Ann Romney has stepped out into a new role for the final stretch of the campaign: Character witness and defender in chief.
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Ryan: More jobs yield more taxpayers
Romney’s runningmate aims to handle the ’47 percent’ with ‘good paychecks.’
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Churches using ‘souls to polls’ to rally vote
Some leaders compare their registration and get-out-the-vote efforts to the racial struggle that led to the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
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Romney’s message may be losing its luster in NH
Some voters say they are turned off by his shift to the right on issues like abortion, while others seem to have absorbed the message from Obama campaign ads.
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Romney: US must be shaping events
The Obama campaign responds by calling the Republican’s foreign policy stances ‘erratic.’
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Politically, poll reveals differences in Maine districts
The liberal south and coast vs. the more conservative north is a divide that could again be key in the election.
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Obama trying to avoid miscue in first debate
Both parties say the first debate traditionally helps the challenger, whose stature tends to rise in the eyes of many voters by simply appearing on stage as the alternative.
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Hours of preparation for Romney ahead of debate
As the candidate has prepared for the first matchup, one question has loomed among both advisers and observers: Will he provoke Obama or will Obama provoke him?
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Romney criticizes Obama foreign policy record
BURLINGTON, Mass. — Republican Mitt Romney is arguing America needs new foreign policy leadership, using President Barack Obama’s handling of the Middle East as an opening to criticize the incumbent before Wednesday’s first presidential debate. With both candidates hunkered down and practicing for their first face-off, Romney is offering a mixed argument against the president […]
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Off the Trail: Strong views in small, struggling town
Another in a weekly series on what Mainers across the state say about the race for the White House – and what they want from the next president. MILLINOCKET – There’s a verse in the Bruce Springsteen song “My Hometown” that could have been written about Millinocket: “Now Main Street’s whitewashed windows and vacant stores […]