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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
Vice President Joe Biden and Republican vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin participate in the vice presidential debate at Centre College, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012, in Danville, Ky. (AP Photo/Pool-Rick Wilking)

Biden, Ryan go head to head, but they can’t see eye to eye in vice presidential debate

Looking to erase the memory of President Obama's widely panned debate performance from a week ago, Vice President Joseph R. Biden took the fight to his rival Paul Ryan on Thursday, accusing him of obfuscating Republicans' tax cut plans and calling GOP criticism of the administration's handling of last month's Libya terrorist attack "malarkey."

October 11, 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
Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee, arrives for a rally in Van Meter, Iowa. Mr. Romney told the crowd that “When I become president, I will do everything in my power to strengthen once again the American farm, to strengthen the family farm.” (Associated Press)

Romney to build on debate boost

An energized Mitt Romney is looking to build on his new campaign momentum in the country’s swing states, including in Ohio, where he is deploying some of his heaviest political artillery and personalizing his message in his hunt for undecided voters.

October 9, 2012
A supporter of President Obama, posing as PBS’ “Big Bird,” makes his views known Monday outside the Derry, N.H., campaign offices of GOP rival Mitt Romney. Rep. John A. Boehner was about to speak to Romney backers there. (Associated Press)

‘Sesame Street’ firm calls on Obama to pull ‘Big Bird’ ad

Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit company that owns Big Bird and the rest of the “Sesame Street” gang, asked the Obama campaign Tuesday to pull down political ads featuring the iconic bird and attacking Mitt Romney for saying he would end taxpayer funding for PBS.

October 9, 2012
**FILE** A protester dressed as Big Bird stands Oct. 6, 2012, outside of the amphitheater in Apopka Fla., where Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney prepares to speak during a campaign rally. (Associated Press)

Feathers fly as candidates fight over Big Bird

Mitt Romney flipped President Obama's re-election team the proverbial bird on Tuesday, saying the Democrats' attempts to make a big issue over Mr. Romney's opposition to federal subsidies for Big Bird reflect their misguided priorities.

October 9, 2012
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, campaign at Tradition Town Square in Port St. Lucie, Fla., on Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Mitt Romney on Monday will accuse the Obama administration of fundamentally misunderstanding the threat of radical Islam, using a major foreign-policy speech at the Virginia Military Institute to say President Obama is rejecting six decades of bipartisan consensus by not flexing more U.S. muscle on the world stage.

October 8, 2012