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| Obama focuses on turnout, Romney on Pennsylvania Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 10:25 AM PST  Just two days from the finish, President Barack Obama's campaign is mobilizing a massive get-out-the-vote effort aimed at carrying the Democrat to victory, as Republican Mitt Romney makes a late play for votes in Democratic-leaning Pennsylvania. Full Story | Top |
| In final days of Obama campaign, little drama, plenty of passion—and some dancing Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 12:48 PM PST CINCINNATIâ€"Win or lose Tuesday, the next two days will be the last President Barack Obama ever spends campaigning for public office, and he's coming to terms with it. "I've known him for 20 years. ... I've never seen him more exhilarated than he is right now," campaign strategist David Axelrod told a group of reporters [...] Full Story | Top |
| #HashOut on Location: What is the best reason to vote for Mitt Romney on Election Day? Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 02:51 AM PST For day two of Yahoo!'s HashOut on Location in Ohio, we drove from Cleveland to Columbus. On Friday, we asked people: What is the best reason to vote for Barack Obama on Election Day? On Saturday, we switched gears and asked: What is the best reason to vote for Mitt Romney on Election Day? Saturday [...] Full Story | Top |
| The abortion politics of Campaign 2012: Is that something that God intended to happen? Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 06:39 AM PST Happy birthday, abortion! You’ve bedeviled philosophers, politicians and doctors for 25 centuries! That’s right: Since around the 5th-century B.C., when the Hippocratic Oath for physicians first contained a clause about abortion, we’ve driven ourselves insane over the implications of a simple, common, ancient medical procedure. Full Story | Top |
| Campaigning for victory, Romney speeches shift Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 01:40 AM PST  From an airport runway on a cold New Hampshire morning, Republican Mitt Romney faced 2,000 supporters and delivered the same speech he had given the day before â€" three times on the day before, actually. Full Story | Top |
| Romney camp hoping for a systematic polling bias in Ohio Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 06:05 AM PST In the last two days, six new polls of Ohio voters have been released, five of which favor President Barack Obama, by leads of 6 points, 4 points, 4 points, 3 points and 2 points. The last reports a tie, from right-leaning Rasmussen, which gave former Gov. Mitt Romney a 2-point advantage last week. Obama [...] Full Story | Top |
| Bill Clinton, Paul Ryan square off in Iowa op-eds Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 08:41 AM PST With President Barack Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney vying for eleventh-hour undecided voters in the battleground state of Iowa, former president and Obama surrogate Bill Clinton and Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan each penned op-eds published by the Des Moines Register on Sunday outlining the cases for their respective candidates. "This election is [...] Full Story | Top |
| Forget the war on women: The men’s vote could decide who wins in 2012 Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 07:08 AM PST A barrage of attention from the presidential candidates and the news media has been paid to "waitress moms," "Walmart women" and other exhibits of the female species this election, with pundits wondering whether the female gender gap, which works in the president's favor, will carry him over the top on Election Day. But the focus [...] Full Story | Top |
| President Obama, Bill Clinton Unite On 2012 Trail For First Time Saturday, Nov 03, 2012 09:40 PM PDT  The Barack Obama-Bill Clinton “bromance†was on full display tonight in battleground Virginia as both men united in public for the first time on the 2012 campaign trail. Clinton, who has been barnstorming the country for Obama and audibly hoarse, appeared to captivate the Democratic... Full Story | Top |
| Fla. Democrats want extended early voting hours Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 06:30 AM PST Florida Democrats say they've filed a federal lawsuit asking for the state's early voting period to be extended. Full Story | Top |
| Will Jersey shore ever be the same after Sandy? Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 12:44 AM PDT  It is one of the icons of America, the backdrop to a thousand stories â€" the place where Tony Soprano's nightmares unfolded, where Nucky Thompson built his "Boardwalk Empire," where Snooki and The Situation brought reality TV to the ocean's edge and where Springsteen conjured a world of love and loss and cars and carnival lights and a girl named, incongruously, Sandy. Full Story | Top |
| Romney campaign insists Sandy didn’t curb momentum Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 11:26 AM PST CLEVELANDâ€"Mitt Romney's campaign is rejecting the suggestion made by a leading Republican official that Superstorm Sandy has stalled the Republican presidential nominee's momentum heading into Election Day. In an interview with CNN's "State of the Union," former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said, "The hurricane is what broke Romney's momentum. I don't think there is any [...] Full Story | Top |
| Romney: 'It's possible' Obama could win Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 12:32 PM PST  Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney says he may be defeated by President Barack Obama in Tuesday's presidential contest, but it's doubtful. Full Story | Top |
| Road Trip, Florida’s I-4 corridor: The mother road of swing voters Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 11:17 AM PST By Bob Sacha and Maisie Crow Interstate 4 bisects the center of America's most notorious swing state, running 132 miles from Tampa, through Orlando and ending near Daytona Beach. Fifty-five percent of Florida voters live in the I-4 corridor. It is often where elections are decided in a state that has frequently switched sides, voting [...] Full Story | Top |
| Disappointed NYC marathoners run in aid of Sandy victims Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 01:33 PM PST  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hundreds of runners in New York City are refusing to let a canceled marathon spoil their Sunday plans and are channeling months of preparation into informal runs intended to benefit victims of superstorm Sandy. Amid criticism from victims of Monday's storm that the race would divert resources from efforts to help flood-ravaged parts of the city, Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday canceled the marathon. The event, scheduled for Sunday, had been expected to draw more than 40,000 runners to the city. ... Full Story | Top |
| Insight: For most voters, presidential campaign is distant Saturday, Nov 03, 2012 10:23 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - This year's presidential election could be among the closest in U.S. history, as President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney are locked in a virtual dead heat. For a growing number of voters, however, it will not be much of a contest at all. Roughly 22 percent of the U.S. population lives in the nine politically divided states that are likely to determine the outcome of Tuesday's election - and that have been the focus of the candidates' campaign stops and advertising. ... Full Story | Top |
| Housing crisis looms as storm victims battle cold Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 02:14 PM PST  NEW YORK (Reuters) - A housing crisis loomed in New York City as victims of superstorm Sandy struggled on Sunday without heat in near-freezing temperatures, and officials fretted displaced residents would not be able to vote in Tuesday's presidential election. Fuel shortages and power outages lingered nearly a week after one of the worst storms in U.S. history flooded homes in coastal neighborhoods, leaving many without heat and in need of shelter in New York and New Jersey. ... Full Story | Top |
| New York magazine publishes powerful Sandy cover Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 06:49 AM PST Like millions of other Con Ed customers, New York magazine's offices in lower Manhattan were without power last week in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. On Tuesday, they set up an "improvised newsroom" in midtown: "32 editors, photo editors, designers, and production specialists squeezed around a conference-room table, down the length of which snaked a [...] Full Story | Top |
| NJ governor pledges to vote Romney despite praising Obama Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 03:40 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie defended his praise for President Barack Obama after superstorm Sandy, but said he would stick with his fellow Republicans and vote for Mitt Romney in Tuesday's election. "I endorsed Mitt Romney 13 months ago because I thought he was the best guy for the job," Christie said on Sunday during a news conference, reaffirming his support for the Republican candidate. But support for Romney does not mean that he cannot appreciate the "good job" that Obama did while responding to the historical storm that hit the U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| 2-year-old boy killed at Pa. zoo exhibit Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 03:41 PM PST  A 2-year-old boy visiting the Pittsburgh zoo was killed Sunday when he fell off a railing that his mother had put him on top of to view a pack of African painted dogs, who pounced on the child and mauled him, police said. Full Story | Top |
| Obama leads but Romney with shot in electoral race Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 11:06 AM PST  President Barack Obama enters the final hours of the 2012 campaign with an edge in the hunt for the 270 electoral votes needed to win and more ways to reach that magic number. Yet the race is remarkably close in at least six states that could go either way, giving Republican Mitt Romney hope that he can pull off a come-from-behind victory. Full Story | Top |
| Puerto Ricans are key in Florida presidential vote Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 05:24 AM PST  President Barack Obama has a problem with Florida's important Puerto Rican voters, and it has little to do with the immigration and deportation issues that dominate so much of the national debate involving Hispanic voters. Full Story | Top |
| Pew: Obama Re-Takes National Lead Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 12:10 PM PST President Obama has experienced a resurgence in the well-respected Pew poll of the national presidential election, building a 3-point lead as Tuesday approaches. Obama pulled 50 percent of likely voters against Republican candidate Mitt Romney's 47 percent, a 3-point bump for the president from Pew's last poll a week ago, which showed the candidates tied at 47 percent. Pew's numbers have closely followed the national trends over the last two months of the campaign. After convention season in early September, Pew picked up a large bump for the president, finding an 8-point Obama lead. ... Full Story | Top |
| As 2012 campaign nears finish, 2016 lurks Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 11:54 AM PST  Relieved to see the long, costly 2012 presidential race end? The 2016 campaign is closer than you think. Full Story | Top |
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