The Romney campaign officially has Paul Ryan buyer's remorse. Citing "campaign insiders," Politico's Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei report Mitt's first choice for Vice President was New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
Today in Poll Watch: Paul Ryan gets better favorability ratings heading into the vice-presidential debate Thursday, national tracking polls are again unclear for both candidates, Latino voters in Arizona overwhelmingly support President Obama, and Obama's up by 4 points in Florida despite one pollster calling the state for Mitt Romney.
It's nice to get an atta-boy, especially after a tough week, especially from the president, so the tweet from President Barack Obama reaffirming his support for Vice President Joe Biden had to feel good.
Mitt Romney's Vice President choice, and the battle to break the news first, was the most anticipated political news of the summer. Reporters were able to beat Romney's app announcement, but only by a few hours. How did they keep Ryan a secret for so long? Spy tricks, that's how.
After what felt like years of relentless speculation, we finally know that Mitt picked Paul Ryan to be his vice president. Amazingly, both the Republicans and the Democrats seem to be happy with his choice.
It's only been a matter of hours since the much anticipated announcement from the Romney campaign that Paul Ryan is his running mate in November, and it's already paid off in a big way. Romney press sectary Andrea Saul says they've already raised $1.2 million. Update: they've hit the $3.5 million mark.
NBC News won the war last night. They were the first to report that Paul Ryan is Mitt Romney's choice for Vice President.
Rob Portman, one of the most talked about candidates in the race to be Mitt's Vice President, appeared at a Mitt Romney fundraiser Wednesday night and said he doesn't think he's going to get the call.
On Tuesday when Stephen Colbert exhorted his Colbert Nation to edit the Wikipedia pages of Romney's potential vice presidential choices, Wikipedia locked those pages to all but veteran editors, making the trick of counting the edits to see who's the favorite a lot more accurate.
The genius of the new Mitt Romney VP app is a lot like the genius of an addictive, yet simple, Zynga game, but instead of tapping for corn on your FarmVille, you tap to get a politician's name.
Reince Priebus steals the headline for calling Harry Reid a "dirty liar," but everyone else on the Sunday talk shows couldn't stop talking about Reid, Romney, and the debate over the Republican needing to release more of his tax returns.
The Romney campaign doesn't have the most stellar track record with smart phone apps (remember Amercia?), but it nonetheless plans to announce his vice-presidential pick via app, even though you can rest assured it will leak out on Twitter first.
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Mitt better pick carefully, New Hampshire is tight, and New Jersey is blue. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
The next act in the political kabuki of Mitt Romney choosing a running mate will be the timing of the candidate's announcement, and while his aides have said he could announce this week, the latest speculation is that he'll wait until after the Olympics.
The big talk of Monday morning's political news was the New York Times' report that Mitt Romney had chosen a vice presidential candidate, but, fitting a familiar pattern in campaign news, the big Monday afternoon news is a campaign aide saying the report wasn't true.
Matt Drudge is reporting the Romney campaign's narrowed their choices for Vice President down to a carefully vetted handful, and that the front runner is none other than former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
There's a persuasive case to be made that Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, widely touted as a potential vice presidential pick for Mitt Romney, isn't as boring as everyone says, but he's never going to shake the label and he probably shouldn't want to, either.
Woodward and Bernstein talk leaks on CBS; McCain and Axelrod spar over Eric Holder on CNN; Scott Walker and Mitch Daniels think Wisconsin spells the end of public-employee unions. Oh, and two more names can be crossed off the VP watch list.
In the long tribal dance between reporters and politicians we call the veepstakes, the latest way to make prospective vice presidential candidates squirm is to ask them about the vetting process.
Marco Rubio gave a "no comment" when asked if he'd be Romney's VP, while Governor Mitch Daniels said he would "demand reconsideration" if Romney asked him; David Axelrod doesn't believe in Mitt Romney's economic policies.
Herein is our Reader's Digest version of Chris Christie's very winding thoughts on becoming Mitt Romney's vice presidential nominee as told to reporters Tuesday: He's not interested, unless he is.
Marco, Chris, Bob, and Allen ... meet Beth Myers. She'll be vetting you.
We humbly beg to differ with Newsweek's Paul Begala whose column in this week's issue begins, "You heard it here first: Mitt Romney is going to select Rob Portman, the junior senator from Ohio, to be his running mate." Maybe so, but we've heard it before.
Appearing on Fox News Wednesday, Mitt Romney provided another of his delicious soundbites, saying: "The person I'm out of touch with is Barack Obama. I'm in touch with the American people."
Haley emphatically denied the Public Record's report on Friday, providing journalists with a letter from the IRS saying they didn't find reason to investigate her father's Sikh community center.
Rick Santorum would definitely serve as Mitt Romney's vice presidential nominee if asked, he said Monday, in comments that come shortly after Santorum pseudo-suggested we all should just vote for Obama if Romney gets the nomination.
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