Skip to content
TRENDING:
Donald Trump
Advertisement

Articles by Seth McLaughlin

Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns at Colorado Springs Municipal Airport in Colorado Springs, Col., Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Romney casts himself as uniter, Obama as divider

On the heels of a new poll showing him struggling to make inroads in Ohio, Mitt Romney stumped in New Hampshire, Iowa and here in Colorado on Saturday, telling tens of thousands of voters in the battleground states that four more years of President Obama would generate more of the partisan gridlock that has slowed the nation's economic recovery and hurt the jobs market.

November 3, 2012
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gestures while speaking at a campaign event at Integrity Windows in Roanoke, Va., Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Romney’s message largely in tact: Jobs, jobs, jobs

Subtract the jokes about corn qualifying as amber waves of grain, and Mitt Romney's basic message to voters — captured in his standard 20-minute stump speech — remains remarkably the same today as it was a year ago in the frozen cornfields of Iowa: He's the government turnaround artist the country has been waiting for.

November 1, 2012
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (right) campaigns in Tampa, Fla., on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. With him are (from left) former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Connie Mack. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Romney stumps in Florida, pledges to ‘bring real change’

For the first time since superstorm Sandy walloped the East Coast, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney returned to full campaign mode Wednesday in the key battleground state of Florida, where he toned down his attacks against President Obama while touting an optimistic message that centered on his plans for strengthening the economy and nurturing bipartisanship in Washington.

October 31, 2012
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney loads a truck with supplies Tuesday in Kettering, Ohio, during a rally to raise donations for those affected by Hurricane Sandy. Mr. Romney encouraged unity during the event while avoiding attacks on President Obama. (Associated Press)

Romney balances sympathy, politics in Ohio

Walking a political tightrope, Mitt Romney made a stop here Tuesday and tried to strike a delicate balance between showing sympathy for those suffering in the wake of Hurricane Sandy and fulfilling the duties of his current job: Republican Party presidential nominee.

October 30, 2012
Mitt Romney speaks Monday at Avon Lake High School in Ohio. He has knocked President Obama’s use of waivers for welfare laws and No Child Left Behind but has said he would issue a blanket waiver to block much of the health care law. (Associated Press)

Romney embraces executive authority

Facing off in last week's foreign policy debate, Mitt Romney nodded in agreement with much of what President Obama has done with his powers as chief executive — including a full-on embrace of the president's claim to sole authority to expand drone strikes to kill terrorist suspects.

October 29, 2012
Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign rally at the Marion County Fairgrounds in Marion, Ohio, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Mike Munden)

Reid would test Romney vow of bipartisanship

In the waning days of the election, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is playing up his bipartisan prowess, wooing voters with the notion that he will be the post-partisan leader that President Obama promised but failed to be.

October 28, 2012
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney takes the stage to speak about the economy at a campaign rally at Kinzler Construction Services in Ames, Iowa, Friday, Oct. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Romney makes economic case against Obama

Pouncing on new modest economic growth numbers, GOP nominee Mitt Romney pounded home the message at a couple of campaign stops Friday that President Obama has failed to deliver on his promise to revive the economy and to nurture the bipartisanship necessary to confront the nation's problems.

October 26, 2012
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney speaks Thursday in Cincinnati. A pro-life convert, Mr. Romney is the standard-bearer for a party establishing increasingly absolute opposition to abortion, but he also must appeal to moderate voters to boost his Election Day hopes. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Romney weighs balance with pro-life views

As the Republican standard-bearer this year, Mitt Romney, a late-in-life convert to the pro-life cause, finds himself at the helm of a party staking out an increasingly absolute opposition to abortion, even as he tries to woo moderate voters he'll need to win on Election Day.

October 25, 2012
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney makes a point during a campaign stop at Jet Machine, a defense contractor, in Cincinnati on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

Back in Ohio, Romney promises big changes

Stumping in the state that both campaigns see as critical to the 2012 vote, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney vowed Thursday that he and Rep. Paul Ryan, his running mate, will bring the kind of "big change" to Washington that President Obama promised in 2008 but has failed to deliver over the course of his first term in office.

October 25, 2012
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney greets supporters Oct. 24, 2012, at an election campaign rally at the Reno Event Center in Reno, Nev. (Associated Press)

Romney fights for Iowa, Nevada

Seeking to blow a hole in President Obama's road map to victory, Mitt Romney campaigned in Nevada on Wednesday and had another stop scheduled in Iowa — two battleground states that Mr. Obama carried four years ago and where he now clings to a lead with less than two weeks to go in a tight election.

October 24, 2012
**FILE** Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney waves to supporters as he arrives Oct. 17, 2012, for a rally at Tidewater Community College in Chesapeake, Va. (Associated Press)

Post-debate, candidates court women’s vote

Trying to regain a clear lead among female voters, President Obama and Democrats said Wednesday that Mitt Romney's second debate performance showed the Republican presidential nominee will not stand up for women's rights and mocked him for saying he brought "binders full of women" as job candidates with him when he became Massachusetts governor.

October 17, 2012
Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan speaks Oct. 16, 2012, during a rally at Automated Conveyor Systems in Lynchburg, Va. (Associated Press)

Ryan warns of desperation attacks from Obama

With Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney making his final preparations Tuesday for his second debate showdown with President Obama, his running mate Rep. Paul Ryan took to the stump in Virginia, telling supporters that Mr. Obama can't run on his record and is relying on desperate attacks in hopes of winning a second term "by default."

October 16, 2012
**FILE** Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks Oct. 13, 2012, in Portsmouth, Ohio. (Associated Press)

Romney, RNC set party fundraising record in September

Mitt Romney's financial team and the Republican National Committee set a new Republican record for monthly fundraising in a presidential race, announcing Monday that together they raised $170 million in September — putting Mr. Romney on firm financial footing heading into the final three weeks of the race for the White House.

October 15, 2012
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks Oct. 10, 2012, during a town hall meeting at Ariel Corporation in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. (Associated Press)

Romney sidesteps questions on detaining U.S. citizens

Mitt Romney sidestepped questions Wednesday about whether he would have signed the National Defense Authorization Act that authorizes the indefinite detention of terror suspects, including American citizens, saying he didn't have enough information on the law.

October 10, 2012