KARL ROVE AND ED GILLESPIE IN WASHINGTON
Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove (L) and White House counselor Ed Gillespie make their way to a farewell reception for the Director of the Office of Management and Budget Rob Portman in Washington on August 1, 2007. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)
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The real loser last week on Election Day appears to be Karl Rove, who now has to explain to his shadowy billionaire donors how he spent hundreds of millions of dollars in "independent" expenditures on Mitt Romney's behalf and came up a cropper.
David Plouffe, senior adviser to the president, Sunday rapped Republican nominee Mitt Romney for "traveling in the state he's not going to win," Pennsylvania.
The public and the media are largely ignoring the phenomenon but hundreds of millions of dollars, much of it in secret money, are driving the the final negative days of the U.S. presidential election, and in this arena, Karl Rove is wearing the big boy pants.
U.S. President Barack Obama came out swinging Tuesday against Republican challenger Mitt Romney in their second debate at Hofstra University in New York.
A senior Obama adviser said there were legitimate security concerns within the politically charged furor over the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya.
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is shifting away from hitting U.S. President Barack Obama on the economy and focusing on other issues, aides said.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is moving his campaign away from economic issues, a senior adviser said Monday.
One of President Obama's advisers said the supposed cuts the administration made to Medicare was actually the result of savings made through new efficiencies.
Mitt Romney said U.S. President Barack Obama's campaign was a "disgrace" to the presidency and an Obama aide said Romney's criticism "seemed unhinged."
Presumptive U.S. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will continue to target President Obama's record, a senior campaign adviser said Sunday.
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