Topic - Mitt Romney

• Inside Politics: Obama, Democrats redouble fundraising efforts

  President Obama and his party are redoubling their fundraising efforts. They're doing it in the wake of robust hauls by Republican rival Mitt Romney and a slew of GOP-leaning super PACs that are raking in cash from party faithful who are highly motivated to topple the Democrat.

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  'Pro-choice' Americans found in record-low minority

  A record low 41 percent of Americans identify themselves as "pro-choice" on abortion, according to a poll released Wednesday, while the number of Americans who say they are "pro-life" bounced back into the majority.

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  EDITORIAL: The war on teachers unions

  Parents would like to choose where their kids go to school, if they could. In a speech to the Latino Coalition's Annual Economic Summit in Washington D.C., Mitt Romney laid out his case for choice-based education reform.

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  Romney sees D.C. school vouchers as model for U.S.

  Mitt Romney vowed Wednesday to expand Washington's school voucher program as part of a broader nationwide push for school choice, and he accused President Obama of failing to fulfill his own education promises from 2008 because he is too beholden to teachers unions.

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  Obama makes case for defense cuts

  President Obama made the case for his proposed defense cuts Wednesday in his commencement speech at the Air Force Academy, calling for a leaner but better-prepared military ready to deal with a range of threats.

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  BENNET: Romney plan for education hits the mark

  Every state and every community faces unique challenges to improve education, but the need for comprehensive reform across the nation has never been more apparent.

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  NOWRASTEH: Free markets require increased legal immigration

  When Mitt Romney's campaign says it is "still deciding what his position on immigration is," it goes without saying the political debates inside his campaign are intense. What should not be contentious, however, is the commitment for increasing legal immigration by anyone supporting free-market principles.

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  GOLDBERG: Which kind of capitalism?

  "This is not a distraction. This is what this campaign is going to be about," President Obama said Monday at the NATO summit. The "this" in question is Mitt Romney's tenure at Bain Capital and what it says about Mr. Romney's economic vision for the country.

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  Visa changes aimed at skilled workers

  Most Americans are deeply skeptical of expanding immigration, especially in the middle of an economic slump — but a bipartisan group of senators said Tuesday that high-skilled immigrants could provide just the kind of spark the economy needs to help pull it out of a prolonged rut.

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  Groups air ads hitting Obama, Romney

  An independent group seeking to oust President Obama launched a new TV ad Tuesday suggesting Mr. Obama had let down the voters who vaulted him into the White House in 2008.

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  Romney outpaces Obama in Ky., Ark. primaries

  President Obama won 58 percent of the vote in Kentucky's Democratic primary on Tuesday but lost 42 percent of the vote to "uncommitted" — another worrisome sign for him as he seeks re-election.

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  LAMBRO: Obama's economic fantasy land

  President Obama's anti-capitalism attacks on Mitt Romney's long career as an investor who bankrolled businesses and created jobs isn't playing well in some Democratic circles.

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  Romney's Bain playbook unclear as attacks mount

  The core of his presidential candidacy under attack, Mitt Romney has yet to shape a playbook to defend a quarter-century in the business world that created great riches for himself and great hardship, at times, for some American workers.

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  MILLER: Running from Obama's anti-capitalism

  President Obama's disdain for free enterprise is starting to offend even his fellow Democrats. In a rare breach of loyalty, Mr. Obama's political allies have publicly criticized campaign attacks on GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's business success.

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