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Romney pulls even in Colorado, trails in Nevada: pollsEssential Reads Mitt Romney has pulled even with President Obama in the battleground state of Colorado, but continues to trail narrowly in Nevada, according to new NBC News/Wall Street Journal polls. |
Colorado remains big prize as Romney, Obama hold campaign ralliesEssential Reads It was after sunset as the flashing lights of Mitt Romney’s motorcade began the steep and winding climb up the hills west of Denver on Tuesday. By the time the Republican candidate arrived at the Red Rocks Amphitheater, the rocks were rocking. |
Romney running hard in Nevada where Obama holds the chipsEssential Reads When Mitt Romney landed in Las Vegas on Tuesday, President Barack Obama's advance team had beaten him there. |
Headed to SplitsvilleEssential Reads The most fascinating dynamic of election night might not be the regimented partisan alignment everyone is predicting, but the reemergence of ticket-splitting and how that might determine the balance of power in the U.S. Senate. |
With debates over, candidates race to clinch vital statesEssential Reads President Obama started making his closing argument for a second term on Tuesday, beginning a furious two-week effort to beat back a late surge by Mitt Romney and hang on to battleground states where voters are already casting ballots in large numbers. |
It’s not about the economy, stupidEssential Reads President Obama moved from center stage to center court Tuesday. The day after the third and final debate, Obama started his day at a tennis stadium grinning under the waves of adulation from an eager and approving crowd. The night before, the president was all sharp elbows and crisp declarations about world affairs, but for those arrayed in the bleachers surrounding him on all sides, he was in full campaign mode, joking, switching accents, and returning to the perils of Romnesia—less Situation Room and more The Situation. |
Analysis: Calm Romney pins hopes on momentumEssential Reads Republican Mitt Romney is acting like a challenger who feels he has enough momentum and time to overtake the president by Election Day, two weeks from now. |
Obama keeps Romney on his heels in last debateEssential Reads President Obama and Mitt Romney clashed repeatedly over foreign policy here Monday night, with the president arguing assertively that Romney has lacked the consistency or clarity of vision to lead the country while the Republican nominee charged that Obama has been weak and ineffective in the face of growing turmoil in the world. |
Romney rising?Essential Reads Mitt Romney brought a knife to a gunfight. A butter knife. In the third and final presidential debate, focused on national security and foreign policy, the Republican challenger seemed to be living by the Hippocratic oath: Do no harm. In this case that meant a mostly passive, heavy-on-agreement discussion with his opponent the commander in chief. President Obama, by contrast, was on the attack, repeatedly calling Romney reckless and looking every bit like the politician who thinks he's behind in the race. |
ANALYSIS: All about the battlegroundsEssential Reads On the debate stage last night at Lynn University in Boca Raton, President Obama came to play, and Mitt Romney played not to lose. |
