Ken Thomas

McConnell vows to repeal Obamacare

By Ken Thomas | March 15, 2013

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is vowing to repeal President Barack Obama's sweeping health care law.
White House urges dockworkers, shippers deal

By Ken Thomas | December 27, 2012

The White House is urging dockworkers and shipping companies to reach agreement "as quickly as possible" on a contract extension for East Coast and Gulf Coast dockworkers whose existing pact expires this week.
Obama to appeal to public on fiscal cliff

By Ken Thomas | November 27, 2012

President Barack Obama plans to make a public case this week for his strategy for dealing with the looming fiscal cliff, traveling to the Philadelphia suburbs Friday as he pressures Republicans to allow tax increases on the wealthy while extending tax cuts for families earning $250,000 or less.
Obama, Romney pumped for dash to the finish

By Ken Thomas, Nancy Benac | October 23, 2012

Their debates now history, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney on Tuesday open a two-week sprint to Election Day powered by adrenaline, a boatload of campaign cash and a determination to reach Nov. 6 with no would-have, should-have regrets in their neck-and-neck fight to the finish.
Romney shifts message

By Kasie Hunt, Ken Thomas | September 17, 2012

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is reshaping his message from an all-economic pitch to an all-out challenge to what he argues is a failed status quo, taking a risk with barely 50 days to go in the campaign.
Romney camp presses Medicare

By Ken Thomas, Steve Peoples | August 16, 2012

Republican Mitt Romney's presidential campaign is staying on the offensive in the increasingly heated debate over the future of Medicare, the health care program relied upon by millions of seniors.
Dems insist Romney quietly supports Ryan's budgets

By Kasie Hunt, Ken Thomas | August 13, 2012

Led by President Barack Obama, Democrats claimed on Wednesday that Republican challenger Mitt Romney privately backs controversial plans to overhaul Medicare and cut trillions from social programs that his new vice presidential running mate has publicly proposed.
Obama casts Romney as tax proponent

By David Espo, Ken Thomas | August 1, 2012

President Barack Obama made his rival's personal millions a front-and-center issue in the race for the White House on Wednesday, telling a swing-state audience that Mitt Romney "is asking you to pay more so that people like him can get a big tax cut."
Obama criticizes Romney, GOP on Medicare

By Ken Thomas | July 19, 2012

President Barack Obama says Mitt Romney and Republicans are set to make seniors pay thousands more for Medicare so the rich can get still more tax cuts.
Romney's team outraises Obama again

By Ken Thomas | July 9, 2012

President Barack Obama's campaign and the Democratic party raised $71 million in June, well below the $106 million hauled in by rival Mitt Romney and the Republican party during the same period.