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2012 Presidential Race

2012 Presidential Race
Mitt Romney's former company Bain Capital has become the go-to focus of Team Obama's attack ads.

Attacking Mitt Romney's Bain Capital: Fair game?

Obama is relentlessly going after the private equity firm founded by his GOP challenger, and some say the Democrat's punches are hitting below the belt

 
2012 Presidential Race
President Obama and Jeremiah Wright in 2005: Wealthy conservative Joe Ricketts reportedly wanted to bankroll harsh ads tying Obama to Wright, but has since said that he "rejects" this approach, which was "only a suggestion" in the first place.

The Right's 'shameless' plan to tie Obama to Jeremiah Wright... again

After a barrage of criticism, conservatives abandon a scheme to make the president's controversial ex-pastor an even bigger issue than he was in 2008. Smart move?

 
2012 Presidential Race
Former employees of GS Technologies, a now-defunct steel mill in Kansas City, Mo., say that Mitt Romney's Bain Capital destroyed their jobs.

Anatomy of a campaign ad: 'Steel'

The Obama campaign releases an ad labeling his GOP challenger Mitt Romney as a "vampire" who "sucked the life" — and jobs — out of a thriving steel company

 
2012 Presidential Race
Dana Liebelson

Dana Liebelson: What HBO's Girls can teach Obama and Romney

The buzzy new show about twenty-somethings struggling with life and love in New York City isn't overtly political. But it still holds plenty of political lessons

 
2012 Presidential Race
A voter casts her ballot at the Su Nueva Launderia in Chicago in 2008: Americans Elect spent $35 million to get a credible third-party candidate on the 2012 presidential ballot, but the highest vote-getter barely cracked 6,000.

The Americans Elect flameout: Is there any hope for a third party?

Centrist pundits were excited about this year's online push to draft a viable third-party presidential candidate. The tallied votes show that they were the only ones

 
2012 Presidential Race
A bombshell investigative report from The Washington Post that details Mitt Romney's prep-school bullying is nothing but a liberal hit piece, conservative critics say.

Mitt's Bullygate: Is the media tougher on Romney than Obama?

Supporters of the presumptive GOP nominee say the press is unfairly dredging up Mitt's unsavory high-school antics while giving President Obama a pass

 
2012 Presidential Race
Libertarian Gary Johnson hopes to reach 15 percent in national presidential polls so he can qualify for a fall debate with President Obama and Mitt Romney.

Gary Johnson 2012: Could the Libertarian Party spoil the election?

A fiscally conservative, socially liberal former GOP candidate is making a third-party run for the White House — and hopes to participate in the fall presidential debates

 
2012 Presidential Race
President Obama visits the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in April: Obama won the Tar Heel State in 2008, but a swelling number of politicos expect Romney to take it this year.

Will Democrats regret holding their convention in North Carolina?

After Obama won the Tar Heel State in 2008, Democrats chose Charlotte for their 2012 convention. But now, North Carolina is leaning inhospitably red

 
2012 Presidential Race
An Obama campaign ad attacking Mitt Romney's record as a corporate CEO is running in battleground states Virginia, Ohio, and Iowa.

Anatomy of a campaign ad: 'Swiss bank account'

Team Obama aggressively brands Mitt Romney as a heartless outsourcer who stashes his wealth in an opaque overseas account

 
2012 Presidential Race
Presidential campaign slogans: A visual history

Presidential campaign slogans: A visual history

"Change" worked for President Obama in 2008. Now he's trying "Forward." What catchphrases have other candidates used to win the White House?

 
2012 Presidential Race
Obama with host Jimmy Fallon during an appearance on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" on April 24: The GOP is starting to use Obama's "coolness" as a reason to explain why he's unfit to lead the U.S. for four more years.

Obama's re-election bid: Will being 'cooler' than Mitt Romney really help?

It didn't take slow-jamming the news with Jimmy Fallon to prove that Obama's hipper than Romney, but the cool factor could actually hurt the president's chances

 
2012 Presidential Race
President Obama's campaign has flip-flopped on its insistence that Romney is a flip-flopper, trying instead to demonize him as someone committed to radical conservative positions.

Will attacking Romney as a severe conservative backfire on Obama?

The president's re-election team tries to pigeonhole Mitt as the right-winger he claimed to be during the primaries — at the risk of firing up the GOP base

 
2012 Presidential Race
Mitt Romney reportedly received more than twice the amount of positive news coverage than Barack Obama did during the same period.

Does the 'liberal media' actually favor Mitt Romney?

A new study reveals that Obama's GOP challenger received twice as much favorable news coverage during primary season as the president himself

 
2012 Presidential Race
Election polls are nothing if not confusing, swapping Mitt Romney and President Obama in and out of the lead so many times your head will spin.

Making sense of the 2012 poll overload: 5 tips

Now that Romney is the GOP's presumptive nominee, the politically curious are drowning in a flood of general-election polls. A guide to keeping your head above water

 
2012 Presidential Race
The election season's war on dogs may have been started with this photo, tweeted by David Axelrod with the words: "How loving owners transport their dogs."

Team Romney's 'Obama eats dog' joke: A desperate move?

The presidential race enters its War on Dogs stage, as Mitt tries to push back against an infamous anecdote about his late canine pal Seamus

 
2012 Presidential Race
Mitt Romney's camp says President Obama has been content to "lead from behind" on foreign policy issues, such as the conflict in Libya.

Foreign policy: Would Romney and Obama govern differently?

Liberals worry that Romney is a dangerous hawk. Conservatives charge that Obama is a feckless weakling. But the candidates may be more similar than either side admits

 

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