Barack Obama, 2012 Presidential Election | featured news

...So Massachusetts used not just federal Medicaid money but federal dollars above and beyond that Medicaid money to finance their health reforms. It is difficult to see how Romney’s proposal to cut Medicaid spending and hand that reduced share over to the states would allow other states to follow Massachusetts’ example. It might not even permit Massachusetts to continue following Massachusetts’ example.

In NBC's first battleground map since the conventions and a slew of new state polling, President Obama has expanded his electoral-vote lead over Mitt Romney -- but only slightly. There are now 243 electoral votes in Obama’s column and 191 in Romney’s, with 104 in the Toss-up category; 270 are needed to win the presidency.

President Obama today defended his comment that Washington can only be changed "from the outside," and mocked Mitt Romney for trying to turn it into a political issue. "For some reason, my opponent got real excited," Obama told backers in Woodbridge, Va., before firing back at Romney for saying he could get the job "from the inside." "What kind of inside job is he talking about?" Obama said of Romney. "If it's rubber-stamping the top-down agenda of this GOP Congress, we don't want it."

"If he [Obama] didn't come through and give that vote and say, 'Yes we have got to save Chrysler. We have to save GM. We've got to do this,' all this Sterling Heights would have been gone, would have been dead."

A new Fox News poll shows President Obama leading Mitt Romney in three key states: Ohio, Florida and Virginia. The president leads by 7 percentage points in both Ohio (49%-42%) and Virginia (50%-43%), Fox says. In Florida -- where Obama campaigns today --- he leads Romney, 49%-44%.

Fighting criticism of his controversial remarks on government dependency, Republican challenger Mitt Romney said Wednesday that he would better help poor and middle class Americans than President Barack Obama.

Americans are feeling markedly better about the country's future and about Barack Obama's job performance, but the president's re-election race against Republican Mitt Romney remains a neck-and-neck proposition as Election Day creeps ever closer, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll....

Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades argues in a memo today that the differences between President Obama and his Republican opponent have become sharper. It makes no mention of Romney's comments from a fundraising event in May in which the GOP presidential nominee is heard talking about 47% of Americans being dependent on the government.

Will those paying no federal income tax "vote for the president no matter what"? Probably not. A lot don't vote, and of those who do, many vote Republican.

The president told the "Late Show" audience that Mr. Romney was "writing off a big chunk of the country."