Obama

• The Obama campaign on Tuesday released a new ad that will run in three crucial swing states, taking aim at Mitt Romney's job-creation record and accusing him of shipping jobs overseas.
(New York Times Blogs)
• A former Obama administration official says al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden wanted to see President Barack Obama and Gen. David Petraeus assassinated.
(ABC News)
• First lady Michelle Obama was in Tucson on Monday as part of a four-state campaign push in the West — a visit that has political analysts saying that Arizona could very well be up for grabs in Novembers presidential election.
(The Christian Science Monitor)
• The swipe at the White House, delivered casually on the rope line of a campaign event here, touched off a pointed exchange with Mr. Obama, who quickly accused Mr.
(New York Times)
• A familiar lament from the left is that the Democratic Party is too willing to let itself get pushed around – that its leaders hit back feebly and ineffectively in the face of Republican attacks, and that they almost never throw the first punch.
(Salon)
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- The improving economy is swinging the pendulum in President Barack Obamas favor in the 14 states where the presidential election will likely be decided.
(Yahoo Finance)
• (CBS News) Less than a week after proclaiming the start of the general presidential election, President Obamas re-election team is unveiling its first negative ad campaign against the presumptive Republican nominee, Mitt Romney.
(CBS News)
• It looks like the Obama campaign may have settled on its slogan for the 2012 election: Forward. Four years ago, Barack Obama ran on another one-word slogan, Change.
(Baltimore Sun)