President Obama’s re-election bid is increasingly becoming a hard fought battle as Republican presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and Herman Cain are either winning or are neck and neck with the current president in the latest USA Today/Gallup poll released Friday. See also: Joe Biden Warns Congressional GOP Against Stalling Obama’s Jobs Plan See […]
Priorities USA Action, a political action committee started by two former Obama aides, is launching a $100,000 campaign against Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. The smear campaign, which includes a ramped up Facebook presence and web advertising, features a well-produced web video aimed squarely at Romney. See also: Mitt Romney ‘Has No Core’ Omni Shoreham Hotel […]
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has now catapulted himself to the top of the GOP field. According to the latest CBS/NY Times poll, Cain now leads former frontrunner for the GOP nomination Mitt Romney by 4 percentage points. Close to 1700 people were sampled for this poll and 455 said they planned to vote in […]
Black Mormons, a group whose political views are shaped by both its religious and racial considerations, are weighing their support for various candidates in the 2012 presidential election. There is no clear consensus as Black Mormons consider re-electing President Obama beacuse he’s Black and Mitt Romney because he’s a Mormon. Political views among African-American Latter-Day […]
An NBC News/ Marist Poll has the pizza magnate turned Presidential hopeful with a four-percentage point lead against Mitt Romney. In Florida, the two are in a statistical dead heat. In South Carolina, it looks like it shaping up to be a two-way race between Romney and Cain. Cain got 30% and Romney got 26% […]
Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh weighed in on the Republican presidential campaign earlier this week, taking shots at GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney. Limbaugh lambasted the former Massachusetts governor telling his radio audience, “Romney is not a conservative. He’s not, folks.” He continued his assault attacking Romney’s gubernatorial record and his positions on healthcare and the […]
WASHINGTON — Despite the sluggish economy, President Barack Obama still has a substantial lead over his potential GOP rivals in 2012. Reuters reports: Obama leads all potential Republican challengers by double-digit margins. He is ahead of his closest Republican rival, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, by 13 percentage points — 51 percent to 38 percent. […]
WASHINGTON – Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is calling Barack Obama “one of the most ineffective presidents” he’s ever seen, and says he can beat him next year. Romney tells NBC in an interview that while Obama wasn’t responsible for the recession he inherited, “he made things worse. He’s failed.” Romney also says he thinks […]
HANOVER, N.H. – Republicans looking to unseat President Barack Obama charged that he undermined the sensitive and delicate negotiations for Middle East peace with his outline for resumed talks between Israelis and Palestinians. Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman said Obama, whom he served as U.S. ambassador to China until last month, undercut an opportunity for […]
WASHINGTON — A few days ago, 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney took the unpopular position with a crowd of Republicans and defended the healthcare plan he instituted as former Governor of Massachusetts. While many in the crowd didn’t agree with the “success” of his plan, one group in Washington sure does. The White House – […]
