Union leader strives to ease Obama’s “white guy problem”
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – President Barack Obama made history in his 2008 election victory as the first black U.S. president, but he risks achieving another, less welcome, first if he wins again in November.
Obama is on course to become the candidate with the lowest support from white male working class voters to win a U.S. election if he triumphs over Republican Mitt Romney on November 6.
Democrat gathering to focus on Hispanics, Clinton good times
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The 2012 Democratic convention speaker schedule is focused on two things: the crucial Hispanic vote and a throwback to the 1990s when a Democratic president oversaw economic good times.
The party announced that San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro will deliver the keynote address on September 4, the first day of the three-day meeting in Charlotte.
Condoleezza Rice’s name surfaces, then fades, as Romney VP pick
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s name surfaced briefly as a possible vice presidential running mate for Mitt Romney, but faded quickly as an aide said on Friday she was still not interested in the position.
The Drudge Report reported on Thursday that Rice was a front-runner for the No. 2 spot on the Republican presidential ticket, prompting endorsements by some leading conservatives.
In strategy shift, Romney camp steps up response to attacks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – For weeks, anxious Republicans called on Mitt Romney to respond more aggressively to attacks from the Democrats, afraid his hopes of winning the presidency could slip away if his rivals are able to define him as being out of touch with ordinary Americans.
This week, those Romney supporters are getting their wish.
Over the Internet and the airwaves, Romney and his allies have launched a stream of counterpunches against President Barack Obama and his team.
Romney camp steps up response to Democrats’ attacks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – For weeks, anxious Republicans called on Mitt Romney to respond more aggressively to attacks from the Democrats, afraid his hopes of winning the presidency could slip away if his rivals were able to define him as being out of touch with ordinary Americans.
This week, those Romney supporters are getting their wish.
Over the Internet and the airwaves, Romney and his allies have launched a stream of counterpunches against President Barack Obama and his team.
Republicans hold ‘Super Saturday’ to energize voters
, July 7 (Reuters) – Thousands of Republican
volunteers braved scorching temperatures to knock on doors and
canvass voters on Saturday as the party staged its first “Super
Saturday” blitz hoping to energize supporters and rival
Democrats’ volunteer mobilization.
Republican party officials said volunteers were out in a
dozen battleground states expected to see close contests in the
Nov. 6 election between Democratic President Barack Obama and
his Republican challenger, former Massachusetts governor Mitt
Romney.
Republicans shoot for “Super Saturday”
Hoping to echo the Democratic Party’s successful use of volunteer armies to engage – and turn out – voters, Republicans are mounting their first “Super Saturday” volunteer day of the 2012 campaign this weekend. On July 7, the party says it will dispatch an army of volunteers to knock on doors and make telephone calls to voters in swing states across the country.
Kirsten Kukowski, a spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, said the Romney/RNC operation would be in Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada and Iowa.
2012 Election? In hot summer, it’s leaving Americans cold
A long spell of brutally hot weather is not the only thing making Americans cranky this summer.
With four months still to go before the presidential election on Nov. 6, Americans seem to be experiencing the 2012 campaign more like studying for a big math test than watching an exciting neck-and-neck horse race, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. More Republicans in particular are bored with the campaign.
Dark economic clouds gather anew over Obama campaign
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – After a month in which his re-election campaign picked up momentum, hard economic realities are about to hit President Barack Obama as he takes to the road on a campaign bus trip through the Rust Belt.
Poor manufacturing data earlier this week followed by a likely weak jobless report on Friday are reminding Obama that he has a lot of work to do to convince voters he is bringing the economy back to full health.
Support for Obama healthcare law rises after ruling
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Voter support for President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul has increased following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling upholding it, although majorities still oppose it, a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Sunday showed.
Among all registered voters, support for the law rose to 48 percent in the online survey conducted after Thursday’s ruling, up from 43 percent before the court decision. Opposition slipped to 52 percent from 57 percent.
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