There’s little question that come Nov. 6 President Obama won’t equal the 365 electoral votes that the then-candidate Obama won in the 2008 election. But the bigger and more important question when it comes to the electoral college conversation is whether former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R) can come close […] Read more »

After one of their worst weeks of the general election campaign, Mitt Romney and his advisers are scrambling to refocus their message and make up ground lost to President Obama in several battleground states. … Romney advisers now interpret the state of the race from two somewhat contradictory perspectives. On […] Read more »

Going into this campaign Mitt Romney’s job was never going to be simple. It’s not easy to unseat an incumbent president – even one who has presided over a struggling economy. Voters typically have a long checklist of factors in mind when they consider whether a candidate is White House […] Read more »

Washington has been a bit perplexed by President Obama’s small but persistent lead in the polls. His administration would seem to fail the “Are you better off than you were four years ago” text [sic]. And presidents who fail that test lose, right? But perhaps that’s the wrong question. … […] Read more »

For much of the year, head-to-head polls of President Obama and Mitt Romney have generated eerily consistent results: Obama garners a percentage in the high 40s but not at 50 percent, with Romney either tied or slightly behind. A small total — about 5 to 8 percent — remain undecided. […] Read more »