On January 21, 2017, we predict that the drag on the U.S. economy will, finally, be lifted. Just as would have happened if Mitt Romney had...
American voters. PHOTO/John Gress/Getty Images African Americans voted at a higher rate than other minority groups in 2012 and by most measures surpassed the White turnout...
U.S. President Barack Obama (r) shakes hands with Speaker of the House John Boehner (l) during a meeting with bipartisan group of congressional leaders in the...
Before November 2012, the last Republican to lose to Barack Obama was unfortunate. Not only was he dealt a remarkably bad hand by the global financial...
Mitt Romney was never, really, supposed to be their nominee. In fact, because he had, as governor of Massachusetts, passed universal healthcare – the template used...
African American voters. PHOTO/John Gress/Getty Images (Reuters) – After a long and bitter White House campaign, Americans began casting their votes on Tuesday with polls showing...
My Ballot Paper for November 6, 2012 On a cold evening here in Princeton, New Jersey – an evening where many people in America’s North East...
By Ryan Elcock If you have been following the US 2012 election, you will agree that this one has been the most contentious since the Bush-Gore...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File With just one day remaining in the 2012 race for president, the polling picture...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney engaged in a frenzied cross-country blitz...
If Obama had not turned in such a lackadaisical performance at the first Presidential Debate against Mitt Romney this early October, the incumbent president would not...
U.S. President Barack Obama (r) accompanied by N.J Gov. Chris Christie (l) hugs storm victim Donna Vanzant as he tours damage done by Hurricane Sandy in...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama put campaign battleground travel on hold to tour the ravaged New...
U.S. President Barack Obama with officials of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). PHOTO/Nicholas Kramm/AFP/Getty Images The politics of Hurricane Sandy are obviously difficult to game...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is poised to eke out a victory in the race for...
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell meets with President Barack Obama, in the Oval Office. PHOTO/AP Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a longtime Republican, is...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney Election 2012, 13 days until the election day, President Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney in...
Tonight, in the last debate between President Obama and his challenger Mitt Romney, the former Governor of Massachusetts came out looking like he could be America’s...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – In today’s highly polarized political environment it is somewhat surprising to find...
A few hours before President Barack Obama and his challenger Mitt Romney met in New York on October 16, 2012 for their second Presidential Debate, a...
U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – President Barack Obama still appears to have the upper hand in the state-by-state...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney With one debate left, President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney are retreating from the...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File With fewer than three weeks until Election Day, new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls...
Watching American pundits on television comment about politics is like observing teenagers. From the vantage point of having gone through THAT phase, one knows that hormones...
U.S. President Barack Obama (r) speaks as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (l) and moderator Candy Crowley (c) listen during a town hall style debate at...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama gained ground on Republican rival Mitt Romney in...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney With the White House race barreling toward the finish, President Barack Obama and Republican challenger...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney As President Obama and Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney gear up for the season’s second...
By Ryan Elcock Like many of you, I was tuned into the debate between Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama and I must say; Romney came...
Time check: 11:41 p.m. The Vice Presidential Debate ended more than 45 minutes ago – and on all the television networks, pundits are dissecting things; checking...
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (l) and Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Paul Ryan pull up a couple of chairs...
Updated October 10, 2012 – 12:43 p.m. The polls are in. Angst amongst the Democrats is up and spreading. Following his disastrous performance at the first...
U.S President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney Mitt Romney got a poll boost from his strong debate performance against President Barack Obama...
U.S President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File US President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney have sparred over economic...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney come face to face for the first...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney are hunkering down for intense preparations ahead...
U.S. President Barack Obama, (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP Five weeks to U.S. Election Day, President Barack Obama is within reach of the...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama warned Democrats about becoming too complacent with six weeks left before...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File Dozens of volunteers armed with clipboards and voter registration forms gather at President Barack...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney 53%-44% in Florida, 53%-43% in Ohio and 54%-42%...
As your humble correspondents, my colleagues and I know that you expect us to report the facts, the truth and just about enough information so you...
U.S. President Barack Obama on the campaign trail earlier this year. PHOTO/File In a presidential race seemingly frozen in place for months, the advantage has shifted...
U.S. President Barack Obama, (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP Fresh signs of a national housing rebound and growing support in public opinion polls...
In 2008, Leo Tavares* convinced his mother to vote for Barack Obama. He actually walked with his politically naïve mother into the voting booth and told...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama has emerged from the conventions of both political parties with a...
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File Already scrambling to steady a struggling campaign, Republican Mitt Romney confronted a new headache Monday after a video surfaced showing...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File Competing for white working-class voters, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney squared off...
Richard Neustadt’s classic ‘Presidential Power’ is, perhaps, the leading authority on the actual role of the American president. At its core, Neustadt argues, the presidency is...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama and Democrats pulled slightly ahead of Mitt Romney and Republicans in...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, picking up support following the Democratic National Convention, widened...
U.S. President Barack Obama, (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney agree on this much: The 2012 election is...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) joins former President Bill Clinton, after nominating speech. PHOTO/J. Scott Applewhite/AP President Barack Obama goes before the Democratic National Convention and...
In June this year, I made the sanguine prediction that Obama would keep his job as America’s president for a second term. This prognosis was based...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File Democrats sought to push foreign policy, one of President Barack Obama’s strengths, to the...
President Obama talks with students after he called on Congress to stop interest rates on student loans on June 21, 2012. PHOTO/Susan Walsh/AP As college students...
U.S. President Barack Obama, (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama said Mitt Romney has locked himself into “extreme positions” on economic...
A group of black journalists says it is disappointed in the lack of ethnic diversity among the people chosen to moderate presidential debates. The National Association...
U.S. President Barack Obama, (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP (Reuters) – Twice as many business executives around the world say the global economy...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama can claim victory over Mitt Romney in the digital arena at...
U.S. President Barack Obama, (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama’s campaign is already targeting Paul Ryan in a new online video,...
U.S President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama’s campaign says Mitt Romney’s selection of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan...
U.S President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/AP Two states that Barack Obama won in 2008 – after going for former...
U.S President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama holds an advantage over Republican Mitt Romney in three swing...
U.S President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/AP Former President Bill Clinton will have a marquee role in this summer’s Democratic...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/AP (Reuters) – Sustained attacks by President Barack Obama’s campaign on Republican rival Mitt...
President Barack Obama at Prime Osborn Convention Center on July 19, 2012 in Jacksonville, Florida. PHOTO/Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images President Barack Obama is warning Florida retirees that...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama is trying to keep the pressure on rival Mitt Romney,...
African American voters. PHOTO/Lynne Sladky/AP (Reuters) – High voter turnout among African Americans helped get President Barack Obama elected in 2008 but a black rights group...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is preparing to tell voters in the crucial industrial state...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s slim lead over Republican rival Mitt Romney in...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File Seeking an election-year fight over taxes, President Barack Obama is hitting the road...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File For the first time since April, President Obama has opened up a sustained...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File In the presidential battleground with the biggest prize, Democrat Barack Obama is focused...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File In promoting the health care law, President Barack Obama is repeating his persistent...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File (Reuters) – President Barack Obama is carving out a clear lead in swing...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File President Obama leads 47 percent to 44 percent over Mitt Romney in an...
U.S. President Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File President Barack Obama’s not-so-secret counterterrorism fight against al-Qaida in Yemen and Somalia, the killing...
U.S. President Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is winning the opening round in the battle over immigration, according...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate., Mitt Romney There’s not much President Barack Obama can do to boost the economy in the next...
A growing chorus of once-confident Democrats now say President Barack Obama could lose the November election. The hand-wringing reflects real worries among Democrats about Obama’s ability...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney(r). PHOTO/File A new North Carolina poll conducted by the automated pollster (and Democratic affiliated) Public...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama’s campaign is launching a new ad against Republican challenger Mitt Romney,...
President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama will talk about the nation’s economic woes in remarks at the White House Friday. The White House says President...
U.S. President Barack Obama reaches out to supporters on June 13, 2011 in Miami, Florida. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party have raised a...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l), and Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney(r). PHOTO/File A new survey indicates President Barack Obama with a 12-point lead over Republican challenger...
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to a supporter. PHOTO/J. Scott Applewhite/AP When President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign unveiled its new slogan, some conservative critics were quick...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File To see where the presidential candidates stand on taxing the rich, just look...
Businessman Donald Trump shakes hands with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Ronmey. Romney’s wife Ann looks on. PHOTO/Steve Marcus The day after hosting a fundraiser for Mitt...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File President Barack Obama’s campaign is opening a new critique of Mitt Romney, focusing...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File A new poll released Tuesday shows President Barack Obama with a wide lead...
Mitt Romney’s campaign team has been quietly laying plans for an outreach effort to President Obama’s most loyal supporters, black voters, not just to chip away...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney President Barack Obama on Thursday continued his assault on Mitt Romney’s business experience, saying the...
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell meets with President Barack Obama, in the Oval Office. PHOTO/AP Former Secretary of State Colin Powell declined Tuesday to renew...
U.S President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign is keeping up its effort to paint Mitt Romney...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney President Barack Obama holds a cash advantage of more than 2-to-1 over Republican challenger Mitt...
President Barack Obama on the campaign trail. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama raised a combined US$43.6 million in April for his campaign and the Democratic Party as...
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...
President Barack Obama with troops in Afghanistan. PHOTO/United States Military, via Associated Press (Reuters) – Mack McDowell likes to spend time at the local knife and...
President Barack Obama speaks Tuesday in Washington. PHOTO/Evan Vucci/AP Ending months of equivocation, President Barack Obama declared his support for gay marriage on Wednesday, an announcement...
(Reuters) – President Barack Obama extended his lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney to 7 percentage points because of increased support from independent voters and some...
President Barack Obama arrives for a campaign rally at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va., Saturday, May 5, 2012. PHOTO/Steve Helber/AP President Barack Obama plunged into...
U.S. President Barack Obama The economy isn’t cooperating with President Barack Obama’s re-election schedule. For the third year in a row, an early spurt of growth...
U.S. President Obama (l) and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File It’s on. Independent groups favoring Mitt Romney already are launching TV advertisements in competitive states...
U.S. President Barack Obama addressing troops in Afghanistan 2012. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama answered political taunts with presidential muscle Tuesday, addressing the nation from Kabul as...
President Obama steps off Air Force One at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan for a meeting with President Hamid Karzai. PHOTO/Doug Mills/The New York Times...
President Barack Obama gave a steely defense of his handling of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and his use of it to burnish his...
President Barack Obama says the anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden is a time for reflection, and he pushed back on criticism that the...
Vice President Joe Biden delivered a harsh attack Thursday on Mitt Romney’s foreign policy views, arguing that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is rooted in a...
Former Republican National Committee Chair., Michael Steele. PHOTO/File One thing is certain this election year: President Barack Obama will win African American voters by a colossal...
U.S. President Barack Obama on the campaign trail. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama, with the help of a slowly improving US economy, is gaining ground in many...
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks on the economy at Florida Atlantic University, April 10, 2012. PHOTO/Marc Serota/Getty Images Presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney collected US$12.6 million...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and GOP contender Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney are locked in a very tight race,...
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks on the economy at Florida Atlantic University, April 10, 2012. PHOTO/Marc Serota/Getty Images For all the turmoil of the long primary...
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney campaigning. PHOTO/File After a long primary season, Mitt Romney begins his contest with Barack Obama without having attracted any notable African-American...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File Picking an election-year fight with Republicans, President Barack Obama is urging Congress to boost taxes on millionaires, traveling to Florida to...
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. PHOTO/File Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has vehemently denied any interest in the Vice President’s spot on the 2012...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File In an election-year pitch to middle-class voters, President Barack Obama is denouncing a House Republican budget plan as a “Trojan horse,”...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is pulling ahead with a 4-percentage-point lead over Mitt Romney in a general election matchup, according to a...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Obama leads GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney by 10 percent, according to a Suffolk University poll released on Monday. Obama...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and GOP candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama’s top reelection strategists derisively painted Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney on Wednesday...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, bolstered by a stronger economic outlook and recent job growth, would win in a match-up against...
