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Obama, Dems redoubling money efforts

Wed, 23 May 2012 18:16:40 GMT

His cash advantage threatened, President Barack Obama and his party are redoubling their fundraising efforts.

Sweep has Romney 1 win from nomination

Wed, 23 May 2012 10:40:53 GMT

Mitt Romney swept all the delegates in GOP primaries in Kentucky and Arkansas and picked up more endorsements from party leaders, putting him one win away from claiming the Republican nomination for president.

Romney looks to pad delegate lead

Tue, 22 May 2012 18:21:17 GMT

Mitt Romney was inching closer to officially claiming the Republican presidential nomination as Arkansas and Kentucky voted in primaries Tuesday.

Obama, Romney fight over budget goals

Mon, 21 May 2012 17:35:03 GMT

The presidential race is shaping up as a battle between Republican calls for more government austerity and Democratic appeals for more spending to promote jobs and growth with tax hikes on high-income earners. It mirrors a fight raging in Europe.

22 states join campaign finance fight

Sun, 20 May 2012 13:28:01 GMT

Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws restricting corporate campaign spending.

George W. Bush unlikely in Romney bid

Wed, 16 May 2012 14:52:34 GMT

After months of silence, George W. Bush finally weighed on the presidential race. "I'm for Mitt Romney," the former president said Tuesday in Washington, perhaps his only public statement on the race before the Nov. 6 election.

Romney wins Nebraska, Oregon primaries

Wed, 16 May 2012 12:44:10 GMT

Nebraska and Oregon Republicans, as expected, have made clear their preference for the GOP nomination by choosing Romney in Tuesday's presidential primaries

Ron Paul ends active campaigning

Mon, 14 May 2012 18:45:33 GMT

Ron Paul, the congressman from Texas and a favorite of tea partyers, effectively ended his presidential campaign Monday but urged his fervent supporters to continue working at the state party level to cause havoc for presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

Obama seeks to undercut Romney on jobs

Mon, 14 May 2012 12:35:55 GMT

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 effort that seeks to undermine the central rationale for his Republican rival's candidacy: his business credentials.

Women ponder how they became an issue

Sat, 12 May 2012 16:03:06 GMT

Everybody, it seems, is talking about women in this campaign — what they should do, how they should act, who they should be in society. But do women see themselves reflected in the dialogue — or is the mirror of political rhetoric distorting their concerns? How, exactly, is all this talk about women playing among women?