May 03 Poll: Obama, Romney in Dead Heat in Florida, Ohio By Christina Bellantoni President Obama speaks at Ohio State University earlier this year. Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images. President Obama and Mitt Romney are locked in a dead heat in two states that will likely play a deciding role in November's election: Florida… Continue reading
May 02 Another Word About the Women's Vote By Judy Woodruff As much as I know women are not all alike, that they can differ dramatically from one another in their thinking about politics (and everything else, for that matter), I keep coming back to this "non bloc" of voters for… Continue reading
May 02 For Romney, a Campaign Blueprint From 2004 By Dante Chinni Mitt Romney speaks in Wisconsin in April. Photo via Getty Images With six months to go until Election Day, the 2012 presidential contest is only now beginning to take shape. In the coming days the campaigns of President Obama and… Continue reading
May 02 Obama's Trip to Afghanistan Eclipses Bin Laden Debate By Christina Bellantoni President Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai sign a strategic partnership agreement Tuesday. Afghan Presidential Palace photo via Getty Images. Mitt Romney got a stark reminder Tuesday of just how difficult it is to run against an incumbent president who… Continue reading
May 01 Obama Ad Knocks Romney for Outsourcing Jobs, Swiss Bank Account By Christina Bellantoni President Obama speaks at the Building and Construction Trades Department Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C., on Monday. Photo by Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images. This May Day marks President Obama's first television attack ad aimed squarely at Mitt Romney. The ad first… Continue reading
Apr 30 Examining the Electoral Map, President Obama's Arguments for a Second Term By Christina Bellantoni // In this week's Political Checklist, Political Editor Christina Bellantoni chatted with senior correspondents Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff about President Obama's latest campaign video, which reminds voters he inherited a bad economy from President George W. Bush. Gwen… Continue reading
Apr 30 Former President Clinton: Obama 'Deserves to Be Re-Elected' By Christina Bellantoni Former President Bill Clinton helped raise money for the Obama campaign over the weekend. 2011 photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images. Former President Bill Clinton summed up his arguments for the re-election of President Obama to high-dollar donors in Northern Virginia… Continue reading
Apr 27 When's a Campaign Not a Campaign? (See Obama, Gingrich) By Gwen Ifill Just when you thought it was safe to go back outside, it turns out the campaign lull we thought had just begun hasn't occurred at all. We were assured by the Democrats that the president's travels to three battleground states… Continue reading
Apr 27 House Speaker Boehner Enters Presidential Campaign Fray By Terence Burlij House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, holds his weekly press conference on Thursday. Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call. House Speaker John Boehner endorsed Mitt Romney just last week, and by Thursday he had turned into one of the presumptive GOP… Continue reading
Apr 26 Obama Campaign: 'Welcome to the General Election' By Terence Burlij President Obama exits Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base on Wednesday. Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images. This entry was updated at 1:08 p.m. ET President Obama plans to kick off his general election campaign next weekend with a… Continue reading