July 2012
Jul 31, 2012
Romney's Rules of Diplomacy: Some Slipped Out of the Briefing Book
by James Kitfield, National JournalFor any man who would be president there are unwritten rules of foreign diplomacy. Mitt Romney seems to have internalized some, while others apparently slipped out of the briefing book on his flight across the Atlantic to debut as a potential leader of the free world.
Read more in the National JournalRomney & tax questions
with John Harwood, CNBCRepublican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney is overseas hoping to boost his foreign policy credibility, with CNBC's John Harwood.
Watch at CNBCRomney Goes After Obama On Alleged Leaking Of Secrets
by Tom Gjelten, NPRThe latest national security issue to figure in the presidential campaign has little to do with Iran, Afghanistan or other foreign policy challenges. Mitt Romney is instead focusing on what he and other Republicans allege is the Obama administration's record of leaking classified information for political purposes.
Listen to the reportDemocrats Set to Include Gay-Marriage Plank
by Naftali Bendavid, The Wall Street JournalThe Democratic Platform Drafting Committee has unanimously approved a plank that endorses same-sex marriage, likely making the recommendation part of a major-party platform for the first time, Democratic aides say.
Read moreA Portrait Of A Country Awash In 'Red Ink'
by David Wessel, The Wall Street JournalAs the federal debt balloons, reducing it would seem more and more pressing. Yet policymakers remain far apart. Debt, deficit and budget rhetoric is often accompanied by numbers cherry-picked to support a particular political view. But a new book by Wall Street Journal economics writer David Wessel lays out the numbers that both political parties face.
Listen to the reportJul 30, 2012
Mitt Romney's Overseas Tour
With John Harwood, CNBCCNBC's John Harwood reports on Mitt Romney's overseas tour and the 100-day countdown until the presidential election.
Read moreThe Slow Agony of the Obama Recovery
By Jim Tankersley, National JournalUnder President Obama, America is experiencing one of its weakest recoveries from recession in the modern statistical era. This is the indisputable conclusion from the past three years of job-creation and economic-expansion data, reinforced by Friday’s Commerce Department estimate that gross domestic product grew by just 1.5 percent in the second quarter of this year. This is why surrogates for presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney hammered Obama over the GDP number on Friday morning. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., said the figures were the “the latest sign of a failed economic agenda.” Glenn Hubbard, the dean of Columbia University’s business school and Romney’s top economic adviser, called the statistics “very disappointing for the future of the economy.”
Read moreBill Clinton to Have Leading Role at Party’s Convention
By Jeff Zeleny, The New York TimesFormer President Bill Clinton is set to play a central part in the Democratic convention, aides said, and will formally place President Obama’s name into nomination by delivering a prime-time speech designed to present a forceful economic argument for why Mr. Obama deserves to win a second term.
Read moreEight Questions that will shape the 2012 campaign in the final 100 days
By Dan Balz, The Washington PostQuestion 1: Will the campaign be relentlessly negative to the end?
Isn't the answer already obvious? President Obama and presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney have already spent $59 million to air more than 170,000 negative ads, according to Kantar Media's Campaign Media Analysis Group. And that doesn't include the handiwork of the super PACs, which are spending prodigiously and whose ads will be even more negative than those by the candidates.
Early Voting May Hold Key to 2012 Election
By Alexis Simendinger, RealClearPoliticsCampaign strategists working for President Obama and Mitt Romney say they're organized for an October election. And both candidates believe early voting in key battleground states could conceivably forecast the next president days and perhaps weeks before most voters turn out on Nov. 6. Early voting -- which has become a significant trend since 2004 -- helps explain why July’s campaign advertising for and against the presidential contenders has been so intense well before most of the country goes to the polls. It’s part of the reason why both candidates this summer have put a premium on mobilizing their respective bases, and wooing fence-sitters where they can.
Read moreJul 26, 2012
Jeb to Keynote Convention Luncheon -- and More?
By Beth Reinhard, National JournalOne of the many uncomfortable decisions surrounding the speaking lineup at the Republican nominating convention is how to juggle Florida Gov. Rick Scott and former Gov. Jeb Bush. Bush is a strong, bilingual speaker beloved by the Republican faithful and frequently mentioned as a future presidential candidate. Scott is not. But with the two former presidents with the Bush surname not coming to the convention, how can the party put the former governor on the stage and not the current executive?
Read moreThe NRA has won
By Doyle McManus, Los Angeles TimesPoliticians haven't always been allergic to gun control, not even Republicans. In 1968, after the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy and the Rev.Martin Luther King Jr., Congress — on a bipartisan vote — outlawed guns sales to felons and the mentally ill. In 1993, when Congress passed the Brady bill requiring background checks for gun purchasers, former President Reagan, who narrowly escaped assassination in 1981, was among its supporters. In 1994, when Congress passed a ban on assault weapons, 10 Republican senators supported the provision. And as recently as 2002, when Mitt Romney ran for governor of Massachusetts, he declared himself strongly in favor of "tough gun laws."
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