Showing posts with label Mitt Romney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mitt Romney. Show all posts
Thursday, November 08, 2012
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
Monday, November 05, 2012
Iain Duncan Smith praised his record as a governor and businessman and complained that the Republican presidential candidate had been wrongly portrayed as "stupid".
He also pointed out that under Barack Obama the US deficit had "gone from something like 4-500 billion dollars to three or so trillion dollars", and suggested the superpower's economy was stagnating.
Although Mr Duncan Smith stressed he did not know Mr Romney personally, and was not necessarily a "fan", the remarks appeared to risk breaching the convention against ministers taking sides in foreign elections.
"The demonisation of Mitt Romney over here has been appalling really," the Work and Pensions Secretary told BBC Radio 5 Live's Pienaar's Politics. "He may have faults. All politicians have faults. But this is a guy who ran a state very well.
"He got their debts and deficit down. He's turned around businesses. Whatever else you may say about him, he is not stupid, and he is made out to be stupid over here." » | pa.press.net | Monday, November 05, 2012
Saturday, November 03, 2012
After months of speeches, dozens of diner visits, hundreds of thousands of commercials and, by one estimate, $6 billion spent by the campaigns and outside groups, the race is still too close to call.
Mitt Romney promised Americans that under his leadership the country would rediscover its greatness, after languishing under Barack Obama for four years.
Under a slogan of “Real Change from Day One” – a deliberate dig at the president’s winning mantra from 2008 - the Republican contender said that his rival’s “big government” policies had failed.
“If there is anybody who fears the American dream is fading away, I have a message for you: America is about to come roaring back,” he said at his first rally of the day in New Hampshire, one of the closest swing states.
“President Obama is offering excuses, I am offering a plan. He is asking Americans to settle [for what they have got]. But Americans don’t settle, we dream, we aspire and we achieve great things.”
Mr Romney is now the candidate offering a sense of hope, prosperity and unity, while the president is visibly on the defensive.
“I will not just represent one party, I will represent one nation,” Mr Romney said. » | Alex Spillius, Portsmouth, New Hampshire | Saturday, November 03, 2012
Friday, November 02, 2012
Friday, October 26, 2012
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Un magazine américain a affirmé jeudi que le président Barack Obama avait évoqué son adversaire Mitt Romney en termes peu amènes lors d'un entretien avec ses journalistes. La Maison Blanche a appelé à ne pas se laisser «distraire» par un seul mot, alors que le chef de l'Etat devait voter dans son fief de Chicago.
Le directeur de la communication de la Maison Blanche, Dan Pfeiffer, n'a pas démenti jeudi que M. Obama ait employé le mot «bullshitter», soit quelqu'un qui dit «des conneries» dans cet entretien avec le bimensuel «Rolling Stone».
M. Pfeiffer a toutefois souhaité que les médias ne se laissent pas «distraire» par cette expression, et a affirmé que «la confiance est quelque chose de très important dans cette élection». » | ats/Newsnet | jeudi 25 octobre 2012
ZEENEWS: Mitt Romney a ‘bullshitter’: Barack Obama » | PTI | Friday, October 26, 2012
DES MOINES REGISTER: After editor's blog, President Obama releases transcript of Register interview » | Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
The Kansas-based Koch brothers, who run a multi-national group of companies called the Koch Industries, sent a voter information packet to 45,000 of its Georgia Pacific subsidiary this month, threatening that “many of our more than 50,000 US employees and contractors may suffer the consequences” if they vote for Democrats. The packet also included an op-ed by David Koch endorsing Mitt Romney and one by Charles Koch slamming Obama, reported the monthly magazine, In These Times. The brothers also warned that electing Democrats would also lead to other consequences, including higher gasoline prices, runaway inflation and “other ills.”
“This is true regardless of what your political affiliation might be,” reads the cover letter to the packet, written by Koch Industries President and Chief Operating Officer Dave Robertson. » | Monday, October 15, 2012
Sunday, October 14, 2012
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: WASHINGTON: Rupert Murdoch has taken to Twitter to savage the Obama-Biden campaign, appearing to throw his full support behind the Republican challenger, Mitt Romney.
The 81-year-old News Corporation chief accused the Vice-President, Joe Biden, of lying about his administration's relationship with the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and, over the deadly attack on the US consulate in Libya. ''Nightmare for Israel if Obama wins. Biden outright lied about personal relations with Bibi. Susan Rice for State real nightmare,'' Mr Murdoch wrote. » | Arthur Macmillan | Monday, October 15, 2012
In the brutal cut and thrust of the final month of the US presidential campaign, it is no surprise that Mitt Romney's wife Ann is hitting the hustings as an impassioned advocate for her husband.
But Mrs Romney is also playing a key behind-the-scenes role in resurrecting the Republican candidate's flagging White House hopes by steering a high-stakes strategy overhaul to present a "moderate Mitt", it has now emerged.
Convinced that his campaign was heading for ignominious defeat, Mrs Romney and her eldest son Tagg staged a make-or-break "family intervention" with the candidate's closest advisers just before the first presidential debate, according to leaks from within the camp.
Their message to Mr Romney and his advisers was simple -- the candidate should "be himself" and his team should let "let Mitt be Mitt".
They wanted Mr Romney to open up with more personal anecdotes in his speeches, to soften his harsh tone on social issues and to remind voters of his days as governor of Massachusetts when he struck deals with the Democrats who controlled the state legislature, most notably on health care reform.
His pivot to the centre has, since the first presidential debate 11 days ago, paid off with dramatic dividends. A candidate whose political obituaries were already being written has had a resurgence in the polls, leading nationally by more than one percentage point on the most recent average of polls on Saturday, compared with a four point defecit at the start of the month.
He has been bolstered further by a dramatic increase in support from prospective women voters as he closes a once-yawning gender gap with Barack Obama. » | Philip Sherwell, New York | Saturday, October 13, 2012
Friday, October 12, 2012
The Obama campaign suffered a major blow only hours before the vice-presidential debate when a new poll showed Romney opening up a seven-point lead over Barack Obama in Florida, the biggest of the swing states.
It is one of the most devastating set of poll figures the president has yet faced.
Were he to take Florida, with its 29 electoral college votes, Obama would be almost guaranteed re-election to the White House, needing just one more of the swing states. But without Florida, the race is thrown wide open. » | Ewen MacAskill in Danville | Friday, October 12, 2012
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