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Blog Entries for Tuesday, October 30
Storm damage versus the campaign trail
From Detroit, Michigan - It will be interesting to see if Wednesday becomes a pivotal day in the campaign for the White House as President Obama goes to New Jersey to tour damage from Hurricane Sandy and Republican Mitt Romney resumes full campaigning with three stops in Florida. The White ...
Sandy doesn't stop campaign sparring
While both President Obama and Mitt Romney held off on campaign work in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, their campaign aides and surrogates were exercising no restraint, engaged in a bitter battle of words that raised questions on both sides about who is holding a full house and who is ...
Blog Entries for Monday, October 29
The campaigns go off the radar
Sometimes when major news breaks out around the country that overshadows whatever we are doing on Capitol Hill, one of us will often say, "We're off the radar," knowing that we have little chance of breaking through the top story and getting on the air. One week before Election Day, ...
Romney cancels campaign schedule due to Sandy
Hurricane Sandy has now forced both President Obama and Republican Mitt Romney off the campaign trail, as Romney's camp announced around lunch time that he would also cancel events on Monday afternoon and Tuesday. Earlier, the President did the same. Here is the statement from Romney spokeeperson Gail Gitcho: "Out ...
President scraps Monday campaign event
After chopping off pieces of his Monday campaign schedule because of Hurricane Sandy, President Obama gave up on any campaign travel plans entirely, deciding to leave Florida and fly back to Washington, D.C. to keep tabs on the storm's progress. A few hours later, the White House then canceled ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, October 28
Hurricane Sandy alters campaign plans
The threat of Hurricane Sandy has introduced a new element into the race for the White House with just over a week left until Election Day, as both President Obama and Mitt Romney have had to shake up their schedule over concerns about the weather. Romney scrapped a full day ...
Blog Entries for Friday, October 26
Romney makes case in Iowa speech
As both parties shift into their final arguments in the race for the White House, Mitt Romney used a speech in Iowa today to lay out the Republican case for change in this year's elections, arguing that the GOP is ready to make the big decisions and changes, while accusing ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, October 25
Obama, Romney shun stops in Wisconsin
The countdown is on to Election Day, so let's start going swing state by swing state on our way to November 6. Let's begin with a state that has been under the radar - Wisconsin. It's difficult to tell that ten Electoral Votes in Wisconsin could be pivotal on election ...
Dems make their argument on early vote
Yesterday I posted a memo from Republicans making their argument on why the early voting and absentee ballot numbers should be seen as an edge for the GOP. Today, Democrats issued their own rebuttal for the state of Ohio, which you can see below. I will also post the original ...
Why is Paul Ryan in states that don't matter?
On Thursday morning, a top spokeswoman for the Mitt Romney campaign tweeted out news that they had raised almost $112 million in the first half of October, again showcasing the GOP ability to bring in big money to this year's race for the White House. But if Romney has a ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, October 24
Presidential swing state update
With 12 days left until Election Day, it might be time to remove a few states from the "swing state" category and analyze where the candidates are going - and are not going - in coming days. The math has not changed much in recent days on this race, as ...
White House on Benghazi email
The White House today pushed back against stories that detailed how emails were sent just two hours after the September 11 attacks in Libya detailing a claim of responsiblity by a terrorist group with links to Al Qaeda. "There were emails about all sorts of information that was becoming available ...
GOP memo on early voting
Republicans released a memo today on their view of how absentee and early voting is going so far in the 2012 race for the White House; the bottom line is that the GOP feels good about what the numbers show so far. Both parties have battled over what the early ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, October 23
Congressional election snapshot
While most of the political oxygen is being sucked up by the race for the White House, there are scores of important races for the U.S. House and Senate which could well determine what gets done and what does not when the 113th Congress convenes next year. Let's start with ...
The Presidential campaign schedule
There are ten 'swing states' at this point in the race for the White House - eleven if you want to include Pennsylvania - but a glance at the schedules for President Obama and Republican Mitt Romney may help us eliminate a few of those states. For example, the President ...
New Obama and Romney ads out
Both the Obama and Romney campaigns rolled out new television ads in the immediate aftermath of the final Presidential debate in Boca Raton, Florida, with just two weeks until Election Day. The new Obama ad is targeted at key swing states like Florida and Ohio, and is basically a summary ...
The final Obama Romney debate
With about 15 minutes left in the final Obama-Romney debate, Republicans decided to rush their surrogates into the "Spin Alley" reaction area at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida. A few minutes later, Democrats followed to get their message out, as both sides declared victory. The reaction was predictable, as ...
Blog Entries for Monday, October 22
Behind the scenes at the Lynn debate
Once again, members of the news media are elbow-to-elbow in a college campus gymnasium, waiting on the third debate between President Obama and Republican Mitt Romney at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida. Here is your look behind the scenes. The setup is a familiar one - several rows of ...
New Obama ad attacks on foreign policy
From Boca Raton, Florida - President Obama is out with a new ad attacking Mitt Romney on foreign policy, just hours before the two men are set to meet in their third and final debate before Election Day. "President Obama ended the Iraq War; Mitt Romney would have left 30,000 ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, October 21
Obama, Romney square off over foreign policy
From Boca Raton, Florida - President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney will square off Monday night in their third and final debate, a discussion to be focused on foreign policy, which has already caused fireworks between the two campaigns in recent weeks. Last week's debate at Hofstra University in ...
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