'Romney' Google Search from Pakistan soared in recent months

Express Tribune, quoting the Washington Post reports that the Google Analytics for searches from Pakistan for Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney showed a dramatic spike in the month of October as the US presidential race heated up.

According to the Google data, searches for Obama were far ahead of Romney from within Pakistan. Unlike President Obama who often grabbed the headlines on one pretext or another, his political opponent Romney received scant attention up till July, 2012, barely four months prior to elections.

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However, as the election race heated up, Pakistan’s interest towards Romney piqued.

While Obama continued to dominate searches – leading average searches by 37 basis points to the Republican candidate’s six, they surged to 100 volume index points for Obama to Romney’s 53 by early November.

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Exit Polls Blow to Romney

Barack Obama’s hopes of re-election have been given an early boost by exit polls that claimed he leads or is deadlocked with Mitt Romney in many swing states.

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The polls have the president leading in Ohio by three points, Florida by one point - and tying in Virginia and North Carolina, both must-wins for Mitt Romney.

Obama was ahead in the exit polls by two points in New Hampshire, another swing state, and five points in Pennsylvania, which Romney contested fiercely towards the end of the campaign.

Exit polls are notoriously unreliable and in 2004 showed Senator John Kerry defeating President George W. Bush, who went on to win re-election. 

It appeared tonight that the exit polls would have to be inaccurate again for Romney to be victorious. 

A consistent error of just two or three points in the exit polls, however, would mean that Romney was very much still very much in the hunt.

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US Presidential Elections: Romney leads by 1% in latest Gallup Poll

Mitt Romney is ahead by a single percentage point in Ohio - the swing state that many believe could decide the election, according to internal polling data provided to MailOnline by a Republican party source.

Internal campaign polling completed last night by campaign pollster Neil Newhouse has Romney three points up in New Hampshire, two points up in Iowa and dead level in Wisconsin and - most startlingly - Pennsylvania.

If the Romney campaign's internal numbers are correct - and nearly all independent pollsters have come up with a picture much more favourable for Obama - then the former Massachusetts governor will almost certainly be elected 45th U.S. President.

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Romney promises 'real change'

US Republican nominee Mitt Romney has called for "real change" against President Barack Obama's "status quo", on the final stretch of an election race that is too close to call.

Mr Romney dismissed the Democratic incumbent as a shadow of his former self, in an economic speech in the key battleground state of Iowa.

On Friday, new figures showed US gross domestic product grew by 2% in the third quarter, exceeding expectations.

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The US goes to the polls on 6 November.

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Romney says debates "supercharged" his campaign

Former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney made sure at a rally last night near Denver to mention what everyone knows - the debates have fueled his surge in the polls, saying they have "supercharged" the campaign.

With the final debate behind them, the candidates took their arguments on the trail in key battleground states: Romney in Nevada and Colorado, and the president in Florida and Ohio.

Romney said that his new momentum has come, in part, because the president has no new ideas. He said, "He's become a president of status quo, and the policies of the president are a continuation of what we've seen over the last four years."

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To reinforce that message in 10 swing states, the main outside group supporting Romney, Restore Our Future, Inc., on Wednesday announced a $17.7 million ad buy.

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Romney sets out his foreign policy

The Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney sought to differentiate his foreign policy from President Barack Obama’s in an address at the Virginia Military Institute yesterday. “Hope is not a strategy,” Romney said, lambasting Obama in a speech titled The Mantle of Leadership.

Romney claimed Obama’s weakness had left the world thirsting for American leadership. If elected, he promised to enforce a robust foreign policy that would “shape” events, particularly in the Middle East. The high-blown rhetoric about the US being “the best hope of humankind” seemed to confirm presidential adviser David Axelrod’s quip that Romney wants to return to the 1950s.

Romney quoted Winston Churchill and Gen George Marshall, men active in the middle of the last century. He said:

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 “The 21st century can and must be an American century.” The term “American century” was coined by Time publisher Henry Luce in 1941. Romney compared the Arab Spring to the second World War, saying: “We have seen this struggle before. It would be familiar to Gen George Marshall. In his time, in the ashes of world war, another critical part of the world was torn between democracy and despotism.”

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Polls Collapsing For Obama After The Debate

Both national and swing-state polls are beginning to tighten in the presidential race between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney. It's a signal that an expected Romney bump is starting to take shape after his consensus win in the first presidential debate on Wednesday. 

Here's a sampling of the national polls:

• Gallup: Romney is starting to close in on Obama, trailing by only 3 points in the seven-day rolling average. And that average only reflects two days of surveys post-debate, so the full effect won't be known until next Wednesday.
• Rasmussen: Rasmussen has had wild swings and tends to be Republican-leaning this election, but Romney holds a 2-point advantage here. 
• Reuters/Ipsos: Here, the race has tightened from a 6-point Obama lead pre-debate to only a 2-point lead on Friday. But Saturday didn't provide any further bounce for Romney in the online survey.

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US Elctions: Romney well within striking distance

The momentum in the 2012 presidential race is shifting. Though President Obama saw a surge in his poll numbers following Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” gaffe, the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal numbers show that although Obama is maintaining his lead, Romney is “well within striking distance,” according to pollsters. Among likely voters, the new numbers show Obama leading 49 to 46 percent—an advantage that’s within the survey’s margin of error. 

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Among the wider sample of registered but “less likely” voters, Obama leads 51 percent to 44 percent. According to NBC News, the two demographics most enthusiastic about Obama —Latinos and young voters—are less likely to vote in this election than they were in 2008.

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Romney attacks Obama foreign policy

Mitt Romney and his Republican allies assailed President Barack Obama's foreign policy on Monday, expanding their attacks beyond his economic record in the run-up to the first of three debates.

Romney arrived in the battleground state of Colorado two full days before the high-stakes face-off Wednesday, telling supporters "I look forward" to the presidential debates as a chance to lay out a grand vision for the country.

During a boisterous rally here late Monday Romney largely kept to his standard stump speech laying out how his policies would break the US economy out of its rut and create 12 million jobs.

But earlier in the day Romney had cast beyond US borders, suggesting that after weeks of turmoil sparked by an anti-Islam Internet video foreign affairs might get more attention in the final sprint to the November 6 vote.

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He accused Obama of downplaying deadly violence in the Middle East and warned that the president's policies have "heightened the prospect of conflict and instability."

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Romney Faces Challenges

Republican Mitt Romney is facing headwinds in his presidential bid and has scant time to regain his footing after two weeks of distractions that have given President Barack Obama an opening to seize the edge in a close contest.

Even as Romney tried to transform his latest stumble into an attack against Obama, there were indications yesterday that he is failing to win over voters, leaving some Republicans anxious about his prospects, uncomfortable with the tone and management of his campaign and impatient for him to turn the contest around.

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US Elections: Romney caught on Video about 'Other 47%'

Mitt Romney's presidential campaign has been dealt a new distraction after a video surfaced showing him dismissing President Barack Obama's supporters as people who take no responsibility for their livelihoods and who think they are entitled to government handouts.

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In the video, published by Mother Jones magazine, the Republican presidential nominee tells a private audience of campaign donors that the backers will vote for Mr Obama "no matter what" and that he does not "worry about those people."

"There are 47 per cent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it," Mr Romney said. "These are people who pay no income tax."

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US Elections 2012: Obama leads - but for how long?

Despite the disappointing news, polls over the weekend and on Monday showed Obama surging to his biggest lead over Romney in several months. Gallup, the most frequently cited polling agency, had Obama beating his rival 49 percent to 44 percent. CNN had Obama at 52 percent and Romney at 46 percent. Other major surveys reflected a similar trend.

Some analysts are speculating that the race has entered a new phase, in which Obama is the clear frontrunner – regardless of the sluggish economic recovery.

But is it a turning point in the election campaign?

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Twitter Launches Political Index

If you want to know how the USA feels about Barack Obama or Mitt Romney, you have to rely on pundits' intuitions or traditional opinion polls, conducted as they always have been — by phone, over the course of hours or days. There's no direct way to check the pulse of millions of actual people, simultaneously and directly, second by second.

Twitter is launching a tool today that it says will fill that gap, and sort through the 400 million tweets a day from 140 million active users. Twitter and real-time search engine Topsy are launching the "Twitter Political Index," a daily assessment of how Twitter feels about Obama and Romney, in an election cycle that's being played out moment-to-moment on the social service.

The index, which Twitter has retained Democratic and Republican polling firms (the Mellman Group and North Star Opinion Research) to help perfect, appears to be the most serious and large-scale effort yet at a metric that has so far produced a lot of flops.

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Obama Trails Romney in Battle for Campaign Cash

In the battle for political cash, President Obama is finding himself in an unaccustomed place during the final months of the 2012 campaign: he is losing.

Mitt Romney and the Republican National Committee easily outraised the formidable Obama money machine for the second month in a row. A nonstop schedule of high-dollar events around the country brought in $106 million during June to Mr. Obama’s $71 million, giving him and his party four times the cash on hand that it had just three months ago.

In a worrisome development for the Obama campaign, Mr. Romney, who until now has been heavily dependent on donors giving the maximum federal contribution, also showed success in June drawing small donors, a traditional strength of the Obama campaign. 

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Romney easily wins RI presidential primary

Mitt Romney has easily won Rhode Island's presidential primary.

Romney earned 63 percent of the vote in Tuesday's Republican contest. Texas U.S. Rep. Ron Paul placed second with 24 percent.

Romney was heavily favored. The presumptive GOP nominee and former governor of neighboring Massachusetts racked up endorsements from several top state Republicans.

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Romney Camp Prepares For Possible Defeat In South Carolina

One of Mitt Romney's top surrogates, former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu, began the process Friday morning of managing expectations in the event of a possible Romney loss to Newt Gingrich in Saturday's South Carolina primary.

Sununu predicted that the GOP nomination fight will run through every primary and caucus state, all the way to the summer.

"I think you're going to see the same kind of long slog that you saw in '76, with [Gerald] Ford and [Ronald] Reagan, that it took the whole thing to win," Sununu told reporters.

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