Boston: President Barack Obama raised $53m in March for his re-election campaign, a sharp increase from the month before, with 97 per cent of donations for less than $250, his campaign said. Mitt Romney, his presumptive Republican challenger, has yet to release his March fundraising numbers but they have been dwarfed by the president's in previous months. With the general election fight now under way, both candidates will be focusing...
11:51 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Washington: Presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney on Tuesday asked President Barack Obama to "start packing", showing confidence that he would be able to defeat the incumbent in the November presidential elections. "Well, start packing. That's what I'd like to say," 65-year-old Romney told ABC News in an interview when asked what his message to the US President was. "Obviously we have a very different view. The President, I'm sure wants...
10:34 AM, Apr 17, 2012
Gettysburg: Rick Santorum ended his improbable run for the White House on Tuesday after leading a Republican tilt to the right that could dog the more moderate front-runner, Mitt Romney, in November's election. Trailing in polls and fundraising, the conservative former senator suspended his campaign and cleared the way for Romney to clinch the nomination to face President Barack Obama in the November 6 general election. A staunch social conservative...
06:42 AM, Apr 11, 2012
Fitchburg: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Saturday predicted a victory on Saturday in Wisconsin's upcoming primary contest and said he believed it could help put him on a path to clinching the nomination. Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, has come from behind in the polls in Wisconsin to take the lead over chief rival Rick Santorum. The state will vote on Tuesday along with Maryland and Washington, DC. "This...
10:45 AM, Apr 01, 2012
Los Angeles: Mitt Romney hit back at Russia's president on Tuesday and said President Barack Obama is trying to "ingratiate himself with the Kremlin" after the foreign leader suggested the Republican presidential front-runner was living in a bygone era and that all the candidates should "use their heads". "The Russians clearly prefer to do business with the current incumbent of the White House," Romney wrote in an opinion piece on...
10:41 PM, Mar 28, 2012
Washington: Rick Santorum cruised to victory in the Louisiana Republican presidential primary on Saturday but still trails Mitt Romney by a wide margin in the national delegate count for the party nomination. Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, was projected to finish second. Former House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich was third, but immediately rejected suggestions he should drop out. Texas congressman Ron Paul ran fourth. Santorum had strong support in...
10:38 AM, Mar 25, 2012
Schaumburg, Illinois: Mitt Romney easily won the Republican presidential primary in Illinois on Tuesday night, padding his already-formidable lead over chief rival Rick Santorum with another victory in a key industrial state. Romney, a multimillionaire who has the backing of most of the Republican establishment but struggles with the party's more conservative wing, is leading the overall race for delegates to choose a candidate to challenge President Barack Obama in...
08:45 AM, Mar 21, 2012
Washington: Frontrunner Mitt Romney has won the Puerto Rico's Republican presidential primary, taking him a step closer to bagging the party's nomination to challenge incumbent Barack Obama in the fall. Mainstream American media declared him the winner on Sunday as early results showed that he had more than 80 per cent of the votes polled. Rick Santorum, the former Pennsylvania Senator, was a distant second with less than 10 per...
07:26 AM, Mar 19, 2012
Washington: For the first time in the run-up to the crucial 2012 presidential elections in the US, President Barack Obama's approval ratings have plunged below 50 per cent and he is trailing behind Republican hopeful Mitt Romney. If November elections were to be held today, a poll survey done by ABC News/Washington Post showed that Obama had reverted to a dead heat in public preferences against Republican White House hopeful...
06:42 PM, Mar 12, 2012
Jackson: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is laying it on as thick as a syrupy Southern drawl as he tries to break through in the South, a region that has been unkind to him in the past and may soon turn its back on him again. "Morning, ya'll," Romney told a campaign rally on Friday in Jackson, Mississippi. "I got started this morning right with a biscuit and some cheesy...
05:28 AM, Mar 10, 2012
Washington: Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney split six states and dueled for supremacy in Ohio on a Super Tuesday that stretched from one end of the country to the other in the most turbulent Republican presidential race in a generation. Santorum's broke through in primaries in Oklahoma and Tennessee and in the North Dakota caucuses. Romney had a home-state win in Massachusetts to go with victories in Vermont and Virginia....
09:46 AM, Mar 07, 2012
Washington: Mitt Romney rolled to primary victories in Virginia, Vermont and home-state Massachusetts on Super Tuesday, reaching for a decisive advantage in the most turbulent race for the Republican presidential nomination in a generation. But his rivals countered crisply. Rick Santorum won in Tennessee and led in Oklahoma, while Newt Gingrich scored a home-field win in Georgia - fresh evidence that they retain the ability to outpace the former Massachusetts...
07:21 AM, Mar 07, 2012
Washington: Affirming his frontrunner status, Mitt Romney cruised to victory in the Washington state caucuses, his fourth straight win ahead of the 10-state 'Super Tuesday' contest for the party nomination for November Presidential polls against incumbent Barack Obama. With 60 per cent of precincts reporting in Washington, Romney was well ahead with 37 per cent, while Ron Paul and Rick Santorum, each of whom got 24 per cent, battled for...
11:50 AM, Mar 04, 2012
Washington: Mitt Romney scored a hard-won, home state triumph in Michigan and powered to victory in Arizona on Tuesday night, gaining a two-state primary sweep over Rick Santorum and precious momentum in the most turbulent Republican presidential race in a generation. "We didn't win by a lot, but we won by enough," Romney told cheering supporters in Michigan. He also tweeted his delight - and his determination: "I take great...
10:24 AM, Feb 29, 2012
Maine: Mitt Romney eked out a narrow win in Maine's Republican caucuses, state party officials announced Saturday, providing his campaign for the party's presidential nomination a much-needed boost after three straight losses earlier this week. But the former Massachusetts governor's margin of victory over Texas Rep. Ron Paul was so slim it all but guaranteed scrutiny of the party's decision not to count the results of caucuses scheduled later in...
11:58 AM, Feb 12, 2012
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