"Paula Broadwell" takes media spotlight

Fascination with Paula Broadwell, the woman linked to Gen. David Petraeus’s resignation from his post as director of the CIA, mounted early this weekend as details about her surfaced.
Her name was the top search on Google from late Friday through Saturday morning, with more than

What time do polls open, close?

12:00 a.m: Polls open in Dixville Notch and Hart's Location, two small New Hampshire towns that compete every election to cast the first ballots.

Gov. Jerry Brown closes Proposition 30 campaign with statewide blitz

Gov. Jerry Brown raced across California Monday in a last-minute bid to shore up support and stoke enthusiasm for Proposition 30, his proposal to raise taxes and head off billions of dollars in cuts to public education.

Obama asks for more time, as Romney warns about further decline On Sunday

President Obama on Sunday asked Americans for more time to finish what he started while Mitt Romney argued the country needs a change in leadership – as both candidates distilled the closing arguments in the final weekend of the 2012 campaign.
Obama and Romney held morning events and will go late into the night
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Days before US polls, parties fight for every single vote

They smoke you out. Well, not literally, but you get the idea, don’t you? If you are a voter in the United States, the Democrats and the Republicans will come for you. And come really hard.

Romney, Obama spar over voter revenge

Reaching for the finish line, Republican Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama embarked Saturday on the final 72-hour haul of their long, grinding quest for victory, swatting at one another over what should motivate Americans to vote, which candidate they can trust and offering

 dueling pictures of what the next four

 years should bring.

Obama takes destination at Romney Jeep ad

 HILLIARD, Ohio — President Obama slammed Mitt Romney on Friday, charging that the former governor was misleading voters about the American auto bailout.

In his first direct criticism of Romney television and radio ads aired in Ohio and Michigan that imply that Chrysler will move jobs to China and that under Obama's watch General Motors had cut 15,000 jobs, Obama accused Romney of "scaring hard-working Americans to scare up votes."

Economic Data Offers Little Change in Dynamic Between Obama and Romney

The jobs report on Friday had held the potential to inject an unpredictable, last-minute jolt into the race for the White House.

NPR apologizes to teary 'Bronco Bama' girl

'Bronco Bamma and Mitt Romney' make little girl cry: video
'I’m tired of Bronco Bamma and Mitt Romney,' Abigael, wearing a pink ’Hello Kitty’ coat, tells her mother as tears stream down her face.

Nor'easter: New York, New England May See Snow Post-Election Day

WASHINGTON -- Forecasters say another messy – and wintry – storm may cause post-Election Day problems for an already weather weary East Coast.

Colin Powell supports Obama; Sununu, McCain Please go mental hospital

Yesterday, Colin Powell supported Barack Obama for president, explaining that he believes the incumbent has done a good job on the economy given the situation he was handed.

As a former secretary of state and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Powell also took very serious issues with the foreign policy stances of Obama’s opponent, Mitt Romney, saying that ” I’m not sure which Governor Romney we would be respect to foreign policy”:

“One day he has a certain strong view about staying in Afghanistan, but then on Monday night he agrees with the withdrawal.

Why Rajat Gupta’s Rwanda proposal should affront the world’s poor

This is what Rajat Gupta told the district court in New York as it was calculating his possible jail term for indulging in insider trading. The court, of course, didn’t agree with his Rwanda-for-jail barter proposal and gave him a light sentence.

“If the reports of Mr Gupta’s charitable endeavours are at all accurate, he can be counted on to devote himself to community service when he finishes any prison term, regardless of any order of the Court,” Judge Jed S Rackoff said.

Colin Powell Support Obama Again

President Obama today said he was “proud” and “humbled” to learn he has the support of former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who announced this morning that he is endorsing Obama for a second term.“I’m grateful to him for his lifetime of service to his country both as a soldier and as a diplomat,” the president told 15,000 Virginians this afternoon. “And every brave American who wears this uniform of this country should know that as long as I’m your commander in chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. We will be relentless in pursuit of our enemies. Those are promises I’ve kept.”

New Crossroads spot features parents of cancer-stricken son whom Romney helped

"Much of Romney's momentum has come from women who are dissatisfied with Obama's economic results and no longer buy Obama's caricature of Romney," said Steven Law, president and CEO of the Crossroads groups. "Our advertising simply echoes the economic concerns most women have and makes a personal connection to Romney."

The Republican-leaning outside group Crossroads GPS is launching a new spot in Ohio and Wisconsin featuring a couple who offered a testimonial about Mitt Romney's aid to their dying son during the GOP convention.

IRS Commissioner To Step Down Following Presidential Election

As expected, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Doug Shulman, the 47th commissioner to serve, has officially announced his plans to step down at the end of his term. That makes November 9, 2012, his last day in office. Shulman has served as IRS Commissioner since March 24, 2008.

GOP seizes Obama ‘optimal’ moment IS Thats True ?

Republicans on Friday pounced on President Barack Obama for saying that the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi were not “optimal” -the latest instance of a candidate’s choice of words becoming an issue in the race - while Paul Ryan used the opportunity to rip the administration’s handling of the attack, saying “their story continues to shift.”

Rev. Jackson: No debate about the poor

"The Rev. Jesse Jackson" expressed disappointment Wednesday that the presidential and vice presidential debates have so far ignored several key problems - including poverty and gun violence - facing the country.
“[In] each of three debates, [the candidates] spent an enormous amount of time arguing about reconciling 5 trillion dollars, a number so vast it’s incomprehensible,” he said in an interview with POLITICO. “They’re arguing about the 5 trillion dollars and the tax plan but not about the impact of foreclosed housing driving the middle class into poverty.”

USADA's Lance Armstrong probe met opposition from politicians including Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner

National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), which provides USADA with an annual $9 million federal grant, arguing that “Congress has no role in determining whether an individual athlete doped, but we do have a great interest in how taxpayer money is spent."The congressman went further, referencing a well-worn rebuttal to the accusations that Armstrong had an extensive doping past.