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Campaigns invade other sides' turf
Romney-Ryan signs sit on nearly every block in this southwest Ohio suburb and there's scant trace of support for President Barack Obama.
Political ads gear up for final push of campaign
The campaign ad crush has intensified and expanded in the final week of the presidential contest, with President Barack Obama, Republican challenger ...
Obama goes to FEMA before visit to storm-racked NJ
President Obama is paying a visit to Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters ahead of his trip to New Jersey to see the damage done by ...
Analysis: Doing his job, Obama a subtle campaigner
It may look to America like President Barack Obama is off the campaign trail. He's really not. By commanding the response to a ferocious October storm ...
Donors with dollars: Top 5 fundraisers for Obama
Chicago is President Barack Obama's kind of town when it comes to top-dollar campaign donations. Windy City media baron Fred Eychaner was a leading ...
Obama, Romney in search of independent voters
Political mailers are stuffed in their front doors and the phone rings nonstop. Under a fall canopy of crimson and golden leaves, the battle for ...
Images from Campaign 2012: 10 to remember. Or not
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney circling one another like prizefighters. Joe Biden chatting up a biker chick. Clint Eastwood conversing with an empty ...
A day after Sandy, New Yorkers find a changed city
Stripped of its bustle and mostly cut off from the world, New York was left wondering Tuesday when its particular way of life — carried by subway, lit ...
Disarray, millions without power in Sandy's wake
The most devastating storm in decades to hit the country's most densely populated region upended man and nature as it rolled back the clock on ...
Gingrich raising cash, profile for Akin Senate bid
Shunned by Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin turned Tuesday to former presidential hopeful Newt ...
Romney moves to reframe debate on abortion, autos
In ads, his own remarks and most recently the words of a top supporter, Republican Mitt Romney seems determined to soften emphasis on abortion and ...
Romney, GOP suddenly plunging onto Democratic turf
Mitt Romney is suddenly plunging into traditionally Democratic-leaning Minnesota and Pennsylvania, and his GOP allies are trying to put Michigan into ...
Greece delays austerity vote, warns of 'chaos'
Greece's coalition government will delay a vote on major new austerity measures by another week, warning Tuesday there would be financial chaos if a ...
Obama to air ads in Mich. touting auto bailout
President Barack Obama's campaign plans to air advertising in Michigan beginning Wednesday touting the president's support of the auto industry, ...
Md. experiences full variety of Sandy's wrath
On Maryland's jagged coastline, hurricane-riled waves destroyed an iconic pier and floodwaters forced caskets from graves in a town famed for crabbing
Romney, Obama, talk of Sandy week before election
Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney edged back into active campaigning on Tuesday while President Barack Obama stayed close to the White ...
Mexican man pleads guilty in killing of US agent
A Mexican man pleaded guilty Tuesday in the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent whose death revealed the botched "Fast and Furious" gun-smuggling ...
Q&A: Could Sandy postpone the election?
One week before a close election, superstorm Sandy has confounded the presidential race, halted early voting in many areas and led some to ponder ...
Nature slams campaigns into real world
Suddenly, after drifting through months of confusing finger-pointing and iffy economic theory, the presidential candidates are getting walloped by an ...
Obama to view storm damage in New Jersey
President Barack Obama will travel to storm-stricken New Jersey on Wednesday to view damage from the massive storm that struck the East Coast and to ...
Oh no Ohio! Living under a political barrage
This is what it's like to be an Ohioan in the maddening final days of Campaign 2012: A cacophony of screeching voices spew attack ads from television ...
Nasty campaign tactics: Phony voting instructions
With a week to go until Election Day, the nasty campaign tactics are coming out. People in Florida, Virginia and Indiana have gotten calls falsely ...
GOP groups invest in Neb., NM Senate races
A Republican-leaning outside group is investing in Nebraska's suddenly tighter Senate race, looking to shore up Republican Deb Fischer as she tries ...
Water, fire, destruction: NYC after the superstorm
The massive storm that pummeled the East killed 10 people in New York City and left the nation's largest city eerily quiet Tuesday, with no running ...