a moderate, bipartisan approach will meet the country's profound economic challenges. Romney, unlike Obama, understands that business creates jobs, not governments, the newspaper editorial argues.
  

   

• Romney woos Florida early vote; Obama eyes NHOct 28, 2012 12:00 AM
  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. Both campaigns scrambled to steer clear of a most unlikely October surprise, a superstorm barreling up the East Coast.
  

   
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  Hurricane Sandy upsets candidates’ campaign plans Oct 28, 2012 12:00 AM
  Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama frantically sought to close the deal with voters with precious few days left in an incredibly close race as this year’s October surprise — an unprecedented storm menacing the East Coast — wreaked havoc on their best-laid plans.
  

   
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  Advantage Obama in hunt for 270 electoral votes Oct 28, 2012 12:00 AM
  President Barack Obama is poised to eke out a victory in the race for the 270 electoral votes needed to win re-election, having beaten back Republican Mitt Romney’s attempts to convert momentum from the debates into support in all-important Ohio, according to an Associated Press analysis a week before Election Day.
  

   
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  Rubio daughter hospitalized after accident Oct 27, 2012 12:00 AM
  The 12-year-old daughter of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio has been airlifted to Miami Children's Hospital after a Saturday motor vehicle accident.
  

   
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  Ryan: Obama hasn’t made case he deserves new term Oct 27, 2012 12:00 AM
  "We cannot afford four more years like these last four years," Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan told 1,000 supporters who huddled on the cold factory floor of Gradall Industries in eastern Ohio. "And we don't have to."
  

   
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  Electoral, popular vote split possible Oct 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  
  

   

• Campaigns deploy radio ads to gin up base voters Oct 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  Radio ads, an important component of a presidential candidate's media strategy, are bombarding voters in battleground states much the way such political commercials swamp television.
  

   
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  Romney closing argument focuses on the economy Oct 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  Mitt Romney is trying to close the deal with voters by focusing on their economic concerns, an area where polling shows the Republican nominee has an edge heading into the final days of the campaign. As President Barack Obama takes a break from the campaign trail, Romney was to deliver what his campaign billed as a significant economic address in swing state Iowa.