Articles filed under U.S. President
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Early political spats suggest nothing off-limitsMay 18, 2012 10:30 am - WASHINGTON — The early border skirmishes of Campaign 2012 are reviving questions about one candidate’s former pastor and shining a spotlight on the other’...
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Obama crushes Romney in campaign donations by Ivy League facultyMay 17, 2012 10:42 am - President Barack Obama has received $17,869 in donations for his re-election efforts from 18 members of Brown University’s faculty, including Ruth Simmons, who is s...
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Romney, Republican Party raise $40M in AprilMay 17, 2012 10:00 am - WASHINGTON - Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney and his party raised a combined $40.1 million in April. The figures put the likely GOP nominee's fundraising...
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Role unlikely for George W. Bush in Romney bidMay 16, 2012 11:27 am - CHARLOTTE, N.C. — After months of silence, George W. Bush finally weighed on the presidential race — with four short words. “I’m for Mitt Romney,...
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Obama seeks to undercut Romney's record on jobsMay 14, 2012 5:00 am - WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is casting Mitt Romney as a greedy, job-killing corporate titan with little concern for the working class in a new, multi-pronged eff...
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North Carolina a political headache for DemocratsMay 12, 2012 6:57 pm - CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Once a bright spot for President Barack Obama, North Carolina is now more like a political migraine less than four months before Democrats open th...
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Campaigns get back to basicsMay 12, 2012 6:56 pm - LYNCHBURG, Va. — Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith has shaped his life, but he barely mentioned it as he spoke to graduates at an evangelical university Saturday. And...
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Women ponder how they became a campaign issueMay 11, 2012 12:10 pm - DENVER — Wanda Ramey stood on the University of Colorado campus, cane in one hand, “Close The Pay Gap” sign in the other. The rally for equal pay among wo...
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Obama jokes with Clooney at star’s gala fundraiserMay 11, 2012 8:43 am - LOS ANGELES — George Clooney played the suave host, chef Wolfgang Puck whipped up something for dinner, and President Barack Obama and about 150 of his Hollywood se...
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Romney apologizes for school pranksMay 10, 2012 4:17 pm - Mitt Romney apologized Thursday morning for pranks he helped orchestrate in high school that he said “might have gone too far,” including an incident in which ...