National Govt & Politics Stories for October 2012
Stories for Tuesday, October 30
Gaffe-prone candidates hurt GOP's Senate chances
Republicans hopeful of taking over the Senate should be measuring the drapes, but a series of blown opportunities two years ago and again this year has cost the party dearly in their quest for a Senate majority. Flawed, gaffe-prone nominees may have cost them the chance to win three seats ...
Stories for Monday, October 29
No high court action on voting rights law
Three years ago, the Supreme Court warned there could be constitutional problems with a landmark civil rights law that has opened voting booths to millions of African-Americans. Now, opponents of a key part of the Voting Rights Act are asking the high court to finish off that provision. The basic ...
Stories for Saturday, October 27
Obama, Romney campaign with eye on storm forecast
With an eye on the weather forecast, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney are starting a 10-day sprint to the finish line in a contest increasingly about momentum versus math. "Let's win this," Romney emailed supporters Saturday as he hopped a plane from one important state to another — ...
Stories for Thursday, October 25
Obama pressures Romney to break his Mourdock ties
President Barack Obama, seeking to shore up support among women, intensified his pressure Thursday on Mitt Romney to break any ties with a Republican Senate candidate who said that if a woman becomes pregnant from rape it is "something God intended." Romney ignored the emotional social issue, holding to an ...
Stories for Tuesday, October 23
Obama, Romney in final sprint to Election Day
The endgame at hand, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney plunged into the final two weeks of an excruciatingly close race for the White House Tuesday with TV advertising nearing an astronomical $1 billion and millions of Americans casting early ballots in all regions of the country. Increasingly, Ohio ...
Stories for Monday, October 22
Obama and Romney face off in final presidential debate
President Barack Obama sharply challenged Mitt Romney on foreign policy in their final campaign debate Monday night, saying, "every time you've offered an opinion you've been wrong." The Republican coolly responded, "Attacking me is not an agenda" for dealing with a dangerous world. With the two men seated at a ...
Stories for Sunday, October 21
Obama, Romney allies square off on foreign policy
On the eve of their final presidential debate, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama — through their allies — squared off Sunday over which candidate would best protect the nation's interests and security abroad with just two weeks left in a race that polls show is increasingly tight. Both candidates stayed ...
Stories for Saturday, October 20
Romney ups criticism of Obama's second-term plans
Heading into the campaign's final weeks, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is upping his criticism of President Barack Obama's plans for a second term, accusing the Democrat of failing to tell Americans what he would do with four more years. The Obama campaign is aggressively disputing the notion, claiming it's ...
Stories for Tuesday, October 16
Face to face: Obama, Romney in crackling debate
An aggressive President Barack Obama accused challenger Mitt Romney of favoring a "one-point plan" to help the rich in America and playing politics with the recent deadly terrorist attack in Libya in a Tuesday night debate crackling with energy and emotion just three weeks before the election. Romney pushed back ...
Social Security benefits to go up by 1.7 percent
More than 56 million Social Security recipients will see their monthly payments go up by 1.7 percent next year. The increase, which starts in January, is tied to a measure of inflation released Tuesday. It shows that inflation has been relatively low over the past year, despite the recent surge ...
Stories for Thursday, October 11
Biden, Ryan spar in feisty Vice Presidential debate
At odds early and often, Joe Biden and Republican Paul Ryan squabbled over the economy, taxes, Medicare and more Thursday night in a contentious, interruption-filled debate. "That is a bunch of malarkey," the vice president retorted after a particularly tough Ryan attack on the administration's foreign policy. "I know you're ...
Stories for Tuesday, October 9
In close race, both Obama and Romney showing confidence
Exactly one month from Election Day, Republican Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama are both declaring they will win a race for the White House that remains anything but clear. Their trails are crossing again in Ohio, the state that could decide the election, and signs of urgency are emerging ...
Stories for Monday, October 8
Protesters gather in Civic Center Plaza for Obama fundraiser
Anti-war protesters and medical marijuana advocates rallied in San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza early Monday evening ahead of a fundraising event by President Barack Obama at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. The several-dozen protesters critical of the continued U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan and other military operations in the Middle ...
Stories for Thursday, October 4
Romney on '47 percent': I was 'completely wrong'
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has described his disparaging remarks about the 47 percent of Americans who don't pay federal income taxes as "not elegantly stated." Now he's calling them "just completely wrong." The original remarks, secretly recorded during a fundraiser in May and posted online in September by the ...
Post-debate: Romney basks, Obama challenges
An invigorated Mitt Romney basked in rave reviews Thursday after his first face-off with the president, envisioning an inaugural celebration, while President Barack Obama and his allies tried to rebound by vigorously accusing Romney of dishonesty on the debate stage. Obama told supporters gathered on the brisk autumn morning-after in ...
Stories for Wednesday, October 3
Aggressive Romney spars with Obama in first debate
In a showdown at close quarters, an aggressive Mitt Romney sparred with President Barack Obama in their first campaign debate Wednesday night over taxes, deficits and strong steps needed to create jobs in a sputtering national economy. "The status quo is not going to cut it," declared the Republican challenger. ...
Stories for Tuesday, October 2
Pa. voter ID law ruling could mean political swing
Some political momentum could be on the line when a judge rules on whether to keep intact Pennsylvania's tough new law requiring voters to show photo identification in next month's presidential election. Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson is under a state Supreme Court order to rule no later than Tuesday, ...
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