Denver, Colorado (CNN) - The morning after.
Workers here at the debate site at the University of Denver are breaking down the stage and podium used in Wednesday night's first presidential showdown.
The stage and podium are being packed up and transported to Danville, Kentucky, site of next week's vice presidential debate between Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan, the Republican running mate.
(CNN) - President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney return to the campaign trail in battleground states on Thursday after going toe-to-toe on dominant campaign issues of taxes, health care and the economy in a debate that analysts and a snap poll agreed the Republican challenger won.
Romney's supporters crowed about his performance, saying it reshaped a race that the former Massachusetts governor had appeared in danger of losing.
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Denver, Colorado (CNN) - Call it the pre-debate battle of the diehards.
Just outside the debate security perimeter here at the University of Denver, hundreds of supporters of Republican nominee Mitt Romney are lined up on one side of University Avenue. On the other side of the street, hundreds of supporters of President Barack Obama.
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Denver (CNN) - Zingers? Maybe. Knock out punches? No.
Aides to Mitt Romney told CNN the GOP contender will not be looking for a "knock out" punch at tonight's first presidential debate.
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Denver, Colorado (CNN) – Just what can viewers expect to see when President Barack Obama and rival Mitt Romney square off at the first presidential debate in Denver Wednesday night?
While the conversation might at-times be freewheeling and off the cuff, both candidates will have to operate under the confines of the hard-and-fast rules established by the Commission on Presidential Debates.
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Washington (CNN) - The Obama re-election campaign is spending $6.5 million to run the two minute ad it unveiled last week that could be seen as a preview of the arguments the president will make during Wednesday's debate, according to a Republican ad buying source.
It is unusual, especially more than five weeks from Election Day, for a campaign to put up such a long commercial.
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(CNN) - President Barack Obama will hit the campaign trail following the Wednesday presidential debate, stumping in four states rated on the CNN Electoral Map as toss ups, according to schedules released by his campaign and the White House.
On Thursday, Obama will hold an event in the debate host city – Denver - then continue on to Madison, Wisconsin, to meet with supporters, his campaign said.
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Colorado Springs, Colorado (CNN) – Rep. Paul Ryan appealed to veterans and active military in Colorado at two events on Tuesday in which he assailed President Barack Obama for weakening military with defense cuts and mishandling Arab Spring uprisings.
In the aftermath of the deadly attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, killing four including the U.S. ambassador to Libya, the Republican vice presidential nominee escalated his criticism of the Democratic incumbent president’s handling of the incident, saying it was an example of “how the Obama foreign policy is blowing up in our faces.”
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Washington (CNN) – Sometimes in politics, things are black and white – like the historically wide gulf between the black community and the conservative movement.
But a new effort by FreedomWorks, a conservative organization associated with the tea party movement, aims to change that. And a prominent African-African progressive activist says he thinks the outreach effort is premature, misguided and, therefore, not likely to be successful.
With an event Wednesday evening in Pittsburgh, FreedomWorks is launching its national "Black and White Tour," an explicit, unapologetic effort to lobby African-Americans on economic policy issues at the core of the agenda of many fiscal conservatives involved in tea party activism.
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(CNN) – With less than a week to go before early voting begins in Ohio, the Buckeye state has the political world’s full attention Wednesday with both presidential candidates campaigning in the state for events focused on the middle class.
Mitt Romney makes three stops in Ohio on the final day of his campaign's three-day bus tour. President Barack Obama, meanwhile, appears at Bowling Green State University and Kent State University.
See a schedule of the day's events after the jump.
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