Obama’s Campaign Manager Addresses Concerns Over Polls
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza(WASHINGTON) — In a new video message to supporters, Obama campaign manager Jim Messina directly addresses concerns over recent polls that show a tightening of the race and offers his outlook on the electoral ma…
A Massacre in Syria Brings Foreign Affairs Into the Race, Briefly
Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Alex Wong/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Unemployment, the “war on women,” immigration, gay marriage. … Who has time for Syria? Foreign policy has crept back into presidential politics, but it won’t be here for long, so soak it up whil…
A Massacre in Syria Brings Foreign Affairs Into the Race, Briefly
Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Alex Wong/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Unemployment, the “war on women,” immigration, gay marriage. … Who has time for Syria? Foreign policy has crept back into presidential politics, but it won’t be here for long, so soak it up whil…
Vying for Commander-in-Chief: 2 Men Who Never Served
Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — For the first time since 1944, the two primary candidates for president have no military background. Neither President Obama nor Mitt Romney enlisted in the armed forces, although both of them h…
NAACP Board Votes in Support of Same-Sex Marriage
Mario Tama/Getty Images(MIAMI) — The NAACP made waves on Saturday evening when its board of directors voted to support same-sex marriage, releasing a statement that “civil marriage is a civil right and a matter of civil law” and citing the 14th Amendm…
Obama Sees ‘Emerging Consensus’ on Eurozone Rescue
Jewel Samad/AFP/GettyImages(WASHINGTON) — There were a couple new faces in town at the annual Group of Eight summit, and a couple new allies for President Obama, who has been urging Europeans to follow America’s lead. And with 4 million jobs cre…
Romney Won’t Name Bush When Talking about Debt Crisis
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.) – Never once mentioning President George W. Bush by name, or acknowledging that the former president endorsed his candidacy Tuesday, Mitt Romney spent the morning in Florida railing President Ob…
New Biography Reveals a Young Barack Obama in Love
John Nordell/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Accounts of a young Barack Obama chronicled by one of his former girlfriends have shed new light on his reserved demeanor, detailing the “guardedness” of a young man s…
Obama’s 2012 Pitch in Focus: Firewall Against Romney
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — When President Obama holds his first public campaign rallies this week, he’ll take direct control of a populist re-election narrative that Vice President Joe Biden and senior Obama strategists ha…
Campaign Fundraising: March Financial Round-Up
Thinkstock (WASHINGTON) — Friday was FEC filing day — that day when political campaigns and independent expenditure committees (more commonly known as Super PACs) are required to submit their financial reports for the previous month. Friday&rsqu…
Campaign Fundraising: March Financial Round-Up
Thinkstock (WASHINGTON) — Friday was FEC filing day — that day when political campaigns and independent expenditure committees (more commonly known as Super PACs) are required to submit their financial reports for the previous month. Friday&rsqu…
Rick Santorum: I Want to Go One-on-One With ‘Weak’ Romney in Debate
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum lambasted Mitt Romney Sunday morning on ‘This Week,” calling him a flawed candidate and asking for a one-on-one debate with the former Massachusetts governor…
On St. Patrick’s Day, Beer Is Bipartisan
Hemera/Thinkstock (WASHINGTON) — President Barack Obama and Rick Santorum have at least one thing they can agree on: Both men chose a stout Guinness to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.The president drew his beer at a local pub in Washington, wading …
Former Obama Economic Adviser Warns Unemployment Could Rise
ABC News(WASHINGTON) — The economy added more jobs than expected in each of the past three months, pushing down the unemployment rate to 8.3 percent and marking the best six-month streak of jobs numbers since 2008.But President Obama’s former ec…
Anti-Abortion Activist Challenges Obama in Democratic Primary
Digital Vision/Thinkstock(OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.) — Veteran anti-abortion activist Randall Terry won more than 18,400 votes, or 18 percent, in Oklahoma’s Democratic presidential primary Tuesday — a significant showing in a year when incum…
Newt Gingrich: Obama’s Goal Is ‘$8 or $9 a Gallon’ Gas
Richard Ellis/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich chided the Obama administration on Sunday morning, saying the president has “a goal getting us to pay European-level prices” for gas.“This president and …
Obama Calls Governors of Storm-Ravaged States
Pete Souza/Official White House Photo(WASHINGTON) — President Obama called the governors of Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky on Saturday regarding the deadly tornados that have claimed at least 35 lives across a wide swath of the United States since Friday…
Military Mom’s Story Has Romney Questioning How Obama Sleeps
Joe Raedle/Getty Images(BEAVERCREEK, Ohio) — After a military mother told him her daughter doesn’t understand her mission in the Air Force, Mitt Romney questioned how President Obama can “sleep at night,” knowing troops overseas don&…
Gingrich Won’t Criticize Limbaugh, Calls Obama Opportunistic
Richard Ellis/Getty Images(HAMILTON, Ohio) — Newt Gingrich avoided criticizing Rush Limbaugh for publicly assailing Sandra Fluke over her testimony to Congress advocating for health insurance companies to cover birth control, but he was quick to attac…
Super Bowl at the White House: A Family Affair in 2012
Annie Leibovitz/Official White House Photo(WASHINGTON) — There won’t be a flashy Super Bowl party at the White House this year.After three consecutive years of playing host to dozens of members of Congress, cabinet secretaries and Hollywood star…