President Barack Obama’s re-election on Tuesday night was as much about him as it was a thorough repudiation of a narrowly inclusive Republican Party. Americans made their voices heard across the nation, emphatically saying they preferred a president they believed who looked out for their interests over a callous GOP that has cared less about [...]
Final Polls Give Barack Obama Slight Edge Over Mitt Romney In Presidential Race
November 6, 2012 | Posted by
President Barack Obama should win a second term after squeaking out narrow wins in a number of key swing states, according to the final presidential polls released on Sunday. Polls by the Pew Research Center, NBC/Wall Street Journal, CNN/ORC International and YouGov show the president with enough of a narrow but significant lead over Republican [...]
New Polls: Swing States Split In Support Of President Obama, Mitt Romney
November 5, 2012 | Posted by
Voters in swing states are evenly split between President Obama and GOP nominee Mitt Romney, according to a new poll from USA Today and Gallup. According to the poll, which was released late Sunday, 48 percent of likely voters in 12 of the nation’s key battleground states back Obama, while 48 percent prefer Romney. The [...]
Ohio Polls Drive GOP to Use ‘Slavery Ad’ to Target African-Americans For Romney
November 2, 2012 | Posted by
The key swing state of Ohio is officially a “tossup” capable of going to either President Barack Obama or his Republican challenger Mitt Romney, according to the Washington Post. The president had previously enjoyed a solid lead in The Buckeye State, but a slew of new polls suggests that the race has tightened over the [...]
Romney Links President Obama To Castro and Chavez in Spanish TV Ad In Florida
November 1, 2012 | Posted by
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was in Miami on Wednesday touting the need to unite the country and to stop all the personal attacks that characterized the presidential election. But meanwhile the former Massachusetts governor’s campaign had already begun running a Spanish-language TV ad in the Miami area that ties President Barack Obama to figures [...]
Polls: President Obama Has Narrow Lead Over Mitt Romney In Ohio
October 31, 2012 | Posted by
The latest polls from arguably the three most important battleground states indicate President Barack Obama has a small advantage over Republican nominee Mitt Romney in Ohio, and that the presidential race is basically deadlocked in Florida and Virginia. According to a CBS News/New York Times/Quinnipiac University survey released Wednesday, the president holds a 50 percent [...]
Final NPR Poll Says Presidential Race Is Too Close To Call
October 30, 2012 | Posted by
The final NPR Battleground Poll for 2012 shows former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney holding a slim lead in the national sample, but trailing President Barack Obama in the dozen swing states that will decide the election. The poll adds further evidence that the Oct. 3 presidential debate between the two men redefined the race. But [...]
Hurricane Sandy Bears Down On U.S. Northeast and Presidential Race
October 29, 2012 | Posted by
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was staking his claim to the far right during the GOP primaries when he first declared that he’d like to gut the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and privatize disaster relief. That extreme position takes on added meaning now in a tightly contested presidential election as Hurricane Sandy bears down [...]
New Polls: President Obama Ahead of Mitt Romney in Key State Of Ohio
October 25, 2012 | Posted by
Buoyed by the strength of early voting in his favor, President Barack Obama leads Republican challenger Mitt Romney by five points in the pivotal state of Ohio, according to a new TIME poll. Counting both Ohioans who say they will head to the polls on November 6 and those who have already cast a ballot, Obama holds [...]
Victory for Romney Looks Possible, But Obama Win More Likely
October 21, 2012 | Posted by
As analysts continue to pull out their calculators and do the electoral math with just two weeks to go until the presidential election, it appears that while GOP challenger Mitt Romney has substantially closed the gap on President Obama in many states and in national polls, Romney still has a more difficult path than Obama [...]
