Washington: US President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney launched a frenzied final weekend of campaigning on Saturday seeking an edge in a handful of battleground states that will decide the outcome of a tight presidential race that is going down to the wire. National opinion polls showed a race for the popular vote so close that only a statistically insignificant point or two separated the two rivals. Soundings...
10:02 PM, Nov 03, 2012
President of Brookings Institution Strobe Talbott tells how good has US President Barack Obama has been to India and if the ties between the two countries have really strengthened over the four years. ...
03:58 PM, Nov 03, 2012
Thousands turned out for President Barack Obama's poll speech in Berlin in 2008. Four years on, the US expats in Germany seem disillusioned by Obama. ...
12:26 PM, Nov 03, 2012
Washington: The US employment report, which was released on Friday, might boost President Barack Obama's re-election chances with the data showing an increase of 1,71,000 jobs in the country. The report also shows that more than a half-million Americans have joined the work force. This is the latest sign that the uneven economic recovery is gaining strength once again. With just three days to go for the polls, this is...
10:40 AM, Nov 03, 2012
The final days of the US election campaigns can get a little salty. However, at restaurants in the nation's capital, election season has been pretty sweet. Chefs have been cooking up candidate-inspired dishes, and putting them head-to-head. At Occidental Grill, diners receive one of Ann Romney's M&M cookies, one of Michelle Obama's white and dark chocolate chip cookies and a ballot. ...
10:27 AM, Nov 03, 2012
Washington: Continuing humour-blended attacks on Mitt Romney, President Barack Obama, after his much-discussed 'Romnesia' jibe, on Saturday termed his Republican challenger as a "salesman" who was trying to "repackage" failed ideas this elections. "Governor Romney is a very gifted salesman. So he's been trying in this campaign as hard as he can to repackage these ideas that didn't work, the very same policies that did not work, and he's trying...
08:56 AM, Nov 03, 2012
It appears the political truce is over. After dialing back his criticisms of President Barack Obama during superstorm Sandy, Republican candidate Mitt Romney is back on the attack. On Thursday, Romney turned battleground Virginia into a battlefield. Taking on the supporters of the President, Romney said, "I know that the Obama folks are chanting four more years, four more years. But our chant is this: five more days, five more ...
03:44 PM, Nov 02, 2012
US President Barack Obama got back to his election campaign on Thursday after spending three days away from poll-related activities to focus on the devastating storm Sandy and its aftermath. Obama had suspended his election campaign on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in view of the superstorm that devastated the country's Eastern Coast, claiming as many as 55 lives and leaving more than eight million people out of power. ...
03:35 PM, Nov 02, 2012
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01:39 PM, Nov 02, 2012
New Delhi: Superstorm Sandy seems to have done a whole lot of good to President Barack Obama's bid to retain his Presidency. Obama, who found himself trailing by 0.7 per cent behind Republican candidate Mitt Romney, who garnered 47.7 per cent votes in a poll conducted by realclearpolitics.com on October 26, is now tied with his rival. The devastation caused by Sandy and Obama's relief and rescue operations seems to...
10:52 AM, Nov 02, 2012
As the US struggles to cope with the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, it's back to the campaign trail for Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. The duo have been on the campaign trail in battleground states like Ohio that was not by the storm. ...
10:32 AM, Nov 02, 2012
Atlanta: There are 3.2 million Indians Americans in the US and this makes them an important vote bank in the US Presidential elections. CNN-IBN caught up with some of them. Krishna Polinini runs a grocery store in Atlanta. Bharat groceries, situated in one of the suburban regions, is almost equivalent to a kirana store in any Indian market. From dal to flour to spices, the store sells everything. For 42-year-old...
10:03 AM, Nov 02, 2012
Washington: US President Barack Obama would get back to his election campaign on Thursday after spending three days away from poll-related activities to focus on the devastating storm Sandy and its aftermath. Obama had suspended his election campaign on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in view of the superstorm that devastated the country's Eastern Coast, claiming as many as 55 lives and leaving more than eight million people out of power....
09:18 PM, Oct 31, 2012
Washington: Fully focused on gearing up his entire administrative machinery towards preparing for potentially devastating Hurricane Sandy, US President Barack Obama on Monday said that he is not worried about elections, which is about a week from now. "I am not worried at this point about the impact on the election. I'm worried about the impact on families, and I'm worried about the impact on our first responders. I'm worried...
11:52 PM, Oct 29, 2012
Washington: Of the roughly 50,000 words spoken in this month's three presidential debates, none were "climate change," "global warming" or "greenhouse gas". Housing was discussed in the first debate, but the word "foreclosure" was mentioned in none. Nor was gay marriage. The 2012 presidential campaign, not just the debates, has focused heavily from the start on jobs, pushing other once high-profile issues to the sidelines. It dismays activists who have...
05:50 PM, Oct 25, 2012
London: The US President might be locked in a neck and neck battle at home with his challenger Mitt Romney, but across the world, including in India, people still overwhelmingly want to see Barack Obama re-elected. According to an international survey by BBC World Service, Obama is preferred to Romney in 20 of the 21 countries with Pakistan the only country where more people favoured the Republican for an election....
05:04 PM, Oct 25, 2012
Washington: The US First Lady, Michelle Obama, has already cast her vote for the November 6 presidential election, using the "early voting" provisions of the country's electoral process. "What a great Monday, this morning I voted for @BarackObama, and this afternoon I was with @OFA_OH! mo," Michelle posted on micro-blogging website Twitter, hours after her twitter handle announced that the First Lady had casted her 2012 ballot. US President Barack...
01:06 PM, Oct 16, 2012
Washington: While President Barack Obama has described US-India relationship as one of the defining partnerships of the 21st century, his Republican challenger Mitt Romney made no reference to India in a major foreign policy speech. Accusing Obama of failing to provide global leadership expected by the rest of the world, especially key allies such as Israel, Romney on Monday promised to restore US foreign policy to its post world war...
10:09 AM, Oct 09, 2012
There seems to be cold hard realism within our Indian sensibilities that money and electoral politics is a toxic cocktail for parliamentary democracy. Whenever well-funded ...
01:15 PM, Oct 08, 2012
Washington: Away from the public glare, prominent Indian-Americans supporting Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney are believed to have raised between USD 15-20 million for his presidential campaign. While Romney campaign has not released any fundraising statistics from ethnic coalitions nor has it made public the list of its bundlers or exclusive Stars and Stripes members, the list of big donors include over 200 prominent Indian Americans. The 'Indian-American Coalition'...
12:57 PM, Oct 08, 2012
