Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have spent the weekend hammering out their foreign policy battle lines ahead of their final debate on Monday.
Barack Obama told a crowd of about 9 000 in the battleground state of Virginia that Romney was backtracking on his conservative-leaning promises.
Barack Obama may have had the upper hand in the latest presidential debate, but the real loser was politics, writes Gary Younge.
A clumsy comment by Mitt Romney about compiling binders full of women has gone viral in a bizarre twist of a possibly decisive duel for female voters.
Barack Obama launched aggressive attacks against Mitt Romney on jobs, energy and Libya in their second debate as he tried to reclaim momentum.
US President Barack Obama is expected to follow Joe Biden’s lead and come out fighting in a town-hall-style match-up after a lacklustre first round.
The 2012 US presidential election campaign is being fought with tweets, hashtags, Facebook updates and emails in a battle for digital supremacy.
Mitt Romney took his campaign into the weekend with a spring in his step, as Obama went behind closed doors to prepare for a crucial debate.
A world in which Mitt Romney holds the single most powerful office may sound a very different place from that of President Barack Obama.
A world where Mitt Romney holds the most powerful office may seem different to Barack Obama. In many ways, though, it looks uncannily similar.
US President Barack Obama’s campaign raised $181-million in September, the largest total that either side has announced yet.
Mitt Romney charged ahead with his economic arguments in spite of unemployment dropping to its lowest level since President Barack Obama took office.
Mitt Romney has raised Republican hopes of an election comeback with a spirited and aggressive performance in the first televised presidential debate.
An aggressive Mitt Romney has taken the fight to Barack Obama and has breathed new life into his struggling campaign with a solid debate performance.
US Vice-President Joe Biden has tossed raw meat to Republican rivals, saying the middle class has been "buried" during the last four years.
Gaffe-prone Mitt Romney will try to lure Barack Obama into a rare display of mean-spiritedness in a looming confrontation in the race for presidency.
Arizona is a red state – red in rock and politics – and political red herrings are obscuring the issues in the desert state, writes Nikiwe Nikitsha.
The newest twist to the Robin Hood saga comes from US President Barack Obama, who regularly lambastes his rival Mitt Romney’s plan to cut taxes.
Gaffes have left the Republican candidate looking disgraced and dishevelled
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, whose wealth is estimated at around $250-million, seems hemmed in by a comment over his taxes last year.
A deeply divided and unproductive Congress wrapped up its final business before November’s elections early on Saturday.
Mitt Romney’s battered presidential bid has been hit by a secretly recorded video in which he sets out views on the Israel-Palestine issue.
Sounding a note of inclusion that belied tension in the campaign, Mitt Romney has told Hispanic voters he would be president for "100%" of Americans.
Barack Obama has warned that rival Mitt Romney is "writing off a big chunk of the country" following a remark that 47% of US voters are "victims".
Republican Mitt Romney is standing by his claims, caught on camera, that 47% of Americans are government-dependent "victims" who don’t pay taxes.
Witnessing both conferences is to see anger from the Republicans and abiding hope from the Democrats.
First lady Michelle Obama has urged American voters to give her husband four more years to fix the struggling US economy.
Democrats are set to launch their case for Barack Obama’s re-election at his nominating convention, looking to draw a sharp contrast with Mitt Romney.
Dirty Harry himself nearly hijacked Mitt Romney’s presidential nomination with a rambling diatribe against Barack Obama – addressed to an empty chair.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s chief weakness is that he sounds like a chief executive.
It is no coincidence Mitt Romney chose to hold his nominating convention in Florida, as the state could well decide the result of the US elections.
The Republican party has made it almost impossible for millions of black and Hispanic Americans to get the IDs they need to vote in November.