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6 Nov polls: Why history is on Romney's side

Republican candidates have won all six previous elections held on 6 November, and that's propitious for Mitt Romney. But the results of the 'cookie bake-off' proxy vote may give him something to chew on.

At $6 bn, 2012 US elections most expensive in history

With an estimated expenditure of $6 billion, the 2012 election is set to top the last most expensive election — four years ago — by about $700 million, a report released by a not-for-profit think-tank said yesterday.

Majority of Americans predict Obama will win again: Gallup

A majority of Americans continue to believe that Obama will win re-election over Romney, by 54 percent to 34 percent, the Gallup said which took the polls over the weekend on 27 and 28 October.

Will Hurricane Sandy be the wind beneath Obama's wings?

Hurricane Sandy is proving to be 2012's October surprise. Here's what's in the Sandy test for both Obama and Romney. Who's more likely to flunk it?

Obama gets groove back, firing up crowds in last phase

It took a while and a disastrous first debate performance to wake and shake Obama up. A little more than two weeks before the vote and all guns blazing he is firing up the crowds.

Never paid less than 13 percent in taxes: Romney

Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney declared Thursday he has paid at least 13 percent of his income in federal taxes every year for the past decade.

Romney wants dramatic economic shift, but won't give details

Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney declared that the Federal Reserve, should not take on yet another attempt to stimulate the struggling US economy. Instead, he called for "something dramatic" without outlining precisely what that would be.

Romney's Jerusalem remark unacceptable: Palestinian official

Mitt Romney's assertion that Jerusalem is Israel's capital is absolutely unacceptable, a senior Palestinian official. The fate of Jerusalem is one of the main sticking points in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

On foreign policy, Romney sounds like Obama's confused version

So far the presumptive Republican nominee’s foreign policy musings have been short on details and heavy on rhetoric.

Romney shifts campaign focus to military, foreign policy

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is moving away from his preferred issue — the economy — and into military and foreign policy, a realm usually viewed as the home turf of the incumbent.