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Romney built much of his convention around Obama’s “you didn’t build that” comments, but only 32 percent were impacted negatively by them. Meanwhile, more viewed the remarks as a positive, and 62 percent either saw them as a positive or weren’t impacted by them at all.

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."

Mitt Romney got the capital of Libya wrong in his opportunistic statement this morning criticizing the President about his handling of the attacks against the US embassy in Cairo and the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

Both CNN and Fox News Channel initially reported incorrectly that the law's central provision, requiring virtually all Americans to have health insurance, had been struck down. In an apology, CNN said it "regrets that it didn't wait to report out the full and complete opinion regarding the mandate."

...The point Obama was trying to make, however inartfully, was that the private sector was performing far better than the public sector...

Presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney has released a Web video hammering President Barack Obama for his assertion Friday that "the economy is doing fine."

President Barack Obama, seeking to clarify comments about the strength of the U.S. economy, said later Friday it is "absolutely clear" that the U.S. economy is "not doing fine." Obama spoke hours after saying in a White House news conference that "the private sector is doing fine." Republicans pounced on those comments, saying they showed Obama had a lack of understanding about the nation's economic woes.

It looks like the media is about to have some more fun with Vice President Joe Biden. It appears Biden nodded off during part of President Obama's debt reduction speech today, and had the misfortune of being caught on camera ...

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has responded to criticism surrounding a recent gaffe when she said the United States must "stand with our North Korean allies" by listing some of President Obama's misstatements.

President Obama has apologized to the chairman of the Special Olympics for his late-night talk show quip equating his bowling ...