Air Force One will touch down in Iowa again next week when President Barack Obama makes stops in Newton and Des Moines. On Thursday, Obama will talk about the economy in Newton, located in the county with the third- highest unemployment in the state.

Melbourne, May 18 (ANI): US elections have shifted back to the economy as campaign teams for Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are trading barbs.

President Barack Obama lags in several polls on fixing the economy. His favorability rating is virtually even with that of presumed GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. His signature health care reform law appears on the verge of being overturned. Women, once central to his base, are now drifting toward his opponent. He has even lost support among once-passionate young voters.

Conventional wisdom has it that President Barack Obama#39;s campaign four years ago was a political masterpiece. Yes, the Republican brand was in the toilet; the economy had cratered; his real opponent, George Bush, was a political pariah; and the country despaired for a new direction. Still, we recall the Obama campaign as a crushing force, brilliantly harnessed, riding the tide of history.

As part of its weeklong push to criticize President Barack Obama on the economy and the deficit, the Republican National Committee and the Romney campaign today hit the president on the national debt. On an RNC conference call Wednesday, New Hampshire lawmakers never mentioned the...