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Why no one has been right about LibyaEssential Reads It has been more than a month since the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and no one has gotten the Libya question right. Not the president, not Mitt Romney. |
For Obama and Romney, small New Hampshire could have a big impactEssential Reads New Hampshire is the smallest of the battleground states, with just four electoral votes, and for much of the fall it has seemed an afterthought to the candidates as they’ve campaigned across more prominent contested states. |
Political perceptions: Economics of the women’s voteEssential Reads The presidential campaign suddenly has turned into a fight for women’s votes, as the front pages of nearly every national newspaper demonstrated this morning. (See this WSJ story.) There’s lots of speculation about whether women will vote more on economic issues, which has been the Romney camp’s view for most of the campaign, or on social issues like abortion and contraception. |
Romney receives endorsement of Orlando SentinelEssential Reads Mitt Romney, who often grouses that he is simultaneously running against President Obama and the mainstream media, will be greeted upon his arrival in Florida on Friday by a headline with which he cannot quarrel: The Orlando Sentinel is endorsing him. |
Obama and Romney campaigns battle to mobilize votersEssential Reads The 11,000 people on a soccer field at St. Petersburg College had come to hear President Obama speak. But first Max Jay-Dixon had something important to say. |
The four Ls and four states: what's next in the Obama-Romney duelEssential Reads From now until the third and final presidential debate, and quite probably even after that, President Obama and Mitt Romney will fight on the ground, over the airwaves, and in social media over the four Ls and four swing states. |
Obama looks to regain edge with women votersEssential Reads President Obama tried in his debate Tuesday night with Mitt Romney to halt any precipitous slide of women voters toward his opponent, which meant he spent loads of time pouring crack filler into his base. |
Who wins a tied debate?Essential Reads When two presidential candidates battle roughly to a tie in a debate, is there a winner? |
For the President, punch, punch, another punchEssential Reads He waited all of 45 seconds to make clear he came not just ready for a fight but ready to pick one. |
When candidates attackEssential Reads In the seal of the United States, the eagle turns its head toward its right talon, which holds an olive branch, and away from the talon holding 13 arrows. It is meant to suggest a preference for peace. The eagle that hovered between the two candidates in the second debate had the same design, but for one difference: The eagle's head was turned toward the arrows. It was a fitting symbol for the pointed and sniping contest between President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney. It was a night of barbs, interruptions, and charges and counter-charges. |
